[BLOG] Some pop culture links

• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly talked about her social networks, and about the need to have faith in one’s abilities and to be strong.
• C.J. Cherryh describes her visit to Grand Coulee Dam.
• Crooked Timber notes the ways in which Ian Macleod is actually a romantic writer.
• The Crux looks at the controversy over the siting of a new telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea.
• Cody Delistraty wonders if social rejection is needed for creative people.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how difficult it is for Americans with criminal records to get jobs.
• Mathew Ingram notes how young Saudis can find freedom on their phones for apps.
• Language Hat suggests that a computer’s word analysis has identified a lost Shakespeare play.
• Personal Reflection’s Jim Belshaw linked to his local history columns.
• Otto Pohl notes the culinary links between Ghana and Brazil.
• Peter Rukavina remembers the fallen elms of Charlottetown and reports on innovative uses of Raspberry Pi computers.
• The Search reports on format migration at Harvard’s libraries.
• Mark Simpson notes homoeroticism on British television.
• Speed River Journal’s Van Waffle describes his discovery of wild leeks.
• Towleroad notes an Austrian magazine’s printing of a limited edition with ink including HIV-infected blood, notes a gay Mormon’s defense of his life to his church, and observes an Argentine judge who thought it acceptable to give a man who raped a possibly gay child a lighter sentence because of the child’s presumed orientation.
• The Volokh Conspiracy notes the repeal of blasphemy laws in Norway and examines the questionable concept of Straight Pride.