1. that io9.com link just fell from heaven especially for me. Yes, I am a bit deluded, would explain my strange fascination with utopias...

2. As of now, I'm pretty convinced Tolkien is one of my personal heroes. It is depressing, somehow, that men who share this or similar viewpoints in terms of power are not political leaders, but then again, they're not precisely for their conceptions, I think. Still, man of genius.