I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.

Around FtB

• What actually happened at Edinburgh Central Mosque–“A religious ban on bacon from shared secular space would have me up in arms. But one doesn’t have to accept religious doctrine to see desecrating private houses of worship as an intimidation tactic; look at how the Nazis went about it.”
• How I learned to stop worrying and love their #ListeningToMenFace–“After laughing my way through the first few dozen entries I saw, the sheer weight of numbers began to wear me down. Had it become, I asked myself, something of a misandrist parade?”
• Flirting At Conferences–“It is selfish pigge behavior to expect other people to suffer for your social ineptness, and that expectation itself is exactly a symptom of what ails you.”
• My zombie story–“The zombie plague was a dud. When the first cases emerged, scattered around the globe, everyone knew exactly how to put them down: destroy the brain.”

The Wider Web

• Marissa Alexander, who fired warning shot at husband attacking her, likely won’t see prison after Florida changes ‘Stand Your Ground’ law–“Florida Governor Rick Scott signed new guidelines into law Friday, inspired by Alexander’s case, ABC News reported.”
• Woman Selfies Her Stroke to Show Doctors She Wasn’t Just ‘Stressed’–“Two days before the recording, doctors at a local emergency room in Toronto dismissed her face numbness and slurred speech as stress-related.”
• Mental Math–“Except that it’s now late afternoon, and I spent five minutes attempting to sort out whether the mood boost of a long walk would be outweighed by the mood drop if I had the same experience, while factoring in the baseline anxious/on-edgeness of having had several days with bad experiences in a row.”
• Creating Characters with Invisible Disabilities–“Take out the mental illness, and my books are filled with family drama—grief, the aging parent issue, love a second time around. I think of my characters as real people with more than their share of hardships, people who are struggling to make sense of extraordinary—and ordinary—circumstances.”
• Robert-Falcon Ouellette faces racism during mayoral campaign–“Not long afterward, abusive comments were posted online on Ouellette’s Facebook page, first about his decision to speak French, then about his aboriginal heritage. He also received hateful emails.”
• Welcome to the Breendoggle Wiki–“Walter said that he wasn’t mad at anyone — except Al and Sid — and would stay away from club meetings at least ‘until all this dies down,’ but that if this Witch Hunt were carried to the point where he was excluded from the Pacificon II, well then, Marion Zimmer Bradley would stay away too.”
• Meningitis B Vaccine: Is It For You?–“The absolute risk of a college-age kid dying from meningitis is very, very small. If it’s your kid though, that’s little comfort.”
• I’ll take my grief reality-based, thank you.–“This is where my afterlife fantasy fell apart. When I think about heaven too long it always falls apart.”
• #NotJustHello identifies a troubling trend in street harassment–“Even more alarming than the horror stories being shared on #NotJustHello is the undeniable fact that such stories are typical for women across the globe.”
• The Problem With Juliet–“But what was happening in Shakespeare’s time period? Was marriage to 12-14 year-old girls becoming more common? Is that why Juliet is almost 14?”
• Geek Feminism now has a Code of Conduct–“We dropped the ball in a big way here. We’ve known for at least two years that we needed a Code of Conduct internally. We’re sorry for the inexcusable delay.”
• Psychologists Find that Nice People Are More Likely to Hurt You–“In revisiting the experiment, researchers have found evidence that agreeable people will often choose to do destructive things because they don’t want to upset anyone by disagreeing with direct orders.”
• Even the Editor of Facebook’s Mood Study Thought It Was Creepy–“Mood researchers have been toying with human emotion since long before the Internet age, but it’s hard to think of a comparable experiment offline.”