Classic BBC Two Shows - Celebrating 50 Years of BBC Two

A collection of photos from the most well-known shows in BBC Two's 50 year history
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Neal Stephenson’s Ideal Forms

Neal Stephenson has been publishing important novels every few years (like clockwork – appropriate, given his use of clock imagery) for over 20 years. In 1992, he wrote Snow Crash, one of the two great cyberpunk novels, before he helped bury the genre with The Diamond Age, which won a Hugo award in 1995. He has written seven novels since then... By Peter Berard.
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A Gleeful Foreboding

It’s strange how much modern people secretly crave weather-related disasters—the blizzard that shuts down a city, bringing travel and commerce to a halt, the tropical storm that knocks out power, leaving millions in the dark. People of earlier centuries rightly feared such events and earnestly prayed to be delivered from them. Now there's an excitement that begins building the moment we hear of such a storm. By Clark Strand.
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XXYYXX - Living Together

An exclusive track featured in an Earmilk interview with XXYYXX:
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Springfield Museums poised to buy Dr. Seuss' boyhood home on Fairfield Street

Samuel N. Hanmer, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Springfield Museums, said securing the Fairfield St. property is "just the beginning" as possible next steps are explored.
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After the Flood: A Literary Chronology of Hurricane Katrina

How much time must pass before tragedy can be transformed into art? Conventional wisdom has it that at least a decade must elapse before we have the proper distance and perspective to understand the enduring story of a national or global catastrophe. But Hurricane Katrina, which began ten years ago this week, has proved different.
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Climate Change Doc 'This Changes Everything' Gets a Stylish Poster From Shepard Fairey

The legendary street artist is also an executive producer on the film
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The Cheshire Cat’s Grin

Solving the greatest mystery of Wonderland, 150 years later. By David Day.
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Silent Reading Doesn't Exist

In the wake of disaster, a writer listens to the voice in his head.
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Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays Series Preview, Pitching Matchup

Indians right-hander Danny Salazar, scratched from his last start because of illness, will face the hard-hitting Toronto Blue Jays along with left-hander David Price on Monday night to open a three-game series at the Rogers Centre. Salazar made his big league debut against the Blue Jays on July 11, 2013, striking out seven and allowing one run in six innings.
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Daredevil performs backflp on the edge of 700m high ‘Troll’s Tongue’

Those who don't like heights should look away now. Because, if the idea of standing near the edge of a piece of rock jutting out over a 700 metre drop is enough to give you sweaty palms, these pictures of a daredevil doing a backflip are likely to send you into a full blown panic attack. Luckily, Toby Segar had no such fears when he decided to perform the stunt on the edge of Trolltunga - or 'Troll's Tongue' - in Norway.
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How not to wear high heels

Hungarian electro artist Yvein Monq soundtracks Kinopravda’s sunny short, in which models take a tumble in everything from conceptual stilettos to party heels.
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"s1e8 Look Before You Sleep" by Noben

Spike trying to read while a pillow fight ensues outside...
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The Movies of My Youth

There were years when I went to the movies almost every day, around the time of my adolescence. Those were years in which cinema was my world. By Italo Calvino.
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Mary Shelley Biographer Charlotte Gordon on the Life, Loves, and Legacy of the Influential 'Frankenstein' Author

Happy 218th birthday to Mary Shelley, Frankenstein author, feminist, and daughter of writer and women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. The lives and esteemed works of both Marys were recently explored in the book Romantic Outlaws, a fascinating dual biography written by Charlotte Gordon. Our own Sarah Seltzer called the text “immense, and immensely readable.” Flavorwire spoke to Gordon about Mary Shelley’s creative legacy...
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Want To Start A Successful Company? Read These Five Books First

There’s an old saying in the rare coin business. That is: “buy the book before you buy the coin.” The same thing, I would say, goes for folks who want to start their own businesses.
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Freed of London

A short documentary film by Jack Flynn and Nick David, shot at Freed of London ballet shoe factory in Hackney, London.
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Cleveland Indians President Mark Shapiro to Leave for Position in Toronto Blue Jays' Front Office

Shapiro's tenure with the Indians is coming to an end. The Toronto Blue Jays are expected to announce on Monday that Shapiro will join their organization.
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Live Sports No Longer TV’s Holy Grail in U.S. as Ratings Peak

Sports broadcasts -- long viewed by the entertainment industry as a way to lure viewers and ad dollars -- are losing some luster.
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What a shot! 45 amazing sports photos

Take a look at 45 amazing sports photos from August 18 through August 24.
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R.I.P. Wes Craven Passes Away At Age 76

Horror icon Wes Craven has passed away after a battle with brain cancer. He was 76.
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Nicki Minaj Throws Epic Shade at Miley Cyrus During VMA Acceptance Speech

All is not well in the pop universe today.
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Oasis - Wonderwall

Official music video for 'Wonderwall' single
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Are *you* ready for BABYMETAL?

