Archive for April, 2008
If you can put up with browsing the eye-bleeding assault on the senses that is MySpace with it’s flashing backgrounds and hateful music that starts without asking you, then you can actually find some decent(ish) pages.
One of the best however is MySpace Dark Horse Presents, the online 2nd volume of what was Dark Horse Comic’s [...]
April 14th, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Media | No Comments
Aeons of Eclipse by =alexiuss on deviantART
April 13th, 2008 | Posted in Art, Media | No Comments
Head over to The Independent where you can snag a copy of Iain Bank’s excellent debut novel The Wasp Factory as an audiobook.
It’s from Audible so probably has the cursed DRM but you can always just burn it to CD. You’ll need to register but it’s no bad thing, Audible are a decent company and [...]
April 9th, 2008 | Posted in Audio, Books, Fiction, Media | No Comments
My recent rediscovery of comics has led me to have another look at some of the Manga available to see if there was anything I particularly liked.
Not knowing where to start, I had a hunt around and found One Manga, a really useful site which hosts an absolute ton of Manga ready to read right [...]
April 9th, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Media | No Comments
One of the best sources of free audio on the internet are the many podcasts available, so I thought start a new series of posts picking some of what I think are the best podcasts around. No doubt some will disagree with my rather random selection but if you have any recommendations feel free to [...]
April 7th, 2008 | Posted in Audio, Media, Tech, podcast | No Comments
April 5th, 2008 | Posted in Media, Video | No Comments
Before the huge time sink that is the internet was around in any easy to use form, we used to rely on bits of paper with information printed on it to get interesting news and commentary.
Thankfully you can now get some of those bits of paper in handy digital form if you head over to [...]
April 4th, 2008 | Posted in Magazines, Media | No Comments
The (mostly) self published comic series Elfquest has been around since 1978 so there is a massive universe to catch up on. Thankfully the creators have seen fit to publish the entire series online for free.
I’m not hugely into fantasy comics but this series has plenty of fans so I’ll be having a read, and [...]
April 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Media | No Comments
…Oh how amusing they all are…
I’d almost forgotten about it but the BBC reminded me with their flying penguins.
Roll on next year’s hilarity.
April 1st, 2008 | Posted in News | No Comments
Adobe have released Photoshop Express, a free online image editing, hosting and sharing service.
Whilst it has the Photoshop name, don’t come expecting a fully featured image editor or even a basic version of Photoshop. This is a very stripped down image editor, mostly for performing simple corrections, tweaks and effects. Don’t let that put you [...]
April 1st, 2008 | Posted in Media, Software | No Comments