This idea I give free and gratis to teh internets, in the hopes that somebody more technically adept will implement it: a converter to turn a sequential archive into a delayed-update rss feed.
Ever discover a new webcomic? And have your productivity drop to zero while you rampage through an archive backlog of several hundred episodes [...]
Next week it’s Brendan Adkins’ birthday, and he’s giving us a present. Ommatidia, the first Anacrusis book, already exists. Wow. And in a week or so we’ll be able to order it. That gives you about a week to trawl through the archives and discover that that’s exactly what you’re going to do.
Update: It’s here.
Hot on the heels of my last bit of Small Beer lovin’ comes their announcement: they’re also releasing Maureen F. McHugh’s Mothers and Other Monsters for free download. And I should have remembered that Kelly Link (who runs Small Beer, along with Gavin Grant) did the same with her own collection Stranger Things Happen way [...]
The supercool Small Beer Press are publishing a collection of short stories by John Kessel, and alongside the print release they’re offering non-DRM, free downloads (pdf/html/rtf/txt) released under Creative Commons license.
There’s a Kessel story in The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (”The Red Phone”) and it’s very short, very odd and very funny. But [...]
They’re made out of meat (via). Also, “They’re made out of meat”.
LibraryThing might not be “all the wonderful”, but it’s a lot of the wonderful. Still, it’s pretty scary when it knows more about the state of my relationship than I do.
Sifting through my recommendations I found Changing Babies by Deborah Moggach. You can bet I clicked that button labelled “Why” in double-quick time, and found: [...]
Someone (who I won’t name, but she’s given me permission to use the quote) answered my question about her love life the other day with the following:
“I’m in a complicated relationship on facebook yet single on bebo.”
It’s not a typo, although it might not actually be a word… Via Last.fm user WerkshuwTuig I came across a script asking “How eclectic is your musical taste?” Apparently I’m hitting 96/100, which tickles me pink and breathless.1
(Ok, after reading his post about the spread of the meme I’m a bit less breathless. Still [...]
I’ve added a few photos to my album site: a small selection of choice graffiti pieces from both hemispheres (a professional had been busy in Dunedin when I visited). The album is entitled “I WiLL Not dRAW AS I AM toLd”, after a delightful piece I found this afternoon.
(There are also a couple more shots [...]