Eek! How did I not post this earlier?

My story “Body Language” is now up at OSC’s Intergalactic Medicine Show with an awesome cover illustration which you must now appreciate in all it’s glory.

And here’s a teaser of the story.

Saskia leaned into the darkness above the stage, only vaguely aware of the wood rail against her hips as she retied the left headstring on her marionette. On the stage below, the Snow Queen’s head eased into balance. The marionette telegraphed its stance back up the strings to the control in Saskia’s hands. She ran the Snow Queen across the set to check the repair, barely conscious of her own body on the bridge above the stage. It was almost like being immersed in a VR suit.

One of the techies called up. “Hey, Saskia? There’s a detective here for you.”

IGMS does charge $2.50 for access to the full issue, but that gets you a lot of fiction.

Comments? -- Link.

Another Youth Slam is in the books. Another night of amazement from all involved.

Things kicked off differently know. As some of you may know a poet/performance artist/musician from within the larger Van Slam community was murdered last week. Her stage name was PesT and her birth name was Tempest Gale. She had performed on the Van Slam stage several times, mostly as a member of the Victoria Poetry Slam team or the spoken word-music groups, Odditory Presence and The Outspoken Wordsmiths. Her reach as an artist, at only 25, was widespread and we wanted to take some time last night to honour her voice and her spirit.

We had two open mics. The first one was dedicated to those who knew her best or who had worked/performed with PesT or who wanted to read something in tribute. We had three sets of performers. It was sweet, it was sad, it was intense and it was beautiful. We also had our now traditional "moment of noise" for PesT both at the start and the end of the open mic. A good cathartic way to end the heaviness of the first half I think.

We had two others on our regular open mic and then our Youth Slam. 5 poets signed up with 3 of them being first timers. Once again a nice eclectic variety of style and content. 3 women and 2 men. Paul Fischer did a poem sampling other poems/poets that have inspired him. Olivia B.H. did a poem about dancing to disco and Firefly (the references to which flew over my head but seemed to connect with everyone else) plus our new slammers, Ryan and Ashley each did their thing along with Kevin who improvised something on the spot.

With only 5 poets competing everyone got to go up in the second round as well. But first we had to get to our feature, Krystle Mullin, from Toronto. I love Krystle's stuff so much. She has such a great stage presence and her words are filled with such empathy for everything she writes about. She did one of her standars, Traffic Jam, to kick things off. This was followed by a poem about her Mom being a secret worth sharing. Krystle then read from her latest chapbook including the piece she did for this year's CBC Poetry Face Off. The theme this year was flight and she came up with a poem about a janitor in East Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall finding a way day by day to survice being separated from the one he loves, who lives on the other side of the wall, eventually finding a way to fly over it. It was a wonderful set.

We came back with the second round which also included many of the poets picking up the "poetry line" challenge I like to give them. I come up with a line that they can choose to incorporate into their poem for a chance at a goofy prize and a twoonie. That is if the twoonie isn't goofy enough on it's own. Last night's line was "Why would I go see Twilight."
Ashley ended up winning a Sweater Vest CD "It's Blank" and the money.

Olivia ended up winning on the night with Paul in second and Ashley third.

An inspiring night all around I think.

...что мне очень приятно, что у меня тут есть друзья, которые заходят ко мне, смотрят мои картинки, критикуют, пишут комменты и, вообще, помогают мне снимать...

СПАСИБО ВАМ ВСЕМ!!!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1xHp_qoO5bQ/may-the-cute-be-with.html

My friend Justin says, "I'm thankful for many things this year, but in particular, I'm thankful for Animals with Lightsabers."

So say we all, Justin. (Wait, now I'm getting my metaphors mixed up...)

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/kVc6IzK8pP4/man-learns-that-char.html

A 41-year-old man searching for his biological father reports that he became depressed after discovering it's Charles Manson. It doesn't help that dear old dad signs his prison letters to his son with a swastika.

• panGloss: Mandy and Me: some thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill
  A lawyer takes the Digital Economy Bill apart. </p>

  My own idiots guide to the DEB is at 1500 words and counting, and I'm not sure I'm even halfway through yet. So: serious question – if there anyone reading this who feels it would be useful for me to produce said guide? Is a guide that tries to use short words and explain the whole business practically from absolutely first principles worth it, or are you all going to go "tl;dr" and skip blithely past it? Who is there round these parts that feels like they don't know what's going on on this subject, and would like to?

  (tags: copyright internet uk law)
• The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia « Copybot
  Dammit, these actually *are* that interesting. An absolute mine of weird crap that illustrates that the world is a pretty damn splendid place, when you get right down to it.
  (tags: interesting wikipedia)
• Patched mach_kernel 10.2.0 for Atom-based netbooks – InsanelyMac Forum
  I will have absolutely no need of this kernel patch at any point.
  (tags: hackintosh osx)
• How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopard Netbook – Dell mini 10v hackintosh – Gizmodo
  This would violate my EULA. Obviously, I would not wish to do this, because once I have legitimately purchased something, it is completely reasonable that that manufacturer dictate how I use it.
  (tags: osx hackintosh tutorial dell howto)
• Home – flashbake – GitHub
  Tools for writers/people who generate text, rather than code, to apply more or less automatic version control to something you're working on, with tools to provide context on what was going on in your head when a given automatic commit happened.
  (tags: lifehacks productivity tools backup writing)
• The Literary Gift Company
  ZOMG! (As I believe the young people say.) Someone has made a website with gifts specifically for me and all my friends!
  (tags: literature gifts)
• Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims | Politics | The Guardian
  Gosh, couldn't have guessed this would happen.
  (tags: police crime identity privacy civil_liberties)

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All the way from Italy, this Saturday night!



