Posts Tagged ‘Clay Ark’
Special! Bonus! Weekend! Links!
* io9 buries the lede: Batgirl is going to grad school.
* “We use the atmosphere as an open sewer, and don’t charge anyone for dumping stuff into it.” Free-market fundamentalism and climate change. Meanwhile, Miami drowns.
* On innocent civilians. On collective punishment. On the Gaza Border.
* Wall Street as cause and beneficiary of skyrocketing university tuition.
* A “nationwide gentrification effect” is segregating us by education. Just say “class!” It’s not that hard!
* God Loves Cleveland. What Cleveland Would Look Like With LeBron James And Kevin Love.
* The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice: Man Who Said He Was Fired Over Buying Pot Gets His Job Back.
* Big Data hopes to liberate us from the work of self-construction—and justify mass surveillance in the process. Also at TNI: Plantation Neoliberalism.
* Adam Kotsko for inflation and against prequelism.
* Duke’s Own Ainehi Edoro interviews Angela Davis.
* Lance Armstrong in Purgatory.
* Separation of powers! The system works! Meanwhile!
* Timothy Zahn Says We Shouldn’t Assume That All Star Wars Expanded Universe Books Are Non-Canon.
* Ted Cruz Launches Senate Fight To Auction Off America’s Public Lands. The Grand Canyon Faces Gravest Threat in the Park’s 95-Year History.
* Gasp.
* Director/cinematographer Ernest Dickerson is shopping an adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark.
* That “Side Scroller” web comic I posted earlier in the week that everyone loved.
* Northern New Mexico College shorts its adjuncts.
* A Government Computer Glitch Reminded 121-Year-Olds to Register for the Draft. Lousy moochers! Don’t they know freedom isn’t free!
* The true story of the Seinfeld episode the cast refused to shoot.
* Probably the worst news I’ve ever received: Fraction’s award-winning Hawkeye comic apparently coming to an end.
* Mesmerizing Photos of People Lying in a Week’s Worth of Their Trash.
* And your twelve-year-old self just hacked Time Magazine: Scientists Say Smelling Farts Might Prevent Cancer.
Written by gerrycanavan
July 12, 2014 at 9:28 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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