Thank you all for coming on Sunday.

• REPO! The Genetic Opera
• E.L. Doctorow's new novel Homer & Langley about the hoarding Collyer brothers
• VICTORIA listserv

I haven't hit the OED yet regarding temporal and temple, but I don't think it would give us much more info on the pre-English etymology anyhow.

The English word temporal (i.e.—secular) comes either directly from the Latin tempus or indirectly through the Old French temporal. This is the same root as the English word temple (as in the side of one's head). So, both secular/time and anatomical definitions share the same etymology.

However, the other definition of temple (as in a building) does not share the same Latin root as its homonym. It come from the Latin templum.

I can see how it would be tempting to think that the English words temporal (as opposed to sacred) and temple (the building) were related. It's possible that both Latin words came from the Greek temno (meaning a section) but we can't know for sure, and if such a link existed it might not signify much to the Ancient Greeks.

As to why the Latin tempus/tempora means both a period of time and the sides of the head, perhaps as a period of time is marked by the space between two events, so the temples mark the sides of the head. That, I admit, may be stretching it.

• Russia, Georgia conflict caused Facebook, Twitter outage
• Cloud ships
• Cloak & Dagger (1984) There was also a 1946 film of the same name staring Gary Cooper and directed by Fritz Lang. Charles Dickens originated the phrase "cloak and dagger".
• Charles Babbage
• Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns and La Fin Absolue Du Monde discussion
• Fascism
• Moon landing failure speech
• Academic Earth video lectures
• What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
• Tip Toe Through The Tulips
• Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britian
• Clues To Amelia Earhart's Death
• A History of Philosophy, Volume 1

Thank you all for coming to my place on Saturday.

• Russia, Georgia conflict caused Facebook, Twitter outage
• Cloud ships
• Cloak & Dagger (1984) There was also a 1946 film of the same name staring Gary Cooper and directed by Fritz Lang. Charles Dickens originated the phrase "cloak and dagger".
• Charles Babbage
• Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns and La Fin Absolue Du Monde discussion
• Fascism
• Moon landing failure speech
• Academic Earth video lectures
• What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
• Tip Toe Through The Tulips
• Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britian
• Clues To Amelia Earhart’s Death
• A History of Philosophy, Volume 1

Thank you all for coming to my place on Saturday.

• 23 yaer pregnancy
• Synchronized blinking
• Michigan eLibrary databases
• Invisible college
• Nero Wolfe
• Bitters
• Cronenberg's Spiders
• My Fair Lady
• How to waltz

Thanks to Magdalena for hosting.

• The girlfriend experience
• The Girlfriend Experince movie
• Panther Man on Facebook
• Panther Man on American Idol
• Autotune The News
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox (more great images)
• The 13 Clocks
• New York Review of Books childrens classics reissues
• Do frogs drink water? [PDF] "Usually 80-90% of the total water uptake occurred by absorption across the skin. Thus although 'secondary' type drinking takes place, 'primary' drinking did not appear to occur. These results directly confirm the general popular impression that amphibians, in contrast to other tetrapods and marine teleosts, do not drink in order to rehydrate."
• Enormous aquarium video
• Diurnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the day and sleeping at night. Animals that are not diurnal might be nocturnal (active at night) or crepuscular (active primarily during twilight, i.e., at dusk and dawn).
• Skunk apes
• Smurf UNICEF video
• The Guns of August
• Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Thanks to Ed for hosting.

• My ukulele
• MGM ululeles on eBay
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• MERP
• Harfoots, Fallowhides, and Stoors
• Gene Wolfe
• Picasso and the Mona Lisa theft
• Mad Dog and Glory movie
• Definition of a failed state
• The Third Eye Nickelodeon TV show
• How Fiction Works

Thanks to Amanda and Mike for hosting.

• Police should trust the wisdom of the crowds
• Bitter end
• Etiquette by Emily Post
• DNA not the same throughout body?
• Track of the Moonbeast

• Arts & Letters Daily
• U.S. Supreme Court on authorship of Shakespeare's plays
• Bindle
• Kinky Friedman
• Stash box (coincidentally also called a bindle
• In My Language autism video by Amanda Baggs. Worth having the patience to watch it all the way through.
• 30 Rock is a rip-off the The Muppet Show
• The Code of Miss Porter’s
• Replacing journalists with writers
• Walk on Water movie
• The endurance running hypothesis
• Benford's Law

• Arts & Letters Daily
• U.S. Supreme Court on authorship of Shakespeare's plays
• Bindle
• Kinky Friedman
• Stash box (coincidentally also called a bindle
• In My Language autism video by Amanda Baggs. Worth having the patience to watch it all the way through.
• 30 Rock is a rip-off the The Muppet Show
• The Code of Miss Porter’s
• Replacing journalists with writers
• Walk on Water movie
• The endurance running hypothesis
• Benford's Law

