Link roundup

1. Tax dollars at work in Southern California:

When it's completed this fall, Riverside's Hillcrest High School will be a high-tech academic hub with wireless Internet, a robotics lab, digital smart boards in every classroom and a first-rate performance hall worthy of any "Glee" hopeful.But no students.Sapped by state budget cuts, the Alvord Unified School District doesn't have the money to turn on the lights or hire staff for the $105-million campus.

2. Young Jason Kidd.3. It's a tremendous shame George Takei hasn't been able to show off his personality until the last few years.

Link roundup

1. Create a Star Wars name contest.2. Mickey Kaus:

It would be ironic if Amherst-style reforms finally gave lower income Americans greater access to college just when elites were concluding that college isn’t worth it. But when you think about it, a non-college world in which high school graduates acquired the skills they wanted on the web or in ad hoc classes and proved their worth by performing well in actual jobsmight be a preferable form of meritocracy. a) There would be no “signaling” of status for life, the way an Ivy League degree now signals status for life.

3. Bradley Cooper wants to make a Hyperion movie so bad that he submitted a spec script. (I love the book, but it's probably unfilmable.) Via.

Brochure for a college criminology course

Criminology and Criminal Justice brochure by Junior for Griffith University. Via.

Image roundup

A few gems, mostly spotted at Reddit:Middle school classroom/cabinet of wonders.Petra, Jordan.Fleeing a dragon.If you see something, skate something. Via.Deadly bird.