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I didn’t know anything about these, and didn’t make them, so don’t bother asking me questions about them.

It’s Friday, it’s gone noon, it’s FREAKANGELS, free to air.

From New Scientist:

Do gravity holes harbour planetary assassins?

The book as open source software: never finished, revised and mutated in v* versions, supported by social dev teams. See also this, and Adam Greenfield’s take, which he prefaces with:

I’m not sure precisely what’s driving it – maybe it’s the bracing, clarifying, liberatory aspect of a severe economic downtown – but I sense an absolutely titanic percolation of creativity out there in the world just now.

Note also that Dave Gray, codeveloper of the neologism, has his first unbook released in print edition via POD.

Unbook uncatalogue.

(Notes on his unbook, and Papernet and the utility of POD, by Russell Davies here.)

This is actually my favourite IC cover so far:

Huh. Okay. Weird.

The excitement surrounding the upcoming WATCHMEN feature film has brought new readers to the graphic novel format. Now that they’ve read WATCHMEN, where do they go next? Help point them in the right direction with DC Comics’ “AFTER WATCHMEN, WHAT’S NEXT?” program.

DC Comics has developed a marketing campaign that spotlights several award-winning, best-selling titles from our various imprints. Each book reflects an aspect of WATCHMEN’s broad appeal — including other works by Alan Moore, science fiction tales, post-modern super hero action and sophisticated titles for mature readers — and is a great entry point for both new fans just discovering graphic novels and established readers looking to try something new.

The program is supported by an extensive marketing campaign including five promotionally-priced reprint Specials which are rush solicited below.

The marketing campaign includes:

Five “AFTER WATCHMEN, WHAT’S NEXT?” Specials featuring a cover price of just $1.00:

• SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #21 SPECIAL EDITION
• TRANSMETROPOLITAN #1 SPECIAL EDITION
• PLANETARY #1 SPECIAL EDITION
• PREACHER #1 SPECIAL
• IDENTITY CRISIS #1 SPECIAL

I am the bag of sweets that DC, wrapped in a filthy mac, will be holding in their hand as the kids leave the cinema.

1. Pink, 2. The Marvel way. Runaways #10, 3. Kayaking on Oriental Bay, Wellington, NZ, 4. She won’t be quite this big, 5. The 5th Floor, 6. SMOOCH

Seej500’s launching a broadside/papernet object called THE NEW CALL.  One-pagem broadcast as PDF.  Take a look.

Go and look. A little bit long, I thought, but a fun and interesting display of how digital comics are not about animation and audio.

Ego Assasin overstock sale:

The abstract of Adam Greenfield’s new book, THE CITY IS HERE.

Logos designed by Tom Muller, 2001-9 — bigger, and notes, here.

Gillen on SCOTT PILGRIM V.

Zdarsky lulls TCAF into a false sense of security:

And Jacen Burrows produces another romantic image for his and Garth’s CROSSED:

1. Microdermal, 2. Happy valentine’s day, 3. Diaspora Painting Progress, 4. Leaving SFO now for Bangalore via Dubai, 5. Mr Pendulum, 6. Cats- not as smart as they think they are

• BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Alien life ‘may exist among us’
  "Professor Davies was one of the speakers at a symposium exploring the possibility that life has evolved on Earth more than once. The descendants of this "second genesis" may have survived until today in a "shadow biosphere" which is beyond our radar because its inhabitants have biochemistry so different from our own."
  (tags:eco )

• BBC NEWS | Health | Heart pill to banish bad memories
  "Scientists believe a common heart medicine may be able to banish fearful memories from the mind."
  (tags:med neuro mind )

Have all lost their minds. I’m sure I don’t know what Katelan is talking about.

Or Katie West. Or Paul Sizer. Or all those bloody people on Twitter. They’ve all gone mad.

• BBC NEWS | Health | Cancer ‘danger receptor’ found
  "It picks up signs of cell death caused by injury or tumours and mobilises the body's defences"
  (tags:med )

My nemesis friend nightmare

My

This freak animal cartoonist I know, Chip Zdarsky, was asked by the "people" at Comic Book Resources’ ROBOT 6 blog to participate in their "I (HEART) COMICS" series of pieces wherein creators and, um, people who talk a lot on the internet discuss their love of the medium.

They declined to run Chip’s contribution.

You must read it. Because I feel sick from laughing now. Or maybe it just made me sick, I don’t know. YOU MUST READ IT.

Filmmaking team The Purchase Brothers "recently spent (five hundred US dollars) on an extremely worthwhile cause: Producing the first two episodes of a Half-Life 2-inspired miniseries, titled Escape from City 17."

Five hundred dollars.

If that turns out to be even close to true, then something big just shifted.

People of California, discover where your tax dollars are going. Because a nightclub won an appeal against the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to get the terms of their hospitality license changed, the ABC are trying to obliterate said nightclub entirely (possibly also because gay people like to go there).

If any newspapers out there are looking for some fun stories to run. Just saying.

In the meantime, maybe you’d like to go down to the DNA Lounge in San Francisco this weekend. According to the ABC (who are spending your tax money on putting undercover agents into the place to watch for and time exposure of buttocks), they’re ”running a disorderly house injurious to the public welfare and morals.”  That sounds good, right?

Much as I love history and admire the early films of John Woo, I had no real interest in seeing RED CLIFF. Until I found this sequence (broken into two videos):