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London Bloggers [Comic Blogs][Other Blogs] | 19 January 2010
[tv] What all this Leno/Conan/Late Night Gubbins is about: a primer for friends in the UK … nice crib sheet from Anna Pickard. ‘…it is not often a curtain gets raised like this, and it has been, for a brief time, a remarkable insight on the workings of it all – and the true bitterness, fear and anger present in all parts of the industry (of most similar industries) right now.’
18 January 2010
[retro] A Note on the Word “Zork” … possible origins of the title of one the earliest text adventure games … ‘It’s particularly appealing that this etymology makes zork an altered form of, or an alternative to … work.’
[books] James Ellroy On Desert Island Discs … (available on BBC iPlayer for the next seven days).
17 January 2010
[tv] It’s Aways September 13, 1999 Somewhere … huge Metafilter post filled with interesting links on Garry Anderson’s Space 1999 … ‘I had the metal-cast Tonka version of the Eagle, if I remember right: that thing had heft. Forget about the Moon being pushed into another part of the universe, or Martin Landau, or the trippy 1970s graphics: I watched Space: 1999 for the hardware.’
16 January 2010
15 January 2010
14 January 2010
[crime] The Silver Thief … amazing true-crime story about a high-end cat burglar … ‘The police inventoried Nordahl’s belongings in his vehicle and in his motel room, and found, among other items, nationwide motel directories, a video titled “How to Create a New Birth Certificate,” a rubber stamp that read “original document,” and a book called “How to Launder Money.” He had been travelling with two cats, one white and one black, named Romeo and Juliet; a series of receipts from various animal clinics suggested that he was a devoted pet owner. Not surprisingly, he had no sterling silver and no piles of cash.’
13 January 2010
[books] I’m Not That Peter Robinson … Internet Hate Mob GO! … ‘Many thanks to all of you who have offered me your support in my time of difficulty – especially the person who said my wife was a homophobic slut who needed a good slapping around, and the other who suggested that I turn to Jesus Christ as my Saviour – but I must stress that I AM NOT Peter Robinson the politician, Northern Ireland’s First Minister.’
[blogs] Look At This Fucking Idea For A Blog-To-Book Deal … generating ideas for the blog-to-book market one post at a time: Famous Architect Or Early 20th Century Pedophile Dandy? … Dinosaurs Dealing With Mortality … Everything As A Vintage Paperback … Reboxing. [via Metafilter]
12 January 2010
[life] What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google … ‘how can I get my girlfriend / boyfriend to trust me?’
11 January 2010
Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee … an interview with a Facebook employee about internal practices at the company …
Q: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save our viewing history?
[books] Kurt Vonnegut Reviews Joseph Heller’s Something Happened … ‘The book may be marketed under false pretenses, which is all right with me. I have already seen (British) sales promotion materials which suggest that we have been ravenous for a new Heller book because we want to laugh some more. This is as good a way as any to get people to read one of the unhappiest books ever written. “Something Happened” is so astonishingly pessimistic, in fact, that it can be called a daring experiment. Depictions of utter hopelessness in literature have been acceptable up to now only in small dose, in short-story form, as in Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” or John D. MacDonald’s “The Hangover,” to name a treasured few. As far as I know, though, Joseph Heller is the first major American writer to deal with unrelieved misery at novel length. Even more rashly, he leaves his major character, Slocum, essentially unchanged at the end.’
9 January 2010
[comics] Load Runner #3 … scans of the Galaxy’s greatest British computer comic from 1983. Containing such gems as the adventures of Andy Royd and the specifications for the Mattel Aquarius.
8 January 2010
[comics] Grant Goggans On 2000 AD … ‘Andy Diggle famously described 2000 AD, at its best, as delivering you shot glasses of rocket fuel. You may not like every episode of every tale, but all five episodes each week should try and knock you on your backside with excellent characters in fast-moving, over-the-top stories. Nothing else in comics can give you that thrill, and it’s the highwire, anything-goes weekly nature that makes reading 2000 AD so fun.’
7 January 2010
[comics] Why Chicks Cry … according to 66 romance comic panels … [via MetaFilter]
 Always Remember: Never Trust A Sailor 6 January 2010
[wire] 100 Greatest Quotes From The Wire … ‘All the pieces matter.’ [more…]
5 January 2010
[crime] Yorkshire Ripper loves Wii Bowling … ‘[Peter] Sutcliffe – convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women – has a fondness for Wii Bowling, a source at the Berkshire-based hospital told the newspaper, adding that the murderer has played the game while watched by Robert Napper, the killer of Rachel Nickell.’
[funny] Worth a look: Some Questions … Give-A-Fuck-O-Meter … Can Fail (Isn’t this a visual metaphor for life in some way rather than a fail?)
4 January 2010
[batman] xkcd: Lease … ‘I don’t know what you just said because I was thinking about Batman.’
[london] Darling At War With “Bully” Brown … apparently this was the last Evening Standard Headline Board produced on December 12 – Can anybody confirm that?
3 January 2010
[london] 2009 in Evening Standard headlines … Samizdata.net on the Evening Standard’s 2009 Headline Boards … ‘At first the guys giving it away carried on with the billboards, but I knew that this practice would soon fade away. If no money is being made in the street from these newspapers, why go to all the bother of advertising them in the street. So it is that if you click on the last picture of all, you see that where there used to be informatively alarming stories about doom and disaster, now there are only forlorn signs saying that the ES now costs nothing.’ [thanks Phil]
2 January 2010
[moore] Comics Won’t Save You, but Dodgem Logic Might … an Alan Moore interview in Wired … ‘I think the comics medium could play a big part in addressing our problems. It’s such a wonderful medium. You can talk about anything, and talk about it in a very powerful and informative way. I’d like to see comics become a medium in which new ideas could be expressed in new, compelling forms, but I don’t really see that coming from the industry’
1 January 2010
[funny] WiFi for Passive-Aggressives … ‘YourDogShitsInMyYard’
31 December 2009
[funny] The Perfect Billboard … ‘My God, it even has a watermark.’
[crime] Madeleine McCann… part of a series on Icons Of The Decade from The Guardian …
Late in 2007, Gerry McCann gave an interview to an American magazine and talked about the decision to publicise the eye defect. “Certainly we thought it was possible that [the publicity] could possibly hurt her or her abductor might do something to her eye . . . But in terms of marketing, it was a good ploy.” 30 December 2009
[london] Evening Standard Headline Crisis 2009 … another years worth of the best of the headline boards from the Evening Standard – and probably the last due to it going free …
 Click on the images for the full set 29 December 2009
[blogs] The Annotated Weekender … a blog of doodles all over the Weekend Guardian / Observer Magazines. [via qwghlm.co.uk]
[meme] What Are The First Three Words You See On This Grid? … Bail, Kick, Past.
[golook] Go Look: A Gary Busey Family Photo … Wonderfully Done Recursive Photo … How The Internet Works.
28 December 2009
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