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Tuesday various

A is for Ackbar [via]
You’ve almost certainly heard this, but it’s worth repeating again and again and again: Ayn Rand received Social Security and Medicare. [via]
8-Bit vs. Reality [via]
Lost Boys is Michael. A strangely compelling cut of the movie. (See also: it’s shelley duvall! many, many times!)
And finally, Cat Rambo shares with writers 5 Things To Do In Your First 3 Paragraphs

24 Hours Of Horror With Edgar Wright. I’ve only seen a small handful of the scary films he recommends — the first three, in fact — but he talks intelligently, and at length, about horror movies in general.
The world’s largest pumpkin carved into zombie horde (See also: Amazing Literature-Inspired Jack-O’-Lanterns.)
The Ghostbusters Guide to Management
Frank Lesser’s Living Dead Will
And finally, Zombie Propaganda Posters [via]

Mike Daisey remembers Steve Jobs:

Mr. Jobsâ€™s magic has its costs. We can admire the design perfection and business acumen while acknowledging the truth: with Appleâ€™s immense resources at his command he could have revolutionized the industry to make devices more humanely and more openly, and chose not to. If we view him unsparingly, without nostalgia, we would see a great man whose genius in design, showmanship and stewardship of the tech world will not be seen again in our lifetime. We would also see a man who in the end failed to â€œthink different,â€ in the deepest way, about the human needs of both his users and his workers.
Actress sues IMDb for revealing that she’s totally old and gross. It’s an interesting case, although I don’t think IMDB has a responsibility to lie in order to combat Hollywood’s unfortunate age- and sexism.
Mysterious paper sculptures [via]
I’m sure by now you’ve heard this, but it’s still pretty remarkable: Online Gamers Make Discovery in HIV Battle
And finally, learning the wrong lesson from 127 Hours.

Studios to start charging for 3-D glasses? Even with the movies that I thought made genuinely good use of 3-D — Avatar, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams — I could have ultimately done without it.
McG wants to use your Facebook profile in his new show. The only good thing about this is that it seems like it’s opt-in…for now.
Though maybe it’s time to look again at Thud’s reasons for leaving Facebook. I send my Twitter feed there, though mostly because I have friends who claim to not like or be confused by Twitter. (This in itself confuses me, since it’s always seemed like the much less complicated and much more straightforward service.) But I mostly use Facebook as nothing more than a Scrabble delivery system, and every time their privacy policy changes (which is like every other week), I sidle a few steps closer to the door.
Frank Sinatra on crossword puzzles
And finally, Iâ€™ll takeâ€¦..Who is David Bowie for $500 Alex…

YA Comes of Age:

The young adult market these days is a bit like a nephew you havenâ€™t seen in years: transformed from a little darling into a hulking almost-grownup who is maybe even a little scary. Teen titles dominate publishersâ€™ fall lists, and those books overwhelmingly feature menacing creatures, forbidden romances, and apocalyptic versions of this and future Earth. â€œBloodâ€ is a common word in titles, as is â€œdark,â€ â€œdeath,â€ â€œdeadly,â€ and even â€œdarker still.â€

Wait, that is an actual title. Darker Still by Leanna Renee Hieber (Sourcebooks, Nov.) [via]
I find it very strange that they’re remaking Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
What Does the Silence Need With a Spacesuit? (And Other Narrative Failures of â€œThe Wedding of River Songâ€). While I genuinely enjoyed the episode — and the season of Doctor Who — I can’t shake the feeling that most of his larger complaints are entirely valid.
Jazzsoda remembers Don Lapre
And finally, Cthulhu Mythos, As Imagined By Kids [via]