It’s one of the most successful fantasy series of all time, and the author died while writing the twelfth and final volume. What to do? The show must go on, but who would want to take time out from their own work to finish the damn thing? A […]
At The Institute for Figuring, Dr. Donna Taimina brings “abstract mathematics into the realm of tactile experience” with her crocheted models of hyperbolic space. (Model galleries are along the sidebar).
Looking for movies that combine big battles with the pain of Chinese history? How about: The Warlords, with Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro; the rape-free Mongol, with Tadanobu Asano as Temujin/Genghis Khan; An Empress and the Warriors, with Donnie Yen, Kelly Chen and Leon Lai; and […]
Tired Fairy discusses why she doesn’t want to talk with Dave Sim about his gender beliefs at Sequential Tart. And it’s not just that he’s kind of, well, sad.
In this clip seems like Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze have been up to awesome with their film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are.
Looks like Italian neo-Fascist political party Alleanza Nazionale like them some 300. The candidate, Andrea De Priamo, has taken it off his site. (thanks, Sparky!)