Things We Saw Today: A Medic Alert Bracelet for the Perfectly Healthy

As the daughter of an attorney, I feel compelled to say that this is something you can always work out with a loved one beforehand, in writing. (CubicleBot)

• House Republicans have blocked, for the first time since 1994, the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, balking at new provisions that would extend the Act’s protections to immigrants, the LGBT community, and Native Americans. (The Frisky)
• The Cinemark theater in Aurora, Colorado is reopening, and an offer of free tickets to some of the families of those who died in the Aurora shooting is not sitting well. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• You’ve heard of Lorem Ipsum generators? Well this does the same thing, but with quotes from Commander Riker. (Geekosystem)

Somehow, Old Hollywood faceswaps are the weirdest faceswaps of all. (The FW)

• It’s J.R.R. Tolkien‘s birthday! MTV Movies threw him a .gif party.
• Neil Cohn, comics artist turned neroscientist, is studying how our brains treat comic reading like it has its own grammar. (Newsarama)
• How to deal with the “Fake” Geek. (Major Spoilers.com)

Here’s how to make an edible cookie bra based on your own chest. Because you were so curious. (That’s Nerdalicious!)