Links du jour

Heeb Magazine announces the 2009 Heeb 100 -- their top picks of Jewish Americans who are "young, smart and innovative." (Edited To Add: Sure, not as insightful as The Jewish Week's 36 under 36, or the Forward 50, each of which had the good sense to cite hatam_soferet! but I still find this kind of index interesting. >:-)

Ethan Zuckerman reviews a talk by Daniel Gilbert called "The Four Answers", on why it’s so hard to know what makes us happy. ETA: The link to this came via a post (on my birthday, entitled "Joy") from vlvn_rabbi, whom I don't know but have started reading because I like reading about the things she writes about, even if I am not (currently) often in a place of sufficient mindfulness to fully take them in.

And, in not unrelated news, and also in honor of National Coming Out Day yesterday, ( have some links on polyamory. )