It's a bubbling up of links.

[changeling]

Sub Rosa, a correspondence by prof_pangaea

An amazing piece of Sherlock Holmes fiction.

MH
REMEMBER ATLANTIS SUMMER 63 STOP RECENT REPORTS OF MY WELLBEING EXAGGERATED STOP NEED FUNDS STOP

== CAINE :::

From the Notes of Senior Librarian Vo

Because if you're not reading gearworld yet, you ought to be. Yes, especially you, barrington.

Hickory dickory dock
The mouse got stuck in the clock
After several generations of inbreeding,
his descendants became increasingly strange
and began to believe that the clock was the entire world
and anything outside it an illusion

A book I desperately want - My Own Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang.

I had a copy of one of the Fairy Books - the pink one, I think it was, and let it go through my hands. I am a fool. Fool! I have got cheap editions of Lang's Arthur myths and Arabian nights myths. I really want this one. Lang references Allan Quatermain! (I really have to track down the Quatermain books and read those, too. Damn you, Moore.)

Dinosaurs may have had feathers!

The five-year-old future palaeontologist in me just squees about this.

Comments

[barrington.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Feathered dinosaurs are the best. It's not exactly new news, though - the theory has been gathering weight for years, mainly due (as the article says) to fossil evidence from China. Which might explain why those Chinese dragons you see in parades are all feathery...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I gathered as much, but I'm out of touch. I just find it so interesting - I was reading about dinosaurs when I was a little tacker, and we only had Archaeopteryx as our ancient feathered friend then ...

Oooh, never thought of that! What an awesome concept!

[jolly-oddness.livejournal.com]

I seriously thought that the feathers thing only applied to one type of dinosaur (archaeopateryx? archaeopteryx?) because I remember there being feather detail, and all the 'dinosaurs evolved into birds' uproar. But...they're talking about tyrannosaurus rexes and stuff! WITH FEATHERS!!!!! It's so sensational, and thrilling.