Saturday morning linkdump.

* Fiona sent along this image as the last word on my "Is Infinite Jest science fiction?" post.

* Good news, everyone! Fox and the Futurama voice cast have reached a deal.

* This is the way the MMORPG ends: The Matrix Online has incorporated its upcoming coming shutdown into the story itself. Via Kottke.

* American Castles.

* You're (probably) a federal criminal.

* Man is his sushi: Abhay Khosla's Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Saturday morning links!

* RIP, Walter Cronkite.

* Fox is apparently trying to screw the Futurama voice cast, though there are some hints that this may just be an ill-conceived publicity stunt. For what it's worth Variety seems to think it's legit. Why does Fox hate nerds?

* I think it would be great to have a Kindle, but Amazon keeps making it harder and harder for me to buy one. Yesterday they unpublished two books by George Orwell without warning, deleting the books from the Kindles of those who bought it.

* On teaching Infinite Jest.

* And Pat Buchanan, it must be said, is a terrible human being.

Other links.

* Boycott General Motors? It makes perfect sense if the only thing you care about is embarrassing President Obama.

* Krauthammer: "What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality." At least he admits it...

* Republicans have asked for 610 days to prepare for the Sotomayor Supreme Court hearing. What could be more reasonable than that?

* Futurama renewed. Saved by the Bell reunion draws one step closer. Shia LaBeouf will not ruin Y: The Last Man.

* Meme of the day: 30 Rock vs. The Muppet Show.

* And what is destiny?, from Very Small Array.

Futurama to fly again on Comedy Central?

Tuesday, Tuesday.

* Global warming may increase kidney stones. Now will you act, America?

* Shutting down coal plants makes kids smarter.

* Can the human species be sophisticated (mature) enough to keep in mind a looming challenge (decarbonizing the energy system, which will happen eventually anyway) even as it deals with a real-time problem (avoiding energy-related economic turmoil)? An interesting two-part discussion at the New York Times Dot Earth blog.

* LEGO Futurama.

* And pictures from the wedding I attended in Jersey this weekend are up at my Flickr account.

Thank Gaia that TNR is around to tell me about the new environmentalism, which apparently means not being an environmentalist at all. Instead, we just wait for magic science capital to save us. Problem solved! Via MeFi.