Eldritch Dark, almonds

• For lovers of weird fiction and the Lovecraftian circle, the Eldritch Dark
  site contains a wealth of Clark Ashton Smith information, stories, art, and a forum that is actually well worth reading.
  
• I've recently become fond of almond milk. Here is the World's Greatest Food blog on the subject.
  
  

Hwy101 roadside cross in snow

Hwy101 roadside cross in snow
Originally uploaded by Alhazred

Couple of links

• Cute: postcard delivered 93 years too late.
• Language Log on lexical blending and the banning of Get Fuzzy.
  

My favourite error message

An oldie but a goodie: Your Password must be at least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords.

Kudos to Wrigley-Cross Books of Troutdale for another excellent open house. No Tim Powers for me this time, but we did get some excellent Hippocampus Press Lovecraftiana, Paul Williams' PDK bio, and Michael Swanwick signed hard covers.

Open source warfare, Matisyahu leaves Lubavitch, RPG studies

• Following my mention yesterday of the Atlantic piece on primary loyalties and current warfare, also worth mentioning is Robert Charette's article 'Open-Source Warfare' in IEEE Spectrum. (I'm not really that fond of the term 'Open-Source Warfare', but it seems like an adequate descriptor.) Mentioned in the article are John Robb, originator of the term, as well as Eric Raymond, open source software theorist.
• Matisyahu interview: leaving Lubavitch, but staying Hassidic.
• Bibliography of Role-Playing Game studies.
  

Primary loyalties, stuck trucks, found objects, satanic mayors

• I wouldn't want to be this Stutter guy.
• I was about to write that Robert Kaplan's Atlantic piece, It's the Tribes, Stupid, with its analysis of the tribe as the unit of primary loyalty, sounded awfully similar to the arguments set forth in Brave New War. But it looks like John Robb himself has already blogged about it.
• It was a chilly day in Portland today, but nothing compared to what this poor Russian trucker was going through.
• This seems rather odd: a small town Arkansas mayor resigns, claiming that in the past he had been kidnapped by a Satanic cult.