Soon we’ll arrive at 1.000,000 words in English.
Those are some cool inscriptions.
Sad Guys on Trading Floors. Hilarious.
That’s a book deal… (via New Yorker)
The Edinburgh-based Finnish writer Hannu Rajaniemi, who has a Ph.D. in string theory, has signed a deal for three science-fiction novels, based on just twenty-four pages of a single manuscript.
A post on… I don’t really know – Terminator, story arcs, time travel – but it’s a good read anyway.
Crowdsourcing… a very interesting concept. [Here’s the official blog.]
A really nice interview with Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket).
A world map depicting the new books published per year.
If you haven’t heard yet – the Nobel Prize winner is Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
Dream Captcha – a really cool idea.
Movie Watching Championships? Count me in, I bet I could keep up with the best of them.
All About Walken – this sounds like a roflmao show.
Bookrix – read and publish books online.
A Softer World – a truly wonderful webcomic. And they have a serialised horror story up for Halloween.
The literal video version of “Take On Me”! Pipe Wrench Fight! Band Montage! Everything’s Drawn and Super 80s! And the other way round for Panic! At the Disco’s “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage”.
Now this is cool knitting. Who wouldn’t want their own pink Cthulhu?
Forget pink Cthulhu…I *WANT* that Dalek!!!
The Dalek is really cool, too, very true… Maybe I can find the instructions to make them myself? ;)
That would be the most awesomest Christmas present ever. /*hint*
I’d do it myself, but my knitting skills are limited to oddly-shaped dishtowels.
I’ll see what I can do. But I can’t promise anything!