- Engines of the Red Army in WW2 –
- AfroFuturism with Kibwe Tavares & Keguro Macharia | Muse & Words –
- Bots – trekt ten strijde! –
- DutchNews.nl – Zwarte Piet is a negative stereotype: court orders parade rethink –
- Fotoserie: Zwarte Piet 1888-2014 | HP/De Tijd – Zwarte Piet, Netherlands, racism, blackface
Her tears are delicious to me
Your Happening World (July 1st through July 3rd)
- Original versions of Son ar chistr written by Jean-Bernard Prima,Jean-Marie Prima | SecondHandSongs – The original song that "Wat Zullen We Drinken (Zeven Dagen Lang) is based on
- Re: oorsprong van wat zullen we drinken – What's the origin of th 1976 Bots song "Wat Zullen We Drinken (Zeven dagen Lang)?
- [PC] Mass Effect Won’t Start – A New Solution – Answer HQ –
- You Need to Hear This Extremely Rare Recording — The Message — Medium – A story for the millennials in the room: Once upon a time, owning a rare media object was sorta cool. But some people used these objects to project their cultural superiority, which was pretty lame.
- I’d Like to Force the World to Sing | HiLobrow – In every particular, the “OK Soda Manifesto” exhibited those criteria which the psychologist Robert Jay Lifton identified in 1961 with the practice of “thought reform,” or mind control. As in all mind control cults, for example, the manifesto forbade OK drinkers from associating with outsiders, and restricted their vocabulary to what Lifton calls “thought-terminating clichés.” They were told how to think and warned that the individual’s own experiences could not be understood except via the group. The Reverend Jim Jones’ Kool-Aid had nothing on this stuff. As a 1995 OK promotional sticker that came bound into an issue of Might magazine put it, “OK-ness is that small thing that holds everything else together.”
- How to restore Firefox sessions if Session Restore is not working correctly – gHacks Tech News –
Hugo Awards: Best Novel
Let’s start with an easy one. The best novel award. Nominees are:
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
- Parasite by Mira Grant
- Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia
- The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
As I said monday, I won’t vote for either Correia or the Wheel of Time, so those fall off immediately. Of the three remaining novels I haven’t read Mira Grant’s Parasite yet, but I’m not sure reading it will change my voting. Tentatively my voting order will be:
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
- Parasite by Mira Grant
- No Award
Ancillary Justice is head and shoulders above any of the other nominees, one of the two best novels published last year (the other). The Charlie Stross was a good novel, but nothing special compared to Leckie and the same goes for Mira Grant’s entry. None of them would be an embarassment for the Hugos of course, so I’m happy to leave my order like this.
Your Happening World (June 27th through July 1st)
- I was there when a lesbian pride march got picketed by bigots | Another angry woman – It was clear that they were not here as fellow lesbians, which was evidenced by the fact that they did not participate in the march itself. They just showed up to try and wreck the event. I consider their intervention an act of lesbophobic violence.
- » Lesbians protesting a lesbian pride march for being inclusive. Hypocrisy thy name is TERF – Hilariously the “boycott” actually happened in the form of six TERFs holding up placards when everyone was marching, waiting until Sarah got off stage from her speech and then singing misogynistic chants and blogging about how they chased Sarah off stage.
- DRM Removal Tools for eBooks | Apprentice Alf’s Blog –
- Joe Sacco’s WWI drawings, in the Paris Metro –
- VK2014: Proper geframed naar de stembus » Apache.be – Dat was deze keer niet anders. Hoe trachtten de partijen zichzelf te framen met het oog op de stembusslag van zondag? Welke rol speelden de reguliere media daarbij? Wat betekenen de sociale media? En valt er nog wat te halen via klassieke huisbezoeken, affichecampagnes en het afschuimen van markten en braderieën?