bookmarks

[pauraque_bk]

Stealing this topic from hannelore: Do you ever find yourself bookmarking something and then going back to your bookmarks and saying, "why did I bookmark this?"

I used to be pretty good about not letting my bookmarks get out of control, but then... I wasn't. I've been wanting to clear them out for a while, so, two birds with one stone, yes?

VEXILLOGRAPHY
Well, all right, I know why I was researching flags, and I know why I bookmarked this: because it is a vintage 90s-era site created by someone who is obviously completely obsessed with flags, and everything about it made me nostalgic for a simpler era of the internet.

The Accidental Arab - Alexander Siddig Interviewed by Jamal Mahjoub
I enjoyed this interview focusing on how perceptions of race and nationality have influenced his career. (He's a Sudanese-British actor fandom knows best for his role in ST:DS9.)

Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" flash animation
I was probably going to show this to my kid, but I'm not sure I got around to it.

Vivaldi and the Women of the Pieta
Oh yeah, I was gonna watch this documentary! Maybe I really will this time.

Dodging Twin Ogron's Fire
I never actually got good at this.

The Deer God on Steam
I guess this was a game that looked interesting for a second, but not interesting enough to do anything more than bookmark it and forget it existed. I kind of had the same reaction the second time around.

Di Zi Gui (dizigui) or "STUDENTS' RULES" by Li Yuxiu, During the Reign of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi (1661-1722)
"All who are human, one must love. Heaven covers us equally; Earth bears us equally."

The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
"This book is not an apology for Christianity, nor is it an expression of personal religious belief. It is a commentary, in the light of specialised knowledge, on a particular set of statements made in the Christian creeds and their claim to be statements of fact."

Wikipedia: Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
"The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (formerly the Southern Cult), aka S.E.C.C., is the name given to the regional stylistic similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies, and mythology of the Mississippian culture that coincided with their adoption of maize agriculture and chiefdom-level complex social organization from 1200 CE to 1650 CE."

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Comments

[tamlane.livejournal.com]

Ahhh! I do love those simple Web 1.0 websites. I came across one last year while researching the noir genre. They're kind of a shock, aren't they? "But! Where's the comment button?!" ;)

Mexico totally fails at vexillography rule no. 1.