Sunday Morning Links!

* CFP for SLSA 2016. It’s in Atlanta this year.

* The Pillaging of America’s State Universities.

* The Cashless Society and Total Surveillance.

* Inaugurating the Sputnik Award.

* Wisconsin’s right-to-work law, championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker as he was mounting his run for president, was struck down Friday as violating the state constitution. But don’t get too excited.

* Presenting 9/11: The Musical.

* Critics loved their preview of Civil War.

* If Skills Are the New Canon, Are Colleges Teaching Them?

* An oral history of Comedy Central.

* The History of Femslash, the Tiny Fandom That’s Taking Over the Universe.

* What I Learned from Tickling Apes. Octopus Brains Are So Much Cooler Than You Think.

* A Profile of the Greatest Character In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Hoar.

* Like the Doof Guitar, but for trombones.

* The Baffler goes deep inside the new man of 4chan.

* If you want a vision of the future: Sesame Street partners with a VC, will invest up to $1 million in a bunch of startups.

* And if you don’t: Photographed from a shuttle training aircraft, space shuttle Endeavour and its six-member STS-134 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station.