Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 16th from 19:01 to 21:34:

• Bill Irwin on Voicing and Puppeteering TARS in Interstellar – To this day, Bill Irwin isn’t quite sure why Christopher Nolan asked him to voice the helper-bot TARS in his latest epic, Interstellar. We can make an educated…
• Is TARS the Best Character in Interstellar? and Other Questions to Ponder – It’s another edition of the Monday Morning Movie Club, and we’re here to talk about Christopher Nolan’s latest popcorn epic, Interstellar. Spoilers aplenty,…
• The Co-Robots In ‘Interstellar’ Are Gorgeous–And Silly – When humans finally set foot on an alien world, they’ll be joined by robots. That’s not a bold prediction. It’s a statement of the obvious. Machines have…
• John Oliver’s Complicated Fun Connects for HBO – NYTimes.com – Every once in a while, it’s nice to be wrong about something.
  When HBO announced last fall that John Oliver, a British comedian I very much admire, would be…
• Dear Parent: About THAT kid… – Dear Parent:
  I know. You’re worried. Every day, your child comes home with a story about THAT kid. The one who is always hitting shoving pinching scratching…
• Nature’s Science Fiction ‘Futures’ Short Stories – Science Fiction Futures SF2 Concatenation’s selection of the very best of the SF short stories from the journal Nature This is the index page to a series of SF…
• App-pocalypse Now – Christopher Mims: .@codinghorror on the terribleness that is apps. http://t.co/pGZhK9sicr http://t.co/FgoSAVxTaU
• Rhizome Today: The New Whole Foods Market in “Laptops and Lattes” – Caption from the study: “Heat map showing stress hot-spots from EEG brain monitoring revealing stress-points on the road network around Reading station of…