Things We Saw Today: Twitter Added A Female Board Member

It’s Marjorie Scardino! (via Jezebel) 

• Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
• Alyssa Rosenberg writes a great piece at ThinkProgress titled, “Why I Care So Much About Mass Culture, Including Superhero Movies.”

So this just happened on Bryan Singer’s twitter account. He better not be trolling. More on this tomorrow if it winds up being serious, which all signs point to it being.

• Theater Critic Fired After “Private, Personal” Photos Taken 22 Years Ago Are Posted On Gay Web Site. (via The Frisky)
• Game of Thrones key to Northern Ireland tourism plan. (via BBC)
• Polly want a vocabulary? Researcher explores origins of intelligence by working with parrots. (via Harvard Gazette)

Pretty cute Femme Iron Man cosplay by cosplayer CassedOutofHeaven. (via Fashionably Geek)

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