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The Incal: classic, weird-ass French space-opera comic drawn by Moebius, reprinted in English Bookless at Madison Public Library A reminder for our readers in the Dallas area BitTorrent doesn't hurt US box-office, delayed international releases drive downloading All is not well in Greece China's Vice President lived in a cave for 7 years, eating gruel Interpol accused after Saudi Arabia arrests journalist over Muhammad tweet Bruce McCall explains the artist's drive for absurdist retrofuturism Acrylic fractal art made by bombarding slabs of plastic in a particle accelerator The Incal: classic, weird-ass French space-opera comic drawn by Moebius, reprinted in English
By Cory Doctorow on Feb 13, 2012 01:01 pm In 1981, comics writer Alejandro Jodorowsky teamed up with French comic artist legend Moebius and created a new French comic serial called The Incal, (allegedly salvaging a bunch of material Jodorowsky created for an aborted film adaptation of Dune). The Incal's story is barely comprehensible, a mystical, satirical space-opera that anticipates many of cyberpunk's tropes. ...
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By LibraryLab on Feb 13, 2012 12:51 pm Ever since fire consumed the Library of Alexandria, bibliophiles have been captivated by stories of epic endings to libraries. Madison, Wisconsin recently contributed a memorable ending, answering the question: "What would happen if we cleared all the books out of the Central Library, handed the debris-strewn three-story building over to a bunch of artists, live ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 13, 2012 12:33 pm I'm giving a free talk tonight at UT Arlington engineering, 7PM at the Lonestar Auditorium, entitled: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Internet Regulation." Tell your friends!
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 13, 2012 11:19 am Economics researchers at Wellesley College and U Minnesota have published a study showing that feature films' US box office returns are not correlated to BitTorrent sharing. They also show that shorter delays between the US exhibition and overseas releases result in less file-sharing -- that is, people outside the US download movies because they can't ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 13, 2012 04:03 am A gasoline bomb explodes at riot police during a huge anti-austerity demonstration in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square February 12, 2012. Historic cinemas, cafes and shops went up in flames in central Athens on Sunday as black-masked protesters fought Greek police outside parliament, while inside lawmakers looked set to defy the public rage by endorsing a ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 13, 2012 03:44 am Xi Jinping, the man expected to take Hu Jintao's post as general secretary of China's Communist Party later this year, came from humble beginnings. According to a Los Angeles Times profile this weekend, he lived in a cave for 7 years, after being sent to a rural village to do hard labor during the Cultural ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Feb 13, 2012 03:07 am Saudi Arabia is reported to have used Interpol's "red notice" system to locate and arrest journalist Hamza Kashgari, 23, (image at left) over tweets perceived as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad. The international police organization denies involvement. On the day observed as the Prophet's birthday, Kashgari published three tweets that described an imaginary meeting ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 12, 2012 02:45 pm Here's artist Bruce McCall explaining the aesthetic of his retrofuturistic "serious nonsense" illustrations, which nostalgically recall futures that never came to past. It's a very sweet TED talk, and really nails the appeal of old ads, especially old technology ads. Bruce McCall: Nostalgia for a future that never happened (via Making Light)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 12, 2012 02:29 pm Todd Johnson's Shockfossils are "multimillion volt Lichtenberg figures in acrylic." He masks acrylic slabs with lead and then rents time on a commercial particle accelerator and the result are beautiful, fern-like fractals. Shockfossils on deviantART
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