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20 significant American comics

Artw — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:42:43 -0800

The 20 most significant comics in American comics history, according to Steven Grant.

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:11:10 -0800

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that videogames are created awesome.

empath — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:41:18 -0800

The Actionbutton.net Manifesto: The 25 Best Games of All Time. An eclectic list of awesome, and sometimes obscure games, accompanied by impassioned, long-winded, often pretentious and sometimes insightful essays/reviews. Bonus quasi-related link: 1UP chats(warning: 43mb mp3 file) with Rod Humble (The Sims/The Marriage), Jonathan Blow and David Hellman (Braid) about game design, post-modern literature and lots of other stuff. I linked those guys in a previous Braid post, but this is a really good interview that seems to sum up a lot of what's going on in the games industry, and they answer a lot of criticisms.

R Comics Gud?

Artw — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:38:26 -0800

The 100 best comic book runs as voted for by the readers of Comics Should be Good. Notes

Dianetics is one of them, ho ho.

Artw — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:17:01 -0800

50 best cult books from The Telegraph.

Wot No Dostoevsky?!

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:09:55 -0800

110 Best Books. 'The perfect library' - According to the Torygraph... at least there's a 'Sci-fi' section among the usual suspects (And one or two bizarre choices - Pelzer! What the heck!)

Food For The Soul

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:19:27 -0800

Great Poets Of The 20th Century. From The Guardian so Brit bias... Introduction, William Boyd on Siegfried Sassoon, John Banville on Seamus Heaney, Jeanette Winterson on Ted Hughes, Andrew Motion on Philip Larkin, Margaret Drabble on Sylvia Plath, Rowan Williams on WH Auden, Craig Raine on T.S. Eliot.

Neatorama!

homunculus — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:05:19 -0800

The 10 Neatest Articles of 2007.

Challenges Facing the US in the Middle East

homunculus — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:25:17 -0800

Top 10 Challenges Facing the US in the Middle East, 2008 Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007

Failed States Index

homunculus — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:15:17 -0800

The Failed States Index 2007. Iraq is now ranked as the world's second most unstable country, behind Sudan. [Via Newshoggers.]

I think that I shall never see a post lovely as a tree

homunculus — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:30:44 -0800

The 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World.