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I have hit some kind of terrifying link-and-tab critical mass, and am just compulsive enough that I can’t bring myself to close ALL of them without sharing some of them around. So.

- Groupon, if you’re unaware of it, is a coupon brokering site that sends members daily offers for local products and services. Some of it is pretty ridiculous, but there are gems every so often (like a really great one I got for sushi once, or occasional offers for discounts at Barnes & Noble). In any case, Groupon has sent me a link which, if you use it to register on their site, they’ll send me some credits that I can use for future offers. It’s free, and if you’re curious about Groupon, it’s a good opportunity to check them out and do me a good turn.

- A new, awful dimension of the BP spill: people are getting sick. I can’t say I’m surprised, but the rapidity with which these things are starting to manifest is worrying.

- Two suns spotted over China. Our atmosphere? Refraction? Kind of amazing.

- The NYT published an article about the gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl in Texas. Someone at Alter-Net has posted a really smart response to that article. I recommend reading the NYT article first, then the Alter-Net piece, and then going back to the NYT one to get a real sense of just how pernicious and sneaky the rhetoric of victim-blaming can be.

- Also at the NYT, an interesting short thing about why writers abandon novels. Upon reading this, none of my novel-length drafts, regardless of their state of completion, could be reached for comment.

- BBC journalists detained, beaten, and subjected to mock-execution in Libya. If this is what’s happening to journalists, you can bet your ass that what’s happening to Libyans is a thousand times worse.

- I think I’d really like to read this book.

- I’m Not Your Scapegoat, being a really fantastic editorial by a unionized librarian about the situation in Wisconsin, and the real face of unionized public workers.

- I saw The Social Network before it came out, and I think it’s possibly one of the best films I’ve seen in a long while. (I also think it’s a very strange artifact of our culture, doing a biopic about someone both young and living, based on a book by someone else, etc.) One of the things I remember about it was the strength of the visuals, but I don’t do a lot of film criticism, so I don’t have a lot of the right language to talk about some of that. Fortunately, here on the Internet, people post things like this.

- Why men need to speak up about abortion. A brilliant, smart, and heartfelt article by a man who points out the ways in which these things do not occur in isolation from the rest of the world, and why men should care about women’s rights.

- In fannish matters dear to my heart, Torchwood Gleeclub is doing a full-series rewatch in preparation for S4. More academically, there’s a call for papers about Torchwood as mainstream cult programming, and matters associated with that status.

- Lethe Press is doing a call for subs for an upcoming anthology, The Touch of the Sea: Mermen & Selkies. Stories should feature a gay male protagonist. More info here.

- A fascinating side-by-side comparison of at-risk government aid programs and tax breaks for the wealthy from the Center for American Progress.

- The Council on Women and Girls has published one of the most comprehensive studies ever on life factors for women in the United States, including education, income, and violence. One significant factor is that while women are now likely to be educated — they’ve started outstripping men in college graduations — women are still underrepresented in upper management and make only 75% of what men do at all levels.

- Behold: the Easter turducken. Also known as “Horrifying things you can do to a Peep #472.”

There you go. And there I go. Phew.

This post has been mirrored from Christian A. Young's Dimlight Archive. To see it in its original format, visit dimlightarchive.com

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