• Why cats fail to grasp string theory
• Gaslight the film
• Gaslighting the verb [SPOILERS]
• Falcon nest sites go back 2500 years
• Plushophile
• Larger Populations Triggered Stone Age Learning
• Berners-Lee: We no longer fully understand the web
• Work Visa Bill Threatens Indian Outsourcers
• Serial killer head injuries
• The Clockwork Chickadee by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Anyway, anyways and also anywise
• Widdershins and Windershin, widdershins, widowshins
• Zappa's Camarillo Brillo lyrics
• -ski as an honorific "the ski/cki/dzki surnames already contain the de/von meaning"
• Paradoxical undressing "the phenomenon still regularly leads police to assume incorrectly that urban victims of hypothermia have been subjected to a sexual assault."
• Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer in the bath
• Marry Poppins vs Cthulhu "while Shirley Temple was successfully assimilated by the Borg Collective, adding her uniqueness to their own led to the Borg Ship Lollipop probably the strangest Borg Queen ever, absolutely ruining their street cred as villains"

She stripped away
Her ranchid poncho
An laid out naked by the door
We did it till we were un-concho
An it was useless any more
[...]
(is that a real poncho...i mean
Is that a Mexican poncho
Or is that a Sears poncho?
Hmmm...no foolin ...)

• Info about poison dart frogs and terrarium setups for them: here, here, here, here, here, and especially here (the dendroworld forum is mentioned on almost every dart frog link)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• How the largest dinosaurs got so big
• Vanishing Point
• Highway 61
• Woodsburner
• TED
• Flight Control
• Detroit Institute of Arts photos
• Massachusetts health care reform
• Single-payer health care

• Amazon statistically improbably phrases
• Peters once challenged Creative Artists Agency co-founder Mike Ovitz to "a mano-a-mano karate showdown." I predict that Jon Peters will be the internet's next Chuck Norris.
• Wigu
• Did Shakespeare Want To Suppress His Sonnets?
• The Ferris Bueller Fight Club theory
• The Whole Five Feet about the Harvard Classics
• Self control and marshmallows
• Superbad
• Le Petomane When asked recently what real-life characters he longs to play, Depp cited Le Petomane, a turn-of-the-century Parisian cabaret performer who boasted a unique talent--he tooted grand opera from his anus. "You have to admire anyone with such control of his ... instrument," Depp explained to Playboy. "What a hysterical scene when he discovers his gift. That's a role I'd do in a minute."
• Lew Welch's Ring of Bone

• Genius babies
• Electrocution and amusingly: Edison tried to introduce the verb "to Westinghouse" for denoting the art of executing persons with AC current.
• Life insurance payouts for death row inmates
• The pot on my head was about 400 years old when Troy was sacked
• James Bond and Prince Valiant like James Bond, Valiant is concerned with justice and truth. He's Generation X, medieval style.
• Elliot Gould in The Long Goodbye directed by Robert Altman! (but Gould was not in The Big Sleep)
• Q. What's the difference between a French kiss and a Belgian kiss? A. A Belgian kiss is like a French kiss, but with more Flem. I bet the Walloons have some nasty Flemish jokes, though
• Film noir motifs in Sling Blade
• The rebel yell
• Neil Gaiman's beekeeper
• Lief Erickson, probably the first European to land in North America (excluding Greenland)

• Dinner, super, or tea? It is not uncommon for English people to use the phrase "come round for a meal" in order to avoid the pitfalls of using vocabulary as a social identifier.
• A Bridge Too Far
• All Creatures Great and Small
• Uncle Tomovitz
• The Mighty Boosh
• Solipsism
• site of free will found in brain
• Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
• Dick Cheney is a Robot
• Psychopathy vs sociopathy
• "It's as meaningless as you want it to be."
• Grey Gardens
• Vote for the next Criterion Blu-Ray release
• Oregon Trail for iPhone
• Barfleet
• Reschedule for Saturday nights at 10:00 PM? Maybe.

