This week’s links post is pretty long. Also some of these articles are pretty old. Also I haven’t included descriptions for a lot of them because I am lazy.

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I’ve been having a great weekend: eating good food, drinking good wine, meeting new people. I hope your weekend has been equally great! If you find yourself with some downtime (maybe a commercial break during an NCAA tournament game? Go Card!) here are some links you might check out.

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There are two days left in 2012. What are you doing with them? If you have a little time for a break, check out some of these links.

+ Goodreads has doubled in size in the last year (Alison D and I have been on goodreads for a long time and we can tell you that it is ~10,000 times better than it used to be) and other interesting statistics in this infographic

+ Learning to like like (Fun fact: Prescriptivist asshole is one of my new favorite insults… it’s not found in this article though)

+ 625 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

+ For Young Latino Readers, an Image Is Missing: Kimberly Blake, a third-grade bilingual teacher, said she struggles to find books about Latino children that are “about normal, everyday people.” The few that are available tend to focus on stereotypes of migrant workers or on special holidays. “Our students look the way they look every single day of the year,” Ms. Blake said, “not just on Cinco de Mayo or Puerto Rican Day.”

+ 2012 YA Releases About POC

+ 10 Commonly Misunderstood Words In English: Another infographic

Hi friends! Who is getting excited for Thanksgiving? I know I am, and I don’t even like turkey that much. Here are some of my favorite recent internet happenings. If you’ve seen something cool, put it in the comments so I can grow my pathetically short list (have I mentioned that I’m pretty bad at the whole internet thing?).

• It’s no secret that the Alisons were both strongly pro-Obama. We were pretty tickled on election night, and here is my favorite new tumblr: White People Mourning Romney
• I’ve been thinking about book titles a lot recently. Here is a list of book titles that come from poems. Do you know any poems that contain a good title?
• I was lucky enough to work with a short time with blogger and creator of More Love Letters, and let me tell you she, as well as pretty much everything to which she devotes her time, is pretty fantastic. One of her posts this week – For the win: I want to love your face off – was enjoyable and thought-provoking on so many levels. You will love her unique and flowery prose, but even more importantly I think many of you will connect with her message.

Hope you’re all having a good weekend!

+ What Readers Need Vs What Devices Can Do

+ Paperman Breakdown Heard of Disney’s new animated short “The Paperman”? Here’s how they animated it.

+ The Writing Revolution “So, faced with closure, the school’s principal went all-in on a very specific curriculum reform, placing an overwhelming focus on teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class. What followed was an extraordinary blossoming of student potential, across nearly every subject—one that has made New Dorp a model for educational reform.”

+ Mysteries of Vernacular Eventually this project will include one video per letter of the alphabet on the mysteries of vernacular (English). (Eight are up right now.)

+ Real Indians Don’t Care About Tonto A timeline of Adrienne K’s protests against Johny Depp playing Tonto in the new Lone Ranger film. It includes a response article and her interactions with the filmmakers.

+ Late Bloomers, Rejoice! Waiting to Lose Your Virginity May Lead To Happier Relationships Later In Life