Testimony of a Spade is hosting Four Stone Hearth the New Year edition. It opens with a great poem, here’s a snippet:

In bleach’d forbidding robes array’d
stern January treads the wold,
within his icy hand a blade
of lethal might – the cruel cold

Continuing the artistic theme, I’d have to say my favorite is Archaeologizing Watchmen. The graphic novel Watchmen (calling it a grown-up comic book doesn’t do it justice) is, in my opinion, one of the finest pieces of storytelling of the past couple decades.

You can also check out some Guitar Hero too.

Plus illustrations, google earth, Neolithic alcoholic beverages, Neanderthals, microbes and plenty more. So enjoy the New Year’s Four Stone Hearth.