A few more links for today, as my brain is otherwise useless.
* io9 has your Disney/Marvel crossovers in the other direction. I too am looking forward to the Dark Mermaid Saga.
* Again with the Comics has scans from Chris Ware's extremely rare "Floyd Farland: Citizen of the Future." Get them before the C&D.
* Who's ruining air travel now?
* Biden breaks down 2010.
* Today in our awesome post-racial society.
* And could Jennifer's Body actually not be all that bad? Feministe reports.
Monday, September 21, 2009
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Labels: 2010, airplanes, Chris Ware, comics, Disney, feminism, Flord Farland, Jennifer's Body, Joe Biden, Marvel, Megan Fox, shlock, This Modern World
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Has the Disney/Marvel merger scored its first big win with Pixar's Ant-Man?
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Sunday! Links!
* Jaimee has a new poem online at Country Dog Review.
* Traxus has a nice post on status update activism jumping off my post at HASTAC the other day.
* In praise of the sci-fi corridor.
* All about ocean acidification, the climate change disaster no one is even talking about.
* Confessions of an Aca/Fan has two good posts about where District 9 came from, one on transmedia promotion strategies and the other on Afrofuturism.
* NeilAlien is your source for Disney/Marvel merger news, especially more Photoshopped images than you can possibly handle. Here are even more Photoshopped images.
* Why is Glenn Beck wearing an East German military uniform on the cover of his new book? No, really, why?
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Labels: afrofuturism, climate change, Disney, District 9, Facebook, Glenn Beck, HASTAC, Jaimee, Marvel, ocean acidification, Photoshop, poetry, science fiction, status update activism
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Up too late tonight.
* Because you demanded it: MTV has greenlit a Teen Wolf pilot.
* Contrary to what you may have heard, the appendix has a function.
* And if you aren't sick yet of the Disney/Marvel mashup meme, you can find a bunch at Super Punch.
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Labels: Disney, Marvel, medicine, MTV, Teen Wolf, television, the appendix
Monday, August 31, 2009
Attackerman rightly declares the Internets won for the day.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Apocalypse with a smile: the Mickey Mouse gasmask. Via @sfsignal.

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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Sunday links.
* More well-deserved heat is being directed at the Obama administration for its inscrutably sluggish stance on gay rights: this time it's about the Defense of Marriage Act.
* The Dow has erased its 2009 losses.
* New revelations of HIV in the porn industry.
* The great unwinding: Michigan roads shifting from pavement back to gravel.
* 'Fallen Princesses.'
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Labels: Barack Obama, Disney, gay rights, HIV and AIDS, marriage equality, Michigan, politics, pornography, princesses, stock market, the economy, the great unwinding
Thursday, April 09, 2009
How Disney cuts corners. Via MeFi.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Disney disassembled. Via Drawn!
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
You know who else liked Snow White? Yeah, that's right. Via Boing Boing.
The director of a Norwegian museum claimed yesterday to have discovered cartoons drawn by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War.
William Hakvaag, the director of a war museum in northern Norway, said he found the drawings hidden in a painting signed "A. Hitler" that he bought at an auction in Germany.
