Database File System, via /. and only for KDE.

esw:ImmersiveHypertextEditing -> wikis are still useful, perhaps think of the pwyky {} construct as a reversible macro, and have a synchronised posting mechanism.

Whilst searching for ct-ligatures I came across a piece about Amherst, which then leads to the quote: "It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote [']Leaves of Grass,' only that he did not burn it afterwards." - Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Also: On the Chicago Manual of Style, and with an odd spelling of "Gallimaufrey".

Overington in his usual oversized font: Quaternion manipulation in the 1456 object code system.

Krazy & Ignatz is kinda... crazy. Beacham's Desert Island Discs. "Rochefort 10: To say that this is possibly the finest beer in the world is probably going over the top a bit, but, I think that it is."

Jimmy Page's kit, and plectra (Herco Flex 75).

"I am a man upon the land And I am a selkie in the sea." - Avalon Rising, via jcowan.

Norwegian Housemarks are rather interesting: kinda like stylish house names. Some more housemarks. "Very few people could read or write and housemarks were in wide use. Notes, records and documents were also signed in this manner of marking and had good legal standing. In many instances these markings became the bases for family crests." - The Early History of Kennemer.

Clog Almanacs

• Runic Calendars and Time Reckoning in the Viking Age
• "In the Middle Ages these circulated in manuscript, or as 'clog almanacs' made of wood, metal or horn, with notches and symbols recording the lunar months and the church feast days." - Towards the Dark. Also: "some 'clog almanacs' were still in use at the end of the 16th century" - ibid.
• " The clog almanac is the oldest known Norwegian calendar and also served as a work plan. It is carved out of wood formed like a sword, stave or arc." - The Clog Almanac.

Hmm. </ClogAlmanacSection>

Julius Caesar Scaliger is one of those interesting renaissance types. When is the renaissance period officially defined? Ah: "The Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in the 14th century in Italy and the 16th century in northern Europe." - Renaissance, Wikipedia. Paracelsus is another, and apparently he coined the word "alcohol", though of course it has an Arabic etymology.

Cats in the Commons, from Whiskas. And in 1617, the Great Moghul Jahangir wrote to James I. "Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world."—T'ien Yiheng. @@ book stuff.

The Tillinghast Airship. "The 5AT is a totally new steam locomotive design, incorporating the latest proven steam locomotive technology, for hauling main line steam charter and railcruise trains." - 5AT Advanced Steam Locomotive Project. The ba'; but what does the apostrophe denote? ll? Years of Spot The Ball practice won't help you here.

Heheh: Jim Ley's Man with a Huge Cock. Also, OS Select is awesome. From the Fortean Times: When Hoax Fox Us ("[t]hey threw a rechargeable, lighted electric torch in the creek and soon the rumour was spread that an unidentified object was emitting a mysterious white light under water"). Hmm, a replacement prefix or diacritic (not technically...) instead of those interpolation brackets would be nice.

Language Log gets A Letter from the Lord Quirk. The Triple Point: "The triple point of any substance is that temperature and pressure at which the material can coexist in all three phases (solid, liquid and gas) in equilibrium. Specifically the triple point of water is 273.16 K at 611.2 Pa" - What is the Triple Point of Water? So 0.01 degrees C. Wikipedia has more. "Work is more fun than fun" - Noël Coward, quoted on Radio 4 (Off the Page: The Good Life). Hehe, stork left her at the wrong house. "Matthew Parris three guests, pianist Simon Townley, broadcaster Anita Robinson, and academic Rogan Taylor." And: "It's like Americans--they all seem to be the stars of their own movie." Malingering? Victorian indeed. 65% of new laws in the UK come from Europe? Chris Hune says that the government over-augment them on the way though--so called "gold plating". 400 Quatloos on the newcomer! (20030312174709 cache).