Alex Wilson, proprietor of Telltale Weekly — a DRM-free audiobook store that releases all its recordings under Creative Commons licenses after a certain period — sez: In celebration of Telltale… Read the rest of the article: Free Poe audiobook from Telltale Weekly — today only!

Another bumper-crop of anagram maps! Miami (I): Miami (II): Dublin: Government of Ontario (GO) rail: Dallas: Glasgow: Portland, OR: Ottawa: Houston: (Thanks, Alesh, Mackers, Daniel, Owen, Andrew and Ethan !)… Read the rest of the article: Anagram transit maps for Miami (x2), Dublin, Ontario, Dallas, Glasgow, Portland, Ottawa, Houston

I've begun podcasting another story, "Return to Pleasure Island," a dark and mean fantasy story that was originally published in Realms of Fantasy in 2000, and reprinted in my 2003… Read the rest of the article: Cory's new podcast story, "Return to Pleasure Island"

Octavia Butler, the brilliant science fiction writer, reportedly died on Saturday following a fall that was followed by fatal bleeding in her skull gave her a fatal concussion. Butler was… Read the rest of the article: RIP, Octavia Butler, "genius" science fiction writer

Don Knotts — AKA The Incredible Mr Limpet, Deputy Barney Fife, and Ralph Furley — has died at 81 from pumonary and repsitory complications. Good night, Barn, and sleep well.… Read the rest of the article: Don Knotts dead at 81

John remixed clipped a Kraftwerk song into a Boing Boing "themesong" (it's more ringtone- or arpeggio-length) — "Boing. . .um-chakka Boing Boing . . . um-chakka." It'd make a good… Read the rest of the article: Boing Boing themesong from Kraftwerk clip

Lovely, lovely anagram transit maps! Calgary: Vancouver (I): Vancouver (II): (See also this map of Vancouver) Philadelphia: Buffalo: Rochester (defunct/planned): Hong Kong (I): Hong Kong (II): Seattle (proposed): Minneapolis: (see… Read the rest of the article: Anagram maps: Calgary, Vancouver (x2), Philadelphia, Buffalo, Rochester, Hong Kong (x2), Seattle, Minneapolis, Detroit

Four of the messages encrypted with the Nazi Enigma machine were never decrypted; a distributed computing project (like SETI@Home) is harnessing the power of the Internet's many computers to break… Read the rest of the article: SETI@home-like project to crack unbroken Nazi Enigma ciphers

On tomorrow's Worth1000 photoshopping competition — removing the pants from photos of the famous. Tony Blair is extremely well-suited to silk panties, garters and thigh-highs. Link

A CBS undercover reporting team went into 38 police stations in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in Florida, asking for a set of forms they could use to complain about inappropriate… Read the rest of the article: Florida cops threaten people who ask for complaint forms

The Toronto Transit Commission has followed the stupidity of Transport for London by sending a spurious trademark threat to a blogger who made an hilarious anagram remix of the stations… Read the rest of the article: Toronto Transit Commission censors humorous subway map remix

Berlin: Copenhagen: Baltimore (I): Baltimore (II): (Thanks, Benny, Henrik, Mike, Shiny, Mishhkin and Daen!) See also: London Anagram Tube Map, Toronto Anagram Subway Map, Amsterdam Anagram Metro Map, Chicago Regional… Read the rest of the article: Anagram transit maps: Berlin, Copenhagen, Baltimore (x2)

I've just posted the final installment of the podcasting of my story, "I, Robot" (a nominee for this year's British Science Fiction Award and Locus Award), which was originally published… Read the rest of the article: Cory's I, Robot podcast concludes

Kathryn Cramer, science fiction editor, writer and investigative blogger, has written a post on how mandatory watermarking proposals like the VEIL initiative will bone individual artists, continuing a trend that… Read the rest of the article: SF editor: watermarks hurt artists and reward megacorps

These Japanese heaphone danglers let you wear dangly ear jewelry without getting it tangled up in your walkman's headphones. Link (via Popgadget)

Larry Brilliant, co-founder of The WELL and polymath epidemiologist, has been put in charge of Google.org, the billion-dollar charitable arm of Google. Link

Episode six of Graham Linehan's wonderful, screamingly funny sysadmin sitcom, The IT Crowd, is online for DRM-based Windows streaming from the Channel 4 UK site. Me, I'm grabbing the DRM-free… Read the rest of the article: Episode six of awesome sysadmin sitcom The IT Crowd is downloadable

Cris Rose, a graphic designer, remixed photos of the buildings on London's Brunel University into awesome, science-fictional mecha-monsters. This is beautiful work. Link (via Wonderland)

Steve's cut a great little ringtone from episode five of The IT Crowd, the incredibly funny sysadmin sitcom from Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted. It features Moss saying "Hello?"… Read the rest of the article: Homebrew IT Crowd ringtone

Episode 6 of Channel 4 and Graham "Father Ted" Linehan's amazing, hilarious sysadmin sitcom went live yesterday, and as with the previous episodes, the show is available for download from… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO stream The IT Crowd from outside the UK