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Linkspam put on her pajamas at 7pm on a Saturday. Don't judge me.

Dude. Two people I have personally met won awards at the Nebulas tonight.

Congratulations to Naomi Novik for winning the Nebula for best novel for Uprooted!

And congratulations to Fran Wilde for winning the Andre Norton award for YA for Updraft! It's her first novel! Woah.

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The science behind how awesome running is. Now if only my vertigo would go fucking away so I could run again...

Nooooooo! This was my favorite bar for a longass time. Great salads, great beer list, nice little patio where people brought their dogs. Just a chill place. I'm so sad. Damn the tech economy, anyway.

Man, this article about people hunting for Nazi gold in the Polish mountains is fascinating. Dowsing rods! Space ships! Buried treasure! Miles of empty tunnels! But also: Nazi fetishism, lost history, and the deaths of thousands of prisoners forced to dig the tunnel complexes. Sad and horrifying and weirdly compelling.

I may have to consider this mac & cheese recipe. Hmmm. Even if it is Martha.

Oh, hey, lookit that. Kenniwick Man is finally going to be repatriated. That's about time.

This is a depressing article about democratic norms and how easily they are eroded.

Possibly only [personal profile] sara will appreciate this, I'm not sure: Native American treaty fishing rights shut down a giant coal export terminal.

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In other news, I started listening to Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen yesterday, and woah, [personal profile] dira really was right on the money, weren't you? You've been Kempered! (That's the term we came up with in Farscape fandom when we guessed something that later happened, like when Maayan wrote a story called Kansas, set on Earth.)

Anyway, it's nice to see Cordelia again, being Cordelia. Even if I'm not all that interested in Jole himself.

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linkspam loves quoting Sondheim

I saw Brave this weekend. It was very fun, and funny, and gorgeous. I loved that the primary story was the relationship between a mother and daughter, about them fighting and coming back together with more appreciation for each other. I do have a few more critical thoughts, though.

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And yet, despite those quibbles, I really enjoyed it a lot. It's not quite up to Pixar's best, but it was very entertaining: funny and moving.

Anyway, Alyssa Rosenberg lays the smack down on some brain-dead commentary about Brave: Sexuality and gender performance are not the same thing. And if a girl is defying the gendered norms laid out for her, that should be a sign that we question the adequacy of the norms in capturing the diversity of girls' experiences, rather than the girl herself.

Moving on:

It was not better in the old days. It was just a different set of pains. Jessa Crispin on Eva Illouz's Why Love Hurts.

Oh, here's a question that hadn't occurred to me: what happens to your ebooks when you die?

Today's A Softer World is an obligatory read for Narnia fans.

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Noted for later reading/viewing:

Nike ad celebrating Title IX's 40th anniversary. Via the Mary Sue.

Rolling Stone on the Battle for the Soul of OWS.

An interview with the author of a new book about dishonesty.

An Ask Me Anything (a Reddit open interview, basically) by an estranged member of the Phelps family (of Westboro Baptist infame).

The truth about how terrorism doesn't work.

Transformative Works and Cultures has a new edition out, it's about fan activism.

The Awl on the sociological differences between Lacoste and Fred Perry polo shirts.

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Oh, for pete's sake: Facebook apparently just changed everyone's email address to @facebook.com. Here's how to change it back.

And now I'm going to go buy Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, because the posts are popping up on my flist and I am lemming-like in my fondness for Ivan-related foolishness.

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