Let's check. During videos, please sit on your hands and do not stop the music. Trust me on this, I have musical taste.
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Netflix, Epix Deal to Expire in September

For those who turn to Netflix for high profile films like the “Hunger Games” movies and “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” you’ll have to look somewhere else soon. The streaming service said its not renewing its deal with Epix in a blog post Sunday by chief content officer Ted Sarandos. The deal will close at the end of September, removing such hits as “World War Z” and the “Rocky” films from Netflix.
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Climbing - Footwork

Article by Chuck Woodward; videos by Dan Crowe
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Crack Climbing

Good face climbers can interpret complex hand and foot sequences, moving efficiently from one body position to the next constantly shifting their center of gravity relative to their hands and feet. Crack climbing sequences, however, are often repetitive, ascending the seam of the crack like an inchworm. Of course, body position is still important in crack climbing, but perhaps the greater challenge for the aspiring crack climber is figuring out how to create "holds" from vertical cracks.
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(The Husband's) Secrets and Self-Perception

I was about five minutes into the audiobook. Some mummy-mafia/schoolgate nonsense of the kind I diligently dodge. Brow furrowed, I pressed stop and Googled the title. Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies. I don’t know how it ended up on my phone, I don’t know why I kept listening, and I know without any doubt at all that it was the best book I read in 2014.
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Horse Wife - TSSSF Richard Card

And now a card for who is, in my opinion, the cutest Horsewife character!
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Books Coming Early September

Clive Cussler's new Fargo adventure publishes on Sept. 1.
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William Ash: The cooler king

World War Two threw up many extraordinary characters. But even among this exalted company William Ash - the model for the character played by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape - stands out, writes the author of a new biography, Patrick Bishop.
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The rise of the comic book in the Middle East

Amid growing demand, the Muslim and Arab world has begun constructing more of its own comic superheroes.
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(dreamluna) abduction by luminaura on DeviantArt

See related links for luminaura's Patreon update.
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A College Curriculum on Your Bookshelf: 50 Books for 50 Classes

It’s officially back-to-school time, and we all know what that means: sitting in class, writing papers, getting sweet knowledge delivery before running off to the latest kegger. But what about a more practical method of study? Yes, in this case I am using the word “practical” to describe reading literature.
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Kevin Hearne: The Iron Druid Chronicles

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Gomes’ Grand Slam Caps Victory for Tribe

Yan Gomes’ eighth-inning grand slam capped a five-run rally and the Cleveland Indians defeated the Los Angeles Angels 8-3 on Saturday night.
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Neil Gaiman: 'my parents didn’t have any kind of rules about what I couldn’t read'

Neil Gaiman is no stranger to having his books banned. Here the author of Coraline and The Graveyard Book talks about controversial books in libraries, censorship threats to graphic novels and why freedom of speech is not the freedom to harass
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Horse Wife - TSSSF Chips Card

I had a lot of fun trying to think of an ability to match this one. Might be overpowered.
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Why Do So Many of This Year’s Book Covers Look the Same?

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine. A few years ago, the headless woman was one of the most commonplace sights on bookstore shelves. But lately, another cover design trend has been popping up on this summer’s crop of beach reads: the flat woman.
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The Curious Case of the Basketball Star Turned Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Mycroft Holmes" is more than a bit different from the rest of the new Sherlock Holmes tales being published—and not just because the focus is on Sherlock’s older, smarter brother. Its author may be the most unusual person ever to pen a Holmesian story: the National Basketball Association’s all-time scoring leader, sports superstar and Renaissance man Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Official Video)

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Oliver Sacks, eminent neurologist and author of Awakenings, dies aged 82

Author who also wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat revealed in February that he was in the late stages of terminal cancer
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Five ways of looking at a butterfly

Five books focus on the insect.
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German Filmmaker Wim Wenders Sums Up His Work In One Word

That word is "searchers." Wenders says, "If you look at the history of filmmaking, most great filmmakers actually were working on one story for all their lives."
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‘We’ and ‘You’

Owen Bennett-Jones reviews “‘We Love Death as You Love Life’: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists” by Raffaello Pantucci.
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If Dr Seuss wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation

Reads just like any script of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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"Commission 084: TSSSF Card Art OBJECTION" by ArcadianPhoenix on DeviantArt

TSSSF (c) Pixel-Prism Art (c) me
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Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky (PSK Remastered)

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The Bookania Quests: Book 1: Sew, it's a Quest

by Kendra E. Ardnek
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The Top 5 Technologies That Have Changed Sports

Athletes today use increasingly complex technologies to enhance performance. We have seen considerable leaps forward in sporting performance as a direct result of technology either used during competition or in training. The big question is which technology has had the biggest impact on its respective sport?
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