Links for Later 5-22-12

1. DC brothel longread
2. Lesson plans for $700,000, Alex
3. Branson: Dress like a human
4. Seal / signet rings from the classical revival
5. How to support R&D&D&D (Research & Development & Demonstration & Deployment) or, When the Military-Industrial Complex was a Good Thing
6. The story of the transition of Laura Jane Grace, nee Tom Gabel, of Against Me!
7. How to improve expert prediction

Links for Later

1. Amazon trying to disintermediate publishers now
2. "In ten or twenty years, we will be able to completely regenerate the face"
3. UK anti-smut filters are ineffective and wasteful. No, really
4. Animoog, a pro-quality synth for the iPad
5. Michael Greer, bookbinder
6. Bindery in a box
7. Book reviews on the market by "the Carouser" show remarkably good sense
8. Yes, William Shakespeare wrote his own plays
9. Traveling like a Victorian
10. Helen DeWitt interviewed at Bookforum
11. Bookplates by Yuri Yakovlenko

Professors' Club

He said, "You know, they drink a lot, and then they process round the table with a huge plaster-of-Paris penis. Women wouldn't like that. It wouldn't be the same."

-A.S. Byatt
"No Girls Allowed"

Links for Later

Interview with Founders Capital team on SpaceX, Tesla, photographic DNA sequencing, and others.

Staff Sgt. George Zubaty's personal narrative.

Tashi Mannox's Tibetan calligraphy.

Green Lantern posters at ComicCon.

Signal transduction through the PPAR pathway.

Rehab for sex addiction may involve someone telling you you're brain damaged and forcing you to break up with your girlfriend via speakerphone.

Seven people hold keys to restart the Internet.

Tom Hardy sorta-kinda comes out sorta-kinda bi.

Where Fun Goes to Die

Those crazy kids down at the BRS alma mater University of Chicago have resurrected latin-named, R rated magazine Vita Exlocatur, featuring what used to be called artistic pictures of undergrads and friends. Hot nerd alert!