I told you. I told you all. The Dog is the Enemy of the Human. But you wouldn’t believe me. Now look.

…dogs have a greater eco-footprint than gas-guzzling SUVs.

See? SEE?

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• Oldest American artefact unearthed : Nature News
  "The tool shows that people were living in North America well before the widespread Clovis culture of 12,900 to 12,400 years ago"
  (tags:history )
• Brazil crime wars: Spiderman’s story of drugs and Jesus in Rio’s slums | World news | The Guardian
  ""If you add them all up I control 15 communities," boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4×4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva, 28, one of the Brazilian capital's most wanted drug lords, better known by the nickname Spiderman. The words "Jesus" and "Christ" were tattooed on to his forearms in black. In the boot his pet dog, Bloodsucker, shared space with an M-16 assault rifle."
  (tags:crime drugs pol )
• Detroit: Urban Laboratory and the New American Frontier | Newgeography.com
  Not a lot new for Detroit watchers, but I love the phrase therein: "urban prairie"
  (tags:cities )
• New podcast: Shift Run Stop ? Roo Reynolds
  Roo says: "I?ve been working with Leila Johnston on a new thing. It?s a fortnightly podcast called Shift Run Stop and as she explains it?s ?an ambient soundscape sort of production, an undulation of chatter and noise, ideas, games and food?."
  (tags:podcasts )
• re-inhabited circle-k?s - mammoth // building nothing out of something
  "photographer Paho Mann documents the diverse array of stores that re-inhabit the empty shells abandoned by the national corporation Circle-K; the current lives of Circle-K's include "a dry cleaners, a couple of florist shops, a tattoo parlor, a tuxedo rental place, several mini-marts and dollar stores, and Bridgett?s Last Laugh Karaoke and Fish Fry." "
  (tags:architecture culture )
• The Psychedelic Review Archives 1963-1971
  "MAPS has posted PDF scans of The Psychedelic Review Archives 1963-1971."
  (tags:magazine history drugs )

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The self-portrait photographer/"caricature artist" Kristamas Klousch finally has a website up for her wonderful, ghostly and irreal work.

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In which I make a case for Paul Morley as national treasure, champion of music journalism and the oldest digital pioneer in newspapers. And also I make a pitch for a TV job. And a statue:

I think we can all agree that I should have been given The South Bank Show after Melvyn Bragg retired from it. If nothing else, it is way past time that the serious arts media gave coverage to those elements of the Japanese film industry that produce such inventive, beautifully designed and thematically muscular works as The Octopus Invades the Vagina, The Fish That Has is Crunched And The Wound is Received [sic] and The Eel and Loach to Attack in Lasciviousness are Insane [sic].

You don’t really want to search those terms from work. Which is why one requires the piercing artistic gaze of a South Bank Show to discover and present such items for the engaged viewer’s consideration. Frankly, I’m the only real choice to replace Bragg when he retires…

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There’s something powerfully weird about this beautiful photoset by Marta Lamovsek, not least in this image, where the model really does look like an alien landed in eastern Europe.

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Superb new prints from Laurenn McCubbin:

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Wonderful.  The first of three interviews, this one with Michael Butterworth, about the glorious and fraught history of what remains Britain’s most ambitious and most hated alternative publishing company, Savoy Books.  I’m even delighted by the page scans that decorate the piece.  I’m quoted in there somewhere, talking about the time they sent the co-publisher to prison…

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• core.balance:sustainable masterplanning tool-SuBET
  "Hilson Moran has developed a masterplanning system called SuBET (Sustainable Built Environment Tool), which provides a design framework. It brings together everyone involved in a project, from the client and the quantity surveyor to the architect and environmental consultant, to consider 71 environmental, economic and socio-cultural indicators."
  (tags:architecture eco culture )
• Cousin: Japanese captured Amelia Earhart | NevadaAppeal.com
  "?The Japanese then transported Amelia Earhart, Noonan and the airplane to Saipan. Noonan was beheaded by the Japanese and Amelia soon died from dysentery and other ailments,? Wally Earhart continued. He added that the Japanese troops on the island cut the airplane into scrap and tossed the remnants into the Pacific."
  (tags:history )
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart spectacles aid translation
  "Spectacles that can provide subtitles have been created by hi-tech firm NEC. Resembling glasses but lacking lenses, the headset uses a tiny projector to display images on a user's retina."
  (tags:tech ar wearable bodymod )
• Dark Matter And Dark Energy Make Up 95 Percent Of Universe, Detailed Measurements Reveal
  "These measurements of the cosmic microwave background — a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe — put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support for the standard cosmological model, confirming that dark matter and dark energy make up 95% of everything in existence, while ordinary matter makes up just 5%."
  (tags:space )

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 talking to myself during class...

RIGHT HERE.

Today I release SHIVERING SANDS, a book containing a selection of essays, articles, columns, rambles and jabberings that were written in various places on the internet over the last seven years or so. I publish it, with trusty mechanic Ariana Osborne, as the International Electrophonic Unit through the print-on-demand house Lulu. Regular readers will know that I’ve been talking about POD for months, and I thought it was time to try it out. This work has not been collected in one place before, and I think pretty much none of it has ever been on paper.

SHIVERING SANDS is 176 pages long, and costs USD $15.54. Go to http://www.electrophonic.net and click on the book title to be taken to the order page. Or, hell, just click right through to the Lulu page. You’ll also find a book preview there, a dozen pages or so.

All books are sold through and mailed by Lulu. We touch nothing. This is the most useful thing about POD houses like Lulu: they handle everything once we upload the book file. So any questions about shipping will have to be handled through the Lulu FAQs. We can tell you that Ariana, in California, got her proof copy within five working days. We’re printing with an international standard size that means your copy will be printed as physically close to you as possible, rather than everything being shipped from the States.

