Linkspam accidentally pulled the plug on her computer and lost all the links yesterday
Funny or Die highlights one reason why so many women are pissed off right now.
A quick skim through my RSS feeds this morning reveals:
Quilts inspired by the Hadron Collider.
Why the BMI is a poor health indicator.
John Scalzi flabbergasted by a really blatant example of copyright infringement.
Wired on the use of cybersecurity threats as a pretext for war.
By way of multiple places on my blogroll: the 2011 Vida Count is out-- that's the gender distribution of writers and reviewers in major US magazines.
A comics guy was on an all-male panel at London Super ComicCon, so he found a qualified woman to take his place, and the sky didn't fall. Bravo.
This is an ANTI-Rec. The Atlantic ran a piece yesterday on how Title IX is bad for women because the advances in athletic opportunity for girls and women result in more girls and women getting injured by participating in sports. Oh, and being exposed to predatory male coaches. Seriously? The fail is strong in this one, and the logic is nowhere to be seen.
The Mary Sue is a year old today, and I admit it's become one of my go-to sites for genre news that doesn't make me want to spork my eyes out. They tread the line between fangirl squee and critical commentary with panache, and for that I salute them.
As an example: today's post celebrating Carmen Sandiego. Seriously, how awesome is that?
I've never subscribed to io9, because as a Gawker site, too much of their content seems intended just to get clicks, and generate controversy, rather than conversation. But I am impressed by Annalee Newitz' long essay here on how science fiction addresses reproductive rights.
Here's a long essay on why the best order to watch the Star Wars movies is neither internal chronology nor release order. Fascinating.
Alyssa Rosenberg sounds off on the bungled marketing of John Carter.
Speaking of which, LB Gale on SF Signal explicates what I've been saying for the last few months: A Princess of Mars, AKA John Carter, is the ur-text for What These People Need is a Honky. (You could argue that James Fenimore Cooper's Hawkeye stories come first, but I don't think Natty Bumpo spent much time saving the Mohicans...)
Strange Horizons reviews Ready Player One.
Brain Pickings has an awesome set of early 1900s travel posters. I so want the one for hunting in the USSR, and one of the National Parks ones.
Vanity Fair gets on the Downton Abbey train with a slideshow of 1920s fashion. Coolness!
You know what, I kind of love this theology. Make sure to read the hovertext...
Popmatters has a killer piece on Sinead O'Connor and her vindication. I think I shall have to get her new album.
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The Society for Medical Anthropology has issued a draft report on the issue of health insurance reform, and is looking for comments.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
A quick skim through my RSS feeds this morning reveals:
Quilts inspired by the Hadron Collider.
Why the BMI is a poor health indicator.
John Scalzi flabbergasted by a really blatant example of copyright infringement.
Wired on the use of cybersecurity threats as a pretext for war.
By way of multiple places on my blogroll: the 2011 Vida Count is out-- that's the gender distribution of writers and reviewers in major US magazines.
A comics guy was on an all-male panel at London Super ComicCon, so he found a qualified woman to take his place, and the sky didn't fall. Bravo.
This is an ANTI-Rec. The Atlantic ran a piece yesterday on how Title IX is bad for women because the advances in athletic opportunity for girls and women result in more girls and women getting injured by participating in sports. Oh, and being exposed to predatory male coaches. Seriously? The fail is strong in this one, and the logic is nowhere to be seen.
The Mary Sue is a year old today, and I admit it's become one of my go-to sites for genre news that doesn't make me want to spork my eyes out. They tread the line between fangirl squee and critical commentary with panache, and for that I salute them.
As an example: today's post celebrating Carmen Sandiego. Seriously, how awesome is that?
I've never subscribed to io9, because as a Gawker site, too much of their content seems intended just to get clicks, and generate controversy, rather than conversation. But I am impressed by Annalee Newitz' long essay here on how science fiction addresses reproductive rights.
Here's a long essay on why the best order to watch the Star Wars movies is neither internal chronology nor release order. Fascinating.
Alyssa Rosenberg sounds off on the bungled marketing of John Carter.
Speaking of which, LB Gale on SF Signal explicates what I've been saying for the last few months: A Princess of Mars, AKA John Carter, is the ur-text for What These People Need is a Honky. (You could argue that James Fenimore Cooper's Hawkeye stories come first, but I don't think Natty Bumpo spent much time saving the Mohicans...)
Strange Horizons reviews Ready Player One.
Brain Pickings has an awesome set of early 1900s travel posters. I so want the one for hunting in the USSR, and one of the National Parks ones.
Vanity Fair gets on the Downton Abbey train with a slideshow of 1920s fashion. Coolness!
You know what, I kind of love this theology. Make sure to read the hovertext...
Popmatters has a killer piece on Sinead O'Connor and her vindication. I think I shall have to get her new album.
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The Society for Medical Anthropology has issued a draft report on the issue of health insurance reform, and is looking for comments.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.