Making Light
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Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera.en-usTeresa Nielsen Hayden2023-12-24T20:49:46-05:00hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00
[Teresa]: Texts, 2023This time next year, we'll bring back the Greek, Old Church Slavonic, three kinds of Swedish, Haitian, Icelandic, and Quenya....
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Teresa Nielsen Hayden2023-12-24T20:49:46-05:00
[Patrick]: Status report, and a requestAs I said earlier today on both Twitter and Facebook, I've done just about everything I can to get this...
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden2022-11-01T15:24:55-05:00
[Abi Sutherland]: Fiat lux]]>The door creaks softly as I push it wide. It's not complaining, really, just surprised That anyone would come. I,...
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Growing luminous by eating lightAbi Sutherland2022-11-01T03:22:51-05:00
[Teresa]: More scufflings behind the arrasHello! Today, Patrick surprised no one more than himself by resurrecting the Making Light front page, archives, and CSS. He...
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Teresa Nielsen Hayden2022-10-31T21:03:55-05:00
[Patrick]: Distant scufflingsWe're working on bringing this place back. We miss the fluorosphere, and many of its regulars have emphatically said the...
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden2022-10-31T19:46:23-05:00
[Abi Sutherland]: Rapping with Rab and RobertSomeone elseweb crossed a couple of wires and mentioned Robert Frost when they meant Robert Burns. And I got that...
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Abi Sutherland2021-04-19T14:44:58-05:00
[Avram Grumer]: Cleaning the Augean databaseWell, that took a couple of hours, but I think I got all of the spam from the past few...
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Fraudavram2021-04-09T19:53:35-05:00
[Patrick]: Open thread 224For Teresa and me, March 1 has long been the anniversary of the day we moved to New York City,...
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden2021-03-02T16:27:57-05:00
[Avram Grumer]: Blacow* speaks of four players: the Wargamer, the Power-Gamer, the Role-Player, and the Story-Teller. The Wargamer, what does he say?...
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avram2020-04-09T19:44:14-05:00
[Patrick]: SurroundedReading about all the people venturing that maybe it would be better to stop the social distancing and reopen the...
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden2020-03-24T07:25:17-05:00
[Abi Sutherland]: Open thread 223So now the rest of the world is discovering virtual communities. I'm feeling very hipster; we were doing it before...
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Abi Sutherland2020-03-19T16:01:08-05:00
[Patrick]: Low, dishonest decadeI largely gave up political blogging after November 8, 2016, when it became obvious that I have no idea what...
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden2019-12-31T19:13:26-05:00
[Patrick]: The revival of John M. FordJust posted to Slate, by Isaac Butler: The Disappearance of John M. Ford. Key takeaway to Making Light readers who...
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden2019-11-15T06:23:13-05:00
[Teresa]: Hot times in the British ParliamentI should be explaining what's been going on in the British Parliament, with links and explanations. Unfortunately I can't, because...
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Teresa Nielsen Hayden2019-09-04T05:37:00-05:00
[Patrick]: Who we areNobody reads this blog any more. But do read Kieran Healy.A fundamental lesson of Sociology is that, in the course...
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden2019-08-03T22:44:55-05:00