Weekly Wreck of the Web #13

Ten links of interest:

1. Don't Get Your Undocumented Friends in Trouble: A How-To

2. The Women's Strike and the Messy Space of Change

3. Fascism Facts

4. The Attorney Fighting Revenge Porn [This was horrifying. These men are horrifying.]

5. The Many Faces of Bertie Wooster

6. "All Resistance Is Local": A Plan of Progressive Action for the Trump Years

7. Tank and the Bangas: Tiny Desk Concert

8. Vital Signs from ProPublica

9. New music video from Aimee Mann

10. Why Typography Matters -- Especially at the Oscars

Weekly Wreck of the Web #12

Ten links of interest:

1. Photographs That Show Action Figures Interacting with Everyday Objects

2. Gabby Giffords to GOP: If I Could Go to Town Halls After Getting Shot, You Can Show Up for Voters

3. The Future Is Female --- And Still Unrelentingly Misogynist

4. The "Day Without a Woman" Strike, Explained

5. The Walled Off Hotel by Banksy - in pictures

6. Startup Workers See Sexual Harassment on "Breathtaking" Scale in Silicon Valley

7. Inside Schitt's Creek

8. There's an Intriguing Sociological Reason So Many Americans Are Ignoring Facts Lately

9. Best Photos of the Day: Sydney Mardi Gras and China's People's Congress

10. Is Obama's "Wire Tapp" the End of Donald Trump? Maybe! A Holy-Shit-Y'all Investigation into WTF!

Quote for These Times #7

[not to be confused with its sister ongoing feature, Quote from a Fictional Character]

[Happy International Women's Day]

"There was a fashion just now, Noel complained, of writing and talking about women as if they were some separate, peculiar, and rather contemptible species, instead of ordinary human beings, with ordinary human qualities."

--- Crewe Train,

Rose Macaulay, 1926

(Rec. #84)

Weekly Wreck of the Web #11

Ten links of interest:

1. Malta's Secret Tunnels: Inside the Newly Discovered Underworld of Valletta

2. The Truth About GMOs

3. Photos: "This Protest Is Real News" & Other Favorite Signs from "Not My President Day"

4. NYPL Digital Stylist: Oscars Edition

5. Using 13,000 Pennies to Renovate an Old Floor

6. Drop in Teenage Suicide Attempts Linked to Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage

7. Based on a *True* True Story? Oscars Edition

8. The Complete 4-Page Guide to Surviving an Authoritarian Regime

9. Possibly the Most Exhaustive Study of "Manspreading" Ever Conducted

10. Think Different: Can Advertising Defeat "Alt-Right" Propaganda?

Rec. #402: Fly / Art

What: Like most good Tumblrs, the concept of Fly/Art is simple, and simply stated --- hip-hop lyrics on art.

It's good! I recommend it!

How to get it: http://flyartproductions.tumblr.com/

The updating scheduling seems to come in bursts, so don't be discouraged that the most recent post is from February 20.

Quote for These Times #6

[not to be confused with its sister ongoing feature, Quote from a Fictional Character]

"Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving."

--- The Fountain Overflows,

Rebecca West, 1956

(Rec. #224)