A Futurist electro fetish evening with Noir Leather, Dethlab & Interdimensional Transmissions

Franz+Shape live [Relish Recordings, Italy]

Fetish fashion show by Noir Leather

DJs:
BMG of Ectomorph
Dethlab
Dr. Disko Dust

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Video: YouTube, MP4 download, or Dotsub (subtitles)

On Sunday, a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus. The wedding took place during a Make: Japan meet-up held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In attendance were a live audience, an MC, the bride's virtual video game girlfriend — who made a speech — and a real human priest.

The event was livecast on Nico Nico Douga, a popular video sharing web site that I wrote about in Wired Magazine back in 2008. (Watch this clip of hot shot Wired folks making total fools of themselves on Nico Nico Douga.)

Nico Nico Douga is home to thousands of video projects by anonymous users — mashups of original art, pop music, anime, and web memes that only an insider to Japanese web geek culture can completely decipher. Sal9000 is an active member of the Nico Nico Douga community, so it was important to him that his offbeat wedding ceremony was broadcast on the site. The footage seen here of Sal and Nene tying the knot between real and virtual is a highly imaginative, multimedia project orchestrated by a guy determined to officiate his devotion to his video game, and to pay homage to the otaku subculture that nurtures this type of creativity. Enjoy!

Hi, folks. The song I wrote inspired by emilycarding 's image "Were-Owl" is now polished and shiny and up for download. You can listen for free, and I hope that you'll share if you like what you find, and do tell me how the song resonates with you. I'm so thankful to have been part of 2xcreative in this spooky, colorful way.

I've linked to the song in my LJ here.
If you'd rather go straight to the download page, follow this link.

You all rock; never forget it.
May the holidays find you safe and in charge, if not at peace.

There are of course, those big goals that we all think of: Do they want kids? Want to live where I want to? Here though, please share the little things that significantly bug you or people you know while in a dating, romantic or married relationship.

The point of this question is to better match people such that their biggest day to day hot buttons aren't mutually aggravating, so please mention anonymous examples of what other folks have told you about, while avoiding too much speculation.

I, for example, am bothered by a pattern of lateness without real cause, especially when they don't call or warn of the possibility. And I like to know, most of the time and a little bit in advance, if a live-in partner plans to head to bed at the same time I will. The underlying reason for these two examples is that I feel helpless and in limbo when facing such uncertainties. Thankfully those can both be worked out fairly easily on the scale of such things. ^_^

Life without Paul Pope art is no life at all.

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http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/021006.html

Guy, as scoreboard shows highlight of Derek Jeter diving into the crowd: Do you remember what day that was?
Girl: What day was that?
Guy: Why are you being a bitch?

--Yankee Stadium

Overheard by: Anthony

Вчера нашел такой сервис Шпион вконтакте и по-доброму охуел.
Я уверен, что сайт скоро прикроют и программистов Контакта, которые допустили такую дыру уволят или хорошенько поимеют.
Сайт конечно безполезный для меня (я слежкой не страдаю), но по сути открывает возможности читать любые сообщения любого юзера вконтакте.
Для примера я заглянул в сообщения своей верной подруги и вот это сообщение мне не понравилось от тебя, Асечка (я понимаю, что мы с тобой давно не встречаемся, но направо и налево не нужно про меня всякое рассказывать. Спрячь свою ревность подальше...)

According to Forbidden Planet International, the collected IGNITION CITY will be out in February 2010, and apparently it’ll look like this:

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• African conflicts spurred by warming - environment - 23 November 2009 - New Scientist
  "Africa is poised to experience a surge in civil wars, causing nearly 400,000 additional battle deaths by 2030 ? all as a direct result of rising temperatures."
  (tags:war pol eco )
• Nicholas Szczepaniak ? A Defensive Architecture | Interactive Architecture dot Org
  "Set in the Blackwater Estuary, Essex, his allegorical and provocative defensive architectures envisage the construction of a set of austere coastal defence towers that perform multiple functions within this dystopian future. The militarised towers are alive ? breathing, creaking, groaning, sweating and crying when stressed. Airbags on the face of the towers expand and contract, while hundreds of tensile trunks are sporadically activated, casting water onto the heated facades producing steam…"
  (tags:architecture )
• Motion Comics
  "one of comics' greatest strengths is the idea of closure, or how readers fill in the gaps between panels. Motion comics do this for the viewer with extra sound effects and time. An unfortunate side effect of this is that while traditional comics enable us to read at our own speed, motion comics lock us into fixed durations." Which is why motion comics aren't comics, if you were wondering.
  (tags:comicstheory )
• New global map of Mars suggests Red Planet once had ocean
  "?All the evidence gathered by analyzing the valley network on the new map points to a particular climate scenario on early Mars,? said NIU Geography Professor Wei Luo. ?It would have included rainfall and the existence of an ocean covering most of the northern hemisphere, or about one-third of the planet?s surface""
  (tags:space )
• I traced my dad… and discovered he is Charles Manson | The Sun |Features
  "He says: "I didn't want to believe it. I was frightened and angry. It's like finding out that Adolf Hitler is your father. I'm a peaceful person - trapped in the face of a monster.""
  (tags:crime )

