Link Roundup

Damn. Once again, my “blog this” bookmark folder is freakin’ huge. So, here we go!

News

• Good Maternal Behavior Is Linked to the Genes of a Father – experiments on mice show that a gene girl mice inherit from their fathers determines their ability to be good mothers. Interesting.
• Reuters
  U.S. homework outsourced as “e-tutoring” grows – interesting article for folks in education.

• Wired: Smart Girls Need Smart Porn – a great review of Violet Blue’s book The Smart Girls’ Guide to Porn

Tools

• Tasting Notes Generator – at last, a quick and easy way to get a bunch of things to say when wine tasting. Memorize and bust out with something cool-sounding the next time you are offered a glass of wine.
• The Random Cocktail Generator – Just input a few characteristics (what kind of cocktail you have in mind, how complex you want it, etc) and it gives you a recipe! Awesome.
• Snapmania – an online photo editor/manager dingus. Pretty nifty, though I haven’t looked into it much.

Misc. Coolness

• Bartleby.com explains the subjunctive – everything you need to know about the subjunctive! Rock!
• The Hasselhoffian Recursion! AUGH MY EYES! Not quite up to goatse levels of horror, but still scary.
• Blood, Blade, and Thruster – a mag for sci-fi/fantasy satire! Awesome!
• Relix.com – Guitar string bracelets! Awesome.
• Special Agent Joe – cutest bomb dog ever.
• Papercut – lovely paper cutting artwork!

Articles/Essays/Anecdotes

• Diary of a Freak Magnet: Sweater Girl – AWESOME response to sexual harrassment.
• Why The Venture Brothers is so awesome (via Antwon)
• Hope is still at the bottom of a box – fascinating essay by Naamah about her relationship to boxes, and why she paints them.
• Tangled Web – a fascinating essay about lying.
• Stories from the Front Lines – an essay about what it was like for one woman in a conservative California town in the Central Valley to work as an escort at a health clinic which provided abortions. She quit when a “pro-lifer” picked her up off her feet and threw her into a brick wall — while she was five months pregnant. Scary, sobering stuff.
• Mommy bloggers and the hating of them – great essay about… just what the title says. Good stuff.