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Marvel’s top 70 (!) covers of all time.

The A.V. Club lists 23 fictitious high schools whose students might not make it out alive.

Designer Daily displays the 25 worst album covers ever. I think I’m on a list fetish today.

Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at the history of the MP3.

What will happen to our over-the-hill rappers? I can’t believe Jay-Z is turning 40.

The Times profiles Radiohead and their fascinating decision to stop recording albums and focus instead on singles.

The Stone Roses’ self-titled turns 20.

Elle (?!) lists the 12 greatest female electric guitarists.

Well, mine doesn’t include any Peter Gabriel. At all.

This is how I fix my mother’s computer, every single time.

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After a brief hiatus, I am back. With a vengeance. To the future. In Black. Whatever.

So much good stuff today! Check it out:

This really hit home for me: Courtney Queeney describes the ambivalence she feels about being a female poet over at Bookslut.

I’m hooked on Boomkat. If you’re not already, consider this your permission get obsessed.

Pop Candy lists the 10 Best Album Covers of 2009 so far. The AOL Radio blog lists the 10 Worst.

A new Radiohead single appears to have leaked. Listen to it at Stereogum. You can read an excerpt of an interview with Thom Yorke in the current issue of The Believer. After work I’m going to buy a copy so I can read the full article and just enjoy The Believer’s amazingness in its entirety.

So… you found my iPhone, huh?

This great Slate article takes a look at “seeking,” the crux of most human and animal behavior, and how it is tied to the rise of Googling, Twittering, and texting. In a related article, the New York Times talks about how these same technologies are creating a wave of mistrials in courts all over the country.

The Telegraph remembers David Foster Wallace.

Poems for Shark Week. Oh, poets.org– how you amuse me.

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Mad Men yourself. In case you haven’t already. Mine to follow.

Ten great novels about novelists.

511NY allows you to follow your subway line on Twitter to, you know, find out how late you’re going to be.

Universal wanted to cut 30 minutes from Judd Apatow’s Funny People, which opens on Friday.

Top 10 Radiohead videos. This is what I will be doing on my lunch hour today.

Mila Kunis has recently been cast opposite Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky’s new film: Black Swan.

Maurice Sendak praises Spike Jonze’s forthcoming adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are.

Like Socrates, In a Cage, on Antibiotics

I’m looking forward to reading Brandon Forbes’ new book, Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive. PopMatters has an interesting article up on the book, as well, in which they liken the tao of Radiohead to the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt. The book is available for purchase from Open Court here. There are over 40 titles out in this series, and more are on the way. Radiohead is one of my favorite bands, second only to