Linkdump

A 'linkdump' is a short entry pointing to a website of interest. Allow me to dump the following links here:

• A softer world (the book version is subtitled 'Truth and beauty bombs'): A weekly comic consisting of three pictures and just a few words, conjuring up an often darkly funny and troubling world. Emily takes the pictures, Joey writes. (Also of interest: Joey's weekly letter of application.)
  
  
• Exactitudes (a blend of 'exact' and 'attitudes'): art project in which photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek investigate the dress codes of various social groups.
  
  
• 5ives: 5ives is, well, a collection of lists of five things (for instance 'five nouns to which I enjoy prepending an unnecessary definite article' or 'five things, besides lying, that Shakira's hips don't do'), written by a certain Merlin Mann who describes himself as "a stony recluse who probably lives in a tree somewhere in Northern California".
  
  
• BBC Science & Nature: Sex ID - Find out how your mind works: Unlike many online "tests" ('are you a snob or a slob', 'how gay are you?') and popularity polls ('am I hot or not?'), this BBC test is based on serious scientific research into the brain. To take all parts of the test you will need about 25 minutes... and a ruler (to measure the length of your ring and index fingers)!