Shane Richmond, of The Telegraph, has a post up about a Cambridge based company who have just secured funding to build the world’s first factory for the production of “plastic electronics”. Plastic Logic claim they will be producing, for commercial sale, ‘take anywhere, read anywhere’ electronic reader products.

Ars Technica covers the technical end of it, for anyone who understands that shite, but what it’s supposed to mean is finally having a genuinely readable portable device for books, magazines or newspapers. How the device will attain the info for reading or what business models publishers are going to adopt, I don’t know but it does look like a promising development. At the very least ignoring people on the train just got that bit more technically advanced.

Allen posted a link to this in the comments of the Frank Zappa post. I’m always a little skeptical of these sort of one-sided documentaries but I think Bush delightedly talking about some woman having three jobs as uniquely american speaks volumes.

Thanks to Smashing Telly, a hand edited collection of the best free TV on the web and a site I’ll no doubt rob from with alarming frequency. The original Google video post of the clip is here.

I debated whether I’d keep posting these flickr pics, seeing as frequently I have little to no information to impart about the photographers, but it was pointless because I always knew which way the argument would go. I suppose I could always just make up a story based around what I do know but that would just be weird. Anyway, what I do know is she goes by the moniker j_photo, she’s Polish and, I’d imagine, she’s got a great future ahead of her if she pursues photography as a career. She might have a great future ahead of her if she pursues something else as a career but I’m not in a position to comment on that. On the photography front though, there’s a lot going on worthy of comment. She can do sensual, sexy, witty, charming, thoughtful, etc etc etc. She’s got a website and if you can read Polish then you might even find out more about her. I can’t so I’ll just stick to admiring the photography.

Just came across the blog of freelance illustrator Edward Kinsella and was really impressed by this portrait of Adrien Brody. Not just is it an incredible physical likeness but it pretty much captures the public perception of the actor. If that makes any sense. If it doesn’t, so what, I’m used to not making sense to anyone.

Edward Kinsella is a resident of St. Louis, Missouri in the States. He majored in illustration at some place called the Ringling School of art and design in Florida and attended two years of the Illustration Academy. He now works as a freelance illustrator and he’s pretty bloody handy at it too.