Cyberflanerie: But-I'm-Still-Recovering-from-the-Whole-Pluto-Thing Edition

Food historian Rachel Laudan says bunk to "Cornish" pasties.

Statisticians say Europe did not go through a "Little Ice Age" (yes, the Thames froze and Britain stopped producing wine and the Greenland colony failed, but myriad are the alternative explanations...)

British archaeologist Frances Pryor says all sorts of dizzifying things about the pre-Roman Britain that once was not an isle, in Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory. I am still absorbing the whole Doggerland thing. Brochs! And the elegance of those Bronze-Age hair and beard-cutting scissors in their wooden case... 

At first glance this sounds real-- anyway, the winner of the Archdruid's "Great Squirrel Chase" contest is hilarious: King Solomon's Miners.

Stay tuned: this week I'm working on the edits to a fascinating interview with Texas historian Lonn Taylor, recorded last month in Fort Davis. Listen in anytime to the 16 other Marfa Mondays podcasts. Bit by bit, I'm also posting the transcripts. The latest is "Tremendous Forms: Paul V. Chaplo on Finding Composition in the Landscape."

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Cyberflanerie: Nifty Stuff Edition

Julia Sussner's latest app! (She's my favorite app designer, based in the blazing heart of Palo Alto.) The app, which accompanies an exhibition, "Never Built: Los Angeles," takes a selection of the projects and situates them on a map, creating an interactive experience of the city, as it is, and as it could have been. 
>>Download it now from iTunes here.
(The Trump project may prompt ironic chuckles.)

PS Check out Julia Sussner's guest-blog post on 5 Fabulous Apps to Experience for Yourself


L. Peat O'Neil's Adventure Travel Writer blog
Her joy for travel is infectious, plus heaps of nifty tips.

Dan Gilbert explains the whole happiness thing (but sorry, Dan, I would still rather win the lottery than end up a paraplegic...) Seriously, this is one of the best TED Talks ever.

The Archdruid Takes Us 10 Billion Years Into the Future
No need to smoke anything, folks. 

Via Real Delia, Jane Friedman's talk (video) on audience development for writers.
(very sandwich-worthy).  

La Bloga: Las Mujeres:
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rosemary Catacalos, and María Espinosa
Una celebración.


Writer Beth Kephart's very thoughtful blog

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Recommended by Cool Tools (another favorite blog): The Yeti for podcasters.

More anon.

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Cyberflanerie: Podcasts by Seth Godin, Margaret Dulaney, and James Howard Kunstler

Driving out to Marfa from El Paso (and back) I had a luxury of time to listen to marketing guru Seth Godin's free lecture series, Startup School by EarWolf, which was like three pots of coffee and a nasal-passages-clearing bouquet of lavender. Um, really! You too can download the whole fandango free from iTunes.

On a more cosmic note, Margaret Dulaney's Listen Well podcast for this month is especially consoling-- highly recommended.

On a brasher note, in his Kunstler Cast, James Howard Kunstler continues to beat the same danged doom drum, but most amusingly and insightfully. Be sure to catch Kunstler's interview with (yes) the Archdruid.

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Speaking of podcasts, #11 in the Marfa Mondays series is "Cowboy Is a Verb"-- should be posted in the next 48 hours. Stay tuned.