Link extravaganza

[sarahmichigan]

I don't usually do this, because I assume that interesting links and articles are viral, and you'll end up seeing them passed around your FL anyway, but I've run across a lot of good stuff (some serious, some cool, some silly) the last few weeks I wanted to share in case you hadn't:

-Fat Positive artistic nudes (Not Safe for Work, obviously). I really like the set with the mesh dress, especially:
http://www.adipositivity.com/

-Eddie Izzard imagines Darth Vader at the Death Star Canteen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp69rg6Hdlo
(If the link doesn't work, just google Eddie Izzard and "death star canteen")

-Fat patients do better after heart attacks than normal weight patients, but health "experts" still keep pushing weight loss. BFB's critique:
http://www.bigfatblog.com/fat-helps-heart-attack-dont-be-fat

-The link between being fat and having high blood pressure gets weaker, but health "experts" still keep pushing the idea that fat equals death!
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/07/truth-comes-hard.html

-Super cool article about why individual bugs aren't too bright, but swarms are smart:
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature5/

-The New "Seven Wonders of the World":
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/photogalleries/seven-wonders/index.html

-Kate Harding does a great job articulating some things I've thought for a long time about why not all fat people are compulsive and/or binge eaters but why fat compulsive/binge eaters often have trouble getting appropriate help:
http://kateharding.net/2007/07/10/so-close-and-yet-so-far/