As this posts, I will (hopefully) be on my way to sunny wintery Amsterdam. I plan to see many museums and do a lot of writing. No, honestly. I’ve writetn myself an itinary and everything:

Tuesday
Amsterdam Historisch – 10.00 euros (open 10:00-17:00)
Spui, Dam Square, etc
Anne Frank Huis – 8.50 (9:00-19:00)

Wednesday
Rijksmuseum – 12.50 (9:00-18:00)

Thursday
Diamant museum – 7.50 (9:00-17:00)
Van Gogh – 14.00 (10:00-18:00)

And some kind of canal trip too. I’ve left the final day free in case I think of anything else. Or summon up the dutch courage to try one of the ‘coffeeshops’ 🙂

Anyway, before my motivation disappears entirely, have some Monday still-on-English-soil links!

Publishing: Tesco’s threaten an Irish publisher over a book that came a bestseller without their help. If books appear on ‘traditional’ bookshop shelves before they do on Tesco’s, they say, they’ll stop stocking any of that publisher’s books.

Interest-Piquing: Journalist phones guy who insulted him on twitter. On one level, the idea of it makes me uncomfortable, but on the other hand I’m interested in the reaction he gets. There’s a strong emphasis on anonymity on the internet, not just in terms of commenting but in terms of digging up people’s real life information. It’s not hard to do, especially these days, but it breaches an element of netiquette that’s usually only ignored by trolls. But if it gets a positive response, and gets people to rethink their actions… I still don’t think it’s entirely justified, but it’s definitely interesting.

InsPiring: Alien Hand Syndrome, its causes, and living with it.

Procrastination: The 8 most awkward sexual moments in comics. They’re just… Well, disturbing, mostly. But it’s funny that anyone, ever, thought they were good ideas to put into print.