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Chatting with John Berlyne about his new book on Tim Powers… A while back I talked to Charles Lambert about his book, Scent of Cinnamon, and promised I’d do more of that sort of thing when I could. Then I didn’t. Sorry. I suck...
Sex. (Yeah, that’ll fetch ya.) A while back, I was on the radio and got mistaken for Russell Smith...
A couple of people have asked me what I’m reading and what I’m going to read this Summer. I’m lousy with planning things like that, and in any case I’m up to my neck in the new ‘un...
Someone asked me how I’d describe the work of writing a novel. I had no idea. And then I came up with this: Imagine you have two perfect cubes of granite you can move only with your mind...
It’s just so depressingly familiar. While most of the world is desperately hoping for a change of government in Iran, Nokia Siemens Networks have built the most sophisticated dissent-suppression tool ever created for President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Nice one, fellas...
I was going to post something fun this morning - and then I saw this...
London, June 18th. A new wrinkle has emerged in the London Siege story...
How thrilled am I at this moment...
I kept thinking this couldn’t be real. (Via @GreatDisma
Isle of Cru, Monday 8th June The Isle of Cru, off the coast of Norfolk, today began a new era as a beachhead for British fascists...
Moose / Elk cow, photo by Daniel Mayer under CNU FDL. Click for details. It’s time to get back to basics… The British Nature Party has announced a plan to reforest Yorkshire & Humber and the North West...
News which, God help me, I did not make up. Oh, dear… RUMOURS were circulating this morning about a VAST CONSPIRACY to destroy UKIP, the country’s ONLY REAL ANTI-EUROPEAN PARTY, unlike the BNP which is for CRAZY PEOPLE and LIBERTAS which is IRISH!!...
Blog Posts From History - 1 London, 1605 Mister Guy Fawkes Urges Mynister Too Stande Downe In an heated sceene Mister Fawkes, advised the Chiefe of Mynisters that he does nott approove of hys policies and further, proposes that the Mynister shoulde stande downe...
London, 15:08 BST The man in the Westminster Siege has now been identified as James Gordon Brown, born in Scotland in 1951...
London, 13:52 BST The man in the Whitehall Siege may be delusional, police have said. The man, known only as James, has been barricaded into a house in the King Charles Street area since early this morning...
Re: your clients,Lech Kaczynski/ Mirek Tololànekmy blog post, 3.vi.09 Dear Mr Faversham, Thank you for your further correspondence regarding my blog post today. It really is remarkable how the digital age makes things so immediate. You are, of course, quite correct...
Re: your client, Graedon Alasdair Loon / my blog post, 3.vi.09 Dear Mr Faversham, Thank you for your letter regarding my recent blog poston the subject of British politics and the expenses crisis. To recap: in this post, I referred to David Cameron’s European allies as Grade A Loons...
GNU Free Documentation License. Image by Swpb. Click for details. Harriet Harman asserted rather angrily yesterday that the wheels have not come off Labour’s wagon. I’m sorry, no...
This is all @eBeth’s fault… Well, okay, not entirely. There was an absolutely amazing short called Foutaiseswhich was on the same reel as Delicatessen when I saw it in the cinema a million years ago. Yes, I am a million and thirty six years old. You all knew that, right...
A Terrible Battle Was Waged Each Night… Mrs H and I went on a quick holiday last week, lest the accumulated horror of dealing with human rights violations and the British Government drive her insane, and I follow her down the balmy road to Bonkersville in an effort to finish book the second and...
Now the air is dirty and the sex is clean - and your coffee makes my hair turn green… The Kinkster is a man who sees life, and sees it whole. It’s a shame we can’t have him come in and adjudicate this mess over the Oxford Poetry Professorship...
Music and writing… I’m not musical. Whatever the music thing is, I don’t have it. The closest I come would be if you dressed me in a suit made of bits of xylophone and pushed me down a flight of carefully-calibrated stairs...
Oh, dear… From: Nick Harkaway To: Jason Fields @ iPhone Plastic Shield Things Co. Ltd. Hi, Jason, Having some trouble with the shield for my phone...
[Image by vpjayant under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, details here] “I’m afraid our furry companion has gone and done something… rather rash…” It’s in Return of the Jedi; all the heroes are wondering how to distract the stormtroopers, and one of the Ewoks just potters over and...
Tuesday morning, while the tea brews… [Spoilers, frivolous, kinda] 1. She can hear a mouth-breather beneath the sound of her room-mate’s desperate distracting chatter. He can’t think of a better place to hide than under a bed. 2. Reactions to Spock - Kirk: who’s that pointy-eared bastard...
In case you’re wondering, that’s a Neanderthal. You’re not evolved from one, unless you are a very unusual person. But it’s pleasingly primal-looking, which will do fine. So, look, there are spoilers in this post...
Gunther von Hagens is not a man afraid of pushing the envelope. The creator of the BodyWorlds exhibition is generally at the centre of a media frenzy somewhere in the world at any given time...
Like manslaughter, but for financial institutions... Tim Garton Ash has an interesting piece in the Guardian today about this present global cockup...
Here’s an interesting test of the institutional willingness of the police and the Health Service to respect privacy… Information gathered in A&E at the Royal Free will be passed - anonymised - to the police so that they can improve their understanding of crime in the area: ...
I see the future. (Socially.) Taurus: Film deals are great. You should give due thought to any film deal you are offered this week. Especially if it comes from a reliable person. Also, beware of lobster. It’s not the claws which’ll get you, it’s the PCBs. No kidding...
I have been busy! Gah. I’ve been pillar to post. I can’t even tell you what I’ve been up to - not because it’s a secret, but because I’ve done so much this month that I simply have no idea what any of it was...
I’m dithering about theGoogle Books Settlement. Naturally. I use the internet constantly, I love social media, I’m an info junkie...
“Do you feel lucky, H1N1? Do ya?” A few basics: Influenza is a very-not-very-funny disease which we in the developed world tend to think of as a nuisance, but which kills a lot of people and is profoundly scary. The Spanish Flu outbreak lasted a year and caused tens of millions of deaths...
Brainbendingly awesome. Tip o’ the cap to Cori Crider at Reprievefor putting me onto this. The other songs are her
News, only some of which I made up, sadly… London, April 23rd Gordon Brown’s budget will cause disaster on an unprecedented scale, the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, said today. Speaking from an undisclosed location, where Shadow Apocalypse Minister George A...
What I said at the Book Fair… (because people have asked): “Hi, everyone. I’m Nick Harkaway, I’m an author… …And a while ago I bought a laptop bag. Here it is: As you can see, it’s been through some stuff with me. I have sat on it at Paddington Station...
It’s all going to be okay… If you were at the panel discussion I did yesterday and don’t know quite how to get started with this Twitter thingy, this post is for you...
Transcript begins: @nightscope151: Bored bored bored. @HouseOfStorms: @nightscope151 Charlie, we’re in a comms blackout. @nightscope151: I’m just saying. Does anyone know what’s happening with #CPSIA? @DeathByWater: @nightscope151 Man, that legislation is bogus. It is ass...
Interesting things to think about though...
(I'm really amused by the ebook pricing for hard vs soft cover...)