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iariaPinboard Username Mapper Excellent resource. Put in your username and find your network and whether they are on pinboard. If you had a huge network and can't remember it all this is perfect.
The Nine Lives of Chloe King was cancelled which is really too bad because I enjoyed it.
Team Human by Sarah Rees Brennan and Justine Larbalestier is a new vampire YA book coming out in spring 2012 that sounds interesting. SRB talks about it here and JL talks about it here.
Another Earth Looks like an interesting movie.
Articles
The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their 'Liberated Sexuality' Awesome article. Comments specifically on two comics from the New 52 relaunch: Catwoman & Red Hood and the Outlaws. This is not about these women wanting things; it's about men wanting to see them do things, and that takes something that really should be empowering -- the idea that women can own their sexuality -- and transforms it into yet another male fantasy. It takes away the actual power of the women and turns their "sexual liberation" into just another way for dudes to get off.
Actress Is Perfect Harmony in Trans Drama 'Gun Hill Road'
On Maria Klawe Since taking the position of president of California’s Harvey Mudd College in 2006, Maria Klawe has earned herself some bragging rights among her peers, specifically this astounding statistic: 42 percent of the college’s computer science majors are female — that is more than triple the number of women pursuing that major since Klawe’s arrival just five years ago.
Female knight making her mark in competitive jousting
Ancient bridges engineered from living trees
New York’s first hydroponic rooftop-to-table restaurant
The Prettiest Boy in the World Andrej Pejic, a male model who has garnered much attention in the fashion world for his recent success modeling women’s clothing.
Sites
Cinevault free streaming movies (largely older ones)
Origami artist Dinh Truong Giang Really stunning. I love the foxes best.
Solar System Visualizer Very cool. Animation that shows the orbits of planets and moons.
Project Icarus Two students sent a camera-dangling balloon to near space and took stunning photography of Earth: all for $150.
Animals
Rescued Sea Otter Pup with Adoptive Mother So cute.
Fuck Yeah Interspecies Friendships Tumblr
Various big cats playing and eating pumpkins
10 Surprisingly Stunning Species of Mantis
The Nine Lives of Chloe King was cancelled which is really too bad because I enjoyed it.
Team Human by Sarah Rees Brennan and Justine Larbalestier is a new vampire YA book coming out in spring 2012 that sounds interesting. SRB talks about it here and JL talks about it here.
Another Earth Looks like an interesting movie.
Articles
The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their 'Liberated Sexuality' Awesome article. Comments specifically on two comics from the New 52 relaunch: Catwoman & Red Hood and the Outlaws. This is not about these women wanting things; it's about men wanting to see them do things, and that takes something that really should be empowering -- the idea that women can own their sexuality -- and transforms it into yet another male fantasy. It takes away the actual power of the women and turns their "sexual liberation" into just another way for dudes to get off.
Actress Is Perfect Harmony in Trans Drama 'Gun Hill Road'
On Maria Klawe Since taking the position of president of California’s Harvey Mudd College in 2006, Maria Klawe has earned herself some bragging rights among her peers, specifically this astounding statistic: 42 percent of the college’s computer science majors are female — that is more than triple the number of women pursuing that major since Klawe’s arrival just five years ago.
Female knight making her mark in competitive jousting
Ancient bridges engineered from living trees
New York’s first hydroponic rooftop-to-table restaurant
The Prettiest Boy in the World Andrej Pejic, a male model who has garnered much attention in the fashion world for his recent success modeling women’s clothing.
Sites
Cinevault free streaming movies (largely older ones)
Origami artist Dinh Truong Giang Really stunning. I love the foxes best.
Solar System Visualizer Very cool. Animation that shows the orbits of planets and moons.
Project Icarus Two students sent a camera-dangling balloon to near space and took stunning photography of Earth: all for $150.
Animals
Rescued Sea Otter Pup with Adoptive Mother So cute.
Fuck Yeah Interspecies Friendships Tumblr
Various big cats playing and eating pumpkins
10 Surprisingly Stunning Species of Mantis
