May 22, 2004
Stockholm
Apparently Slate did doing a weeklong series on Scandanavian architecture last year. The Stockholm part is very interesting to me. Via an old post by Monasette.
May 21, 2004
Now pay attention
Nick Barlow is a brit in London?, Britain
Iain Coleman is a brit in Cambridge, Britain
Edward Hugh is a brit in Barcelona, Spain
Scott MacMillan is a yank in Prague, Czechia
Scott Martens is a canadian in Brussels, Belgium
Doug Merrill is a yank in Munich, Germany
Tobias Schwarz is a german in Hamburg?, Germany
Jurjen Smies is a dutchman in flyover country, America
Mrs Tilton is an irishman in an undisclosed location in Germany
Matthew Turner is a brit in London
David Weman is an swede in Nynäshamn, Sweden
May 11, 2004
Fun
Let's revive this little game. (via more than a dozen people, but I've traced it back to the source.)
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
From "Alastor" by Jack Vance (an omnibus volume, quote is from "Trullion: Alasor 2262"):
Social evils are unknown; poverty is no more than a curious word.