The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Erik Nelson:

Re the footpaths in Brasilia particle;

The book A Pattern Language asserts that traffic circles emerge spontaneously if everybody keeps right of the monument.

It is almost within my skill set to create a program that tests that theory.

I thought you were saying she might have been a giant but she missed her chance.

Actually it's "go soak your head in a pig"

Purple cabbage is an acid/base indicator. Maybe you can make color changing soup.

It seems to me a vanity romance would be a gigolo.

#117, 124:

That reminds me of the anti-drug group that declared their neighborhood to be a Substance Free Zone.

SAD:

I say, try to see the sunset, i e don't be inside busy doing something and miss the last of the daylight as a result. And give yourself the gift of morning.

Being in synch with the sunlight you've got should help.

#929

I momentarily misread that as saying Michael Moore was writing a Dr. Who novel.

Then there was the businessman who was in reality before he went into politics.

We just had November 11. So I am just writing in to say I was hoping for another annual World War I link roundup and I didn't see one.

More dinosaur sex animations and other weirdnesses:

http://www.rangarig.net/

#750:

Is that the scene that was cut from the original King Kong?

Is the name of this fetish polydactylism?

That depends on whether it's Schroedinger's cat. Or the Cheshire cat.

Xopher: Best wishes! It happened to me, too.

Ideally, it's a chance to do what you really want to do instead of losing the hours of your life to those people.

I had 40,000 spam comments on my personal blog (which had gone stale anyway)

The stat log shows a search engine query for a random series of silly words, which I never put on the site myself.

So I suspect that someone posted that series of silly words in a comment as a marker that means "here's the place, let's all pile on!"

I stand corrected.

I understand that Mercedes Benz was the name of a real person, who the car was named after.

703: When the doves dove, did the flies fly? Did the ducks duck?

What about Yugoslavia? It was about that time that we had to start calling it "The Former Yugoslavia," and then...

#128: some guy named Morris Minor, perhaps.

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