Link roundup

1. XKCD looks at The Magic School Bus.2. Help Lev Grossman design a new crest for Brakebills (and if you haven't read it yet, go out and read The Magicians). 3. "U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq's reconstruction after the start of the war." (William Gibson wrote a novel about it, actually.)*Previously: My family crest.