Interesting Links for 21-4-2011

• What happens if you print a boarding pass on a poster?
  (tags: travel security funny tsa)
• 10 beloved cartoon characters reimagined as Cthulhu
  (tags: cthulhu comic)
• Warren Ellis doesn't care if he doesn't own books.
  (tags: books WarrenEllis ebooks amazon)
• Tom Baker on Elisabeth Sladen
  (tags: doctorwho obituary tombaker lissladen)
• The best Lord of the Rings suggestion ever.
  (tags: lotr movies funny)
• A map of the London Underground, arranged by travel time. Needs work, but nice idea.
  (tags: london tube maps visualization travel time map)
• The music industry finds another way to shoot itself in the foot
  (tags: music technology EpicFail)
• The Greatest Movie Ever Sold - on sponsorship, movies and product placement
  (tags: movies MorganSpurlock documentary sponsorship business)
• YouTube videos now served in WebM
  (tags: video webm google youtube)

It's a duck eat dog world

via e_apraksina and reposted purely for the subject line...

Oh For Goodness Sake

So, I'm rereading the Baroque Cycle, and decided that ebooks would be easier than carrying around half a tree.

Having a Sony PRS 505 (I know, it's like living in the dark ages), I go googling for "Quicksilver stephenson epub". Guess how many of the top 10 hits _aren't_ on pirate sites?

Further checking seems to show that there's no ebook version available in the UK at all - it's not even available on Amazon UK for the Kindle (well, there's a version that seems to be a German translation).

There was a headline on the front cover of The Metro (UK free newspaper) a few days ago, talking about how electronic book piracy was rife. Would anyone care to guess why?