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/m9oUluDawhU/record-exec-arrested.html

A record executive who refused to send out a tweet asking for unruly fans at a scheduled Justin Bieber appearance was arrested for "[putting] lives in danger and the public at risk."

Police arrested a senior vice president from Bieber's label, Island Def Jam Records, James A. Roppo, 44, of Hoboken, N.J., saying he hindered their crowd-control efforts by not cooperating...

He was in custody Friday night, pending charges that could include criminal nuisance, endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government administration, Smith said...

In an interview on WBLI 106.1-FM at 7 p.m., Bieber talked about the scene at the mall. "It was so crazy that I couldn't get to even come in the building," the singer said. "They [the authorities] basically threatened to put me in cuffs and send me away to jail."

Aggressive Roosevelt Field crowd cancels Bieber visit (Thanks, Rick!)

G'morning, you weird little shits.

Have some Beauty and Science.

I love all of you.

Well...

Most.


Nah, it's all of you.

b

Continuing my list (and yes, there will be more of these posts to follow, so don’t tell me what I’ve left off this list):

MONOLITHS AND DIMENSIONS, Sunn O))): the more I listen to this immense album, the more I think of it as four movements transitioning from the pagan to the organised church through an apocalyptic collapse into some awful, barren post-civilisational doomspace that fades to become a weirdly sylvan, almost innocent place. Of course, that could just be me. Never discount the possibility that I am a mad old man and completely full of shit. Anyway, yes, it all sounds a bit prog, but they pull it off as far as I’m concerned.

BROMST, Dan Deacon: perhaps not as gleefully mental as SPIDERMAN OF THE RINGS, but still a greatly entertaining record and a working-playlist staple for me over the summer. Very beautiful in places, and, I think, curiously revelatory of his conservatory background. It’s a record you can just spazz around to that also rewards a close listening, just to hear how he really builds that stuff.

"Skeletons," Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Off the album IT’S BLITZ. Honestly, much of the album left me cold. "Skeletons," though, approaches the heights of "Maps" (and if you don’t like "Maps," then you’re dead inside). Love as a long winter march.

"Dog Days Are Over," Florence And The Machine: similarly, I thought LUNGS was a weak album, and I suspect "Dog Days" will prove to be their One Great Song. (I have a half-arsed theory that 95% of bands have One Great Song in them, and I can prove this using an abacus, Manhattan Love Suicides’ "Veronica," and my right fist.) This one is the one: brilliant structure, some beautifully written lines, she sings like she knows what she’s talking about (which I didn’t get from "Kiss With A Fist, oddly), and she opens up her pipes and blows the door off.

SYMBIOSIS, Demdike Stare: this was a marvellous thing. World Hauntology, if you like: Middle Eastern musics, lo-fi drone and the hideous Arctic menace of Scando exorcists like Elegi, all whacked together with stark rhythmic instinct and crazed machine intelligence. I get the impression this record went way under the radar this year, and it really shouldn’t have.

More in a while.

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So I get back home from work. I enter the house, go to my room, drop my bag on the bed and go to the bathroom to take a leak. I notice the left part of the bathroom seems a bit bare, but immediately shrug it off, thinking that the maid probably did something different, although, on further introspection I find it hard to think what, since as far as I remember that wall was always empty. I go to the kitchen, fix a snack and go back to the room.

I go through my usual routine of checking mail, facebook, webcomics and blogs. Everything still seems normal. I Finish my snack, exit the room to place the dirty dish in the dishwasher and re-enter my room. Nothing suspicious at all. I am completely at ease.
At some point I reach my LJ's friends page, and see that someone posted a somewhat pornographic link. What with my younger brothers being home, I think that I ought to close the door.
I get up from my worktable, and take the few steps required to reach the room's door.

Where's the door?
Wait. The door.. is it on the inside of the room our outside of it? Can't remember. Hm.
I step through the door frame, looking for the elusive piece of house. It's not outside, either.
Hmmmmmm. Hey, funny, that. The upper door hinge isn't screwed to the door like it should be. Huh, neither is the bottom one.

Wait. Where's my door?

Where's the bathroom door, for that matter?



Turns out all the house's doors were removed for re-painting by a carpenter. It took me about an hour to notice.

gettin' started



For UZ Daewoo.
made in Reclamafia
Теперь его портят, т.е. программят и наполняют)
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