Maurice Sendak, Children’s Books and Taboos
Steven Heller writes about Maurice Sendak and treating “children like the intelligent little animals that we know they are.”
Codefellas
Here’s the first episode Wired’s new animated webseries about the NSA, Codefellas.
Rain City Superheroes at May Day
Seattle’s superhero community is planning on attending May Day demonstrations, just in case. Here’s footage from superhero Phoenix Jones’ Phoenix cam at last year’s demonstrations. Update: Report and footage from May Day, 2013
“The Extraordinary, Mischievous, Too Short Life of Sean Smith”
Kotaku remembers Sean Smith, an Information Management Officer for the US State Department killed in Benghazi, Libya. He was also Vile Rat, a famous/infamous high level player in Eve Online.
Satirizing China
The New York Times interviews Mr. R, mastermind behind the China Daily Show, “a ‘fake news’ Web site in a country that is crying out for satire, where reality is so skewed by propaganda and inadvertent humor that it can be hard to tell the difference[.]”
Protesting CISPA
ZDNet’s Violet Blue offers ways you can join the Apr. 22 protest against The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. At The Atlantic, Rebecca Greenfield notes that CISPA has “few friends in the Senate” but has the support of “major tech companies”: “Unlike SOPA which was widely condemned […]
