Maru's Mun Journal

I read my horoscope at Free Will Astrology this morning on my iPad because ceitfianna linked to that site. The content is, well, relevant but not extraordinary. But the 'advertisement' for the man's book at the bottom gives me an extraordinary snippet of a radical self-acceptance mantra that is very relevant to my interests:

Speak the following lines out loud:
I love everything about me
I love my uncanny beauty and my bewildering pain
I love my hungry soul and my wounded longing
I love my flaws, my fears, and my scary frontiers

I will never forsake, betray, or deceive myself
I will always adore, forgive, and believe in myself
I will never refuse, abandon, or scorn myself
I will always amuse, delight, and redeem myself

Here those that might be interested find a review of a new biography on Niccolo Machiavelli, and how relevant he is for today's political discourse.

Excuse the rough machine translation; but actually, we have come far since the early days when Altavista's Babelfish was more of a joke than a tool. The neologism of the headline is somewhat lost, though -- that's 'de-networking'.

Here's a link to a good summary of the edges I've been negotiating with Teja and his canon (and its historical implications, which are only getting re-evaluated very recently):

How to be a fan of problematic things

This is totally Count the cat from Milliways when he was young...

The woman I have come to associate (and curse) as the face of my sometimes infuriating ISP, Alice -- has been fired.

Justly so, for involvement with the Gaddafis.


I jokingly cursed her for an evil slut when my internet went down, never knowing how far she actually did stoop...

A collection of online dollmakers!

Beware if you tend to get addicted to that kind of thing...

Awwww dog!

I had heard about something like that, vaguely, and got some RP mileage out of it here, but it is nice to have a proper article about it.

**snerk- and gigglefit**

Thanks to ceitfianna for the link!!

Who would have thought that this sort of thing existed in 18th and 19th century Scotland? Well, one probably would, as there are always hints of some debauched places where people went to just like that and got debauched. Young men do that, mysteriously, in the novels of Jane Austen or the Brontë, but we only ever guessed at what they did.

Now we get an inkling.

And I get the feeling that there might be some merrily breeding plot bunnies in there for somebody...


Ignore the drivel about the upcoming royal wedding that the article is referring to, set as an amusing background piece. And thanks to carolinw for the link!

essayel? Is this true?