Friday Links: Mind over mass media, Stop-motion Mario, and more

• Mind over mass media: “PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing discourse to bullet points. Search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim on the surface of knowledge rather than dive to its depths. Twitter is shrinking our attention spans.

  But such panics often fail basic reality checks. When comic books were accused of turning juveniles into delinquents in the 1950s, crime was falling to record lows, just as the denunciations of video games in the 1990s coincided with the great American crime decline. The decades of television, transistor radios and rock videos were also decades in which I.Q. scores rose continuously.”

• Olson joins forces with Denali.
• Stop-motion Super Mario done with sticky notes.
• Science fiction should mainly be about people: A letter from Gene Roddenberry.
• IS it time to remove advertising from the web?
• TBS: Conan and NBC deserve Emmy.
• Miller High Life redesigned.
• Beyond Feminist Hulk, the tweets of other feminist comics characters.