warren_ellis

• Hotdoll for dog
  just NO.
  (tags: sex just+wrong)
• NASA Exploring Sex In Space | The Frisky
  there’s been a push at NASA to start researching sex without gravity
  (tags: sex space)
• The Mire: 12 hour party people
  “One often got the sense in Berlin that whatever was happening, it didn’t really matter, nothing was at stake: pure pleasure becomes boring after a while”
  (tags: music culture)
• Wormtooth Nation - TheSkyisFree.com
  net.video series — only skimmed the trailer, but it seems to have strong neo-Victorian tone
  (tags: video)

warren_ellis

I do an irregular podcast here, called The 4am. It’s composed entirely of music sent to me by bands and musicians. If I like it, I play it, basically. You can find the first 13 episodes in the sidebar player — they’ve been played some 55000 times.

Haven’t done one since March. Now I have a decent set of speakers for this laptop, it’s easier to resume. So I’m starting from scratch, for a second season of The 4am.

It won’t happen, of course, without new music. If you think you’d like to be on the podcast, please email me your music (mp3, 128k or better) at warrenellis @ gmail.com. That email address is only used for the podcast. Including a link to your site is always useful — saves me having to hunt around for it myself.

Tell your friends if you like. But I can only play mp3s sent by the artists themselves. if you send me mp3s from bands you really like, I just have to delete them. Okay? Thanks.

warren_ellis

That’s it. No more. It’s over. I’m only sorry I couldn’t fit more of you in — the response this year was overwhelming, more than double that of last year. Apologies to the several hundred (!) of you I couldn’t show. It was actually really nice to see so many of you. There’s a little bit of public performance to doing a blog, and that sort of thing always works better when you can actually see the audience. And I know that some of you, at least, enjoyed seeing each other.

Thank you.

Maybe next week we’ll see how many of you want to shoot video. Heh.

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warren_ellis

Nearly there.

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mightyix

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[	Current Location	|	Home Sweet Home	]
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motherofchina

Cascade Drive-in
1100 E. North Ave. West Chicago, IL 60185

novapsyche

ljdemocrats

Senior rabbis have criticised the apparent removal and publication of a prayer note left in the Western Wall by Barack Obama on his visit this week.

[...] A note, or prayer, jammed into one of many cracks in the wall, is considered a sacred act - whether or not the worshipper is Jewish.

[...] Twice a year, when the cracks in the Wall become full, the prayers and messages are removed and buried - without being read - in strict accordance with Jewish law.

warren_ellis

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warren_ellis

You just can’t trust these people:

"Warren [Ellis, who wrote the project] was a decision to usher this into pg-13," dos Santos said. "There’s no cursing… there’s no blood. It’s ’Warren Ellis Light,’ his style is all over the project. It’s within reason, and in good taste. Not that his work isn’t always in good taste, but sometimes it isn’t in good taste."

Ellis even sent a message to SDCC fans through dos Santos. "He wanted you to all know that he’s in England, sitting in his living room, naked, collecting all of Hasbro’s money, and he wants to thank all of you for that."

warren_ellis

Prints for sale:

cycling [nyrockcity21]

Bicycle Races Are Coming Your Way

Taint Talk with CJIA

7/23/2008

OK kids, It's time to talk about an issue that's close to my heart, er, junk.

What have you done for your taint lately? As cyclists and bike racers, we put quite a bit of stress on our bodies, especially in the grundl-ular region. We sit on these (sometimes) ridiculous, uncomfortable saddles for hours on end, and our taints never get a break.

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http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~3/345733971/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/7/25/san-diego-sketchbook-intimacy/

warren_ellis

This time round, I received at least 500 more photos than I could possibly use. You people have amazed me. I’ve still got more to go through — and, yes, I’m looking at every single one of you — but in order to get this stunt wrapped semi-successfully today, I’m having to skim and post a representative selection.

The mosaic-making software is pretty random in how it crops and arranges the shots. So the second tier of this one is entirely serendipitous:

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http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp07232008.shtml

If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com.

warren_ellis

I noticed the other day that the new update of Twitter desktop client Twhirl includes support for the microvideoblogging service Seesmic. Microvideoblogging is probably a fairly absurd compound word, but it really does attempt to be a Twitter for video, in that it’s designed at least in part to facilitate both video statements and conversational call-and-response video. I think the limit on video length is a couple of minutes (can’t remember for sure, am at pub and basically can’t be bothered to check right now).

Flickr, of course, now supports short videos — 90 seconds, I think? Something like that.

And this week, I noticed a new entrant. 12seconds.tv. Applying the intent of Twitter to video. Like it says on the can: Twitter gives you 140 characters of text, and 12seconds.tv gives you 12 seconds of video.

I played with it a bit yesterday — tried three videos, only one of which played. But it’s a lovely idea. As is tying Seesmic into Twhirl, which puts “social video” (if you like) on your desktop.

I know a lot of people who love email because they hate the phone. But I also know a lot of people who’d rather phone, or send a photo, than write an email. And it’s that that has always made me wonder why videomail, in these broadband days of ours, has never made a bigger dent. Why I don’t get videomail in my inbox along with email.

Seesmic itself, I can’t get into. I don’t know anyone on the service, and clicking at random seems to either put you in the middle of a conversation you never heard, or gives you someone talking with an unhealthy level of excitement about how they’re going to eat a chocolate cookie. But if I had friends there, I’d doubtless be pleased that their sends were being interpolated with the Twitter device that lives on the desktop and pulls things down without my having to think about it.

12seconds may even prove workable for a more general populace, with its Twittery limitation. Regardless of its eventual fate, it’s an interesting iteration of the whole microblogging thing. And it’s one of the services that may eventually make my inbox more interesting.

(written on the Eee at the pub)

warren_ellis

It’s Friday, it’s past noon UK time, and we’re back on the air. FREAKANGELS 0021 is up.