Woah. Big night in US politics. Wish my mom were alive to see it.

This piece by Ezra Klein on Hillary Clinton's abilities as a politician reminds me of that epic MetaFilter thread about emotional labor. Because basically, that's what he's saying: she makes up for her lack of natural charisma & "masculine" leadership with emotional labor. She ( Read more... )

So B&N published this list of 15 space operas to get you over Firefly (although, ew, Ringworld). Huh.

I stumbled across a discussion of Firefly on File770, and in reading the conversation, I realized something. I've always said that Babylon 5 was great storytelling with terrible dialog; I wonder if I can say that the inverse is true of Firefly ( Read more... )

Dude. Two people I have personally met won awards at the Nebulas tonight.

Congratulations to Naomi Novik for winning the Nebula for best novel for Uprooted!

And congratulations to Fran Wilde for winning the Andre Norton award for YA for Updraft! It's her first novel! Woah.

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The science behind how awesome running is. Now if only my vertigo ( Read more... )

A local photographer found a twenty-year-old archaeology survey, and used it to
locate the sites of former Native American burial grounds.

In other archaeology, and of no doubt great interest to Due South fans, they found one of the ships from the lost Franklin Expedition. And it's worth pointing out that the Inuk knew it all along. (There's a ( Read more... )

This is adorable.

Some stuff I didn't know about DuckDuckGo.

The New Yorker profiles Anonymous.

How to spot an ATM skimmer.

Saved for later viewing: Mallory Ortberg reading male novelist jokes.

I feel conflicted about this article. Hmm. Too much about the heroic archaeologists, not enough about the tribe's concerns (or the difficulties of ( Read more... )

... and I guess it was only a matter of time until the roaches started appearing. The retiree who sheltered some children during the shootings in Newtown, CT is being harrassed by conspiracy theorists who think the entire event was orchestrated by the federal government to justify gun control. Disgusting ( Read more... )

... I don't know anyone else who is capable of losing weight over Thanksgiving weekend. (And no, not intentionally.) ::sigh:: (The icon is definitely indicative of my mental state, I'm just saying.)

Anyway, on to the links!

Aaron Bady provides the critical look at Lincoln we've all been waiting for.Apparently Oliver Stone made a documentary ( Read more... )

Sociological Images has some graphics on the low-value jobs replacing the jobs that were lost in the recession. Yikes.

Forbes has a report on how women who gain weight suffer financial penalties on the job. Whereas men are not penalized until they are perceived as being obese. ARGH ( Read more... )

So I went to see The Avengers last night, and even though that's only 2 days after opening, I feel like I've missed the fannish wave. My flist has been overwhelmed with superhero-squee ( Read more... )

Noted for later reading: danah boyd on privacy, in the context of a WSJ debate on internet privacy.

And a review of Michael Lewis' new book on the economic crash.

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XKCD takes on money. Which is fortuitous, since I just started listening to Making Money, by Pterry.

Dowsing is analyzed by Bad Archaeology. I suspect I know what his conclusion ( Read more... )