Les objets du siècle : la carte postale
"Pourquoi avoir inventé la carte postale? Parce que le 1er juillet suivant (1870), la Prusse entre en guerre contre la France et que les soldats montent à l'assaut avec des cartes postales plein la musette."
BBC : Return of the dark art
A quick read on the state of the graphic novel that mentions Alan Moore alot which reminded me of an interview he gave around the time he started
From Hell. He predicted that within ten years (more or less now) computers would be doing all the world's work and that our biggest social challenge would be coping with all our leisure time. Kind of quaint, eh?
The Leisure Luge
"I smiled when I got the email from my BBC contact. He asked if I could do the second part of the live interview from my skateboard-propelled recliner via cell phone as I rolled through the streets of Richmond. The suggestion was as absurd and spontaneous as the Leisure Luge itself. I loved that. " Sweet!