Art
- Alternative Star Wars posters by Old Red Jalopy.
- Check out these spectacular and surreal Vladimir Kush paintings.
- Mama Fratelli fan art from The Goonies by Drake Brodahl.
- More Goonies fan art from CaseyJonesDA and Stephensilver.
- This incredible Transformer truck sculpture was recently erected by students at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. This statue is 32 feet-tall and weighs four tons! Incredibly, it’s made almost entirely from parts from an old truck. It looks a lot like Optimus Prime.
Comics
Film
- AMC remembers the Top Ten Tricked-Out Movie Vans.
- Aziz rants about 3D Movies at the MTV Movie Awards.
Internet
- 74 Democrats signed a joint letter to the FCC supporting internet throttling by Verizon, ATT and Comcast. Here’s a list of their names so that you can complain.
- Computer Science Schools remembers 15 Sci-Fi Predictions That Came True.
- NPR rolls out some innovative social media strategies. [Hilarious SLYT]
- SFX Magazine picks its Top 50 Vampires.
- Very sadly, Wired reports a U.S. Intelligence Analyst has been arrested in connection with the “Collateral Murder” video released by Wikileaks. According to the article, SPC Bradley Manning was turned in by former hacker Adrian Lamo based on concerns about Manning’s threat to leak an additional 260,000 classified embassy cables.
Literature
- Interview: The Agony Column interviews Cory Doctorow about his latest book, For the Win, as does Copper Robot and Small World.
- Interview: Jonathan Strahan interviews Gary K. Wolfe. [Podcast]
- News: 5 Million Books Downloaded in iBookstore
- News: Sony: ebooks to overtake print within five years
- In the future, book burning won’t be so easy. [XKCD]
- The L.A. Times has the story of an adolescent who turned his life around after reading Stephen King’s The Gunslinger. Roland became his role model.
Science
- Daily Mail Online covers The amazing story behind the Virgin Galactic project.
Technology
- Does the Internet Make You Smarter? “Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says Clay Shirky.”
Television
- Izismile points out this bizarre trivia tidbit: Dozens of television series have used the same newspaper prop. What’s with that headline?
- Television without Pity names Non-Geek Directors Who Should Helm The Hobbit.
- Zimbio has compiled a list of Infamous moments in Saturday Night Live history.
Video Games
- Download City of the Daleks, a Doctor Who video game.
- Resume Play counts down The Top 10 Videogame Swords.
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