Archive for January, 2009

Digital Comics & ebooks at the Literate Machine

Literate Machine is a handy looking site allowing the authors of various digital media (magazines,ebooks,comics,art) to upload and distribute their work either free or for a charge with the site taking a small cut.
I love platforms for media that might not necessarily find homes with traditional publishers and something like this could be great for [...]

Bubblicious – Rex The Dog

Papercraft, stop motion, genius.

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

Free Documentaries, Films and Animation from National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada has today launched a new online video site at http://nfb.ca/ containing a whole load of films from their archives available to stream on the site for free.
At first glance it looks like an outstanding resource for documentaries plus tons of other interesting  films. The design of the site is [...]

Struggling With the New Year Exercise….

Why not get a creepy, Japanese press-up robot to screech at you and give your children nightmares.

We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.

Cower in fear couch potatoes for I now hold your viewing future within my sweaty palm!
Yes an engineer has been here all afternoon fitting fugly black boxes to all my beautiful sleek TVs, for I am now a member of the mysterious TV viewing panel. Seriously they really could make them a bit smaller and [...]

Wolverine Trailer

Oh yes…can’t wait for this one. Lets hope they don’t completely arse it up like they did with the last film.

Free Steampunk Short Story : The Shattered Teacup – George Mann

Well I’m assuming it’s steampunk given the lovely image they’ve produced to go with it and the fact that George Mann’s previous novel The Affinity Bridge is packed to the gills with steampunky goodness.
I’ve not read it yet but it’s being given away free as both a PDF and an audio reading so I might [...]

Peace Anthem for Palestine

I saw the news and thought of this.

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone has had a good one or will have a better one.