- Six new plays by William Shakespeare? That seems like an awful lot, a bit of overkill actually. And, of couse, as everybody knows, Mr. Norman Voles of Gravesend wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays. His wife wrote the sonnets. [via]
- Still, it’s not impossible that these plays have been missing until now. The British Library reports they’ve misplaced some 9,000 books. And this follows in the wake of earlier reports of mis-shelved or missing books at the Library of Congress — none of which gives libraries a good name. (And they already have critics like Kevin Myers to contend with.) Still, when all is said and done, what I really want to know is: what’s a “luxury edition” of Mein Kampf? [via]
- Speaking of books, how’d you like a book of all your Twitter posts? While it might be nice to have that kind of permanent record — Waxy.org suggests that “someone should make this a service, also incorporating your Flickr photos and blog posts” — I’m not convinced it’s a permanent record I’d ever want to read.
- It will take a lot more than color e-paper to impress me with this boring design and hefty price tag, but still, it’s a pretty neat feature. My own e-reader doesn’t do color covers very well. [via]
- Tasha Robinson on Repo: The Genetic Opera:
Sometimes “cult film†refers to a movie that failed in theaters, but was eventually embraced by a vast, dedicated underground support network; sometimes the term is just slapped on anything that’s so offensive, weird, or narrowly focused that only a small, determinedly perverse collective could love it.
It does get thrown around way too often nowadays.
I saw Repo: The Genetic Opera. I spent pretty much the entire time utterly unable to decide whether it was really cool or really terrible; somehow, bizarrely, it maybe sort of managed to be both at once. Regardless, I found watching it an interesting and worthwhile experience. Whether that makes me a cult viewer or perverse or what, I have no clue. 🙂
Yikes…one thousand dollars for a colour ebook? I’ll stick to my black and white for now.