Gypsies, tramps, and thieves. (And Neal Stephenson.)

[sensaes]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Johnson family:



Mmm. That's what the juries thought, too...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7544650.stm

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Tori Spelling in a Cthulhu film called...Cthulhu:

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/08/cthulhu_movie_features_tori_spelling_extra_h.php (Includes embedded video.)

Don't have nightmares?

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I suppose it was only a matter of time, but with the techie world's attention still focused on the fallout from the 45 million credit cards/identity fraud in the US, the criminal goings-on via Twitter have been buried further down the news agenda:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7543014.stm

More here: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Blog-site-hit-by-fake-downloads/article/113391/

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Warriors of the Net.

Totally unrelated, but a promotional curio from 2001 has turned up, and in the wake of Wall-E... Well, I don't know. Have a look at the trailer (5.4 Mb) before deciding whether or not to bother downloading the "film" itself (146Mb). Right-click, Save Target As in both cases...

Trailer: http://fine-lines.artiverse.net/pub/video/mpeg/WarriorsOfTheNetTrailer.MPG

Film: http://fine-lines.artiverse.net/pub/video/mpeg/WarriorsOfTheNet.mpg

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And finally, this (quite fascinating) account of Neal Stephenson's writing method, involving fear of his typewriter breaking down in the heat, struck a few odd bells for me:

http://lifehacker.com/399736/how-neal-stephensons-typewriter-kept-him-writing