Month: April 2003

Comics

Alan Moore, Grant Morrison News

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date April 04, 2003

CBR
Reports that Alan Moore plans to retire this year to mark his fiftieth birthday, and provides details of tribute books to be published for the occassion. I’ll probably forget to order them, so there’s something someone can get me for my birthday, should they be so inclined…

Also, details of a talk Grant Morrison gave at the Institute Of Contempory Art in London, including his plans to make the DC Universe self-aware (it’s complex enough to support sentience, he suggests), intimations of the coming eschaton, and his love for cats.

All this through LinkMachineGo, of course.

Oddities

Other People’s Links

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date April 04, 2003

Some links from DiePunyHumans

Send Back the Statue of Liberty takes the next logical step in America’s anti-French protests. God, I hope it’s a parody, but after that Two Towers site, you can’t be sure…

Exactitudes is an online exhibit of sets of photographes, of people dressed the same and in the same pose. Interesting anthropological study, which demonstrates Amotz Zahavi’s point about how dress codes are used to set the ground rules for social contests.

Also, two science stories: Hubble Pictures Too Crisp, Challenging Theories of Time and Space and Toxin threat to Inuit food: Researchers have for the first time documented “unacceptable levels” of man-made environmental toxins in the Inuit population of Greenland.. Good. Now that they’re bookmarked, I don’t have to actually read them…

Resources

The Jewish Encyclopedia

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date April 04, 2003

An entry on The Wandering Jew on the Jewish Encyclopedia site. The site itself contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. Cool. A reference to match the The Catholic Encyclopedia?