- Comic Book Artists Illustrate Sci-Fi Legends [via]
- The Unicorn Will Not Save Publishing [via]
- Teens Who Feel More Peer Pressure Turn Out Better, Not Worse [via]
- Why I Am Not Afraid to Take Your Money by Amanda Fucking Palmer. This is a little old, and has been reposted and discussed at some length, but it’s still sitting in my saved links. (As is Caitlin R. Kiernan’s response.) I think it’s a discussion still worth having. As Harlan Ellison would say (in his inimitable way), pay the writer.
- And finally, Maria Bamford‘s Christmas Special [via]:
Maria Bamford’s Christmas Special! from Punchline Magazine on Vimeo.
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Monday various
- It’s one thing to meet your favorite author, but did you ever want to be your favorite author? Well, if it’s John Twelve Hawks — whose books I’ve never read myself — you may be in luck. [via]
- It might seem obvious to some of us, but we are fundamentally worse off economically now than before George W. Bush’s two terms as President. [via]
- Philadelphia is shutting down all its free public libraries. This seems like it ought to be a bigger story. [via]
- If anyone’s looking for an expensive early Christmas present for me… I’m just saying…
- And finally, offered without comment — except to say I noticed that Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! picked up the story this weekend — Half of Brits injured by biscuits.