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Saturday sushi links:

• Pedant
• The impact of contemporary theoretical physics on the prescriptive grammar of Victorian England
• Asparagus by G.K. Chesterton
• Grammatical shibboleths

Links from Sunday:

• The simile — implied
• Spammers solving AI problems
• Pam Braun Pens
• Stoeger coach gun
• Christopher Fowler's Bryant & May mysteries
• Doctor Who: City of Death
• Banrock Station Shiraz 2007
• Polished concrete floors
• Catholic indugences
• Don't sleep, there are snakes

A bit late this week, but here they are:

• Charter schools: Islamic charter schools in Minnesota, Islamic practices at such a charter school, a scuffle at an Islamic charter school, and Islamic charter schools in California (via Ed)
• Druid secret language, finger alphabet, cants such as Polari, and, as a bonus, STAR LANGUAGE
• We need to film an internet video titled "America's Next Top Druid"
• Running barefoot
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• Odysseus in Dante's Inferno
• "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
• Remarkably, according to IMDB's name search, Cary Grant and Bette Davis never worked together on a film, despite being about the same age and both working at Warner Bros.
• Ten collector's edition with cassette tape (via Mike)

• Sea lilies
• Trash vortex in the Pacific
• Magdalena's one act play title: My Big Martini Meltdown In Saugatuck
• Chimes at Midnight Orson Wells' Henry IV
• Thor with Kenneth Branagh
• Influences on Wes Anderson, watch the video
• Shakespearean limericks
• Texas science curriculum
• Chinese death trucks
• Move Under Ground, a Lovecraft/beat mash-up novel
• Criterion Seventh Seal Blu-Ray release with a "new, restored high-definition digital transfer"
• Criterion DVD Blu-Ray trade-in program
• Were geese sold by butchers in Victorian London with or without feathers?
• Vonnegut's inspired this tattoo and these assholes

• How the largest dinosaurs got so big
• Zoot suit riots
• The Phantom of Heilbronn
• The Victorian Era
• A Study In Scarlet
• The Greek Interpreter "It was after tea on a summer evening, and the conversation, which had roamed in a desultory, spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic, came round at last to the question of atavism and hereditary aptitudes. The point under discussion was, how far any singular gift in an individual was due to his ancestry and how far to his own early training. [. . .] 'Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.'"
• Atavism
• Medusa

There is also a question about the definition of "cyclopean"—if it means merely gigantic, or if it also means one-eyed. The internet failed to provide a satisfactory answer, so I shall consult the OED this evening.

• Writing, reading, cut-up, and plagiarism
• Ethiopian 10 cent piece
• Robert Scott Correctional Facility
• Script Frenzy
• Celtx
• Tommyboy
• Daria Morgendorffer's in Women Wear Daily
• The Battle of Teutoburg Forest
• The Ruins horror movie trailer
• Lothario
• The Libertine "A confusing, monotonous, unattractive drama, Libertine mires its talented cast in a squalid, self-indulgent mess." Ouch.
• The Second Sex
• Spiegel Online
• London clubs

• Cosmetics price fixing
• Micro expression
• Eliminate AIDS
• Obama to reverse Bush's conscience regulation
• The Speaker of the House is elected on the first day of a new session of Congress
• Commute by zip line
• P.G. Wodehouse's Something New (Kindle) and Right Ho, Jeeves (Kindle)
• Convert Project Gutenberg books for the Kindle
• Wizard World Chicago comic-con
• How realistic do fake beards look?
• Boston marriage
• tribadism
• Stanza iPhone application
• What happened to Sea World Ohio?
• Super-scorpion
• Bad wine
• John Thomas

• Hello Kitty
• British regency, the 1795-1837 transition between Georgian and Victorian
• Russion Revolution of 1905
• Russion Revolution of 1917
• A Natural History of the Romance Novel a word about formula
• This American Life explains the collapse of the banking system
• His Majesty's Dragon
• Great Adaptations from the Criterion Collection

• Hello Kitty
• British regency, the 1795-1837 transition between Georgian and Victorian
• Russion Revolution of 1905
• Russion Revolution of 1917
• A Natural History of the Romance Novel a word about formula
• This American Life explains the collapse of the banking system
• His Majesty's Dragon
• Great Adaptations from the Criterion Collection

• The Five Books of Moses
• Four temperaments
• Five temperaments
• Pulling a few threads
• Saddle Shoes to Jimmy Choo's
• My reading list for 2009
• Rapture Letters
• Dead man's switch
• Poe's Children including M. Rickert's Leda
• Bones of the Moon
• Land of Laughs in Fringe
• Kindle 2

