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What we’re reading today:

1. Parents are registering gmail addresses, Twitter handles and domain names for their new babies. Do your kids already have an online presence? How social is your family? Via Parentcentral.ca

2. Sure it’s great that Link went off to rescue Zelda, but what did his mother think about all his adventures? Dorkly.com via BoingBoing

3. The Hipster Mom is expanding from the world of blogging to the world of online magazines. (We’re guessing this means less confessionals, more interviews/research) We’ll definitely be checking out Family Freak Out.

4. If any of you are planning to attend Disney On Ice Toy Story 3, use the code TANNER when ordering tickets to ensure a portion of the sales go to Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. Via Her Bad Mother

5. Caution!

Image via Dorkly

Here’s what we’re reading today:

Want to give to the Salvation Army’s iconic Red Kettle but you had no cash on hand? There’s an app for that. Mashable, your source for all things social media, has rounded up five creative social good campaigns. The Choose Haiti bracelets look pretty neat.

The Hipster Mom feels the most at home in the action figure and model car department when she makes a trip to the Toys R Us. Yesterday she wrote about her first venture into the aisles of the baby dolls.

Jonathan Liu over at Geek Dad has shared some kid-friendly comics by artist James Kochalka. Kid-friendly or not, a comic wherein the artist’s cat stars as the hero Dragon Puncher and the artist himself the aforementioned dragon? Awesome.

Good bacteria: it’s not just for yogurt-lovers anymore. The CBC reports that probiotics may help with illnesses in children.  An otherwise healthy child with a viral infection could see the duration of his symptoms shorten.