Art
- The Cards of Wu are a series of woodcuts in the form of a fictitious deck of divination cards by Ellis Nadler. They’re available to buy online as high quality digital prints.
- Cartoonist Nick Edwards offers this hilarious cartoon introduction to LARPing.
- Debbie does Cake has an amazing gallery of Geeky Cakes. She’s posted the pics on Flickr, too.
- Michelangelo’s secret message in the Sistine Chapel: A juxtaposition of God and the human brain.
- Tor.com provides these instructions for Making your own Tribble.
Comics
- News: IDW to Publish Dungeons & Dragons Comic Series
- Marvel Exec on iPad: “Digital Books Are Actually Leading to Physical Purchases”
Film
- Interview: Wil Wheaton Interviews Felicia Day on Radio Free Burrito.
- News: James McAvoy Is The New Professor X!
- Entertainment Weekly looks back at 10 Sword-and-Sandal Classics.
- Flciksided has compiled a list of Ten Movies Starring Video Games.
- Pajiba reminiscences over The Bond Between a Boy and Horror Movies.
- SciFi Squad picks The Top Ten Sci-Fi Weapons.
- Sci Fi Wire illustrates 5 famous sci-fi movie quotes as infographics.
- Wired Science considers The Science of Horror-Movie Screams.
Literature
- Interview: Dark horse interviews Patton Oswalt, author of Serenity: Float Out.
- Interview: Sue Granquist interviews Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series.
- News: Amazon.com’s Kindle fails first college test.
- News: E-book sales grew exponentially in the first quarter of 2010, jumping from 1.5% of total US book sales in 2009 to 5% in the first quarter of 2010.
- The Boston Globe reports on Harvard’s work towards shifting its library to digital.
- The Huffington Post offers suggestions on 12 Great Books For Grads.
- LISNews explains Why Closing More Public Libraries Might Be The Best Thing.
- Now that the iPad has hit the UK, will the iPad will lead to a reading revolution.
- The Wall Street Journal bemoans The difficulty of buying ebooks…
Science
- Scientific American has posted an interactive presentation on 12 Events That Will Change Everything.
Technology
- The Science Channel says Teenagers Are Not Turning Into Techno-Zombies After All. Now get back to your television and watch some tech programming!
- Stephen Fry collects his 3G iPad and gives his verdict.
Television
- News: Stephen King Adaptation Coming to Syfy Channel.
- News: Writers for Conan O’Brien Get Their Own Show (for a Night)
- Futurismic wonders has the television serial run out of creative lebensraum?
- How ‘Lost’ should have ended [Pic]
- Surprising to no one but NBC, Leno’s ratings have dipped below Conan’s Tonight Show average for the last 7 weeks.
Video Games
- Interview: Mark Hamill talks about his role in Arkham Aslyum 2.
- News: Gamers Control Their Nightmares Better
- Blizzard says DRM is a waste of everyone’s time: “We need our development teams focused on content and cool features, not anti-piracy technology.” Then it confirms that there will be No LAN Play in StarCraft II.
- Small World demonstrates the iPad’s board game capabilities.
Writing
- Author Stephanie Bodeen says Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Lost.
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