Stephen Colbert has been banned from Wikipedia. Apparently, he raised quite a ruckus by modifying pages in the name of “wikiality” and did this on air. The hilarious part of this is that Colbert encouraged Internet users to claim that the elephant population had tripled in the last six months on his show and they ended up doing just this.
Month / August 2006
Malingering Genius
Work Friendly converts any URL into a Microsoft Word document. This reminds me of the boss key in many of those old Sierra games.
On the Roll?
It’s been widely reported already that Kerouac’s original manuscript of On the Road will be published next year. But I’d like to put forth a proposal to Viking. Why not a limited facsimile edition of Kerouac’s original roll? Come on, Mr. Slovak. If you’ve got the moxie to publish another 1,000 page Vollmann volume, surely there’s some way to get the text into bookstores in roll form. I know there’s enough crazy bastards around to buy it. And besides it would be the ultimate homage to the papyrus rolls in the Alexandria Great Library.
DIY Book Design
Lionel Shriver is so fed up with the lack of original art on her book covers that she’s decided to design her own.
Aquaman Pilot
Lee Goldberg notes that the Smallville guys made a pilot for Aquaman. The series, alas, wasn’t meant to be. But the pilot is available for download through iTunes and has apparently proven quite popular. Aquaman, as comic book geeks may recall, figured prominently in a Smallville episode a few years ago.