Isaac's cool blogBraved the elements to capture these over by the pond, across the slough. The slough and pond are frozen now, but I can’t tell how thick the ice is. Some cool ice crystals formed overnight, I guess the product of all the fog that’s been floating around. It sure looks like winter out there now!
Had a couple of these left over on the camera before the fluffy white ones. They’re from around the gravel pit on the other side of the slough.
Mandi sent me this shot of an Illy espresso kiosk at the Las Vegas airport. After all the bad Starbucks double espressos I’ve had in various airports, it’s nice to see there’s at least one airport with something else.
The Social Science Research Network has working papers for a variety of social sciences, including economics. I found this article about the economics of virtual worlds there a while ago.
The most scholarly thing I’ve found about involuntary parks is the Science article referenced in this Viridian note, which talks about the strip in Germany that once separated East and West. There are probably other articles around about re-wilding in landmined or otherwise abused areas.
While waiting for Exploitation, Conservation, Preservation to arrive, I found these glossaries and links for each chapter, and also some quizzes.