Spider People

Some very cool art using x-rays and a warped imagination.

Happy Bastille Day

Here is a photo essay collection of people around the world sharing kisses.

Walking in a Photo Wonderland

Kirsty Mitchell's lovely fantasy photo series is dedicated to her deceased mother. 

Ronald Regan Riding a Velociraptor

By which I mean Happy Forth of July. 

Pretty Pretty Princesses

This is just dark fluff, but I really enjoyed it. It's some absolutely fantastic work. 

500 Free Movies Online

I know that looks like spam mail, but it's a list from the Open Culture project of 500 movies including classics, independent films, and films made with government funds. Check it out, it's pretty cool. 

Zen Pencils

I actually found this site when they quoted Neil Gaiman, but the whole thing is worth a read through. This guy has a great hand at mixing art and words (my personal favorite compositions so far are Dr. Seuss and Buddha. The one from Neil Degrasse Tyson is pretty spectacular too). Yeah, go poke around.

World SF Blog

Check out the World SF Blog! They do science fiction from around the world. Plus sometimes they post fiction. 

Best Amateur Underwater Photography of 2011

As judged by National Geographic. Here's to the hobbyist, who don't do it because they have to. The root word for amateur is love. 

Non-Western Science Fiction Roundtable

Locus Magazine Roundtable of folk talking about non-Western Science Fiction. It goes deconstructionist pretty fast, but I think it's worth reading and thinking about. Ends a little abruptly though. 

Twelve Cities

I think I've mentioned before that I'm a fan of Benjamin Rosenbaum. This is a set of twelve flash pieces about fantastic cities. They're charming individually, and taken all together they're a lovely set. Published some time ago in Strange Horizons. 

Less Tits and Ass

Yes, yes, it's more ladies in comic books stuff. Artists work to redraw comic book vixens as people with spines and internal organs. They don't really look less hot, just more human. 

Whan That Aprill With His Shoures Soote

Because rap is fun. 

What The Folk Sing

Check out the Lomax ethnomusicalogy archives. 

Hulk Vs. The Monomyth

The Hulk Film Critic takes on shallow formulaic interpretations of Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces. 

Mohawks in Burma

This is a fabulous article about punk rock around the world that will make your own attempts at youthful rebellion feel shameful. 

Webcomics Rumble

For those of you who like free comics and bracket contests, here's dozens of webcomics facing off.

Honestly, my money is on Penny Arcade, because they have a mobilized army, but I think it's going to be very fun to watch. 

The Awesomest Thing EVER!

Holy hell! Look at these things!

On Loving the Medium

This guy's talking about why he loves photography. Loves it. Not just loves the best of it, but loves the possibilities and the realities of the medium itself. It's a touch long, but it's really worth the whole read.

Or, you know, you could just look at the pictures.

Food and Fantasy

A fun little article about food in fantasy, with a couple of charming links, including Inn at the Crossroads, which is a recipe site for food featured in the Game of Thrones.

I'm actually a pretty big fan of food in stories, and have written various stories about people who work in kitchens and restaurants, people eating people, glass, money, mold, hearts, butterflies, flowers, and so on. I had hero win the day with a cinnamon bun. Another hero was a sentient carrot cake.

Damnit, now I'm hungry.