Link roundup

1. Links to the personal websites of the Tron Uprising art team.

2. Astonishing data on the number of politicians in India also facing criminal charges.

3. "'Huffington Post' Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine
Horrified Workers Watch As Colleague Torn Apart By Powerful Content-Gathering Engine"

4. Are we headed to a future where our wars will be entirely fought by robots and the only people at risk are contractors?

5. Oops:

An advertising agency for BMW has paid to name a cold weather front sweeping Europe "Cooper" in Germany, after the carmaker's Mini Cooper.

But the public-relations stunt by the agency went wrong after the freezing conditions led to dozens of deaths.

*Buy Tron Legacy posters at eBay.

Link roundup

1. First part of a new audio performance of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Gibson also has an article in Scientific American, but it's gated.



2. "India has arrested an anti-corruption activist for — conspiring to fast without permission."



3. Comic Book Resources interviewed Chip Kidd, who accuses Mike Mignola of false modesty at 15:05. (This is the video mentioned, showing off his apartment.)



4. Laika art challenge.

Link roundup

1. "[I]n South Asia, millions remain victims of a wicked form of slavery known as peshgi, or bonded labour. Human Rights Watch estimated as far back as 1999, that India was home to some 40 million bonded labourers. In Pakistan, over one million bonded labourers are currently enslaved in the brick kiln industry alone." Via.

2. Knock-off Ikea store in China. Via.

3. Monastery at dusk. Hell's escalator.

Link roundup

1. From an article about the intense competition to get jobs as ratcatchers in India:

India seems to exist in multiple historical epochs simultaneously — nowhere more starkly than here, amid the crumbling stone walls and old goat bones of the Sathe Nagar housing colony in a northern suburb of India's financial capital, Mumbai, formerly called Bombay.
One side of the neighborhood is edged by a high shining fence beyond which lies 21st century India: the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, the country's premier nuclear research facility.
On this side of the fence, people live in a vaguely medieval place where need outweighs hope and there is still talk of the plague.

Via.

2. Tenacious Toys is taking preorders for the new Bramble from 3A Toys.

3. The BBTS has Lego Star Wars capsule toys.

*Buy 3A toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. From an article about the intense competition to get jobs as ratcatchers in India:

India seems to exist in multiple historical epochs simultaneously — nowhere more starkly than here, amid the crumbling stone walls and old goat bones of the Sathe Nagar housing colony in a northern suburb of India's financial capital, Mumbai, formerly called Bombay.
One side of the neighborhood is edged by a high shining fence beyond which lies 21st century India: the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, the country's premier nuclear research facility.
On this side of the fence, people live in a vaguely medieval place where need outweighs hope and there is still talk of the plague.

Via.

2. Tenacious Toys is taking preorders for the new Bramble from 3A Toys.

3. The BBTS has Lego Star Wars capsule toys.

*Buy 3A toys at eBay.