Today's Links
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes is available for pre-order on amazon.com... It's not due to be released until September. Somehow, amazon.ca lists it as being available in 5-7 weeks. Well, I've ordered it anyway. Here's a (soon to be short-lived) website that has all the Calvin & Hobbes strips posted online. Get'em before Bill Watterson gets to them with his pack of angry lawyers! ** Oh, and here's a page full of rare art by Bill. Here's Calvin & Hobbes Wonderland - a tribute site that's very well put together.
In other comic collection news, Johns Hopkins University Press is publishing "The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg," by Iain Topliss, in May. Could be a good accompaniment to the Complete New Yorker Cartoons.
A terrific (biased) history of multimedia, by two of Toronto's multimedia pioneers, is in the works... Smackerel (Kevin Steele and Dave Groff). Check it out. Lots of goodies to click on.
A collection of Gluttonous Trees. If you give a tree a chance, it will eat anything.
Wired News has a bit on the recent 'hacking' of socialite Paris Hilton's camera phone. Was it hacked or not? Did someone simply steal her password? I prefer to think otherwise: The company in question, T-Mobile, is recovering from a real hacking problem they had earlier this year, and there's a young fellow in court defending himself on the charge. That said, given that there's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary (Brenden Behan), wouldn't it be convenient if T-Mobile thought this one up as a way of promoting themselves? I mean, look at this:
- Hilton is already their employee
- Hilton has a rep for being a moron, and everyone's already seen her goodies, so someone finding her password or whatever is not unlikely, and her posing nude for her own camera phone shots is 'understandable'.
- The camera phone pics that have been distributed are very well shot and consistantly lit - which makes the phone look good
- phone numbers can be arranged quickly and inexpensively.
- extra publicity from the secret service 'investigating the crime'
- The pics, notes and phone numbers + the web access to all of them - a nice package to promote to consumers wanting an all-in-one phone/blackberry thing.
Etc etc... all very suspicious.
These toy cars are pretty cool.
The New Zealand government has a health and safety manual for prostitutes.