"some people remember the first time, some can't forget the last ... "

[larryhammer]

... some just select what they want to from the past

Roundup of recent interesting posts from my favorite blogs:

The Big Picture: The nighttime sulphur miners of Kawah Ijen, a volcano in East Java.

Strange Maps: States as watersheds instead of squares. Where the states are those of the western United States.

Pink Tentacle: Popular Japanese phrases of 2010, the latest installment of an annual roundup.

Making Light: How to Get Published, the latest revision of Uncle Jim's sensible advice.

Jason Kottke: "Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless".

No-Sword: Interesting theories about the martial art that Holmes used to escape Moriarty at Richenbach:

Bartitsu, Wikipedia informeth us, combines the jujitsu Barton-Wright studied in Tokyo, a Swiss school of cane fighting, and the worst excesses of British mustachery.

Indeed.

---L.

Comments

[behindpyramids.livejournal.com]

I'm in love with the headline "Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless". *Rushes off to read*

[octopedingenue]

THIS
IS THE CUTEST THING


I think Akizuki Sorata is my new darling.

[larryhammer]

*blink* Somehow I missed that Aerandria was actively working on this. Must go snork down after work.

---L.

[larryhammer]

Oh my -- that's even better than I expected. She's gotten good.

---L.

[larryhammer]

In return, have you met this, which is almost as cute?

---L.