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Publisher's Weekly's blog has begun making Literary Pie Charts for notable books. Only two so far (and not Weekly yet), but watch this space...

MoviesThat Come To The Rescue! A 4:30 mashup of over 200 scenes from over 100 superhero movies and TV shows.

Whitney Music Box via

François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world! [Via]

May The Forth Be With You. Sally, that is. Francesco Marciuliano goes back to the first week of his time writing a syndicated comic strip and reassures us he could do better.

Urban Plant Tags for proper identification and care of things that just seem to pop out of the ground...

I Shot the Serif, but I did not shoot the sans-serif. And now you can too!

"In live-action films, motion blurs are natural occurrences. In animation, you have to make them from scratch. And most of them are pieces of art by themselves." yes, it's a tumblr, but a very good one.

What Mormon's Believe. A flowchart.

The devil's own disease spreads like a zombie outbreak. More properly known as Devil Facial Tumor Disease, it's a contagous cancer that started from the bite of one infected Tasmanian devil. Let's hope they find a cure, so the devils don't all bomb-out like the Tasmanian Tiger did a century ago... Oh, and here's a new Aussie movie staring Willem Dafoe, called The Hunter, based on what might happen if just one Tasmanian Tiger was left for corporate pillaging. See, the movie hypothesizes that, for the sake of medical warfare, the bite of the Tiger was poisonous - even as this new devil cancer spreads like a contageious poison <:(!)

Jud Turner - Sculpture Gallery.

Texts from Dog more inside

R.I.P. Facts

"I have the feeling this man is gay." The Werzog has admiration for John Waters' guts.

Portraits of astronauts from across the animal kingdom by rubbishmonkey.

Charts. Gotta Love 'Em. Or Not. more inside

F*** & Biscuits Stephen Fry recently did a five-part series about language, including, obviously, 'rude language'. So when Australia's ABC aired the series, what did they pick for its promo clip on YouTube? "Tourette Hero" (containing dozens of involuntary f-words in 4 minutes).

Mix maps, Facebook and geolocation and you get something like this. Creepy. Charlie Stross has more about it here.

4:44 Last Day on Earth , now opening in New York and LA, Abel Ferrara's new film, explores what people would do if they knew it was the their last chance to do anything at all. Would you do the same stuff you always do? Or blow it all ahead of time? Here's the trailer.