Acorn Squash
Coffee
Autzen Stadium
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Otherworldly collection of pictures from a red dust storm hitting Sydney. Even more at The Big Picture: Dust storm in Australia.
Fragility
I find it amazing that two people acting against contemporary sentiment saved some of the works of Aristotle from complete oblivion. Boethius aggressively translated Greek philosophy into Latin in the Middle Ages and Cassiodorus preserved it:
"Cassiodorus retires from public office at the age of fifty and moves to Vivarium, a town in southern Italy. It is an epochal move, since to house his library he founds an abbey that begins the monastic tradition of preserving and copying ancient manuscripts. Boethius rests in an unmarked grave, but his translations and commentaries on Aristotle's works, his textbooks, and his prison memoirs live on. For the next five centuries, they are copied and recopied by monks who hardly know what they are preserving, or why." — Richard E. Rubenstein, Aristotle's Children.Is founding a monastic order for the sole purpose of preserving knowledge that no one in your own time cares about brilliant or mad?
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Linda Stone: "Email apnea - a temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing, while doing email." [via anil]
Harbor
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A nice summary of fire lookout towers that dot Pacific Northwest peaks.
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Nice, quick guide to setting ColdFusion error-handlers for public applications.
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A new study finds that fitness/obesity, sadness/happiness might be some "contagious" states that pass from person to person like a virus. The study suggests that we clue into subconscious behaviors of people around us and modify our behavior to "normal" accordingly. [via Rebecca Blood]
Flowers
Jet!
