Cicadian rhythym

After 17 Years, They’re Back, and in the Mood for Love: the Times picks up on poupou’s eagle-eyed naturism.

Did I say ‘naturism’? Perhaps I mean ‘naturalist’s observations.’

Iowa underwent an emergence in 1997, and this link contains video. Only one of the audio links is still good.

I have undoubtedly romanticized memories of the event. The noise of the critturs is unbearably loud, but the huge bugs themselves are fascinating and were not threatening to me as a child. I recall coaxing them to crawl on me, and studying their discarded husks on the bark of trees with fascination.

MetaFiki

RecentEdits is a back door into the April Fool’s gag at MeFi, which appears to be giving the wiki code a run for its’ money. However, a common trick appears to be the posting of spurious error messages in place of the collaborative content.

Adding to the confusion is the apparent rate of edits. Refreshing the page will almost certainly yeild a different result.

A useful link amidst the babel: Urgo.com is tracking the foolishness of the day.

Body Snatcher

Jeff has a doozy of a site redesign up. I’ve considered it from a number of angles.

[Warning: spoilers in extended entry. If you know Jeff or are in close blog orbit, you should probably wait a bit before reading them.]

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