Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 175th installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The Lately I’ve Been Thinking A Lot About Mitch Hedberg Edition.
Oscars: Watch all the memorable speeches [videos].
Related: The complete list of Oscar winners.
Related: Oscar scorecard by movie and studio.
Related: The 2015 Oscars in memoriam tribute [video].
Related: How to make a LEGO Oscar [video].
Related: How to become a seat-filler at the Oscars.
Related: Where to watch Oscar winners online.
Related: This NYT article on the Oscars is just plain dumb.
Indie Spirit Awards: Oscar’s little brother or scrappy rival.
Related: The complete list of Indie Spirit winners.
Related: The 7 biggest surprises of the 2015 Spirit Awards.
Tom Rothman replaces Amy Pascal at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Scriptnotes: Episode 185.
Led Zeppelin performed… with xylophones [video].
Kinda related: Stick an iPhone inside a guitar, then record the strings oscillating [video].
25 must-see movies about the media.
Kurt Cobain’s missing credit card up for auction.
11 year-old girl demands more female superheroes and DC comics responds [video].
Students link brains to fire video game cannon.
Related: Could technology help make our minds last forever.
Could there be a sequel to Boyhood?
Read a new Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Then and now: 12 scenes from famous movies.
11 incredible Stephen Hawking quotes.
Kind of related: 25 Luis Bunuel quotes on art, filmmaking and dreams.
5 pets who helped solve their owners’ murders.
11 creative film interpretations you probably hadn’t considered.
Sea creatures are getting bigger.
Chuck Palahniuk releases excerpts from “Fight Club 2” in Playboy.
Death Cab for Cutie releases second single from new album [audio].
A history of Mad Men’s planes, trains and automobiles.
Study suggests pot is 114 times less deadly than alcohol.
11 unbelievable advances in gaming technology.
11 samples of authentic Viking graffiti.
See which of the major studios has hired the most / least female directors.
Neuroscientists discover why exercise reduces stress.
Love Troma films? Here is their very own YouTube channel with tons of videos.
Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job and everyone paying tuition should care.
Post Fifty Shades of Grey, which erotic novels will be movies next.
Related: Why FSOG failed to hit the mark in Japan.
Strange lights on dwarf planet Ceres have scientists perplexed.
How superhero movies lost their humanity.
Can men lactate.
NBC pacts with Second City Television.
James Cameron to open nation’s first vegan elementary school.
Study shows more diversity (race, gender) in movies and TV delivers higher ratings and bigger box office.
Related: Download the 2015 Hollywood Diversity Report.
Google pours $300M into SolarCity.
10 essential animated movies that are definitely not for kids.
11 smart ways to make your data more secure.
Did a woman die trying to find Fargo’s buried treasure.
Antarctica ‘Penguin Post Office’ job attracts record number of applicants.
Why comic book geeks must be stopped (before it’s too late).
The real names of authors known by their initials.
So, just how impotent is today’s MPAA.
Women are leaving the tech industry in droves.
The (500) Days of Summer color palette theory.
20 female Harlem renaissance writers you should know.
The best 50 films of the decade so far.
The 50 best movies about Hollywood.
How The Dress took over social media.
How technicolor changed storytelling.
Are you ready for a Middle Earth theme park.
For the sake of biopics, stop making so many biopics.
Godspeed, filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky, dead at 58.
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