This brought a smile to my face:


The Ballad of G.I. Joe from Olivia Wilde

I had a post about Amanda Fucking-Palmer of the Boston Fucking-Palmers that I was working on the other day, which I accidentally closed out (and then bungled the "restore saved draft") thing. It was all about a blog post of hers that ephant tipped me to, where she reproduced an email she sent someone about her experiences using Twitter to interact ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was pretty sure I was going to buy Chris Anderson's book when it comes out on July 7th. (Or possibly the day after. Apparently there's a s00j concert in Lincoln on the 7th, and working out the logistics of getting myself and my friends down to it may be a considerable undertaking.) Today, I'm not so sure.

Apparently, the book contains a ( Read more... )

Found via @agletsmycat's Twitter: Malcolm Gladwell reviewing a Chris Anderson book.

That description should be enough to get half my family reading it. For everybody else, though, Chris Anderson is the author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, which is about a phenomenon I've referred to in my previous blogs. It ( Read more... )

Topical!

I'd like to welcome Circlet Press to the BlogAds slot on Tales of MU. This long-established adult speculative fiction publisher made the leap from being purely a traditional physical operation to an e-commerce outfit with an online presence, and I hope that they'll see growing success in reaching the often underrepresented niche markets that they ( Read more... )

...for the times, they are a... you know the rest.

This Salon article popped up on Twitter, repeated dutifully by shadesong who is spending her day echoing the revolution in Iran so that there will be one more voice to add to the volume and help carry it to further audiences.

The whole situation there is making Warren Ellis and Transmetropolitan seem very ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I posted on Twitter the deep philosophical question, "Sure, the internet can help feed an artist, but could it ever possibly sate NOM-LAR, the beast with a thousand bellies?"

And today it seems I find my answer, as I stumble across Choconomicon: The Lovecraft Collection on an Etsy-powered candy shop site.

Flavors so inhumanly ( Read more... )

I found an interesting gaming site via Twitter, and specifically found this article (edit: fixed URL, had a little copy/paste error), which outlines an interesting concept. I've said before that I have an abundance of ideas that aren't themselves stories: vehicles, gimmicks and gadgets, locations, characters... this could prove to be an outlet for