It’s Sunday. Shamelessness is in the air.

What have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you want to talk about.

• Misleading pseudo-scientific argument of the week. Mark Liberman, Language Log (2009-09-03). According to Abigail Norfleet James, Teaching the Male Brain: How Boys Think, Feel, and Learn in School (2007), p 37: The shape of the inner ear is not the same for boys and girls. As we have seen in the previous chapter, the female cochlea responds more quickly to sound… (Linked Wednesday 2009-09-30.)

• Semantic fail. Mark Liberman, Language Log (2009-09-03). Leena Rao at TechCrunch points out a case where semantic search turned into anti-semitic search. This morning I wrote about NetBase Solutions' healthBase, a semantic search engine that aggregates medical content from millions of authoritative health sites including WebMD, Wikipedia, and PubMed. But is it a semantic engine or an… (Linked Wednesday 2009-09-30.)

• Too Hot. Daily Brickbats (2009-08-31). Western Australia Coroner Alastair Hope ruled an aboriginal elder basically cooked to death in the back of a jail van he was being transported in one hot day. The man, identified only as Mr. Ward, had been picked up for drunk driving the previous day. The coroner said the man… (Linked Monday 2009-09-28.)

• So What If Mackenzie Phillips Has a Book Deal? Cara, The Curvature (2009-09-28). My post about Mackenzie Phillips and the public reaction to her recent revelation that her father John Phillips raped her has been linked pretty widely at this point, and as a result I have received some rather obnoxious and outright disgusting comments (and emails). That's not a complaint, at all… (Linked Tuesday 2009-09-29.)

• Because Sassy Patterns And Floral Prints Make Men's Eyeballs Bleed... lisa at Sociological Images, Contexts Blogs: All Blogs (2009-09-11). ...there's Kleenex for men: In case you don't know that brown, black, and gray = men, it says so right on the box! Apparently these are on sale in the U.K.  I haven't seen them in the U.S. In looking this up, I discovered that gendered Kleenex marketing is nothing… (Linked Monday 2009-09-28.)

Every Sunday we gather together for the sake of Shamelessness.

What have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.