Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-16-2011

• Dinosaur feathers found in Alberta amber - Edmonton - CBC News
  'The primitive, hair-like feathers known as protofeathers likely belonged to theropods — dinosaurs similar to tiny Tyrannosaurus rexes — that roamed the swampy forests of Alberta 80 million years ago…'
  (tags: Awesome science interesting history dinosaurs bytheholyfeathersofraptorjesus)
• Guest blogger Joanna Stampfel-Volpe responds to a recent PW article on LGBTQ YA - The Swivet [Colleen Lindsay]
  A rebuttal to/disagreement with the "Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA « Genreville" story I linked previously. No idea what the real situation is; it's entirely possible that it was in fact someone else that turned these things down.
  (tags: lgbt discrimination fiction literature scifi)