• Words:
  • The Guardian’s Top 20 geek novels [via]
  • Literature Map [via]
  • Dean Koontz: racist?
  • J.T. LeRoy: non-existent? [via]
  • Gwenda Bond’s Personal Best list of the soon-to-be-no-more Sci Fiction
  • Wanna be on a Hard Case Crime cover? [via]
  • Comics After Katrina [via]
• Pictures:
  • Carved eggs [via]

  More carved eggs [via]

  • Monet’s Land of the Lost paintings [via]
  • The New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest [via]
  • Cartoon character skeletal structures [via]
  • Dream houses [via]
  • Stupid Comics¹ [via]
  • Bob Marley and Yoda
  • Tom Judd’s Everyday [via]
• Movies:
  • The Call of Cthulu as silent movie [via]
  • Watching all six Star Wars movies simultaneously [via]
  • “War Photographer” (Quicktime) [via²]
  • The Ultimate Star Trek Collection — for just $4,000 (or $2,500 with Amazon’s discount)! [via]
• Music:
  • 700 Hobo Names³ (mp3) [via]
  • “My 36 Favorite Punk Songs” [via]
  • The Broken Record –“pieces together musical tidbits from hundreds of vintage children’s records, creating crazy new songs with a modern feel.” [via]
  • Paul McCartney to beam concert into space — I guess so Martians can now be bored by his last few albums, too
• Science!:
  • Death by Caffeine⁴ [via]
  • Physics of cow-tipping [via]
  • Creator of the Flying Spaghetti Monster gets an $80,000 book advance
  • LED-equipped, battery-powered faucet turns water a luminescent blue [via]
  • “Non-lethal” laser rifles [via]
  • Cocaine traces detected in River Thames [via]
  • New lemur named after John Cleese — the Avahi cleesei
  • Leap second proposal sparks row⁵ [via]
  • Top 10 Missing Links [via]
  • On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study [via]
  • Possible federal regulation of quantum computers — although maybe that can wait until they’re actually invented? [via]
  • The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects [via]
  • A Stanford University study finds that men and women see humor very differently.⁶ [via]
  • Approach to the Black Hole at the Galactic Core (Quicktime) [via]
  • A User’s Guide to Time Travel, plus Being Invisible, the Antigravity Underground, and 8 Super Powers [via]
• Quotes:
  • “All good horror stories are metaphors…” Anita Gates (registration or BugMeNot required)
  • “If it made the six of us laugh, that was it. End of conversation.” – Terry Gilliam
  • “”I was thinking of retiring but what would I do? Probably just travel.” – Michael Palin
  • “Those bastards! Why they always gotta be compromising the vision of a subversive cinematic rebel like [Joel] Schumacher?” – Nathan Rabin
  • “There was a show. Not that many people saw it in broad terms, but it was beloved. Full of humor, love and pain. And though it was a hard-sell emsemble piece with no huge names it in, it got made into a (roughly) 40 million dollar pic — and with the cast intact. That doesn’t happen a lot, but it should, and it did with this film. That’s right. I just cannot wait to see RENT. – Joss Whedon
  • “Drip, drip, drip — each drop of functionality painfully and expensively squeezed into your living room, every time you want to do something you used to do for free. That’s not a business-model. That’s a urinary tract infection.” – Cory Doctorow
• Other:
  • Maunsell Army Sea Forts [via]
  • Trading a paperclip for a house [via]
  • 66 Ways to Be Annoying at Monopoly [via]
  • Katazukue: the tidy table — with built-in conveyor belt [via]
  • The E-Mail Time Capsule [via]
  • Baby turtle found in Folgers coffee⁷ [via]

³ Remi describes it, pretty accurately I think, as “Vikings vs. Demons in the arena of ROCK!”

³ Just FYI: the mp3 is about an hour long, so keep that in mind before listening. Also of interest: a collection of images inspired by the list.

⁴ What they don’t appear to say — and this leads me to wonder about the results — is in what time span this much caffeine would be fatal. x-number of cups one right after the other, gulped down as fast as you can go? x-number of cups over the course of a day? It definitely can’t be x-number of cups of coffee over the course of a lifetime, because then Starbucks would be the single greatest mass murderer on the planet.

⁵ “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” – Douglas Adams

⁶ Is that why there were usually more guys than girls at Monty Python Society meetings? Or is it just because we took all the good roles?