LinkMachineGo http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego UK based, Daily Link Blog. This is Lima Mike Golf. Shall we blog? Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:07:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Neal Stephenson Update http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/21/neal-stephenson-update/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/21/neal-stephenson-update/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:12:08 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3378 Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He’s the King of the Worlds … update on what Neal Stephenson is up to …‘That’s right—brain surgery is one of the things Stephenson is tinkering with. He and his team are helping refine some mechanical aspects of a new tool, a helical needle for operating on brain tumors. It’s the kind of cool job one of his characters might have.’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/21/neal-stephenson-update/feed/ Merlin Mann on What Makes a Good Blog http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/20/merlin-mann-on-what-makes-a-good-blog/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/20/merlin-mann-on-what-makes-a-good-blog/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:09:09 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3366 What Makes for a Good Blog? … some interesting points from Merlin Mann … ‘I’ve come to believe that creative life in the first-world comes down to those who try just a little bit harder. Then, there’s the other 98%. They’re still eating the free continental breakfast over at FriendFeed. A good blog is written by a blogger who thinks longer, works harder, and obsesses more. Ultimately, a good blogger tries. That’s why “good” is getting rare.’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/20/merlin-mann-on-what-makes-a-good-blog/feed/ London Underground http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/18/london-underground/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/18/london-underground/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:52:41 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3361 A Hierarchy Of Tubes … an interesting personal ranking of the reliability of the various tube lines on the London Underground … ‘As every Londoner knows, all tube lines were not created equal. There’s a definite ranking of the lines you’d like to have to use, and those you’d like to avoid. So here’s my own, totally unscientific (yet, I hope, reasonable) list of lines in order of usefulness.’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/18/london-underground/feed/ Nemesis Wanted… http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/17/nemesis-wanted/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/17/nemesis-wanted/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:02:09 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3353 Jimmy Carr’s Nemesis Wanted … (More Amusing Classified Ads)

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]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/17/nemesis-wanted/feed/ ‘Nemesis Required…’ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/15/nemesis-required/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/15/nemesis-required/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:41:38 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3340 Best of Craigslist: Nemesis required. 6-month project with possibilty to extend … ‘Evil laugh preferred.’ [via iamcal.com]]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/15/nemesis-required/feed/ Watchmen Movie / Comic Poster Comparisons http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/14/watchmen-movie-comic-poster-comparisons/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/14/watchmen-movie-comic-poster-comparisons/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:56:07 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3335 Watchmen Movie Poster Comparison … compare the recent movie posters with Dave Gibbon’s original posters for the comic … ‘Who Watches the Watchmen?’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/14/watchmen-movie-comic-poster-comparisons/feed/ Why Blog Publishing Failed in the UK http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/14/why-blog-publishing-failed-in-the-uk/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/14/why-blog-publishing-failed-in-the-uk/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:44:34 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3321 Taking the shine off: Why blog publishing failed in the UK … a co-founder of Shiny Media looks at the state of blog publishing in the UK … ‘The obvious reason why UK new media companies haven’t achieved the same success as their US counterparts is down to economies of scale. US sites have at least five times more readers to aim at and that counts for an awful lot when most online advertising is still based around a CPM model (advertisers pay a between 50p-£20 depending on the campaign per thousand people who see their ad). What makes it even trickier is that most UK advertisers for obvious reasons only want their ads to be seen by UK readers…’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/14/why-blog-publishing-failed-in-the-uk/feed/ Another Alan Moore Interview http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/13/another-alan-moore-interview-2/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/13/another-alan-moore-interview-2/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:30:47 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3304 The Craft … another long interview with Alan Moore …

I remember Julie Schwarz telling me – who was a lovely man – he told me about Mort Weisinger’s funeral – and this was probably just an old Jewish joke that he’d adapted – for Mort Weisinger – but he said that apparently during Jewish funerals there’s a part where people can stand up and spontaneously will say a few words about the departed – personal tributes, things like that. So it’s Mort Weisinger’s funeral, and it gets to this bit in the funeral and there’s absolute dead silence, and the silence just goes on and on and on and nobody gets up and says anything and eventually this guy at the back of the synagogue gets up and says: “His brother was worse!” (laughter).