Ariana — who designs much of my Avatar Press work, like AETHERIC MECHANICS — has outdone herself on the book. It’s beautiful. Even though making a collection like this beautiful is like being presented with a young and very well dressed mental patient.

Brief notes: no plans yet for a digital edition: no, it won’t be in bookstores: no, I can’t sell or send you a signed copy: I have no copies of the book, they’re all sold through Lulu: we don’t set shipping prices: no intent to sell it through Amazon. There. Thanks for your attention.

Blogging, reblogging and twittering is encouraged, if not openly begged for.

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Title: A Kind of Magic
Author: selinamoonfire
Artist: scatter_muse
Fanmixer: echoinautumn
Series: ST XI AU
Character/Pairing(s): Kirk/McCoy
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~33,843
Warnings: Slash
Summary: Leonard McCoy never believed in magic until that belief was forced upon him. When Jim Kirk beamed down to Rosa, he never expected to find himself in the middle of a fairy tale.
Link to Art: HERE
Link to Mix: HERE
Note: Many thanks to my alpha reader silkmoth101and my beta readers danceswithgaryand lauriegilbert(who did double duty as an alpha and a beta reader). Without their help this story wouldn't have come together. Any mistakes are mine.

Too much to do, so I’m bailing out of warrenellis.com for the night. Tomorrow, we go live with SHIVERING SANDS.

I am being played off tonight by NEU! and the phenomenal "Fur Immer." Been dragging out, dusting off and re-playing all my Krautrock since watching a pretty good documentary on those days by the BBC. I shouldn’t call it Krautrock, mind you, they didn’t like that term…

G’night.

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Spent the evening listening to this. Nadja, a well-known drone metal outfit from Toronto, and Pyramids, a postrocky noise band from Denton once described as like "someone disemboweling a Radiohead record." PYRAMIDS WITH NADJA is an immense collaborations, four long soundscapes that also bring in members of several other bands, including Khanate and The Cocteau Twins.

And you can stream it here.

Fused together, they make a sound that approaches, particularly in the later tracks, a sort of Berserker Mushroom Viking Meditation. It flows like river water on the verge of freezing, under a sky that is very slowly exploding, and your heart is hammering but the drone of the world is still and all-emcompassing.

Should probably have been a Night Music entry.

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• Indian engineer ‘builds’ new glaciers to stop global warming - Telegraph
  "Chewang Norphel, 76, has "built" 12 new glaciers already and is racing to create five more before he dies. By then he hopes he will have trained enough new "icemen" to continue his work and save the world's "third icecap" from being transformed into rivers."
  (tags:eco )
• ‘Demon worshipper’ kills four | The Australian
  "the killer was said to be a demon worshipper who believed in a black Jesus and worshipped on mountaintops before dawn"
  (tags:crime weird culture )
• Space hotel says it’s on schedule to open in 2012 - Space- msnbc.com
  "A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012"
  (tags:space idiots )
• Technology Review: Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics
  "By building thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates, researchers have made electronics that almost completely dissolve inside the body."
  (tags:sci tech bodymod )
• Car maker develops its own flower species - www.drive.com.au
  "Toyota has created two flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat out of the atmosphere."
  (tags:sci eco biotech )

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At my internet hovel today:

* The Starry Wisdom Of Warren 3nov09 - my daily notes on what I’m up to, and what (or if) I’m thinking about.

* REMAKE/REMODEL: Kardak The Mystic - this week’s challenge for artists, all are welcome to play

* The Self-Portrait Imagethread (Nov 2009)

* Netlabels - a rolling list of the ones we like. If you’re running a netlabel, feel free to stop in.

* Comics Shipping This Week (Nov 4) - the list

* NaNoWriMo 2009 - a support thread for the people participating this year.

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A mummy, a ghost and a wolfman.

RIGHT HERE.

"Chief Strange Horse":

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The GI JOE miniseries thing what I wrote is out on DVD in the USA today, apparently. This was serialised on the web (you can probably still find all the episodes on YouTube) and broadcast as a whole piece on Adult Swim over there. It’s a weird sort of telepod fusion of the cartoons and the comics, filtered through whatever I found interesting about the franchise. I altered a fair amount of stuff, including characters, to amuse myself and to meet the brief of producing a slightly more adult-oriented piece that used the franchise without being beholden to its other iterations (including the recent live-action film, completed and released after I finished writing this). Lots of people hated the changes I made, and many didn’t understand that I’d actually specifically made changes and moaned that I’d got the characters wrong. Hasbro, the client, have told me that they were very happy with RESOLUTE. So screw those other people. Heh.

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Yesterday got pretty much swallowed up. Today, I huddle here under the plastic roof in the pub smoking compound, as the weather shifts from torrential rain to sunlight and back again every five minutes. The workload’s pretty hairy today, but let’s see if we can’t do some embloggening in between the usual shouting and crying. Probably mostly linkblogging, as I fight to get my RSS reader under 1000 articles… but, as usual, probably also mostly about my friends and fellow-travellers. Jamais Cascio has a Cheeseburger Carbon Footprint t-shirt and tote that I should show you later. Matt Jones had dinner with Brian Eno last night and put all kinds of arcane knowledge into his notebook, some jabbering about a “minimal book” that I have to decode at some point… COILHOUSE turned 2 and I was too busy to notice, Cherie Priest’s BONESHAKER was made a book of the year by Publishers Weekly… and, in general, I’m not doing a good job of keeping up.

And SHIVERING SANDS goes live tomorrow.

(Also, I want to post more music, which will probably make most of you go “oh god no.”)

More in a bit. My fingers are freezing up out here.

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