The Anti-Tolkien - The New Yorker
A short profile of Michael Moorcock’s Elric series (though, for me, Jerry Cornelius is the champion that remains eternal in my memory).
A short profile of Michael Moorcock’s Elric series (though, for me, Jerry Cornelius is the champion that remains eternal in my memory).
Google are shutting down the Social Graph API. Twunts.
At first I thought that Andy Rutledge was trying to make some nuanced satirical point here but it turns out he's just a twunt.
I saw Steven Pinker give a talk recently and he spent a fair amount of time talking about swearing. He has written up that part of the talk into an article for the New Republic.
Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, and Beth Orton get together to dance about architecture.
Seeing a full-grown wasp crawl out of a roach suddenly makes those Alien movies look pretty derivative.