So just a quick one before I go home. Faber finds is a new range of print on demand books from (surprise surprise) Faber. Basically the find out of print books and then offer them to be printed on demand. They don’t seem to have taken my suggestion to include John “Tripods” Christopher’s The Death Of Grass but they did send me a really nice personal email thanking me for my suggestion so maybe in the next batch…

Anyway, the cool thing is that every single book printed in the range will have a different cover, not every title, every actual book will be unique. All thanks to an algorithm that spews out randomly generated permutations within specified design parameters. The designer has a blog post on how it was done now that would be a great job.

this is the first potentially edible thing that I’ve grown from a seed.

[UPDATE! In a blinding display of one-upmanship Will, thinly disguised as Kate is “typing into the world of internet to bring you [his] story of non-pecuniary related food acquisition in the month of August” here]

Watched the film Cars last night. I’d seen most of it before on a poor quality divx but it was nice to see it in full with a nice crisp picture, well as crisp as our £120 cathode ray tube will allow. It’s not bad, but certainly one of the second tier Pixar films, though the lighting is incredible. Apart from the slow start and fairly bland characters my main problem was that I could never get over the fact that the world was populated by sentient motor vehicles. Who were all those fields of food for? Those quips about being “hot as a black leather seat”, none of the cars seem to have seats so what’s that about? Maybe the film takes place in the aftermath of the Stephen King film Maximum Overdrive the grizzly fate of humanity is a hazy memory and food production is just a kind of ritual they carry on doing for reasons they don’t remember.