Link roundup

1. Doctor Strange will be directed by Sinister's Scott Derrickson:

Derickson is a man of faith. He was very careful to make sure that all of the mystic mumbo jumbo in Sinister was totally unrelated to any ‘real’ demonology of any kind. He apparently didn’t want to run the risk of weaving something genuinely evil into his film.

2. Israel's desalinization plants can supposedly provide freshwater for as little as $1 per family per day.  "But Israel’s four plants consume roughly a tenth of the electricity the country produces."

3. From an article about Angelina Jolie managing publicity:

Pitt and Jolie had both signed on to make Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a double-crossing spy thriller intended to exploit Jolie’s skill at what can only be called sexy fighting.

X-Men

By Jesse Hamm.

Game of Thrones is the sequel to the type of book that ends "And they all lived happily ever after"

Reddit:

This isn't a story that ends with "happily ever after". That's where we started. This whole series is the sequel to a book never written. A classic fantasy, about heroes who fought against an unambiguous evil, about people who took their lives and their honor into their own hands and stormed the gates of the mad king. The brave hero became king and married a beautiful woman, his friend and comrade returned home to raise his family in happiness in the keep of his forefathers, and they all lived happily ever after. 

But the brave hero doesn't know how to rule, and the beautiful woman he married isn't just a trophy for being a legendary hero, but a real person with her own flaws and needs that he doesn't know how to handle.

White Republican legally changes name to Cesar Chavez and runs as a Democrat

Arizona:

The candidate formerly known as Scott Fistler also prominently displayed photos on his website of crowds carrying signs and wearing T-shirts with the name "Chavez." But the photos, as the Capitol Times pointed out, were actually of Venezuelans rallying for deceased former President Hugo Chavez.

There were plenty of sets and miniatures in the Star Wars prequels

TheForce.net has a large collection of photographs reminding that the prequels might have sucked, but it wasn't because everything was CGI and no sets were constructed or miniatures used. Also, Jar Jar is a way more interesting character like this:

Link roundup

1. Crickets on the Hawaiian island Kauai evolved to become silent in order to survive a ghastly parasite than hunted them by sound.

2. Turns out, the canceled Mondo Prometheus poster was swiped from a Bradtreet Punisher illustration.

3. "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"

Six minutes of the best news bloopers May 2014