Looks like episode one is up at Adult Swim.  In fact, episode 2 may also be there.  Hard for me to tell, as I’m outside the US and can’t actually see it.  I imagine it’ll be on YouTube soon enough.

EDITED TO ADD: YouTubed. Episodes ONE, TWO and THREE.

• Open the Future: The Sea Level Rise Mystery
  "…how long between the prehistoric Antarctic ice sheet collapse (for example) and the resulting surge of ocean water actually making it to the rest of the world?"
  (tags:eco sci history )
• Effing Hail
  Utterly addictive. Don't go here.
  (tags:game )
• Microwaves could defuse bombs from afar – tech – 16 April 2009 – New Scientist
  "…the Multimode Directed Energy Armament System uses a high-power laser to ionise the air, creating a plasma channel that acts as a waveguide for the stream of microwaves. The device could destroy the electronic fuse of an explosive device or missile, such as a roadside bomb, or immobilise a vehicle by disabling its ignition system…"
  (tags:mil tech )
• JeanSnow.net ? Radio OK Fred 12
  "A new episode of Radio OK Fred is up (12), this time featuring special guest Alex of the band Chicks on Speed. All selections are by Alex ? themed on ?Girl Monster?"
  (tags:podcasts music peopleiknow )
• Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Quantum setback for warp drives
  ""Warp drives would become rapidly unstable once superluminal speeds are reached," say Stefano Finazzi at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy…"
  (tags:space )

Those strange people at Avatar Press have had actual models of the IGNITION CITY guns made, and will be showing them off around their booth at the FX show in Florida this weekend. They just put one of the guns up on their Flickr account:

Due to some Swedish girl basically hitting me in the head until I gave in, and then Emma Vieceli playing Good Cop, I will be appearing at the London MCM Comics Expo on the afternoon of Saturday May 23.

Don’t bring your entire comics collection for me to sign. You will go away disappointed. And probably also with fresh bruises on your head and neck.

Also attending: Em, of course, Paul Duffield, Gary Erskine, Young Marc Ellerby and the defective duo of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. And others. But those are the ones I know and remember. I just woke up. Piss off.

Is live. Unlike me.  Just woke up.  Nnng.

Via Katie West, again.

I’m actually still writing, and will be up for hours yet. But it’s definitely sign-off time for this particular web channel tonight. I usually leave Twitter up while I’m working. Tomorrow, I have an appearance announcement: I’m waiting on the link to the place’s website, but it already got mentioned on Twitter. Which in itself comprises a channel, for me — I use Twhirl, so it’s a window that pops up in the bottom right of my screen to tell me things. (Like just now, when Matt Jones told me about a thing called The Incidental.) Twitter also sends me breaking news from the BBC, new headlines from The Guardian, and loads up a bunch of weird science news for me first thing in the "morning" (which for me is around noon) from Kurzweil AI. It’s actually a handy thing.

I should probably get people to submit Closedown photos if I’m going to make a regular thing of this. Station idents. Heh. I use warrenellis@gmail.com as a dump address to be checked weekly at best, but maybe I’ll set a widget to watch it…

G’night, internet.

Five unlettered pages at CBR. The issue is in stores from April 22.

No luck on a YouTube link, but I did find it on drop.io.  So here’s the GI JOE: RESOLUTE trailer, for those interested.

EDITED TO ADD: YouTubed.

• PLoS ONE: Cellular Phone Enabled Non-Invasive Tissue Classifier
  "…non-invasive electrical measurements and the use of classifier software can be combined with cellular phone technology to produce inexpensive tissue characterization…"
  (tags:med sci tech phone )
• The Stress Vaccine : The Frontal Cortex
  "The scientists begin by inserting "neuroprotectant" genes, such as estrogen, into a modified version of herpes simplex virus. Why herpes? For starters, the virus is able to quietly enter nerve cells…"
  (tags:med sci )
• BLDGBLOG: Surface/Structure/Fold
  "Or you obtain a truck-mounted laser and a grant from the Graham Foundation, and you proceed to cut a new, gridded faultwork into the bedrock of the continent ? perforation on the scale of whole landscapes ? so that the geography you're standing on simply folds up and disappears…"
  (tags:design sci mad )
• Russian Cooked Beaver
  "If you are not ready to see a beaver preparation process then better now look below this jump."
  (tags:food )

Apparently this link here takes you to a trailer for GI JOE: RESOLUTE on adultswim.com. Of course, adultswim.com blocks everyone outside the US. So I can’t actually see it.

One presumes some enterprising soul will eventually steal it off there and stuff it on YouTube.

Through the magic of Austin Young, we bring you Lenora Claire as Lenora Claire spanking Lenora Claire as Bettie Page. G’night.

Someone on Twitter just shot me this link about GI JOE: RESOLUTE, what I wrote:

Hasbro announced today that G.I. Joe: Resolute, an adult fan oriented animated mini-series, will be broadcast via Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim on television as well as online. Based on the classic G.I. JOE brand, Hasbro created 60 minutes of total content for this new story which will be presented as 11 episodes.

Beginning on April 17, fans will be able to see the first five minutes of the brand new, stand-alone animated mini-series on AdultSwim.com. These episodes are broken down to ten 5-minute episodes and one 10-minute finale. Following the first episode on April 17, subsequent installments will be posted on the Adult Swim website leading up to a full presentation of the entire series. This finale will be broadcast on Adult Swim April 25 at midnight. This televised event will not only feature all episodes seen online, but will be the first time fans can watch the final 10 minutes of the G.I. Joe: Resolute saga. All episodes, including the finale, will be available to view online after this airing.

Some more stuff at the link.

Obviously, I’ll have the links to the episodes every day as they go live.

Well, I’ll be damned. I just followed a link out of my analytics to find that WIRED UK have put the first of my columns for them up on their site for your free perusal.

I’m waiting for whoever’s stealing my Wi-Fi to quit it. Which means I’m waiting for them to finish downloading Ukrainian porn, a cinematic form that appears to consist entirely of cold-looking men in Vladimir Putin masks feigning angry sex with gas pipelines.

Found by Malice earlier today:

• Star crust is 10 billion times stronger than steel – space – 14 April 2009 – New Scientist
  "The crust of neutron stars is 10 billion times stronger than steel, according to new simulations. That makes the surface of these ultra-dense stars tough enough to support long-lived bulges that could produce gravitational waves detectable by experiments on Earth."
  (tags:sci space )

A quick look at my internet freak clinic:

* MCM Comics Expo 2009

* Anyone Here Making Zines?

* Five Blogs You Read Every Day

* The Self Portrait Imagethread (Apr 09)

* April and May Avatar Conventions

Also known as "Theremina," is playing these shows in the Bay Area:

"NOTHING NOTHING IS BEST ALL IS PAIN AND HORROR PLEASE HELP ME TO DIE"

Which is what the Americans called "sign-off," back in the days when tv stations actually went off the air.

Katie had a far more atmospheric picture I was going to use for this, but, then… well, she posted this, and I nearly choked with laughter. Goodnight.