End of September.

No, it’s not. Because Jess Nevins made me look at these.

Average age of a reader of Asimov’s or Analog? 59.

11,000 subscribers to F&SF? Really? This has to be partial information, right?

Check out the gender splits.

Back to work with me.

• Increase in sea levels due to global warming could lead to ‘ghost states’ | Environment | The Guardian
  "Global warming could create "ghost states" with governments in exile ruling over scattered citizens and land that has been abandoned to rising seas, an expert said yesterday."
  (tags:pol dooooom )

So here’s a pretty picture by Eliza Gauger instead.

The usual:

Alf Tupper, Tough Of The Track, welder and Olympic-level runner, powered by fish and chips and genetic-level hatred of coppers and the upper classes, overcoming constant crushing hardships to win every race and rub posh people’s noses in it. HOOK JAW, possibly the only shark with its own anti-corruption comics serial…

Topslice of the noises my computer’s been making lately. Includes Broadcast & The Focus Group, Fuck Buttons and High Wolf .

• HOBO CULT RECORDS
  a free-release netlabel run off a Blogspot site. Must dl some stuff off it tonight.
  (tags:music mp3 netlabel )

Mamoru Oshii.

First, the short film ASSAULT GIRL 2.

Now, the trailer for the full-length ASSAULT GIRLS.

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At my internet spiderhole this morning:

* How Many Londoners Are Here? – a quick census, for important and sekrit reasons

* Zinepal: Newspapers For Printers, Magazines For Phones

* Eliza Gauger’s SWEATSHOP

* WITCH DOCTOR: "Rock, Paper, Scalpel" exclusive Whitechapel preview

* Warren’s Ancient Jukebox

* Photographers (Sept 2009)

* Cryptozoology

• Sword Heaven on MySpace Music – Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

  (tags:music )

• Brain Scans Reveal What You?ve Seen | Wired Science | Wired.com
  "Scientists are one step closer to knowing what you?ve seen by reading your mind."
  (tags:sci neuro )

I’ve been so buried for the last month that I’m barely noticing what my friends are doing. Apparently at some point Afua Richardson (illustrator of comics series GENIUS, among other things) started doing an internet TV show about music? Only just noticed this on Twitter today…

• MONU MAGAZINE ON URBANISM BOARD (BUREAU OF ARCHITECTURE, RESEARCH, AND DESIGN)

  (tags:magazine )

Mp3 previews of the newest release from Ghost Box. I love Ghost Box. If you don’t know the label, here’s their own description:

Ghost Box is a recording label for artists that find inspiration in library music, folklore, vintage electronics and haunted television soundtracks.

I’ve been listening to their last release, Belbury Poly’s LIGHT FROM AN ANCIENT STAR, all year.

Back to work, I have a treatment to kill before I can have fun on the inertnets.

In which things get worse.

• McSweeney’s Launches iPhone App – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
  "McSweeney's, the Dave Eggers-founded publishing outfit, has entered the smartphone age with a brand new iPhone and iPod Touch app that sells for $5.99 in the Apple App store"
  (tags:mobile phone mag tech publishing deathofmedia )
• Audi Exo Concept | SwipeLife
  "the Audi Exo concept, a human powered vehicle that employs the latest exoskeleton and robotic technologies"
  (tags:design tech )
• World around us: The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

  (tags:weird )

• BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Death for Tanzania albino killers
  "A court in north-western Tanzania has sentenced three men to death by hanging for killing a 14-year-old albino boy"
  (tags:crime cult magic )
• Closet-Dwelling Ghost Haunted Carradine — Popeater
  "A few months before his body was found hanging in a Bangkok hotel room closet, David Carradine sat down to discuss a ghost he believed was haunting him … from a closet."
  (tags:weird oh+shit )

Heavy thinking day today. Come back tomorrow.

Javier Mariscal’s exhibition at the Design Museum features notes by him written on the walls. This one resonated with me completely. I wouldn’t be anywhere today without the photocopier, after all. Not to mention making black marks on small sheets of white paper.

Twenty years from now, someone’s going to be assembling an installation and saying exactly the same thing about web pages.

• weetstraw.com – Russian Book Jackets

  (tags:design books )