Links for 2006-12-09

• FreshDirect Recipes - Beef with Olives and 100 Cloves of Garlic
• Santastic II: Clausome
  Christmas music mashups.
• It's a contraceptive ... and a breath mint (Femcon Fe)
  The first chewable birth-control method, a tiny, spearmint-flavored tablet that also can be swallowed without chewing, has hit pharmacy shelves.
• Askville
  Once you've submitted your question, your question will be open for 7 days. Depending on the community's interest and/or difficulty of the question you will get up to 5 answers back from the Askville community during those 7 days. In the interim, fe
• BlackBerry Orphans - WSJ.com
  As hand-held email devices proliferate, they are having an unexpected impact on family dynamics: Parents and their children are swapping roles. Like a bunch of teenagers, some parents are routinely lying to their kids, sneaking around the house to covertl
• Babies and Sign Language
  "The motor areas of the body mature sooner than the mouth and other language articulators... which means it is easier for children to learn and remember signs than it is for them to acquire fluency in either spoken or written language."
• NPR : Music for Kids That Even Parents Might Love
  Gone are the days when saccharine-sweetness, singsongy silliness and forced good cheer reigned supreme in children's music. Now, a wide range of tunes for the small set is climbing the music charts -- and much of it is acceptable to adult ears.
• NPR : Zooglobble Favorite Kids' Albums of 2006
• Flickr: Camera Finder: Canon: EOS Digital Rebel XTi