Jay Lake (jaylake) wrote,
Jay Lake
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[links] Link salad is confused by the international date line

"Shades of White and Road" by camillealexa — Go read it. Trust me on this one.

Language Log learns something new every day — Grammar is a moving target, so buckle up.

Shorpy with a photo of NYPD of a bygone era and what appears to be a motorcycle-mounted machine gun — What, me recoil?

The Rochester ghost subway — Nostalgic futurism in the Rust Belt. Some cool stuff here. (And, in a weird way, reminds me of the Hanford site's subway to hell.)

An Unseen Nearby Star?Centauri Dreams with the return of Nemesis. Science, but also the stuff of space opera.

?otD: Chengdu or not Chengdu?




4/15/2009
Body movement: urban walking all day
This morning's weigh-in: n/a (traveling)
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville; The Solitudes by John Crowley

Originally published at jlake.com.

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