If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen these.  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader or via twitter (please consider following some of the bloggers/tweeters). What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Mother Jones ? @MotherJones – Female CEOs are paid 70 cents for every dollar male CEOs make: http://bit.ly/JhuhjZ
• Linkfest! RT @tansyrr: Friday Links is the Queen of Llamias http://bit.ly/J4vaPiWishing I was in the UK so I could see this show: “Rediscovering my inner pirate” http://bit.ly/IKVuzO
• Moved on from comics myself, but #nostalgiagrok this: Chicks Dig Comics (and they write about it and make me happy) http://bit.ly/J0M1zl
• JeffSharlet ? @JeffSharlet  – You can’t “agree to disagree” w/ Naomi Schaefer Riley’s attack on black studies because she brags she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
• Context links for above:
  • Grad Students Respond to Riley Post on African-American Studies
  • Faculty Respond to Riley Post on African-American Studies
• Holly Pervocracy reads Cosmo so you don’t have to. Thank Gough. “Cosmocking: May ’12!” http://bit.ly/L0IK7T
• Me too. “In Lara Bingle vs the MSM, I am on Team Lara” http://bit.ly/IKxJYJ
• Jay Rosen ? @jayrosen_nyu -My impressions: Google (all services) is getting slower. Search is getting dumber. Google policies are getting less open and more coercive.
• Platter full o’facts re this weekend’s perigee full moon #notasupermoon #astronomy “Overstated in orbit” http://bit.ly/Iq8e9o via @theage
• A study in #wtfweretheythinking “marketing” | Racialicious: Half-Baked: Popchips And Ashton Kutcher’s Brownface Fiasco http://bit.ly/IKdVVe
• Snarky recaps for the win! The Hathor Legacy: “Reaction: Game of Thrones (2×02)” http://bit.ly/J3SqNk
•   Maria Popova ? @brainpicker -The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories http://j.mp/JrPR37
•   Ed Yong ? @edyong209 -Physics tells us that the Hulk either captures 100% of the sun’s energy when he transforms or has the density of cork http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/the-physics-of-the-hulks-jump/
• Evgeny Morozov ? @evgenymorozov Fake  -Fake Skype Encryption Tool Targeted at Syrian Activists Promises Security, Delivers Spyware http://flpbd.it/FtBXY
•   Greg Jericho ? @GrogsGamut -Crikey reports over 300 families have already applied to house asylum seekers. http://bit.ly/Kdi58F
• from A Bee of a Certain Age by Deborah: “Chanting the script from Rome” http://bit.ly/Kwbukl
• Lisa Bloom ? @LisaBloom– In family films, there’s one female character for every three males. This includes cartoon and animal films. Are we in the 21st century?
• David Brin @io9: The Need to Restore Optimism to Science Fiction http://on.io9.com/pmdh

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