And Some Other Stuff
* Here’s an interactive widget (link fixed) that lets you slice 100 billion out of the discretionary federal budget. It’s not easy, because this money really isn’t being wasted—so let’s not.
* On gender bias in New Yorker bylines.
* Foreclosing on Wells Fargo. Now they’re interested in talking to him. Via MeFi.
* Slate remembers Choose Your Own Adventure, including this tidbit:
The no-gender policy proved difficult to maintain when Bantam hired artists to draw covers and illustrations for the series. “In the text I was always extremely rigorous never to have anyone refer to the reader as ‘he.’ ” Packard says. “But Bantam insisted it be a boy because they had market research that said girls would identify with boys but boys would never read a book where ‘you’ was a girl. That was a big problem because most of the covers were of boys and most of the illustrations were of boys.”
It was a move that Packard believes lost readers: “I think we lost a huge number of girls to The Babysitter’s Club.“
* And the headline reads, “Permafrost Meltdown May Herald Climate Catastrophe.” Enjoy your weekend.
babysitter’s club totally needs a link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-frenemy/the-babysitters-club-wher_b_718510.html#s140756&title=Stacey_McGill
:)
Lindsey
February 21, 2011 at 12:44 pm