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

[larryhammer]

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)

---L.

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

Comments

[cmcmck]

I've read a fair bit about Darien and what a mess it was!

[larryhammer]

That was a bit of history that was new to me. It sounds like "mess" drastically understates the situation.

[kalmn]

Deep bosomed women can in fact provide a lot of shade underneath. (Source, me, I used to be one.)

[larryhammer]

Indeed. (Source: married to one.)