Gleefully recommended to us by Isotope, "Conan and the Songs of the Dead," by Joe Landsdale and Timothy Truman, is exactly what it looks like, and what we eagerly hoped it would be: the sort of zero-budget b-movie 80s cheese that you might find on an independent UHF station while flipping through channels in an Des Moines hotel room at 2 in the morning. A gruff warrior with ridiculous musculature slices up zombies and......

Stolen Hitler porn! There, we said it. Now don't even act like you don't want to find out more. A burgled cache of vintage erotica, produced by Adolf himself, is the Maguffin that gets the ball rolling in "Desolation Jones," a series of comix by Warren Ellis and J. H. Williams III. The story features loads of top-notch graphic-novel grit -- fingers poked through eye sockets, sneering dirty men in tank tops, dumb blondes......

Conceived last October and released to the public in the wake of the Tsunami disaster out of an urgent sense of duty, Bloggers Without Borders is more than just a catchy turn of phrase. It is a powerful set of tools that enable anyone, around the world, with a minimum of techie know-how, to bypass private and public internet censorship using cutting-edge technology. SFist found Bloggers Without Borders through the Tsunami Help blog. Later......