Technorati has a quick blog link rating thingie– essentially lets you see what lots of people have linked to in the past two hours.

Those who have seen the “Chicken of Tomorrow” short on MST3K will perhaps find interesting resonances in this story about a retired chicken sexer.
Update: sorry, the link’s gone all subscribers-only, so the tales of keeping fingernails exactly the right length to pry open newborn chicks’ nether regions are lost to us.
I don’t recall either "Chicken of Tomorrow" or the Atlantic piece mentioning the vast amounts of chick shit the sexing process involves (gotta clean out the cloaca, you know).

My favorite cartoonist and my favorite sex educator combine forces to make some sexy sex-ed for grownups! Read at your own risk!

In the staff room right now is one of the armchairs, with a piece of red tape across the arms bearing a sign that reads “SMELLS LIKE BEER.” I love my job.

Close-up magicians are super cool, but the freaks get the chicks. A great article about some guys who can do some cool stuff.

A UK library that’s doing many of the things that US libraries are already doing to meet “customer” needs is calling itself an Idea Store, and the librarians are “Ideas Supervisors.” I guess it’s good to move away from the image of “jerk who makes you pay fines” but I’d rather be the jerk who helps you find stuff instead of having to supervise any damn ideas. I also notice that they have a “cheery” security guard to tell the kids to stop making fart noises. I wonder if parents listen to them more than they do me.

A first-person account of the flu-like scary sickness (currently nicknamed SARS). The CDC is keeping us posted.

Maybe it’s a really bad flu, but it doesn’t look like they think so. Anyway, people are dying, and we’re not sure why. On a purely selfish note, I’m especially disturbed by its presence in BC and GA.

Grauniad cricket journo goes goofy, public reaction mixed. It’s a much accelerated version of that column about balancing work and life, I think.

I was unable to find a more pertinent link for the Betty Crocker recipe cards mentioned earlier. Some may take this to mean that there is a niche open for my collection on the web. Others may point out that Betty Crocker is owned by General Mills and they may not be happy about even a research-oriented web display of their wares. Moral: I am a chicken.

This seems like the kind of project my co-blogger might get into. We already own a complete set of the similar cards produced by Betty Crocker at about the same time.