- The George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will have a prominent home on Chicago's gorgeous lakefront. The museum will house Lucas's private art and memorabilia collections, which includes Star Wars and Indiana Jones ephemera, Norman Rockwell paintings, and movie posters. [via Wired]
- Who knew? Actors who got their start in government films! [via National Archives' Unwritten Record blog]
- Now this is tasty digital material - Food historian and cookbook writer, Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, has meticulously maintained ''The Cook's Oracle,'' where she logs every recipe, ingredient, and technique in the majority of cookbooks published in America and Europe. [via The New York Times]
- This just in from the Vatican; a virtual Sistine Chapel with Google-glass style viewers to cut down on visitor over-crowding. [via The Guardian]
- Lou Reed fans! 25 boxes of Velvet Underground posters and fliers, unreleased recordings, handwritten lyrics, news clippings, and more donated to Cornell University Library. [via Info Docket]
- And a new videogame inspired by Haruki Murakami stories. [via Open Culture]
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