Alight the fires of Spring

"It's strange," quoth the non-random opening line generator. "It's all so very strange." The emotions of my life have followed queer courses throughout the years, uncommon channels carved in the stone and clay walls of consciousness. But even within the Strange there is that which is strange, that which does not abide the patterns 'midst the over-patterned chaos.

Me and Time have never been close friends, and so I cannot state with the utmost precision when it all began, or more rather, when it all did end. So too, me and Memory have been distant associates all to often, and so I fear myself unable to rely on her wise counsel to discern that fated moment. And yet, unspoken, there lies perhaps the knowledge of that seed from which now years later withers the fearsome bloom I dance so merrily 'round as outwards raises the storm of indiscretion.

( Whereupon the furtherance of uttering )

Link Roundup, Belated, Updated

Now in ultra-short format

On Arabs

On Hikikomori

US plans to 'fight the net'

Human Rights In China tells Google it's 'not too late'

EFF sues AT&T over U.S. wiretapping program

GamerGod Interviews Steve Jackson

Take a leap into hyperspace (AIAA's pdf thereunto)

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Retailer Target Branches Out Into Police Work

When arson investigators in Houston needed help restoring a damaged surveillance tape to identify suspects in a fatal fire, they turned first to local experts and then to NASA. With no luck there, investigators appealed to the owner of one of the most advanced crime labs in the country: Target Corp.

Starbucks Economics: Solving the mystery of the elusive "short" cappuccino.

Chinese New Years, 2100~2644 (Google's cache)

Russia plans to put a mine on the Moon to help boost energy supply (Transhuman Space much?)