Link Grift
- Two views on reviewing. n+1 “Against Reviews” and Los Angeles Review of Books “Odious and Unpleasant.” [via Niall Harrison on Twitter]
- Michael Dirda proposes a simple reform to the NYTimes-style Bestseller list.
- Cat Velente has some interesting thoughts on childhood classing A Wrinkle in Time.
- A nice reminder that though the shuttle program is retiring, NASA is still out there exploring: “NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Saturday became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.”
- Illustrator Mike Bukowski is drawing each and every monster and critter that features in H. P. Lovecraft’s writing. [via io9.com]
- Sometimes beautiful and quirky things happen when semiconductor chips fail.