And as the recent #gamergate saga confirmed, there’s no lack of angry, alienated young men begging for stories that put them at the centre of a fictional universe.
via Frank Herbert’s Dune at 50 has life in it yet | Books | The Guardian.
Quite a nice shot at the #gamergate crowd from an otherwise unrelated post.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile – The Daily Beast.
The standard guess on Marvin might best be summed up by a writer friend of mine who said, “He looks like he came out of nowhere. He had no father, no mother, just spawned out there in some gulch and has spent his whole life hating the world that vomited him up.†Marvin would love that, for he’s worked hard to create his image. People don’t come over in bars with a glad hand and ruin his lunch. The reason is simple: they’re afraid if they do, he’ll kill them.
CINEMA SPACE TRIBUTE on Vimeo on Vimeo
If anyone could write music epic enough to celebrate space it’s Hans Zimmer
via kottke.
What’s Inside The Termite Nest? | Diorama | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube.
Man this is just so well done. It actually got me a bit interested in termites. That and the blog that led me to this video: Long live the morbidly obese Termite Queen, and her terrifying army of sweat-licking babies | Running Ponies, Scientific American Blog Network.
Saturday Evening Post – The vintage superheroes meet Norman Rockwell | Ufunk.net.
These illustrations by Juan Carlos Ruiz Burgos are just amazing.
Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber.
This is scary as hell. The automated DMCA takedowns have moved from the ridiculous to the dangerous.
Who the hell was the holographic anime star singing on Letterman? Let us explain | The Verge.
This is a pretty good explainer of how Hitsune Miku came to be so popular and how virtual stars could be, in some ways, better than human ones.
