Items: Hodgepodge
Okay, I've run out of themes. Here's everything else.
- Article titled "The Myth of the Black Irish: Spanish Syntagonism and Prethetical Salvation."
- I can't decide what to think of the Southwest Airlines Customer of Size Q&A. Are they being generous or patronizing, helpful or discriminatory?
- They're coming out with new $10 bills soon.
- Working Today, "a national nonprofit that represents the needs and concerns of the independent workforce through advocacy, information, and service." Including info on the Freelancers Union. I don't remember who I got this from, so I don't know how much to trust it, so don't consider this link an endorsement.
- Chinese Town Loses Hyperlink to Future. The saddest part about this, from one perspective, is that the computers are now being used to find the locals jobs in distant cities, so many of them are leaving. I mean, sure, jobs are good, but still.
- Top 11 Geek Pickup Lines, part 3, with links to the previous two parts.
- Psychogeography: a beginner's guide, a book review of a sort.
- Who knew that leaves on train tracks could be a hazard?
- Two Rock/Paper/Scissors expansion sets: Rock, Paper Saddam and RPS-25. The latter doesn't quite reach the level of generality of the old SWIL game Rock/Paper/Scissors/Anything Else, in which the gesture/name combination that's adjudged by observers to be most entertaining wins, but I have to admire the author's perseverance.
- Identify your original D&D set.
- They have a somewhat entertaining movie rating system in the Netherlands.
- This year's Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded.
- Wikipedia claims that Tolkien referred to his work as a "legendarium," "a book or series of books consisting of a collection of legends." Not a term I had ever encountered before; also not in MW3 or MW11. I'm dubious.
- And last but certainly not least, here's the Gallery of Bellydancing Librarians.
