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State of the Tuesday
* Obama’s State of the Union is here. I didn’t watch, but I saw enough on Twitter to see that Obama didn’t learn his lesson the first time he announced a spending freeze. So stupid. * Obama leads all...
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Monday Morning Links
* National Geographic: “Zombie” Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi. (Thanks Erica!) * Income inequality in the U.S., Egypt, China, and elsewhere. Via Christina by way of Tim. * The Bureau of Labor...
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Links without Context or Content
* Pawlenty on the 2012 GOP field: We’re all liars without conscience or remorse. * DATELINE 2050: Atheist Muslim Fundamentalists run the country! Oh, if only we’d listened! * Finally a reason to go...
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Friday Friday Friday
* Somebody awesomely trolled the New York state assessment exam. * Concluding that racial bias played a significant factor in the sentencing of a man to death here 18 years ago, a judge on Friday...
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Wednesday!
* Life advice from Neil Gaiman: Make good art. * Too ignorant to know it can’t be done: Teenager reportedly finds solution to 350-year-old math problem. * From the too-good-to-check files: McSweeney’s...
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Wednesday Night Links: Žižek, Affleck, and More
* ‘This is why, back to The Dark Knight Rises, the only authentic love in the film is Bane’s, the “terrorist’s,” in clear contrast to Batman’: Žižek (or someone claiming to be Žižek) reads The Dark...
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We Wait. We Are Bored.
My Grading Scale for the Fall Semester, Composed Entirely of Samuel Beckett Quotes.
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Evening Links
* World saved from Zack Snyder Star Wars movie. * But it was too late for the Atlantic, powerless before Tom Cruise’s superpowers. * 2013 in franchise science fiction, from io9. Only Brad Bird’s 1952...
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Thursday Night Links
* Clay Shirky, getting right to the point: “MOOCs are a lightning strike on a rotten tree.” Okay, now we’re getting honest! Let’s have that conversation. * Actor James Cromwell has been arrested for...
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Tuesday Night Links
* Welcome to My Massive Open Online Cult! Welcome to my MOOC—Massive Open Online Cult—a 10-week course based on the revolutionary educational models of Coursera and edX. Due to the “massive” nature of...
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All the Monday Links!
* Look alive, Octavia Butler scholars! 2015-16 Fellowships at the Huntington. * Exciting crowdfunding project on disability and science fiction: Accessing the Future. * If what we were fighting against...
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All the Weekend Links (100%)
* Jaimee has one of her phobia poems up at Drunken Boat’s “funny” issue: “Derrida Eats a Dorito.” * CFPs: ICFA 36: The Scientific Imagination. Joss Whedon’s Comics. Assemble! The Making and Re-Making...
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Wednesday Everything
* Too big to disaccredit: I should have realized the insanity at Oregon was because of college football. * Keywords for the Age of Austerity 14: Failure. * One weird trick to actually get a cop fired...
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A Very Special Second Helping of Friday Links
* A new Kelly Link story at McSweeney’s. It’s a very Merry Christmas indeed. * Serial decided when it would end, so it could continue. What’s the Verdict? Racism and the Case against Serial. More on...
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Wednesday Links!
* The end of UW: Gov. Scott Walker to propose 13 percent cut, more freedom for UW System. UW System predicts layoffs, no campus closings under budget cuts. Layoffs, Building Closures, Slowdown on...
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One Thousand and One Wednesday Links!
I’ve been incredibly busy lately, and things are only going to get worse in the next few weeks. But for now, some links! * I made a Twitterbot that I’m pretty pleased with: @LOLbalwarming. It’s the...
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Easter Monday (Hardly Knew ‘Er)
* Marquette suspends McAdams through the fall 2016 semester. Marquette’s statement. McAdams has some interesting comments specifically with regard to the the apology requirement on his blog. What a...
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Far Too Many Monday Morning Links, Sorry
* The Imaginary Worlds podcast did a recent episode on the legacy of Octavia Butler. * N.K. Jemisin has a plan for diversity in science fiction. * The best McSweeney’s link in years, maybe ever: “A...
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Christmas and/or Fascism Megapost Forever and Ever Links – Part Two!
(here’s part one) * The story behind the Christmas Truce of 1914, simultaneously the most and least utopian thing that’s ever happened. * Now that’s running it like a sandwich: College Can’t Prove It...
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Wednesday Links!
* Great episode of I Was There Too today starring Ahmed “Jar Jar Binks” Best, a genuinely fascinating figure in the Star Wars culture industry. I link this great EW profile of Best every few years....
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