Best Links I’ve seen this week

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I didn’t watch the Academy Awards and still have no idea who won or even who all was nominated. I used to genuinely care but my interest has been on a slow decline (with my cynicism on a sharp incline) over the last ten years or so. Not only is it on network television which I don’t watch but it’s just so blatantly fixed for high drama, utterly self-congratulatory amongst a group who already think that their high colonic-ed shit doesn’t stink, and well, their movies may be fun diversions but in the grand scheme of things - it really doesn’t matter what dress was worn by whom and who won in what category. It all just comes off as a big diversion for the media from telling us things we really should know about. But these are some nice portraits of actors anyway.

Small towns in the midwest are offering incentive packages to move to their towns - including free land and long term tax discounts. If they can only get rid of the racist homophobic bigotted neighbors that made their children run for the big cities in the first place.

A girl and her harp

Color photographs of the French Army during World War ONE

Google maps: miserable failure in washington dc