Monday Links!
* CFP: SFRA 2015.
* From the archives: the inaugural issue of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. Ephemera 11.4: “Work, Play, and Boredom.” And in the mail: Science Fiction Film and Television 7.2, all about Doctor Who.
* Pro-Sports Moochers and the True Cost of “Student Athletes.”
* Existential Comics recaps France vs. Germany.
* Today in things that won’t get a policeman thrown in jail, much less fired: Video Catches Highway Cop Punching Woman On The Side Of The Road.
* What If America Had Lost the Revolutionary War? U.S. Flag Recalled After Causing 143 Million Deaths.
* The past is another country: Black people were denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day.
* Today in the surveillance state. If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance.
* Jedediah Purdy at Politco: 238 years after its first birthday, America is in deep denial.
* The Democratic Party is an inside job.
* “There’s $300 billion worth of gold in the basement, but the real money is on the ninth floor.”
* Here’s the Lawless Hellscape Colorado Has Become Six Months After Legalizing Weed.
* TSA Now Mandating That All Phones Be Turned On Before You Fly. Up is down! Black is white!
* Let’s redesign parking signs.
* Children left to play alone achieve more. So that’s my secret!
* 10 Words Every Girl Should Learn.
* Jaws Is Ridiculous, Say Kids Who Owe Everything to Jaws.
* This Typeface’s Letters Are the Average of the World’s Handwriting.
* Researchers Discover the Meaning of Over 60 Words Used by Wild Chimps.
* Even International Quidditch Has a Concussion Problem.
* Presenting the absolute worst people in the world: the coal-rollers.
* Introducing TV’s Best Female Monster Yet.
* Batman v. Superman only seems terrible because they got Kevin Smith to write a fake script to fool everyone. Well it certainly accounts for all the known facts.
* On Maleficent, Disney’s first rape-revenge film.
* And the new rules for Dungeons & Dragons are free; you’ll note for historical purposes that race is still real, but sex and gender aren’t.
Written by gerrycanavan
July 7, 2014 at 8:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Gerry Canavan 
I love those parking signs. So simple and in a format (similar to MS Office Calendar) we’re used to seeing. Parking signs are notorious for ambiguous semantics, and it can be particularly harrying when you’re blocking traffic and trying to figure out whether you can park in this spot.
mattintoledo
July 8, 2014 at 12:58 pm