links for 2010-10-06

It’s hard not to enjoy The Social Network. It is an impressive film: crisp, beautiful, kinetic, with humor as dark as its lighting.
But Colbert was right. Women in the movie—apart from the lawyer and Erica, who sets the stage and disappears—are less prizes than they are props, buxom extras literally bussed in to fill the roles of doting groupies, vengeful sluts, or dumpy, feminist killjoys.

According to a a database maintained by the Environmental Working Group, a not-for-profit that tracks farm subsidies, the Greiner family — Sandra Greiner, her husband, Terry Greiner, and their three sons — received more than $935,000 in farm subsidies from 1995 to 2009.

Secret-spilling site Cryptome was hacked over the weekend, possibly exposing the identities of whistleblowers and other confidential sources, according to a hacker who contacted Wired.com and claimed responsibility for the breach.