Weekend link dump for January 10

Good news: Really rich people are suddenly paying quite a bit more in taxes.

Star Trek postage stamps are now available.

RIP, Wayne Rogers, best known as Trapper John on M*A*S*H.

RIP, “death panels”. And good riddance.

All politicians lie, but some lies are starker than others.

What to do with those idiots in Oregon.

Sorry, Game of Thrones fans, but Book Six will not be published before the start of Season 6 on HBO.

That shiny new gadget you got for Christmas will probably last no more than five years.

The venture capitalist’s case for raising the minimum wage.

Who is Rey? Beware, even hovering over the link may be a spoiler, if you still haven’t seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens yet. And where are the Rey action figures? I mean, come on!

Some people have taken the Rey-lessness into their own hands. Surely there’s a 3D printer solution out there as well.

Thankfully, sanity has prevailed, at least in one instance.

More giant squid news.

“We will always want something for nothing, huge returns with little investment – and so, we will always be susceptible to different ways of framing that same basic request.”

RIP, Jason Wingreen, versatile character actor and the original voice of Boba Fett.

Meet your new Brad and Janet. Riff Raff, too. Some of the commenters are not too happy about it, which makes the whole thing that much more amusing.

“The relevant point is that you cannot separate the evolution of right-wing militia-inspired violence and its semi-mainstreamed acceptance from the beginning of what we now see as the grand polarization of American politics which had its immediate origins in the early 1990s.”

Peter Mayhew is a mensch.

RIP, Tony Carroll, pioneering therapist for the Houston LGBT community and all-around super person.

RIP, Pat Harrington, Jr., best known for his role as Dwayne Schneider, the building superintendent on the situation comedy, One Day at a Time.

Great job, Wheaton College!

7 kinds of government subsidies those angry ranchers get that you don’t.

A lawsuit against Fitbit claims that the devices don’t accurately measure your heart rate.

The forgotten way that African-Americans stayed safe when traveling in a deeply racist pre-Civil Rights Act America.

The lost 18 minutes of the Lost finale has been restored on Netflix.

“Let that one sink in for a moment: from the perspective of Charles Koch, the Republican presidential candidates aren’t kowtowing enough to their wishes. Boggles the mind, doesn’t it?”

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