Geeking Out

  • The puppet version of MST3K classic, Manos: The Hands of Fate has reached its Kickstarter goal.
  • Gene Kim’s undergraduate thesis film for NYU Tisch features ballerinas and big guns.
  • Grumpy Cat movie: Is this how far we’ve come? Or fallen?
  • Anita Sarkeesian‘s second part of her Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series, Damsel in Distress, is up on YouTube (even after a failed attempt to get it taken down).
  • George RR Martin is making A Song of Ice and Fire coffee table book.
  • Dan Harmon may be returning to Community?
  • Facebook admits to having a poor handle on preventing hate speech on the network, particularly gender-based hate and glorification of violence against women.
  • Patrick Stewart continues to be an amazing man.
  • “Do you eat dog?” and other questionable racial queries.
  • A crushing reminder about inequity: when women earn less than men, it means their student debt is that much more staggering.
  • Hidden in a glacier scientists have found some 400+ yr old plants which regenerate spontaneously.
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