for science, you monster

Links are piling up, but here are some of them that are relevant to our interests.

#Internet: Here is a video explaining the effects of SOPA by totalbuiscit. Long story short: no more listening to free music online, such as the phenomenal Bastion soundtrack amongst many, many other, far more dangerous implications. Moreover, The US is exporting SOPA, using economic pressure to Spain as a test case (via frogspace) German megablog Netzpolitik is worried. An app to help boycot companies that support SOPA has been published, rivkat also has asks US citizens to call their congressmen.

Meanwhile, Sweden accepts filesharing as a religion. [German]

#Gender: Slate.com publishes a well-researched on surrogate tourism and its biopolitical implications, which are quite scary. jimhines strikes a pose, deconstructing the poses of women on SF/F novel covers. Sociological Images posted a compilation of sexualized advertisements (great teaching resource).


#Books: rachelmanija is hosting a read-a-thon to raise money for a research trip, Tobias Bucknell has started writing his kickstarter-funded novel The Apocalypse Ocean and is still offering buy-ins for the readalong. The Permanent Floating Diversity Book Club's pick are Tripping to Somewhere and Libyrinth. Come join the fun! Abebooks.de published the most expansive book purchases on their site [German]. rho is rereading the Sword of Truth series so you don't have to!


#writing: Cory Doctorow talks about the meaning of sci-fi and its impact on technological innovation (via yourlibrarian), here's a good link of things to consider when writing about rape. Since there are a lot of writing communities starting their respective cycles again, here are 52 exercises to get you writing, inkingitout has put together a list of resources. I've ordered some of the books for teaching and will review them once they arrive.

#poetry: Here's a really great poem for speaking exercises and poetry and somebody on my reading list (sorry!) just reposted an old favorite of mine.

#fannish: smallfandombang is looking for artists! paperlegends starts soon! New DW communities: grenretwisting and ot3_promptfest sound like good fun, too.