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Bookmarks for July 26th through July 28th

These are my links for July 26th through July 28th:

Charlie’s Diary: Bechdel’s Law

The reason Bechdel's test is important is because it's a diagnostic indicator for the objectification of women. It's designed to identify the kind of film where, if two women talk to each other at all, the only subject of conversation is men (or babies).

A different kind of pork floss - Gadgets - Crave - CNET Asia

If there's one thing more wonderful than shiny new gadgets, it's got to be bacon. Crispy, aromatic bacon. What better way to cap your twice-daily ritual of dental hygiene than with Bacon Floss.

Yvonne Lee Schultz » Porcelain Pistol

The Porcelain Pistols are replicas of James Bond’s Walther PPK and its contemporary sister, the P99,with friendly permission of Carl Walther Inc.

Paper prints Obama’s private prayer - Barack Obama News- msnbc.com

JERUSALEM - An Israeli newspaper's decision to publish a handwritten prayer left by Barack Obama in the cracks of Jerusalem's Western Wall drew criticism Friday as an invasion of his privacy and his relationship with God.

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / That’s just scenery: what do we mean by “mainstream”?

In the simplest sense, "Mainstream" is everything that is not genre. It's a marketing category like "mystery" or "SF" or "chicklit" or "literary fiction". It's everything that's mimetic. That's a fairly useless category, though, because it's too huge.

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