| Kathleen MacInnes (person) | by Pavlovna | Kathleen MacInnes is a Scottish actress and singer from the Hebridean island of South Uist.
Her acting career isn't too spectacular as most of her work is done in Scottish Gaelic (I mean, how often do you hear the words 'megastar' and 'minority language' in the same sentence?), but in my opinion that doesn't matter because what you really want to do is hear Kathleen MacInnes sing. Her singing is also done in Gaelic and her repertoire includes ...
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| 1 (fiction) | by stainedglass | The tracework of thin black lead sailed in and out of a sea of colour. It was a pure colour, virgin and untainted, that was the only way to describe it. There, in its depths, washed unutterably beautiful crystal-shard sparklings, born of a single split ray of sunlight. It took Peg's breath away, quite unexpectedly.
All her life, she'd imagined that to be an exaggeration. 'It took my breath away', people would say to her, and she'd nod in response. Up until now it had meant...
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| Three "T"s (idea) | by kalen | The idea that there are things you're "not allowed to discuss" in modern China is, frankly, just ridiculous. People attempting to promote such an idea as the truth generally have only the most superficial "interactions" with Chinese people to go on (all too often no first-hand interactions at all) and ultimately if their ideas are challenged it tends to be the case that the root of the mistake is a mistranslation, a misunderstanding, or sadly, malice. We could call them the "Three 'M's" but...
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| Why I love Everything2 (log) | by Heisenberg | | It's easy to fall in love with E2.
From my point of view, there are two main reasons for this:
1. The quality of the content.
You can spend hours trailing the softlinks, following somebody's train of thought and miraculously hopping from one excellent, irreverent or touching node to the other. The diversity of the writings is mindboggling, so boredom is out of the question. Here you will find poetry, prose, sci-fi, facts, fiction, diary entries, drivel. Indeed...
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| The Scene (review) | by zoeb | Remember the 1995 film Hackers? I'm one of those people who's watched
it about a dozen times yet still claims not to like it. I think the
reason is that I don't really like metaphors, especially in such a
literal medium as live-action video footage. Whereas most people
might appreciate mathematical symbols floating around someone's head
in order to capture the essence of how they romanticise computer
code, I for one would rather see the characters exploit, say, a known
vulnerability in the...
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| measure (idea) | by eien_meru |
Typically, I try to avoid meddling in the arcane machinery of set theory. But measure theory is a pre-requisite for several branches of mathematics, from functional analysis to statistics. So let's avoid a great deal of complexity and just say that we will always work within the bounds of some unnamed model of ZFC (be...
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