For some reason, this cat column reminds me of an audio-visual presentation I saw in Peoria, Illinois about the area's history. I do not remember if the production actually started with the cooling of the earth's crust, but I'm sure it worked in the age of the dinosaurs.
Thanks for linking to the Herald-Mail's obituary for Harry Warner Jr. Besides giving its readers at least an outline of Warner's life in fandom, it also gave me a glimpse of his life outside fandom. Since my window to fandom has been almost exclusively fanzines, I've become familiar with the paper personalities of a lot of fans, without really knowing about their actual lives, even what they look like. Warner's obituary gave me more information about him personally than Warner's fan writing ever did.
When I was a kid in church choir, I noticed that one of the cool things about the 1940 Episcopal Hymnal was that each hymn featured a numerical code which explained the length of its lines. Sometimes, the hymnal provided two melodies for one lyric, or one melody would show up in more than one place. But you could always use the code to mix'n'match melodies and lyrics. I don't know why more songbooks don't have this feature.
On a related note, did you ever notice that the "Flintstones" theme uses the same chord sequence as "I Got Rhythm"? It takes some creative work to actually switch the lyrics around, but jazz musicians can always have fun with the chord changes.
I also was unable to link to the Schneier piece in the Atlantic Monthly.
In looking at the Atlantic's website, moreover, I saw that the Schneier article is in the September issue, but the "current issue" online was only June. Could this be part of the linking problem many of us had?
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