The publishing industry is busy eating itself (major layoffs at Random House, Simon and Schuster, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today) but I have links!

+ Women are earning combat awards but still no respect in the military.

+ Check out this knit motorcycle cozy.

+ The first LOLcat.

+ The Life Magazine photo archive is now online and there’s lots of good stuff here.

+ There’s an interesting profile of mystery writer Patricia Cornwell in USA Today in which she talks about the Kay Scarpetta series and her 2006 marriage to a woman.

+ Prop 8: The Musical! (Funny, but too little, too late, no? Where were these guys two months ago?)

+ Newspapers in my home state may be folding. (Quote: “Soon Jersey residents will have to go back to getting all their news from Springsteen lyrics and Kevin Smith movies.”)

+ Knit historical tyrants.

+ This tool that analyzes browser history is 95% certain I am female.

+ We haven’t done a Polygamist Watch in a while. Check out these photos in the Times about the women of FLDS. Also, practices are being defended in court. Also, Warren Jeffs got indicted.

+ When Batman was gay.

+ Corollary: How awesome was The Dark Knight? I know, right?

+ This will make you happy: