XKCD has a helpful chart on radiation levels, including the amount you get from eating a banana!

I linked to David Malki's great post on Victorian-era photo retouching last week; he continues the topic and gets into philosophical territory, too.

Imagine comic books...er, graphic novels...as paperbacks published in the '60s and '70s. Now see the covers, as imagined by artist Fonografiks. These are fantastic.

The Pet Shop Boys talk about scoring a ballet of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. I think Neil Tennant is morphing into William S. Burroughs, incidentally.

Meanwhile, Duran Duran is collaborating with David Lynch. You know the results are going to be memorable.

And finally, while Charlie Sheen is making all the headlines, his father and brother have been in Spain making what sounds like a beautiful film about family relationships. Interesting, isn't it?