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What do you get when you combine artful fandom with sci-fi and fantasy legend? Graphic designer Christian Petersen’s cool retro prints, which bow down to Doctor Who, Harry Potter and others.

Petersen peddles his meditative homages on Etsy as The Modern Stylographer, where his posters stand out like silent sensations. That’s because he emphasizes stealth iconography over obvious quotation.

“I’m a child of the ’80s and have a great love for all things sci-fi and fantasy, and that nerd fandom comes through in my work,” Petersen, 29, told Wired.com in an e-mail. “I create artwork that winks at the o...

Serkan Piantino in Facebook's New York office Photo: Victor J. Blue/Wired.com

Eight hundred million Facebook profiles will soon get Timeline.

Over the coming week, Facebook will officially roll out the latest addition to its world-spanning social network: a Timeline that maps out each profile as a series of chronological events. And for the average user, it will appear as if by magic.

But Timeline, Facebook’s biggest interface change in recent memory, is the end result of a six-month effort not only to create a new piece of software, but to find a way of quickly serving that software to an a...