- We started on our Game of Thrones hype already. Enjoy this gifset of fabulous drunk Cersei to remind you what you can look forward to.
- Artist Roberto Flores imagined what the Game of Thrones characters would be like in a beat ‘em up video game.
- Since Tuesday, twitter has been abuzz with folks tweeting about the #1reasonwhy it’s hard to be a woman in the gaming industry. But as the counterpoint to the gloom, #1reasontobe is about what makes being a woman in gaming worth it.
- Awesome Tumblrs pop up every day but here is a list of the best 54 of 2012.
- Youths with autism have low college entrance rates, but tend to major in science and technology.
- A mutual love of Ian McKellan unites students at a London school.
- Pleiades, a short film that is essentially Mayans vs. Aliens.
- The next few installments of MovieBob’s The Big Picture series at the Escapist is about the strange distillation of comic book sexism that is Supergirl’s fifty year history.
- Writers from Rookie Magazine work through some appropriation issues in a fascinating round table.
- Evan Ross captured the finger movements required to finish all of Angry Birds. And then he made it into art.
- DJ Afrika Bambaataa has been brought on as a guest lecturer at Cornell! We’d love to audit that class.
- Two Kickstarter projects for your consideration: Saint Harridan is a clothing line that hopes to bring a collection of made to measure suits to women of all shapes and sizes, inspired by the founder’s own frustrating experience shopping for her wedding suit. (It’s also one of the best produced, most moving Kickstarter videos we’ve seen in a while.) Also, Bill Nye the Science Guy has launched a campaign to create a 3D iPad learning game, to educate kids about the physics of flight. So cool!
- We got some big laughs out of this: here’s a list of uninspiring and confusing motivational speeches in movies.
- The cast for the new radio drama production of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere is so perfectly perfect, we wish they’d also turn it into a movie!
- Just as we continue to be puzzled by magnets (how do they work?) this optical illusion is also pretty perplexing and awesome.
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