linkspam is ready for the weekend
If you google "Morrill Hall", you will get a LOT of results, mostly at public universities. This is because many US public universities were funded by the Morrill Act, which granted states land in the western US to be used to support the public university system. Charlie Pierce points out that this year is the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act.
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Via SF Signal, SF writer Mur Lafferty is giving away her entire catalog in ebook form for the next two months. Hmmm...
Speaking of SF novels, I had no idea so many people actually liked Darrell Sweet's art. His covers have always been incredibly ugly and awkward to me. I'd prefer even the Brothers Hildebrandt to a Sweet cover, and I'm no big fan of theirs, either (although I was when I was 12).
Oh, FFS. I just can't even. You would think at some point that people who write about entertainment would clue into the fact that girls do, in fact, enjoy genres that they seem to think are boys-only. I mean, we fangirls rant about this shit all the time. Could someone pick up a clue? Indeed.
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I read the first sentence of this article about a new DHS program, and thought, "Ah-hah! Minority Report!"--and lo, the writer references the Dick story in the second sentence. Go me?
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This is a sad story of a MacArthur Genius winner who went missing about 8 years ago. The odd thing to me is that nobody seems to know exactly when she went missing. Aren't there phone records, credit card receipts, ATM withdrawals to track?
By way of Boing Boing: an interesting series of portraits of people living "off the grid". I... don't know what to think, other than to say that it's damned near impossible not to be in some way part of the modern industrialized lifestyle, and recreating the pre-industrial life, as the final set of photos illustrate, reminds me, more than anything, of Chris McCandless. What does such a choice mean to one's family, and other social connections?
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
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Via SF Signal, SF writer Mur Lafferty is giving away her entire catalog in ebook form for the next two months. Hmmm...
Speaking of SF novels, I had no idea so many people actually liked Darrell Sweet's art. His covers have always been incredibly ugly and awkward to me. I'd prefer even the Brothers Hildebrandt to a Sweet cover, and I'm no big fan of theirs, either (although I was when I was 12).
Oh, FFS. I just can't even. You would think at some point that people who write about entertainment would clue into the fact that girls do, in fact, enjoy genres that they seem to think are boys-only. I mean, we fangirls rant about this shit all the time. Could someone pick up a clue? Indeed.
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I read the first sentence of this article about a new DHS program, and thought, "Ah-hah! Minority Report!"--and lo, the writer references the Dick story in the second sentence. Go me?
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This is a sad story of a MacArthur Genius winner who went missing about 8 years ago. The odd thing to me is that nobody seems to know exactly when she went missing. Aren't there phone records, credit card receipts, ATM withdrawals to track?
By way of Boing Boing: an interesting series of portraits of people living "off the grid". I... don't know what to think, other than to say that it's damned near impossible not to be in some way part of the modern industrialized lifestyle, and recreating the pre-industrial life, as the final set of photos illustrate, reminds me, more than anything, of Chris McCandless. What does such a choice mean to one's family, and other social connections?
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.