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Wednesday Night Links
* Stanford freshman’s documentary chronicles Huntington’s disease decision. Spoiler alert. Indiegogo fundraising. Twitter. * My particular demographic: Study Finds Vegetarians Will Live Longer, Are...
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Weekend Links
* CFP: My friend Alexis Lothian is planning a special issue of Ada on feminist science fiction. * Sunday map-reading: an index of maps from fantasy novels. * Study: The U.S. has had one mass shooting...
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Friday Links! Soviet Choose Your Own Adventure, World Tetris Competition,...
* In 1987, an anonymous team of computer scientists from the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic wrote a series of children’s books based on the popular Choose Your Own Adventure series. The books were...
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The Apocalyptic Sublime, Grand Theft Auto Edition
Grand Theft Auto—if tires had negative friction. Via MeFi. and and I’m prepared to give this a three picture deal.
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Tuesday MOOCs, and More!
* Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching. The details on this are fascinating: Gary Matkin, the dean for distance education at Irvine, said the problem had stemmed from Mr....
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Sunday!
* SFW (at least in my estimation) photography project depicting porn actresses with and without makeup. Discussion thread at MeFi, which links to a few more discussion threads at Reddit that are pretty...
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Lots of Thursday Links! The University in Ruins, How to Predict the Future,...
* Five Katrinas A Decade? Warming Projected To Boost Extreme Storm Surges Ten-Fold. * Cause of windfarm sickness identified: it’s spread by human mouth. * “If our universe was a simulation you could...
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Thursday Night Links
* “A superbly crafted combination of tower defence game and management sim that’s consistently thought-provoking, yet never heavy-handed”: Sweatshop HD is the latest victim in Apple’s war on serious...
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Saturday Night Links
* The Los Angeles Times profiles Nalo Hopkinson. * Science Fiction Comes Alive as Researchers Grow Organs in Lab. * North Dakota Becomes First State To Ban All Abortions By Defining Life At Conception....
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Sunday, Sunday
(some links via Aaron’s Sunday Reading, which as always has so much more) * The greatest nation in the world: A few nights a year, Tennessee holds a health care lottery of sorts, giving the medically...
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‘He Estimates That If One Person Visits a GPS Location Each Day with a Metal...
Game designer Jason Rohrer designs a game meant to be played 2,000 years from now, hides it in desert.
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Thursday Links
* North Carolina update: holy smokes. I mean really. I mean really. * This is quite incredible. Even if a college uses all of its extra tuition revenue to increase the financial aid it awards, that...
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Tuesday Links
* “‘The best way to interview is nonpregnant and ringless,’” that respondent said, adding she was only able to land a job after she kept her family secret during the interview process. * Cheating on a...
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Even More Tuesday Links
* “More toyetic”: The cast and crew of Batman and Robin explain what went wrong. * Preposterously bad idea watch: Breaking Bad Spin-Off With Saul Goodman In The Works. Has to be a very dry joke on...
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Tuesday Afternoon!
* PSA from Charlie Stross: Ignore the news. Just a brief reminder that news is bad for you. No, seriously: publicly available news media in the 21st century exist solely to get eyeballs on...
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Wednesday Deux
* CFP: Queerness and Games at UC Berkeley. * AMC passed on Red Mars, but then greenlights this? Those idiots. * Minimum Wage Machine (Work in Progress). The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work...
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Thursday!
* Milwaukee on the list of 21 highly segregated cities in America. Milwaukee’s black-white dissimilarity score is 79.6, according to a study of 2010 Census data by professors John Logan and Brian Stult...
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May Day Links, Not All of Them about May Day Exactly
* Is today the day Marty McFly arrives when he travels to the future? * Jacob Remes on May Day from a year ago. * Lost generation: on unemployment in Spain. * A May Day Manifesto: Seven Principles for...
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