Unexpectedly, for the first time in literally years, I’m having twinges of hope about fate of the planet this week. Prompted by these two things:<\/p>\n
(1) A new Al Gore piece in Rolling Stone<\/a>, in which he points out that the climate change battleground is shifting, using Obama’s recent moves to point out a whole lot of significant positive changes like rapid changes in solar.<\/p>\n (2) Climate Voter<\/a>, an apolitical initiative by a number of NGOs (350, WWF, Greenpeace, Forest & Bird, Gen Zero, Oxfam) to basically build up a petition of people indicating how climate will drive their voting behaviour. This is a really elegant way to put these issues on the table. They’re hitting 15K as I write which is pretty solid but if climate change is an important issue for you I urge you to sign up as well. Do it now! I’ll wait!<\/p>\n Grantland has a great account of a convention for Diplomacy players<\/a> – this game’s reputation as “the game that destroys friendships” is well-deserved.<\/p>\n I wondered out loud when someone would write about how Tumblr has changed comics. Kieron Gillen pointed me at this great article on how Marvel Comics is being shaped by Tumblr<\/a>. I think there’s more to say – like how gender-bent\/race-bent cosplay pics are changing the visual vocabulary of supers storytelling – but this covers a bunch of good stuff. Recommended to comics nerds of course but also anyone interested in social media as a phenomenon.<\/p>\n David R celebrated the 25th birthday of Tim Burton’s Batman with this supercut of Batman mentions:
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