Hm. Might fight with the form; should be 1st person serials, I think.
On Swiss Bears
Appenzell canton (Switzerland)
Appenzell almost went to war with St. Gallen in 1579 when a printer of that city published a calendar ornamented with the arms of the Swiss cantons, and ignorantly turned Appenzell’s bear into a female (simply by leaving off the penis). War was avoided when the printer offered abject apologies and St. Gallen destroyed every copy of the calendar they could find.
(with regard to this and this, via that daarn super-seekrit source again.)
So it would seem that the Swiss may owe some of their legendary independence and freedom from invasion and turbulence due to a willingness to fight for the right to cock-on-bear arms.
Haw
Link source top seekrit.
Stream
jkonrath‘s twitter stream has been leading me to chuckle daily of late. I swear he’s angling for another visit from the feebs.
Nome
Dispatch
Public911.com – 911 calls on a map in real-time, a refined implementation of this idea.
Once more into the dunes
A review of TE Lawrence in print and film, and the relationship between the pop-culture hits and the legend: Trenches on the Web – Special: A Durable Lawrence (TE).
In the past, I’ve dabbled at Seven Pillars, but it did not hold my attention. It really seems my interest begins and may end with the film, probably because the film’s central character is such an antihero.
Frank Herbert, 1970
The complete transcript of a 1970 Interview with Frank Herbert and Beverly Herbert by Willis E. McNelly, encountered subsequent to a searchtrawl looking for commentary linking Lawrence of Arabia, the film, with Dune, the novel.
Here’s the bit about Lawrence, near the end, which, I must say, is not a particularly thoughtful or nuanced take on the character of Lawrence as constructed for the film, but which does turn on the idea of Lawrence as akin to the Muad’Dib:
“WM (William McNelly, the interviewer – MW): Oh, I-I caught overtones of Lawrence of Arabia in the thing, for example.
FH: He could very well become an avatar for the… for the Arabs.
WM: Right.
FH: If Lawrence of Arabia had died at the crucial moment of the British…
WM: Say, when Allenby walked into Jerusalem.
FH: Yes. If he had died… if, for example, he had gone up and killed the people who were destroying his breed, walked into that conference and said, Gentlemen, I have here under my javala a surprise, Bang! Bang! Bang! and he had been killed…
WM: He’d have been deified.
FH: He would have been deified. And it would have been the most terrifying thing the British had ever encountered, because the Arabs would have swept that entire peninsula with that sort of force, because one of the things we’ve done in our society is exploited this power… Western man has exploited this avatar power.”
Demoz
Oh. Again, I am an eejit.
Download GardenSketch 1.0b5.1 for Mac (OS X).
Not that this will actually get the job done more rapidly than pen and paper, mind you.
What? No blueprints?
WSU Gardening in Western Washington.
God I hope this has a planting guide for a 4×4 grid. I’m really surprised that I haven’t come across some plant otaku’s obsessive archives of what they did last year, and the year before, and…
I suppose it will be up to me. All I want is a completed planting map that I can run off to the store to get seeds for and whatnot. I’ll learn as I go, I don’t really have time learn why plant X is next to plant Y or to think about what matures when. I wish to stand upon the shoulders of others and it seems that the intarweb is letting me down. Looks like I have to go to the bookstore.
Lucky them.