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Military-Industrial-Entertainment Complex
The Army’s cross-promotional deal with X-Men: First Class lays bare the military’s increasing reliance on the science fiction genre as the prime narrative medium through which to sell itself. The new...
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Wednesday 2!
* “If banks wrote down all underwater mortgages to market value and refinanced the homeowners into 30-year, fixed-rate loans at current market interest rates, that would pump $71 billion into the...
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Friday Night
* What it’s like to be a woman on the Internet. Via MeFi. * Suffer the little children: An unprecedented increase in the deportation of undocumented immigrants has left an estimated 5,100 children...
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Xavier’s Community College for Gifted Mutants
Frankly I’m a bit surprised this hasn’t already been an episode. Via io9.
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X-Muppets
Disney owns both of these, now, right, so there’s no reason this can’t happen.
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Picasso’s X-Nica
I’ve always felt Picasso’s X-nica was deeply underrated. To this day no one has captured the mutant tragedy like he did. More alternate-history comics here.
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They Walk Among Us
Vision is complex, but the calculus of color is strangely simple: Each cone confers the ability to distinguish around a hundred shades, so the total number of combinations is at least 1003, or a...
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A Whole Lot of Sunday Night Links
* SNL wins a game: Djesus Uncrossed. * Batman should never have revealed his secret identity. * Dan Harmon explains his Joseph-Campbell-influenced theory of the “story circle,” in a few posts: 1 2 3 4...
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Fall Break!
* The shutdown is over; bring on the next shutdown! Communists at Standard and Poor’s Determine the Shutdown Took $24 Billion Out Of The US Economy. What You Can Get For The Price Of A Shutdown. Here...
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However Many Links You Think There Are In This Post, There Are Actually More...
* First, they cast Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, and I said nothing. * de Boer v. Schuman re: Hopkins. It’s not the supply, it’s the demand. * The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto. * Earth’s Quietest Place Will...
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#HaveWeekendLinksLandedYet
* New leaks show NSA spying on European regulators and charities. UNICEF, man. * NSA had secret deal on back-doored crypto with security firm RSA, Snowden docs reveal. * Shock decision: Federal Judge...
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All Your Weekend Links at No Cost to You
* The great Gabriel García Márquez has died. The Paris Review interview. Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live. In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast,...
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I Can’t Believe It’s June Links
* CFPs: MLA Subconference 2015 and Society for Utopian Studies 2014. * Rebecca Schuman has the best my-thoughts-exactly rundown of the MLA Task Force report I’ve seen. * Called psychylustro, German...
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Happy Birthday Connor Links!
My son is being born today, so the posting will probably be sporadic even by summer standards. Sorry! And hooray! * FindingEstella from @amplify285 is an awesome Octavia Butler Archives Tumblr. * NASA:...
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Sunday Links!
* With the newborn and the consequent sleep deprivation I’ve been in sort of a weird place mentally, but if you find yourself in a similar state of consciousness I can recommend Andy Weir’s The...
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Tuesday Links!
* Ian Bogost on moralism and academic politics: The Opposite of Good Fortune is Bad Fortune. * This week on Studio 360: Will Sci-Fi Save Us? * The Forgotten Opposition to the Apollo Program. * They say...
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Wed!nes!day! Links!
* The greatest Tumblr of all time forever: Wes Anderson’s X-Men. Above: Bill Murray as sad Professor X. * A Snowpiercer Thinkpiece, Not to Be Taken Too Seriously, But For Very Serious Reasons. * Ours...
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Special Bonus Monday Links – Do Not Read – Full of Bees
* It takes special gumption to argue not all US interventions are horrors in support of intervening in a horrorshow caused by US intervention. * ISIS Post PR Photos They Took With John McCain. *...
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Wednesday Links! Seriously a Lot!
* Like C.P. Snow’s two cultures of the humanities and the sciences, a new bimodal view of higher education is becoming increasingly important at the start of the twenty-first century: one that sees the...
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