The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono. Arboriculture as a metaphor for reconstruction.
New England Suffers Maple Woes. An untapped sugar maple is more dangerous than an unmilked cow.
Archive for April, 2005
the forest for the trees
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005pope-o-rama
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005So, everybody probably knows now that there’s a new pope in town. But were they aware of the other candidates? Of the long hard slog to the papacy?
So good luck, Benedict XVI. There’s lots of spry young cardinals waiting for you to fuck up.
let’s put the future behind us
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005A nice analysis of contemporary American SF by Charlie Stross: to wit, why it’s almost uniformly bleak and dystopian, OR historical/alternative fiction. …the shape of American SF, as with British SF, is determined by the cultural zeitgeist, by the society’s own vision of its future. And I propose that the American future is currently uncertain, unpleasant, polarized, regimented, and pessimistic.
the cattle are restless tonight
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005bovineunite.com. Today pastures. Tomorrow, the world. It all goes down May 5th, apparently.
There’s an associated blog, but it’s sadly uninformative.
ponderings
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005adobe to buy macromedia
Monday, April 18th, 2005finger on the button
Monday, April 4th, 2005Mark Twain’s War Prayer
Baby Bush gets a valuable lesson in user interface design