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The Flag Of Earth:

The Flag of Earth symbolizes the Earth (the center blue disk), the Sun (the yellow disk on the left), and the Moon (the white disk on the right). The Earth and its most important celestial neighbors - the Sun and Moon - are overlaid on a backdrop of the darkness of space.

The Flag of Earth website is administered by NAAPO - the North American Astrophysical Observatory. NAAPO is a not-for-profit organization formed to run the Big Ear Radio Observatory in Delaware, Ohio, and whic

Massively behind on internet reading and blogstuff right now, because I am variously writing comics, writing graphic novels, writing a film treatment and writing an animated-series outline. And writing a column that is basically a very short book broken into 600-word pieces. Here’s a few things from my nets:

* Matt Sheret, possessed by mass recursiveness, has compiled a PHONOGRAM fanzine, and according to Gillen (who’s just got back from holiday) it’s limited to 200 copies and will be available a

Cully Hamner, the illustrator of our graphic novella RED (which is being re-released in its own snazzy volume right about now) has finally decided to use this Electrical Inter Net thing he’s heard about, and is now blogging regularly at this location here in this link here yes.

Obama sketch cards?

Gyula Kosice’s Hydrospatial City Lands in Houston
"?Man is not to end his days on Earth,? the Argentinian artist Gyula Kosice wrote in 1944. Beginning two years later, and continuing for the next quarter-century, Kosice explored the architectural implications of this assertion through the Hydrospatial City, his most ambitious and longest-running project, which depicts a utopian community suspended in space"
(tags:architecture design sf )

Live. Much unlike me right now.

Dave Eggers offers personal ‘buck up’ to anyone worried for print culture | Books | guardian.co.uk
"The new issue of McSweeney's, he adds, will be published in newspaper form, in an attempt to show that if the print model is changed, if it can offer "a clear and different experience" from the internet, then it can thrive."
(tags:print design )

Been way too busy for everything this week. A quick sweep of the internet compound reveals:

* Hooray! COILHOUSE now has ad rates for small business owners.

* Tell Ellis Of Your New Comics (3JUN09) - review thread for the people who buy comics singles weekly

* RIP David Carradine

* The Self Portrait Imagethread (June 2009) - please god save me from the face people.

* Unexplainable - I dunno what this is about save that apparently "Fooloo says BLOOP"

I note my third WIRED UK column has been pushed to the web for your free
reading "enjoyment." Here it is:

UK booksellers are not yet reduced to the condition of their American cousins, who have gone beyond firing staff and are now using their bodies for food and heat. They fear the Kindle like it was the breath of the devil’s cock on their shoulder…

I really need a sort of "digital jotter" section where I can just bang down unformed thoughts and connections involving cut-and-paste.

Reading Archigram’s entry on Wikipedia, I find this line;

Their works offered a seductive vision of a glamorous future machine age; however, social and environmental issues were left unaddressed.

Which speaks directly to Archigram’s contemporary, Michael Moorcock’s Jerry Cornelius. Not least because I’m not sure Archigram did leave such issues unaddressed. Not d