This Neil Gaiman short story which is one of my all time favorites is now available here online.

Some Interesting art that people may like. corone can you please pass this on to Claire.

Serenity partial soundtrack CD given out at 
Comic Con.
Movie poster (now withdrawn as the censors had a fit at a 17 year old with a gun — now they’re going to use the novel cover.
Actual browncoats for sale.
The Sci-Fi Channel’s website.
The Signal — an all Firefly podcast!
FFF.net plugged on Newsday…

Found by the ever vigilent dodgyhoodoo this is great stuff.

Religion doesn’t like doubt whereas science positively thrives on it. Science Magazine’s top 125 currently unanswered scientific questions.

So, I find myself quoting dodgyhoodoo again who appears to be way more on the ball than me these days (or just spends longer browsing at work — I didn’t think that was possible)… :-)

Anyway — the BBC are quoting large chunks of weaslebitch’s journal regarding her narrow escape.

weaslebitch’s account of the explosion on her train. dodgyhoodoo’s great post from yesterday. This kinda says it all.

New version of official Serenity site coming soon?”
Trading card info.
Joss interview.
Inara’s dress to comic-con auction.
Pre-order the comics.
Serenity is PG13.
Baseless rumour of Serenity opening being moved up.
Alan in “Into the West”.
Joss posts to the UB…

Thanks to thessalian who brought this to my attention. Friends will tell you I’m not normally at all easy to make angry but this has me spitting blood.

Excellent SF podcast with Harlan Ellison, Connie Willis, Bruce Sterling, and Len Wein!

I haven’t made an entry about this for a while. Mostly I just put things on my bloglines blog. However I’ve seen a bunch of stuff in the last couple of days so I’m going to put it on here.

Right. I’m okay, Annie’s okay. So far I also know of David P., Lindsay, thessalian, dodgyhoodoo, corone, nadriel and Claire. weaslebitch has some nasty smoke inhelation from being near King’s Cross but is otherwise okay.

Anything more newsworthy will be posted if it occurs.

It didn’t really sink in until I read this. There are currently plain armed clothes policemen operating in London with an overt, officially sanctioned, “shoot to kill” policy.

This may be the biggest success the terrorists have had so far.

Richard Dowden’s excellent essay on What’s Wrong with Africa — yet another reason to doubt wearing this stupid armband but I haven’t taken it off yet.

No-one is surprised. George Bush lied to Tony Blair about his intentions about global warming at Gleneagles and has been…

Here’s an excellent essay from thessalian, the best source of information I’ve found so far is on Wikipedia, that includes the unsurprising Google Earth KML file and Dork Tower’s take on it.