Fallout Shelter

A few Twitters for your amusement

http://twitter.com/publicdomain

I first noticed this when it was carrying the entirety of Moby Dick, one sentence or so at a time.  Current selection: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 

http://twitter.com/samuelpepys

[Via richardthinks.]  I assume this will be the entirety of the noted diarist's output.  I mispronounced his last name for a long time, thinking it was something like "peppys," when it's like "peeps." (Yes, I should learn how to use a real phonetic alphabet sometime.  So sue me.)

Aw hell

Charles N. Brown, 1937-2009

Locus is one of my favorite SF-related magazines, too.  Damn. 

J. G. Ballard, RIP

Author J. G. Ballard has died at the age of 78.

The real Concrete Island

The Ballardian gives us some insight into a possible location for the "concrete island" in J. G. Ballard's novel of the same name.

Philip José Farmer, RIP

Philip José Farmer died this morning.  He was the author of the Riverworld series, probably one of my favorite of the sprawling SF series sub-genre.  I liked it so much, it caused me to read 2 different biographies of Richard Francis Burton, who is central to the series.  Good bye, Mr. Farmer. 

[Via Ray; thank you.]

Edits:

• Wikipedia article on Riverworld.
• Subterranean Press published an obituary for PJF.
• I had no idea there was a Riverworld movie.

Watch out for the Watchmen Watchers

I'm not a big comics person, but some friend made me sit down and read Watchmen a long time ago, and I've never regretted it.  So I'm also eagerly awaiting the movie.  But... just because I like the graphic novel doesn't mean I'm above making fun of it.  :) 

[Via vee_eckx.]

Life imitates art #4783

Warning!  Spoliers!  :)

Signing Party! Signing party! I wanna signing party!

What do you think the chances are that we could get Chris Onstad to come to a book signing in Durham? 

Moby-Dick, or The Whale, Twittered

Ever wanted to read Moby-Dick?  Now's your chance.

Reading group, anyone? 

Quién es más macho?

Fritz Lang or Zach Snyder? 

I can't decide which is cooler. 

[For Metropolis, click on "Walkthrough"; for Watchmen, you may need to click on start after waiting a bit for the trailer to load.  And thanks to Richard for the first link and Eric for the second.]

Edit - Ah, now something I can embed: