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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Interaction

Didi is Poling Israeli fans to hurry up and sign-up to Interaction, the World Science Fiction convention that’s being held at Glasgow during the begining of August. Register now, while there are still decent hotel rooms available and before the rates go up (in December).

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Oddities

Made of Meat

Jamie Zawinski () blogs a Wired article about a project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (don’t those names sound totally Israeli?) at the Tissue Culture & Art Project to make a (mouse-sized) artificial leather jacket out of a (mouse-derived) tissue culture cell line ("victimless leather").
In the comments, talk turns naturally to "victimless meat", with links to "Animal 57", the TCA’s own "Disembodied Cuisine" and the New Scientist article that I blogged last January, titled Lab-grown steaks nearing the menu.
I can’t believe that when I blogged that I missed quoting the immortal line Herman Vandenburgh of Brown University has proposed a regime for the physical conditioning of sedentary steaks.

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Oddities short

Son of Spam

Snopes posts a very funny SuperSpam, which is a remix of every spam pitch ever in the format of a Nigerian scam.

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Comics

Richard Corben Fan Site

The Most Complete Comicography of Richard Corben is, well, what it claims to be. Every Corben strip, with dates, writer credits, and excerpts (i.e, lots of Corben art).
If you don’t know who Richard Corben is (underground Comix artist famous for a sword and sorcery strip with a bare naked hero hung like a howitzer), Den by all means, follow the link and find out.

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BlogTalk

Crossposting update

Right, seems to be working, so y’all reading this on LiveJournal, replace with on your friends page, and if I don’t forget to check “synch”, things will come through and the comments will actually be read.