A Spectacle of Behemoths

*Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and founder of structuralism, has passed away at 100.

*Slate on how Ayn Rand became an American icon

*The Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns

*Persuasion and the art of storytelling.

*A giant crack in Africa may create a new ocean

*US Troops in Afghanistan are burning copies of the Koran.

*Corey Doctorow on science fiction as an indicator of the present.

*Talking about interactive fiction in my narrative and technology class, here's a boingboing post about keeping interactive fiction alive.

*Nuclear accidents and the origins of superhero origins

*Alejandro Jodorowsky gets funding for his dream project 'Abel Cain'.

*And Horacio Castellanos Moya on the myth of Roberto Bolaño. What's exciting is that I'll be taking a class on contemporary fiction next semester from this irascible exile.