Apologies to Jamie Smyth [http://alpha.app.net/jamiesmyth] for failing to credit him for the catchy portmanteau "SNAASty"! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought-provoking essays on ADN from Jason Irwin—Alpha Needs an Owner [http://jasonirwin.ca/2014/05/08/alpha-needs-an-owner/]—and Brianna Wu—Social Media is a Human Problem, not an Engineering
I love superheroes. Unabashedly, unreservedly, completely free of cynicism. Even as I recognize that they are corporate properties and merchandising cash cows, even as I am disappointed by both the comics and the films adapted from them, the concept of the superhero remains alluring to me. I also love science
I've thought a lot about work, career, vocation, calling over the last year. I've started a business, narrowly avoided taking a job, taken on contracts with most of the constraints of a job, dealt with a downturn in the business (and started using the phrase "deal flow" a lot more)
Blame TV. Animation in the US began as an adult medium, interstitial films that ran between the A and B halves of double-feature presentations at theaters as far back as the 1920s. Suggestive themes were commonplace—plenty of early Betty Boop [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop#As_a_
Grantland's Andrew Sharp turns a sober and measured eye to the case of Marcus Smart [http://grantland.com/the-triangle/lets-talk-about-marcus-smarts-mistake/] , a college basketball player who turned down the NBA draft to return to school, has struggled this year, and, in a moment of frustration, shoved a heckling fan this past