"Fur is already dead and besides / a name like that doesn't make a good acronym"

So. The Dreamwidth thing. I have an account, same name as here (ETA: feed). I've dinked a little with the customizing, but haven't starting crossposting. For the moment, I'm using it to read journals of those who are over there, which is nothing new as this is nominally a for-reading journal anyway. If/when it looks like critical mass has moved, maybe then I'll port posts over, but until then I seem to have turned it into a poetry journal by way of keeping it alive. Feel free to follow along or not, as you will.

Which means I'll be passing along links, such as these, here:

• Most of what you know about Columbine shooters is wrong. Starting with they were bullies, not bullied. (via, um ... er ... )
  
  
• Central banks stepping in to rescue commercial banks is an old, old story.
  
  
• Princes Leia as a kokeshi doll.* Also, ninjas. (via)
  
  
• Twenty-five years of Landsat 5 images of the growth of Las Vegas. (via)
  
  
• This year's Lyttle Lytton contest winners are out: "The mighty frigate Indestructible rounded the Horn of Africa and lurched east’ard."
  
  
• Thirteen things that do not make sense. (via)
  
  
• And finally, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor, played on an accordion and simmered in AWESOMESAUCE. (via)

Even more awesomesauce than hearing the piece played on two hammered dulcimers at a Renn Faire.


* We had a traditional kokeshi when I was growing up (not surprising, given we lived in Sendai, which is so central to their production the name comes from Sendai dialect). I wonder what happened to it.

---L.

"Fur is already dead and besides / a name like that doesn't make a good acronym"

So. The Dreamwidth thing. I have an account, same name as here (ETA: feed). I've dinked a little with the customizing, but haven't starting crossposting. For the moment, I'm using it to read journals of those who are over there, which is nothing new as this is nominally a for-reading journal anyway. If/when it looks like critical mass has moved, maybe then I'll port posts over, but until then I seem to have turned it into a poetry journal by way of keeping it alive. Feel free to follow along or not, as you will.

Which means I'll be passing along links, such as these, here:

• Most of what you know about Columbine shooters is wrong. Starting with they were bullies, not bullied. (via, um ... er ... )
  
  
• Central banks stepping in to rescue commercial banks is an old, old story.
  
  
• Princes Leia as a kokeshi doll.* Also, ninjas. (via)
  
  
• Twenty-five years of Landsat 5 images of the growth of Las Vegas. (via)
  
  
• This year's Lyttle Lytton contest winners are out: "The mighty frigate Indestructible rounded the Horn of Africa and lurched east’ard."
  
  
• Thirteen things that do not make sense. (via)
  
  
• And finally, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor, played on an accordion and simmered in AWESOMESAUCE. (via)

Even more awesomesauce than hearing the piece played on two hammered dulcimers at a Renn Faire.


* We had a traditional kokeshi when I was growing up (not surprising, given we lived in Sendai, which is so central to their production the name comes from Sendai dialect). I wonder what happened to it.

---L.