“Frank debonair / Smiles of deep-bosomed women! Loves that seize / Man’s soul, and waft her on!”

Not much of a theme here—just, yanno, some links:

An account of the Darien Scheme, Scotland’s one attempt at colonization (outside of Ireland).

Using reader reviews of All Systems Red as a study of how well people accept using non-gendered pronouns. (via)

Minesweeper Twist, on a non-rectilinear grid. (via)

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Subject quote from Venice, John Addington Symons, and the rest is just as … shady, let’s call it.