I have so many different tabs open at the moment that I have to shut some down before I go insane. So...

• The Guardian on genre novels nominated for the Booker. Typical kerfuffle.
• The iffy business of comics to film. Wise words.
• David Foster Wallace on John McCain. (Hat tip to Kevin Smokler.)
• The Christian Science Monitor on comics in academia. (Hat tip: Neil Gaiman.)
• Microsoft Research Lab opens up down the street. Design, huh? Hmmm.
• NYT on a lost world made by women – in Belgium. There's a novel here.
• MIT may have sussed solar power storage. If true, this is huge.
• Patrick Stewart: from captain to Hamlet. I'd kill to see that production.
• NYT on Obama's professorial days. Sounds like a great class.
• NYT: workings of ancient computer discovered. Older than steampunk: Greekpunk.
• Wormtooth Nation. Amazing-looking case study in zero-budget filmmaking.