Link Anthology 5/2/2009, the Belated (and Unrelated) May Day Edition

[keilexandra]

* H.E.R.B.--Had Enough Religious Bullshit--amuses me.

* As does this humorous dialogue between an atheist and an agnostic.

* I heard on the radio that Justice Souter is retiring? Here's an article on one possible Obama pick to replace him. Look, he's Asian! Wouldn't that be nice, to have the country's first Asian ever (I think) on the Supreme Court.

* Pledge to cut the "r-word" (retard) from your life.

* Article on a white girl adopted by a black family.


* NewFoundSpecFic is seeking submissions, deadline July 5th, 2009. It is automatically nifty for the pun, O my beloved Newfoundland. Sadly, living abroad I don't qualify (must be a resident of Canada, not necessarily a citizen).

* O Canada!

* In praise of learning alphabets, not characters. YES.

* A friendly note on Dreamwidth advocacy.

* kate_nepveu makes a detailed post about Dreamwidth that I pretty much second all the way through.


* Ooh, shape notes! Heads-up yhlee?

* A Cool Tools review of Finale Allegro.

* From VSL, a modern instrumental composer releases one ditty (doodle? sketch? yhlee had a good word for this but I can't remember) a day for a week. All seven are available to download for free.

* Via yhlee, neato ultra-small artworks.

* Paper typography!

Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Shape notes! I have nothing against the concept and hope it helps people, or that they enjoy it; I learned to read music in 1st grade and despite learning other things later (for example, alto clef, reading in B-flat or F in middle and high school), I am kind of set in my ways. Having shapes would actively irritate me because they would be a distraction. If I'd had them from the beginning I might have adjusted but even then I am really bad at shape differentiation (you should see me playing computer games) and I might have defaulted to reading by position anyway. Still, I hadn't known of that--thanks for pointing that out!

I say sketches or doodles, and possibly other things but I can't remember either. :-D

[keilexandra]

I think I'd be pretty bad at reading shape-note music, too, but it's a nifty concept.