Ian Rankin reviews Asterix and the Picts.
There’s a “wander about Middle-earth” thing, linked to the new Hobbit film, for users of the Chrome browser. I looked at the first bit and it was very pretty.
Short film by Alfonso Cuaron’s son showing who was at the other end of that radio contact in Gravity
Web series Flat3 is back for another run of lovely, funny episodes about an all-girl all-Asian flat in Auckland. So good. Watch it! Here, I’ll make it easy, here’s the first ep of the new run:
English has a new preposition, because internet
Where’s Wally/Waldo? Usually in the same places, because brain
Facebook has transformed my students’ writing – for the better
One of Emma’s Sigourney Weaver poems (on Helen’s blog)
Via Rachel B, a great wikipedia injoke – see what this page says on list entries where there is no illustration
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Star Wars invades kitschy Thomas Kinkade paintings
And finally, revealing the secrets behind card tricks. Wow!