The superheroic Paige and The Spine return, this time trapped in Victorian London where they team up with secret agents Modo and Octavia, the heroes of Arthur Slade's steampunk adventure series The Hunchback Assignments and the brand new sequel The Dark Deeps. 
What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and we formed one massive, international book club? ...The point of this (to the extent it has a point beyond good fun with a good book) is to create community across geographical, cultural, ethnic, economic and social boundaries.To view the twitter coversation check out posts tagged with the hashtag #1b1t or follow Howe @crowdsourcing for updates including a promised schedule for everyone participating in the next few weeks. And if you have a twitter account and aren't following Neil Gaiman, well, you really should be.
Via Drawn.caHere’s a fun activity if you’re looking for a little comicking inspiration. Jason Turner has started what he calls The Page 100 Project.Take one of your favourite books, turn to page 100, and adapt it into a comic.Jason has chosen one of my favourite books, Michael Chabon's fantastic neo-noir detective novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union:
You've just finished an amazing book and you can't wait to tell someone just how damn fantastic it is. After listening to you babble on for a few minutes, your friend kindly asks you the book's author and your exchange goes something like this: "Michael cha-BONE."It's hard to sound smart and talk about books when you can't pronounce an author's name properly, so The Chatter has scanned this helpful guide to help you realize just how wrong you've been saying it for all these years.
"Oh yeah, you mean Michael SHAY-bahn."
"Is that how you say it?"
"Er, I thought so..."
Lets play a little game. Try to figure out which of the following are photos taken in Iceland this week, and which are pictures of Mordor from Lord of the Rings.
It seems like two things are trending every day on Twitter: Justin Beiber and Chatroulette. Since I’m no longer a twelve-year-old girl, I fall outside JB’s sphere of influence. And since I have no desire to be bombarded with a random sampling of creepy men exposing themselves (for this is what I hear Chatroulette is all about), I also have no desire to talk about that social networking site on the social networking site that I do tune in to. But I admit, I have been a little curious. I mean, is it really just about men exposing themselves? And why would anyone want to spin an electronic roulette wheel if this is what it turned up?
And then a friend told me about a video on YouTube that seemed an answer to, well, not my prayers exactly, but my morbid curiosity. Seems that a musician decided to hook himself up to Chatroulette while seated at his piano and sing improvised songs to whomever he saw. And, thankfully, this video is also about as PG as Chatroulette gets.
Some details. The Piano Man chose to hide his identity: he’s sporting a young Unabomber look which doesn’t put off as many people as you’d think. (This is Chatroulette we’re talking about – the third person he comes across is dressed EXACTLY LIKE HIM!). He’s also quite talented – nice singing voice, mad skills on the keys. At one point he comes across three girls in their late teens (girls, girls, Chatroulette is NOT where you should be hanging out, like, ever) and they make hearts with their hands because they love his song. Those hand-hearts should be for Justin Bieber, girls. Go talk about him on Twitter.
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