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Thursday Links!
* The big story in academia yesterday was the eleventh-hour preemptive firing of Steven Salaita from UIUC (which according to reports may have cost him his tenure at Virginia Tech as well). Especially disturbing in all this is the participation of former AAUP president Cary Nelson, on the side of the firing. Some commentary from Corey Robin, Claire Potter, Philip Weiss, and Electronic Intifada. A statement for the Illinois AAUP. A petition.
* Delayed gratification watch: This week I finally cracked and read Chris Ware’s Building Stories after nearly two years of anticipation. So great. I can’t wait to teach it. I may write more about this later, but for now I can tell you that my arbitrary path through the book told a beautiful story that began with the couple’s fateful move to Englewood and drifted backwards in time, Ulysses-like, to the day the couple met, before culminating in a quietly nostalgic trip to the eponymous building as it stood about to be torn down. So great. My friend Jacob’s review. “I Hoped That the Book Would Just Be Fun”: A Brief Interview with Chris Ware.
* Call for applications: Wisconsin Poet Laureate.
* Oak Creek, Two Years After the Sikh Mass Murder.
* On adjuncts and wildcat strikes.
* I was born too early: N.Y.U. to Add a Bachelor’s Degree in Video Game Design.
* I was born too late: MIT looking into paying professors by the word.
* College rankings, 1911. Class III! How dare they. #impeachTaft
* The conservative plan to destroy higher education by capturing accreditation.
* UMass-Dartmouth to Pay $1.2-Million to Professor in Discrimination Case.
* Voter Fraud Literally Less Likely Than Being Hit By Lightning.
* The country’s largest environmental group is profiting from oil drilling.
* NYPD sadly forced to arrest its critics.
* Medical Workers Say NYPD Cops Beat Man Shackled In A Stretcher. It Is Time We Treat Police Brutality as a National Crisis.
* The CIA Must Tell the Truth About My Rendition At 12 Years Old.
* State’s rights we can believe in: New Jersey drivers may be able to ignore other states’ speed cameras.
* Netflix Says Arrested Development Season 5 Is ‘Just a Matter of When.’
* Maria Bamford and the Hard Work of Acting Normal.
* Porn production plummets in Los Angeles.
* How Marvel Conquered Hollywood.
* The Lost Projects of Dan Harmon. In addition to Building Stories, I also cracked this week and finally started watching Rick and Morty. Now, granted, it’s no Building Stories — but it’s pretty good!
* The New Inquiry‘s “Mourning” issue is out today and has some really nice essays I think I’ll be using in the second go of my Cultural Preservation course next spring.
* Why Civilization: Beyond Earth Is The Hottest New Space Strategy Game.
* Disney Is Really Building A Star Wars Theme Park.
* You Are Given An Unlimited Supply Of Something. The One Catch? The Next Person Sets A Condition.
* Wikipedia’s monkey selfie ruling is a travesty for the world’s monkey artists.
* Apparently Kid for President.
* Now we see the violence inherent in the system: Insurance Company Pays Elderly Man’s Workman’s Comp Settlement With $21,000 in Coins.
* Department of diminishing returns: The British Office: The Movie.
* And the kind of headline where I really don’t want any details: NASA: New “impossible” engine works, could change space travel forever. Second star to the right, and straight on till morning…
Written by gerrycanavan
August 7, 2014 at 8:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Wednesday Night Links: Žižek, Affleck, and More
* ‘This is why, back to The Dark Knight Rises, the only authentic love in the film is Bane’s, the “terrorist’s,” in clear contrast to Batman’: Žižek (or someone claiming to be Žižek) reads The Dark Knight Rises.
* Jane Hu has tonight’s timeline of future events.
* Ben Affleck tapped to ruin Justice League.
* Singularity & Co., Unique Bookshop Will Save Obscure Sci-Fi Titles.
* What everybody gets wrong about Jekyll and Hyde. Bracket that “everybody” and it’s a decent reading of the novel.
