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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Space Colony concept art

Two great collections of classic space habitat concept art, here and here.

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Blather

Department of All Progress Is Driven By The Quest to Get High

You may know the old Psychedelics drove Human Evolution idea, now here’s an archeologist theorizing that civilization was started by people trying to get drunk.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Daybreakers’ Trailer

io9 is pushing a post-vampire takeover movie called Daybreakers which sounds quite interesting:

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Blather

Chocolate is a Fighting Food

Chocolate is a Fighting Food - Nestle WW2 ad

Check out the Vintage Ad Browser, a collection of advertisements sorted by decade and topic, and its companion site, the just as awesome Cover Browser
conan the barbarian, in french

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Comics

Secret Skin: Chabon calls superheros naked transvestites

Secret Skin – An essay in unitard theory: Michael Chabon writing in the New Yorker about Superhero Costumes (from March 10, 2008 – found on wikipedia)