• This American Life about "two kids who travel halfway around the country to find each other and become best friends"
• "The term big cat is used to distinguish the larger cat species from smaller ones. One definition of big cat includes only the four species of cat in the genus Panthera: the tiger, lion, leopard, and jaguar. Members of this genus are the only cats able to roar, and this is sometimes considered a distinguishing characteristic of big cats. A more expansive definition also includes the cheetah, snow leopard, clouded leopard, and cougar. The roaring cats may also be distinguished from the other big cats by referring to them as 'great cats'."
• The longest MONOPOLY game in history lasted 70 straight days.
• U.S. Consumer Panel Warns Of Injury by 'Slap' Bracelets
• What do women want?
• The Prophecy
• Ur by Stephen King
• Wild Nights! by Joyce Carol Oates
• The bloop "Because the Bloop noise originated near the location of the fictional sunken city of R'lyeh from H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", the Bloop has been linked to Cthulhu by Lovecraft fans."
• Lovecraft's letters (I ordered volumes II, III, and V)
• Open Me Carefully
• Jasmine lily, Sakura, top-down tea, and three flowery teas
• Batdorf & Bronson coffee roasters
• Power Station
• Ritalin
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Northanger Abbey
• The gothic and southern gothic
• Flight of the Conchords

• This American Life about "two kids who travel halfway around the country to find each other and become best friends"
• "The term big cat is used to distinguish the larger cat species from smaller ones. One definition of big cat includes only the four species of cat in the genus Panthera: the tiger, lion, leopard, and jaguar. Members of this genus are the only cats able to roar, and this is sometimes considered a distinguishing characteristic of big cats. A more expansive definition also includes the cheetah, snow leopard, clouded leopard, and cougar. The roaring cats may also be distinguished from the other big cats by referring to them as 'great cats'."
• The longest MONOPOLY game in history lasted 70 straight days.
• U.S. Consumer Panel Warns Of Injury by 'Slap' Bracelets
• What do women want?
• The Prophecy
• Ur by Stephen King
• Wild Nights! by Joyce Carol Oates
• The bloop "Because the Bloop noise originated near the location of the fictional sunken city of R'lyeh from H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", the Bloop has been linked to Cthulhu by Lovecraft fans."
• Lovecraft's letters (I ordered volumes II, III, and V)
• Open Me Carefully
• Jasmine lily, Sakura, top-down tea, and three flowery teas
• Batdorf & Bronson coffee roasters
• Power Station
• Ritalin
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Northanger Abbey
• The gothic and southern gothic
• Flight of the Conchords

• Cryptic ConFusion
• My photos from ConFusion
• Business Week's audio interview with EVE online economist
• EVE Online's the great scam
• The great scam fake?
• The biggest scam in EVE online
• Ender's Game
• Anda's Game
• Divorce and division of virtual assets
• Fail blog
• American murder mystery and Section 8 housing
• Michigan film office
• mandy.com film job listings
• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Can I Sit With You?
• Hair vs fur
• The Rabbit (possibly NSFW)
• trapezium
• Inverted perspective in Medieval art
• Ascenseur pour l'chafaud with Miles Davis soundtrack
• A Voyage to Lilliput

Another fabulous Monday morning brings a new round of links from last night's festivities:

• Story from North America
• Is my husband trying to kill me?
• German wine
• Brief Encounter
• David Lean
• Merchant Ivory Productions
• Alice doesn't live here anymore
• Alpha, beta, gamma, delta
• Ten Doctor Who episodes
• Jack/Ianto fan community
• George Bush grocery scanner
• Hava Nagila (live from Bollywood)
• Only Women Bleed (Sharia remix)
• Democracy in India
• Israel's story in maps
• The floo network

Hello, Monday morning. (Has it really been seven days already?) Here are some links from last night's conversation:

• An Introduction to white wines "Chardonnay should be served at 46°F - 50°F"
• Defective Yeti good game guide
• Crossbows and Catapults
• Ginger
• Relationship between chess and memory, "chess is definitely an excellent memory exerciser the effects of which are transferable to other subjects where memory is necessary"
• Jesus Christ Vampire Hunger (trailer)
• I leant upon a coppice gate
• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Stonehenge beneath Lake Michigan
• Sheela Na Gig P.J. Harvey video
• Sheela na Gig at Wikipedia
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Remnants TV pilot starring Ze Frank
• The Show with Frank Ze

• The Imagery of Chess Revisited
• Chess Sets from the Dr. George and Vivian Dean at the Detroit Institute of Arts
• The Fury of Dracula
• Canterbury Stained Glass
• The Kiss
• Arts, Beats, and Eats "450 participants in our guitar hero competition"
• How to remove red wine stains from clothing
• Charles Stross entry at Wikipedia
• Saturn's Children, "a space opera in the mode of late-period Heinlein"
• How to remove red wine stains from carpet
• FFView comic book reader for Mac OS X
• The IT Crowd
• Legal Rights to a Deceased's Burial: Who Decides?
• Adam's Navel, "the neurosurgeon [. . .] said that the human head is roughly the size and weight of a bowling ball and that the spine labors like the stem of a sunflower to carry such a burden."