Melbourne. It's cold, it's fickle, and it guzzles cafe latte like a mainline feeding a fix. And it's as small as the narrowest alley with its tiny dark windows, its shiny happy windows; and as sprawling as an egg sunny side up. Did I say fickle? I meant its infamous weather of course. Melbourne is a city that people fall in love with, but, it is ( Read more... )

I was just thinking the other day, how convenient it'd be if I can highlight text on a webpage, and send the page with the highlights to my colleagues for their attention, like what I do in the emails I send them. And someone has traipse along and invented The Awesome HighlighterAlan Moore described his idea of, well, ideaspace, in the Mindscapes ( Read more... )

Neil,

Is it true you will be in Australia in May, 2008?

Cheers,

Yoomi

It is, it is. I'm out in early May for a conference on children's literature in Melbourne, and I'll do a couple of signings while I'm there. Details to come very soon.

Neil Gaiman's blog

Any fans?

[Soundbyte: Really gravitating towards the deep minimal tech sound. This Dave Seaman mix is shit boring.]

It is something we seem hard-wired to do, says Dr. Biederman. When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. You might call us 'infovores.'

Lee Gomes, WSJI'm so relieved ( Read more... )

[Soundbyte: For minimal fans, Alex Smoke. Great start to the set, quite different from what I've heard of him in the past ( Read more... )

[Soundbyte: I don't have a clue who Club 8 is, possibly Swedish. They performed in Singapore and I was tempted to check them out. Except, while their music (some call it dream-pop, I can hear why) is very listenable and soothing, I can't imagine attending a concert of this. I mean, what would they do 'live' and what would I do if not look for a ( Read more... )

[Soundbyte: OlliS is on a roll. Right after The River of Chill comes the 4th installment in his Melancholic Thoughts series. I think this is my favorite one yet. Immaculate programming and flow, this is a builder that ramps up later into the set. Comes with a wicked cover too.]On the way home today, the old Chinese medicinal hall was gone, ( Read more... )

[Soundbyte: NIN is back with Ghosts I - IV, monumental instrumental release. Very textured, very varied, very interesting. Even better because it's not too noisy, makes for a stimulating office soundtrack.]


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Yup, sitting here at work updating the journal, how deplorable. I tried embedding a YouTube video last night which didn't work, so I'm gonna try again.

"Turn off the lights and I'll glow."

Click to view

Ex-colleague Sam sent me that with a "Wow I didn't know he could dance." So we were talking about the Running Man (yeah I spammed him with the Utah Saints ( Read more... )

"It was the freshest move I've ever seen, it was like he was floating on air."

If you're (cough) old enough to remember.

Come on, that's hilarious. I wished I had LOL and ROFL smileys. Andy, Johnny and I had a good laugh over this today. As did everyone else I spammed on MSN ( Read more... )