[links] Link salad celebrates the turning of the sun

A reader reacts to Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon thb | Barnes & Noble | Borders | Audible ] — Mixed but positive.

calendula_witch talks about our weekend

Sarah Bernhardt's leg Art culture guru James Gurney with a very strange tale, indeed.

A Softer World appears to have broken into my head — As calendula_witch put it.

The year in materials — Mmm, science.

Auschwitz sign recovered — This whole story was bizarre.

Mumps outbreak in Brooklyn — Antivaxers on the march. Evolution denial is merely pernicious, sabotaging education, science and society, and undermining the future competitiveness of our culture. Wrong-headed and misguided. Vaccination denial kills children. Evil.

?otD: Have you rung your solstice bells?

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12/21/2009
Body movement: n/a (taking calendula_witch to airport)
Hours slept: 7.0
This morning's weigh-in: 225.8
Currently reading: Finch by Jeff VanderMeer