Sick day = blogging day + soup.

[bodlon]

Jim C. Hines has signal-boosted the Library of the Living Dead queer zombie antho thing. Like him, I’ve been looking for more info (or even acknowledgment) from Library of the Living Dead about the whole thing. More news as I stumble across it, I suppose.

~*~

Researchers are studying the origins of certain well-known fairy tales, and discovering that they may be much older than previously believed. This isn’t a new idea in itself — hello, morphology — but the particulars can be staggering.

(This is, incidentally, why I probably shouldn’t date a folklorist. I don’t know how I’d cope if, during a mid-project mope about how nothing feels innovative, somebody tousled my hair and rattled off a bit of taxonomy.)

~*~

Speaking of taxonomy, I’ve seen a couple of people link to this really excellent post about gender drop-down menus, why a lot of them suck, and how to make better ones. It includes useful links explaining why this is important and useful.

This post has been mirrored from Christian A. Young's Dimlight Archive. To see it in its original format, visit dimlightarchive.com