Crooked Timber has advice for drafting CVs for the academic job market (the one we all know, thanks to Marc Bousquet, doesn't actually exist).

We're in the Spring Break stretch now; I have an hour of class tomorrow and then at last we're all free. Let's celebrate with a few sci-fi links.

* Holy shit: Scientists have developed a computerised mind-reading technique which lets them accurately predict the images that people are looking at by using scanners to study brain activity.

* One year till midnight: character stills from the upcoming Watchmen movie.

* Three seasons of Battlestar Galactica in eight minutes.

* How to repopulate a world without men.