But all at once it dawned on me that
this
Was the real point,
the contrapuntal theme;
Just this:
not text,
but texture;
not the dream
But a topsy-turvical coincidence,
Not flimsy nonsense,
but a web of sense.
Yes! It sufficed that I in life could find
Some kind of link-and-bobolink, some kind
Of correlated pattern
in the game,
Plexed artistry,
and something of the same
Pleasure in it as they who
played it found.
John Francis Shade, Pale Fire, lines 806-815 (Canto III), ed. C. X. Kinbote
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This is a short list of persons/places/things/ideas that I have noticed are in need of a good writeup. If you take one of these on, drop me a /msg and let me know. If you're looking for something to node, maybe one of these is for you. (I might even get around to a couple of these myself, but they are very low on my list.)
This month, we're starting with a recap of a few from previous months:
- the contemporary beverage and eponymous luche libre wrestler Orange Crush
- the short-lived softdrink with floaty-bits, Orbitz
- a review of journalist Richard Rhodes' book Dark Sun, on the development of the H-bomb
- convince us that Blue Star Ointment is a wonder-drug and give us some history besides
- the guitarist Mick Rippon, but only if he is important, or interesting
- NODED a treatment of the New Jersey Trilogy of five films by Kevin Smith NODED by BrooksMarlin!
- NODED ClockworkGrue has given us a fine discussion of the quantitization of characteristics in role-playing games!
With Klaproth as my envoy
- Dragonite by a new noder who was referred to
read me first: getting started on E2
- New Jersey Trilogy by a new noder who was
referred to read me first: getting started on
E2
- New Jersey Trilogy by justin dated
- New Jersey Trilogy by LordOmar
refuted by later WU
- New Jersey Trilogy by ZaphodBeeblebrox
dated
- Real World Laws by Nero at the noder's request
- Djinn and Tonic by yehudas this was not a very original cocktail
- (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay by giantfish inaccurate and superseded
- Thomas Byrnes by Spasemunki the noder subsumed the information here into 1886 Professional Criminals of America and requested this deletion
- Unmentionables by GigaBaud one-liner, no links
- nice by TimJansen totally incorrect description of the UNIX command, thanks to spiregrain for pointing this out
- Justifications for Downloading Files by jyveturkie we have all the justifications we need
- seinfeld syndrome by hbw a short attempt to define humor
- History of Mesopotamian Dragons by Brett cut & paste from www.biopark.org's thorough history of dragons from around the world
- Dude, you dropped the fucking bowl! by some stoner
- Men's Liberation Front by Krusty! factoid
- singer by Electricsound factoid
- Progressive Rock by Inter flaccid "I would predict that it will still rise, as more and more people everyday are getting into it again"
- Progressive Rock by Flecko vapid "Think of what the King of Italy according to the film adaptation, Amadeus, it was Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor said to Motzart sic when he was displeased with the music ... at first listen the music seems so hopelessly jumbled and has no melodic value"
- e2 spell checker by a new noder who apologized for posting a blank WU
- Am I Hot or Not? by z_evil1 off topic
- Am I Hot or Not? by Gelfin the noder's personal scoring criteria for "hotness"
- Am I Hot or Not? by cardinal observations on heroin chic and Barbie doll mentality belong in a different node
- Am I Hot or Not? by plonk plonk simple analysis that can be deduced by any visitor to that site
- buying time by a new noder who was referred to read me first: getting started on E2
- This sentence is in English while you're not looking by naked_ape responsorial
- This sentence is in English while you're not looking by MethoD "Once I got stoned. True story."
- How to enjoy The Family Circus by SU3Color unsupported tangent
- Pink Gin by Electricsound superseded
- Pink Gin by yehudas superseded
- Gin And Bitters by moJoe superseded, replaced with firmlink to pink gin
- Barney Gumble by barney_5bb if you only read one Simpsons node this month, read the one that superseded this
- Bruce Campbell by Senso an "and also"-WU, superseded
- Bruce Campbell by Uberbanana an "and also"-WU, superseded
- cyclotron by CentrX accelerated and smashed
- ability score by antivoid superseded by a general discussion of ability scores in RPGs
- ability score by VAG superseded by a general discussion of ability scores in RPGs
- Goa'uld by Hai-Etlik brief description of an alien parasite without any infomation about the fictional setting in which it originates
- 440 BX by FloriZla firmlinked to BX
- node descending a staircase by WildFyre a dumb joke supported by poor ascii art
- Wolverine: Tales That Never Made the Cut by tonto comicbook story ideas that were never published, about which only the most rampent fanyboy would care to read, and an instance of "I'll be writing more in a day or two"
- Brass Herald by Angst sacrificed that funky herald and drew a card
- The Elements of Style by FordPrefect a responsorial from E1
- What is the normal size of a penis? Is my penis big enough? by rp a posting from rec.humor.funny.reruns
- snare drum by FlexAble superseded
- collective by Frasier123 superseded
- Sideline by boywithlegs at the ndoer's request
- Dream Log: April 18, 2003 by boywithlegs at the noder's request
- Stepford Wives by rp superseded by a WU The Stepford Wives
- I found a multi-vitamin in my bellybutton by other90percent and thank you for sharing
- pocket full of quarters by JustSomeGuy an old dumb joke
- pocket full of quarters by g_force off topic
- Alexander Graham Bell by Pedro at the noder's request
That's quite enough, thanks
- SOFTLOCKS
Between you, me, the anal-retentive English teacher who has taken up residence on alternate thursdays in my forebrain, the highschool drop-out HTML-hack who has listened to too much TMBG, and our consultant from the Acronym Institute
- added pipelinks to We Want a Rock
- hardlinked a couple of phrases in Love Will Tear Us Apart
- fixed a Windows apostrophe in our revered sensei's Chau Yep Ahn: Tea Eggs,
also made a personal note to make tea eggs again soon
- fixed typos in Webby's calomel
- fixed typos and hardlinks in charms by NotMe
- fixed a stray apostrophe and some hardlinked plurals in English seaside by mgriffithsuk
- typos in hardlinks in acromegaly
- typos in Wintersweet's review of the Japan Center restaurant Sapporo-Ya
- typos in our sensei's shaved daikon and cucumber salad, a beautiful recipe
once & future