Art
- The Geek Art Gallery points the way to a gallery of Doctor Who sketches.
- io9 has a gallery of 100+ extremely confusing vintage horror comic covers.
- Know your Roots by Belldandies.
Film
- Interview: Daniel Radcliffe tells the Today Show he was “weeping like a baby” at end of filming the Potter series.
- News: Doctor Who star Matt Smith wants Bond villain role.
- News: Neil Patrick Harris Confirmed For Harold and Kumar 3.
- Cracked shares 6 Insane True Stories Behind The Stage Names of Celebrities.
- Ego TV suggests 8 Ways to Keep ‘X-Men: First Class’ From Sucking.
- PopEater counts down Cinema’s Biggest Franchises.
- Television without Pity names The Most Unnecessary Remakes Ever.
Internet
- Has The Internet Rewired Your Brain? NPR discusses the matter between reminders to visit their website.
- Rolling Stone’s late start on McChrystal costs it comments… the lesson here being, don’t try to cut the web out of your news cycle.
- Welcome to the fifth estate: “Bloggers aren’t out to take away the jobs of highly-paid columnists: we’re more ambitious than that.”
Literature
- Interview: The Agony Column has an entertaining interview with Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of The Shadow of the Wind. [Podcast]
- Interview: Dexter Palmer talks about The Dream of Perpetual Motion.
- Interview: Innsmouth Free Press interviews Ari Marmell, of Conqueror’s Shadow.
- Interview: Stephenie Meyer talks Midnight Sun, saying (this is the good part), “I’m really burned out on vampires.” Amen.
- News: Graveyard Book wins Carnegie for Gaiman
- News: Libraries fading as school budget crisis deepens
- Bookgasm offers this list of 7 Current Zombie Books with Brains.
- The Guardian mourns the dying art of letter writing.
- Neil Gaiman is speaking out on behalf of libraries once again, saying that closing libraries would be ‘a terrible mistake.’
- Yes, People Still Read, but Now It’s Social.
Science
- Extreme DIY: Building a homemade nuclear reactor in NYC.
- Top science and space experts answer questions about lightsabers, blasters, X-Wing and TIE fighters, C-3PO and R2D2 to promote Friday’s opening of the “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
Television
- TV Squad has a listing the Top 20 sexiest scenes in television history and there’s some Buffy in it.
Video Games
- BuzzFeed demonstrates How To Beat Super Mario Bros 3 In 11 Minutes.
- In Extra Lives, Tom Bissell considers what videogame criticism should look like.
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