]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/13/another-alan-moore-interview-2/feed/ Seth on the Quiet Art of Cartooning http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/12/seth-on-the-quiet-art-of-cartooning/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/12/seth-on-the-quiet-art-of-cartooning/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:55:44 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3296 Seth on the Quiet Art of Cartooning … ‘There is something very lovely about the stillness of a comic book page. That austere stacked grid of boxes. The little people trapped in time. Its frozen and silent nature acting almost as a counterpoint to the raucous vulgarity of the modern aesthetic. Of course, the drawings aren’t really frozen. When we look at them, we immediately invest them with life. That little ink world pops into life as our eyes move across the drawings.’ [via ¡Journalista!] ]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/12/seth-on-the-quiet-art-of-cartooning/feed/ My ToBlog Tag… http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/12/my-toblog-tag/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/12/my-toblog-tag/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:57:06 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=2674

]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/12/my-toblog-tag/feed/ A Ten Year Old Seeks Advice from Charles Manson… http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/11/a-ten-year-old-seeks-advice-from-charles-manson/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/11/a-ten-year-old-seeks-advice-from-charles-manson/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:40:04 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3275 The Billy Letters … find out what happens when a small child seeks written advice from Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Ted Kacyinski and other notable characters … Manson: ‘Find out why the L.A. Times hasn’t sent my newspaper —Charles Manson. P.S. O-yes HI BILLY Easy easy EASSY’ [via Metafilter]]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/11/a-ten-year-old-seeks-advice-from-charles-manson/feed/ Internet Protocol Address Exhaustion Counter http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/08/internet-protocol-address-exhaustion-counter/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/08/internet-protocol-address-exhaustion-counter/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:09:53 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3138 Internet Protocol Address Exhaustion Counter … a web page counting down the number of days until we run out of internet addresses (on the current scheme) … ‘892 days’]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/08/internet-protocol-address-exhaustion-counter/feed/ Howard Chaykin Quotes from his Comic-Con Panel http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/07/howard-chaykin-quotes-from-his-comic-con-panel/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/07/howard-chaykin-quotes-from-his-comic-con-panel/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:29:00 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3141 Spotlight on Howard Chaykin … some interesting points from a panel with Chaykin at the San Diego Comic-con … [via Beaucoupkevin]

At one point in the panel, just to clarify (or maybe rationalize) his language, Chaykin said, ‘anybody under 18 who would actually be interested in sitting and listening to me is obviously on drugs.’

When asked about illustrating the Star Wars comic adaptation: ‘If I’d known the movie was going to be so successful, I would have done a better job.’

Chaykin said he is at work on a ten-issue prequel to ‘Black Kiss’ for Dynamite Entertainment. ‘Each issue will be a decade of the 20th Century, with the filth appropriate to that decade.’

]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/07/howard-chaykin-quotes-from-his-comic-con-panel/feed/ BBC Schedule Twitterbots http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/07/bbc-schedule-twitterbots/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/07/bbc-schedule-twitterbots/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:36:05 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3176 Nigel’s BBC Schedule Twitterbots … ‘What’s On Now’ Twitter Pages for every BBC Channel / Network.]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/07/bbc-schedule-twitterbots/feed/ First Animated Episode of Get Your War On http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/06/first-animated-episode-of-get-your-war-on/ http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/06/first-animated-episode-of-get-your-war-on/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:11:31 +0000 darren http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/?p=3175 Get Your War On - Animated … nicely done cartoon of the brilliant webcomic … ‘America loves a list…’ [via Fimoculous]]]> http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/2008/08/06/first-animated-episode-of-get-your-war-on/feed/