{"id":16188,"date":"2012-11-12T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16188"},"modified":"2012-11-10T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T20:58:40","slug":"open-thread-and-link-farm-chip-kidd-looks-sharp-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16188","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread and Link Farm: Chip Kidd Looks Sharp Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Religious exemption at some Florida children’s homes shields prying eyes.<\/a> Reading this article both infuriated me and made me want to cry. (Major child abuse trigger warning.) Religious people are not morally superior to everyone else, and the illusion that they are is no excuse for adding loopholes to anti-child abuse laws. Aaargh.<\/li>\n
  2. Now something to cheer you up, after you’ve read that previous story: “We left the boxes in the village. Closed. <\/a>Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on\/off switch. He’d never seen an on\/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android.”<\/li>\n
  3. Occupy: Jubilee<\/a>. Occupy folks are buying up distressed credit and cancelling the debts. This is an awesome idea, which I hope flourishes. Although of course, if it becomes huge, that will have the inadvertent side effect of raising the price of distressed credit, making the project itself less viable.<\/li>\n
  4. The writer of “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Toy Story 3” will write the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode VII<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. If we hadn’t had waves of suffrage, and only white men were allowed to vote, then Romney would have won in 45 states<\/a>. (Happily, my state – Oregon – is one of the five).<\/li>\n
  6. “”Vote NO On Woman Suffrage… BECAUSE 80% of the women eligible to vote are married and can only double or annul their husbands’ votes.”<\/a> Fannie discusses anti-suffrage arguments.<\/li>\n
  7. Vintage Anti-Suffrage Postcards<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Contraceptives are an economic policy issue: The pill boosts earnings.<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Republican Pressure Leads to Withdrawal of Fact-Based Report by Nonpartisan CRS<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Is listening to conservative news media – with its insistence that all other news media is corrupt and full of lies – actually becoming a strategic disadvantage for Republicans? Conor Friedersdorf thinks so<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  11. Related: Apparently the folks running Romney’s campaign, including Romney himself, were shocked that they lost<\/a>, because they had bought into the Conservative bubble’s “Romney is way ahead once you eliminate the MSM bias” spin on polling. I find that really surprising, and a bit distressing; I had always supposed that Romney and his closest advisers knew better than to live entirely within the right-wing bubble (just as I assume Obama et al don’t rely on The Nation and Daily Kos for all their info).<\/li>\n
  12. I watched this Ted Talk by the excellent book designer Chip Kidd<\/a>, but was distracted by envy of the way Chip Kidd dresses and presents himself. I want <\/em>that jacket in my size. (Via<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  13. Can I Buy You A Coffee? | Ferrett Steinmetz<\/a> This is such a great post. There’s a nice twist, so I don’t want to describe it, but I really enjoyed reading it. (I forgot who recommended it in comments, and I’m too lazy to go look, but whoever it was, thank you!).<\/li>\n
  14. NOM’s Victim Spokesperson Calls President Obama The ‘Terrorist-In-Chief’ | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Creepshots And Consent In Cosplay<\/a>. Why are there so many fans who say things like “she should have expected that if she dresses like that” – which is to say, fans who want to spread attitudes that, if they become universal, will make conventions and fan culture in general suck?<\/li>\n
  16. I find this sort of controversy fascinating.<\/a> NCsoft, a company that creates online roleplaying games, is discontinuing their superhero game “City of Heroes,” which was reportedly not losing money but also not making gobs of cash, to put more resources into their new game Blade and Soul, which seems to be much more about “hey! Look! Boobs!” than City of Heroes was, which is really saying something considering what superheroes wear. You can read the blog post linked above, and also this discussion on the City of Heroes forum<\/a>. It really brings up contradictions with doing a group-creation project in which only a tiny percentage of contributing creators are actually owners of their work.<\/li>\n
  17. There Is No Economic Basis for Holding Middle-Class Tax Cuts Hostage to Tax Cuts for Wealthy<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. If you’re a fan of Dave Sim’s drawing, then you’ll enjoy this big gallery of Cerebus head sketches<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  19. Hawks vs. scolds: How \u2018reverse tribalism\u2019 affects climate communication | Grist<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. A gallery of photographs of children smoking, by Frieka Janssens<\/a>. Obviously a subject matter that some people will reflexively object to but the photos themselves are so freaking beautiful.<\/li>\n
  21. Ending Rape Illiteracy | The Nation<\/a> Really good article by Jessica Valenti, with a lot of really infuriating (and potentially triggering) examples.<\/li>\n
  22. \u00bb \u201cViolation: Rape In Gaming\u201d is Out NOW!<\/a> Edited by friend-of-Alas Clarisse Thorne, this looks like a really interesting collection. Even if you’re not going to buy a copy, click on over so you can look at the stunning cover illustration.<\/li>\n
  23. I really want to see “The Other Son,”<\/a> about a Palestinian and an Israeli who discover that they were switched at birth in the hospital. I seem to have an affinity for “Switched At Birth” tales – I’ve been really enjoying the teen soap show “Switched At Birth,”<\/a> which is about a 16-year-old Deaf girl and a 16-year-old hearing girl who find out they were, er, switched at birth, and which has by far the best depiction of Deaf characters I’ve ever seen on TV.<\/li>\n
  24. My friend Amberite makes handcrafted jewelry, collage art, and other items<\/a>, and is currently trying to raise some funds. Please go check out her work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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