Art
- Adam Crowe offers this timeline of 20th Century Art movements.
- Fandomania has posted a gallery of Alien fan art gathered from around Deviant Art.
- Neoseeker has posted a gallery of Mass Effect 2 concept art.
Film
- Interview: In Contention talks with the minds behind Coraline, Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick in separate audio tracks.
- Check out this awesome Aliens vs Predator infographic. This is what infographics are for!
- Daily Mail has compiled a list of the Pixar’s in-jokes found in Up.
- MovieLine names 9 Islands Schlockier Than Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island.
- SciFi Squad names The Top Ten Mainstream Directors Gone Sci-Fi.
Internet
- News: The California Senate just passed a bill that would require online retailers like Amazon to collect sales tax on web purchases.
- BBSpot counts down the Top 11 Features of HTML 5.
- Greg Rutter has posted his second Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet. It’s as good a way as any to kill a few brain cells.
Literature
- News: The 2009 Nebula Award Finalists for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy have been announced. Put these books on the top of your reading list.
- The Consumerist reveals Publishers’ take on e-books. “People who can afford an ereading device can afford all proposed ebook prices.”
- Lucy Knisley has posted an illustrated defense of digital reading in the form of a comic on her blog ArtJournal.
- NPR offers up a list of Vampire Books, but it starts with the Twilight series.
- Nook users are starting to feel scammed by rising e-book prices.
- Watch this video of the Book Manufacturing Process, then compare it to how The Espresso Book Machine works. It makes you appreciate how far we’ve come.
Science
- Now that it’s fully operational, the International Space Station looks just like a Tie Fighter… Does anyone else find this ominous?
- ScienceRay broaches the topic of Open Notebook Science.
Television
- News: Evil Wil Wheaton returns to The Big Bang Theory.
- News: William Shatner to star in ShitMyDadSays TV Show
Video Games
- Kotaku explains how to unlock “classic camera” mode in Residential Evil 5 and shows off some screenshots of what it looks like.
- Penny Arcade sums up the entire DRM issue in a single strip.
Writing
- It’s a Brave New (Writing) World: It’s Not Plagiarism, It’s Mixing.
- N.K. Jemisin examines how authors go about Describing Characters of Color.
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