Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
n.b. Comments threads have not necessarily been read. Some may be NSFW or triggering, so please report back any problems you encounter so the post can be marked.
- Reading The Punch so you don’t have to
- Links of Great Interest: More on Psych. Today
- A History Of Looking; Or, Why I Post Pictures Of My Children On The Internet
- Feminine Tosh?
- Playing the linkspam card (4th June, 2011)
- Whoa
- links for 2011-06-06
- It's mentoring week here at Musings of an Inappropriate Woman.
- Weekly links round-up and open thread
– “And today we have a piece by GQ Australia‘s chief sub, Nigel Bowen, who demonstrates that making all the required cultural references doesn’t mean you actually understand why they were important:”
– Linkfest from The Hathor Legacy
– A response to a reader who wonders if she worries about having these images out there
– “Jane Austen’s sense of the world is sentimental?”
– GeekFeminism linkfest
– “I submit that, as long as this is the frame “What do I as father feel comfortable allowing my daughter to decide to do?” for what men decide should be legal or not, then there is no way for grown, adult women to have a path to independent, equal citizenship. That is literally paternalism.”
– links from Racialicious
– What are your experiences with mentoring? How do you find a mentor? What are your expectations? How do both the mentor and the protegee keep the mentorship productive and progressing?
– linkfest from the F-Word Blog
Categories: linkfest
The 109th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
The 105th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
Hoyden About Town 
http://iansales.com/2011/06/07/sf-mistressworks-one-week-on/
Reviews of SF books written by women. Also looking for guest reviewers.
via Mark Bahnisch on FB.
I clicked through to see what has been said about V.S. Naipaul’s assinine comments, and saw that Echidne has also found a good news story:
Thanks for the catch, orlando – I meant to link to that story last time around, but it seems I missed it. [Monash Uni link]
Amusing comments on the V.S. Naipaul mouthings too (somebody(s) had fun). 🙂
Link to get angry about: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/clare-sambrook/duty-of-care-beyond-case-of-mr-ward-cooked-to-death-by-gigantic-outsourcer?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
MK, thanks for the link. We’ve blogged about the death of Mr Ward before, but that’s a great article about the overarching systemic flaws in the galloping privatisation of “the security industry” versus the frame they like to push of it just being regrettable acts of individual negligence/reckless indifference.