• Katyusha rocket launcher – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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• Ivan Grave – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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• Hellschreiber – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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• Igor Sikorsky – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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• It’s Friday, it’s gone noon: http://www.freakangels.com/?p=57 #
• Ask me to talk like a pirate and the chances are good that I’ll stab you like a pirate. #
• I said “stab you like a pirate,” not “take your virginity.” Freaks. #
• @mollycrabapple only you could turn that into a lashed-to-the-bowsprit mount-me-peg-leg-lass watch-for-the-splinters fantasy. #

Apparently it is Talk Like A Wanker Pirate Day today.

I am therefore switching off the internet until tomorrow.

You people will rue the day I finally develop an Internet Death Ray.

Look at this:

• The Himuro Mansion Haunting – Paranormala
  "Local lore has it that for generations, the Himuro family had participated in a strange, twisted Shinto ritual known as ?The Strangling Ritual? in order to seal off bad karma from within the Earth, every half century or so."
  (tags:crime weird )

It’s Friday, it’s gone noon, meet Miki: episode 28, free to air.

• Richard Kadrey: “Time is a jellyfish, all gooey and full of stingy neurotoxins.” #
• My head’s off in fucking space tonight, it really is… ? http://blip.fm/~7jyh #
• Ray Mears is my personal god. #
• Ray Mears, the man who can whittle himself an entire hotel with hot and cold running water and robot concierge out of a bit of jungle. #
• Ray Mears has a parang. He’s probably decapitated bears with it. And then made things out of bear heads. I want a parang. #
• You wouldn’t mess with a man who served you dinner out of a bear’s head he’d turned into a pressure cooker. With a parang. #
• @merbrat I do not do “memes.” I only tell the truth. Even when I lie. ESPECIALLY when I lie. #
• @kellysue Child discipline? I stab Lili every 24hrs with parang made out of tin. She behaves & now also detects danger with “parang sense” #
• @kellysue You are right. I am a natural nurturer. I should write a book. I could call it THEY HEAL UP JUST FINE EVENTUALLY. #

• Drunk man has sex with car | Metro.co.uk
  Didn't I do this in TWO-STEP?
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• Terrorism Fear Could Create Psychosomatic Epidemic, Feds Warn | Threat Level from Wired.com
  "Americans' fear of a terrorism could create a mass outbreak of a psychosomatic illness — even in the absence of any real attack — – creating a fake epidemic that could overwhelm hospitals attempting to treat real victims"
  (tags:med mad cult war pol )
• Mickey Mouse must die, says Saudi Arabian cleric – Telegraph
  "Mickey Mouse has become an awesome character, even though according to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse should be killed in all cases."
  (tags:cult mad culture )

"Turning my… I mean fashioning my… into… oh god…(retch)"

Sometimes I make my Twitter followers listen to music they hate by posting to Twitter from Blip.fm. Blip sticks a link in the Twitter send. Click it and it’ll take you over there and stream you the music I’ve chosen.

Or you can just go to http://blip.fm/warrenellis , click the first one, and it’ll play you everything I’ve Blipped in succession. Fun little service that will obviously die screaming from the RIAA fiery cockplunge six months from now.

* Read a chapter of Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly’s LOCAL for free.

* Eliza Gauger’s "The Vacuum Traffic Controller."

* The brilliant Bit Shifter and Nullsleep, among others, are playing a one-day 8bit event in Austin, according to Chairman Bruce.

* PHONOGRAM 2: THE SINGLES CLUB #1 is solicited for ordering, as by funny-looking denial-crazed life partners Kieron Gillen and Jamie McSmoochyKelvie.

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In case you missed it:

“Hackers have broken in to the e-mail of the US Republican vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin….A group called Anonymous has claimed responsibility for the hacking of Mrs Palin’s Yahoo e-mail.”

And received in email:

/b/ is claiming responsibility for the Palin webmail hack

But, brilliantly, spotted in the wild, the following, which cracks me up (bold type belongs to the friend who found it and showed it to me):

Anonymous 09/18/08(Thu)02:10:32 No.85894685 [Reply]

O’Reilly is awesome, I watch his ass every night, and though I don’t agree with everything he says about /b/, some faggot didn’t have to fake fess up to hacking Palin’s shit and you fags need to leave people alone, you dont see us trying to lynch Obama or send text messages to the guy who drives Biden’s train.

• Morning, Jean, from two o’clock in the fucking morning here. #
• Good morning all seven thousand six hundred and sixty six people following this account. Now take off your clothes. #
• Honestly, you bunch of perverts… #

(run for it)

• gogbot.live.nu
  Dutch steampunk festival, also including a Second Life component
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• nnnngg #
• we are go for Trans-Pub Injection #
• http://boffery.com? Really? #
• Ah. Boffery.com must be Melissa Gira’s long-threatened “social sex maps”, so you can see the net woven by Web 2.0 people fucking each other. #
• Of course, when the Boffery map’s all done, the Bay Area will look like a pin-art picture of Steve Jobs eating a donut. #
• @antonyjohnston last time I did Intercity first class, I was sharing a carriage with David Mellor. The urge to throw him out the door…! #

NO HEROICS is a tv comedy show that I believe debuts this coming Thursday on ITV2 at 10.30pm. I got sent the whole series on DVD the other week, and finally got around to watching the first three episodes the other day. The concept is — well, fuck it, watch the trailer –

Rich Johnston swears he can see a picture of me up on the wall in the pub setting there, but I bloody can’t.

Anyway, it’s funnier than a comedy show about bloody superheroes has any right to be. It could have been more full-on and less traditional in places, but, you know, it’s ITV, it’s a fucking miracle it got on the air at all. Full points to creator/writer Drew Pearce for coming up with something that should translate to a general audience because it’s black humour first and everything else second.

Also, it features a doorman whose superpower is summoning monkeys. Beat that.

Do me a favour, though: if you’re in Britain and you can get ITV2, watch it on the box rather than going to torrent sites or surfthechannel an hour later, yeah? Ratings systems don’t count torrent loads. This is why ratings charts think everyone in the country watches Bruce fucking Forsythe on a Saturday night and why tv companies are terrified of commissioning any scripted series requiring an IQ larger than your shoe size to follow. Ta.

* Brian Wood wants to get you drunk and steal your wallet:

* Bryan Lee O’Malley/pencil and ink comparison/SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE UNIVERSE

* Patton Oswalt has a deleted scene from DIE HARD.

* Josh Fialkov is the head writer on THE RESISTANCE, the deeply peculiar new webtv show from the producers of LONELYGIRL 15.

Emma Vieceli and new husband took the new paperback edition of CROOKED LITTLE VEIN on honeymoon in Italy with them. And photojournaled it. Because Emma is a comics creator is therefore quite mad. And then she sent me this: