"So come to me my love / I'll tap into your strength and drain it dry / I never have enough"

[larryhammer]

You can never have enough linkspam, sez I. Especially when fried up with some diced potatoes and shallots. Pity this week I don't have shallots. Or potatoes. Or even spam, just links.

• Another excellent single-serving site: How Many People Are In Space Right Now? At posting time, the answer is 6. (via)
  
  
• Although Iceland has applied for EU membership, the decision remains controversial.
  
  
• Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet, on Roman Polanski. (via and all over)
  
  
• The Dos and Don'ts of being a Good Ally, be it racism or similar issue.
  
  
• An array of whimsical anatomic drawings of Japanese monsters, and details from an 18th century Hyakki Yakou ("Night Parade of One Hundred Demons") scroll. I can see why the latter would be a popular subject for artists -- talk about showing off variety and inventiveness.
  
  
• Review of what sounds like an entertaining scholar versus curmudgeon smackdown. I think I want this book. Correction: I know I want it -- I think I must have it.
  
  
• The conversion of suburbs to slums -- expensive slums, as there's no services nearby. (via)

And then Making Light details, by the numbers, the Angel Ranch sweatlodge fiasco.

Fasting, vision quests, and sweat lodges are all stressful, and they all produce altered mental states. Basically, they’re mind/body hacks. That’s why they’re so dangerous: they operate in an area where mind and body interact in strange ways, and normal judgement is suspended. Under those circumstances, someone trustworthy has to be there to exercise judgement for you.

---L.