Kylie, the cup of tea and Dr Who

Sort of out of the miffed department, methinks, but the BBC have an article about a confused pensioner asking Kylie for a cup of tea whilst filming the Christmas episode.
The article (slightly more interestingly) gives this plot summary:
In the special, an alien menace dressed in a dinner jacket invades the 1912 launch party of […]

Howard Waldrop blogs again at LCRW

BoingBoing has a link to the Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet’s blog who are now blogging Howard Waldrop for as long as either can do it. If you trawl around the links you get some really cool writers like Ray Vuckevic (whom I am shamefully behind reading on now) and the Interstitial Arts Foundation.
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Neil Gaiman goes Old English

IESB.net has these interviews with Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary talking about the Beowulf movie which I have really high hopes for. (In the meantime, can I recommend Seamus Heaney’s translation into Modern English?)
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Comics and women

The fab Forbidden Planet blog has posted this link from a bit of the Guardian I haven’t got around to reading in full yet. Ned Beauman’s article on the sexism on comics is bang on the nail and its a crying shame that it carries on with such abandon. Joss Whedon, Warren Ellis (Beauman mention […]

Doctorow on DRM in the Guardian

Cory Doctorow has this comment piece in the Guardian about DRM continuing the ongoing fight against ridiculous practices which tend to fail dismally eventually.
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