* After Wade Michael Page, the suspect in the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, was fired from a Harley Davidson shop in 2004, he left behind an application to join the Ku Klux Klan. What’s on the KKK application form?
* Will Democrats hold the Senate?
* McSweeney’s has a reason a day to vote for Obama.
* Do-over: Rep. Steve King Wants To Repeal Everything Bill Obama Has Ever Signed.
* Be wary of talk about privatizing the post office.
* And July was the hottest month ever recorded. Enjoy your apocalypse.
Written by gerrycanavan
August 8, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with apocalypse, Barack Obama, Batman, Ben Affleck, climate change, DC Comics, Democrats, ecology, futurity, general election 2012, Jekyll and Hyde, July, Justice League, KKK, love, McSweeney's, post office, revolutionary terror, science fiction, Sikh community, Steve King, The Dark Knight Rises, the Senate, Wisconsin, Žižek
All the Tuesday Links
* Mars.
* “For Unpaid College Loans,Feds Dock Social Security.”
* Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism Advisory Board member and University of Nebraska at Omaha Criminology professor Pete Simi had extensive long term contact with alleged Wisconsin mass killer Wade Michael Page when he was conducting a multi-year study of the hate rock music scene in Southern California.
* The wisdom of markets: ‘Crude-oil futures bounced up over $1 at one point Monday after a false Twitter rumor exposed the oil market’s knee-jerk fear of Mideast turmoil.’
* Romney v. Reid, part 1000: “I don’t really believe that he’s got any kind of a credible source.” They’re his tax returns; if it’s within the realm of possibility that Reid has “any kind of a credible source,” isn’t that logically a concession the claim is true? TPM explains how it could be, though I still think it probably isn’t.
* Louisiana School Forces Students to Take Pregnancy Tests, Kicks Out Girls Who Refuse Or Test Positive. Naturally, the school also forces any young man suspecting of fathering a child to let’s not ruin a young man’s life over one mistake.
* The brightest timeline: New Arrested Development Season Starts Shooting Today.
* The darkest timeline: Papa John Warns: Pizza Prices Will Rise Under Obamacare.
* Joss Whedon will write and direct both Avengers Reaveng’d and help develop the Marvel TV series. This is reasonably promising, and yet I can’t help but agree with @HitFixDaniel: “I’d rather have Joss Whedon direct *literally* anything original than do an “Avengers” sequel. *ducks*”
* Save the arcade industry the barcade way.
* For my SF academics: UC Riverside’s Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award to recognize Ursula Le Guin, Ray Harryhausen and Stan Lee. As if you need another reason to go!
* The last alignment chart you’ll ever need: all Gary Oldman edition.
* The last missing piece of the puzzle: Witness claims there were actually two UFO crashes at Roswell in 1947.
* Science Proves Luke Skywalker Should Have Died In The Tauntaun’s Belly.
* And don’t say it unless you mean it: speaking on Attack of the Show about Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary, David Tennant says he’s still got the costume.
Written by gerrycanavan
August 7, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with aliens, alignment charts, arcades, Arrested Development, Avengers, charter schools, Chevron, curiosity, Dark Knight, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Empire Strikes Back, Gary Oldman, general election 2012, Harry Reid, hate rock, health care, Joss Whedon, Louisiana, Mars, Marvel, Massachusetts, misogyny, Mitt Romney, NASA, oil, outer space, Papa John, pizza, Roswell, sexism, Sikh community, Social Security, Stan Lee, Star Wars, student debt, Tauntauns, taxes, teen pregnancy, television, The Avengers 2, the brightest timeline, the darkest timeline, the truth is out there, the wisdom of markets, UC Riverside, UFOs, Ursula K. Le Guin, Wisconsin, zunguzungu
Local Tragedies
This week’s mass shooting happened just a few miles from our new house. What a tragedy for the Sikh community here, and for the city as a whole.
Written by gerrycanavan
August 5, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with America, guns, Milwaukee, Oak Creek, Sikh community, tragedy, Wisconsin