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[jaylake]

Et si la crise de la Sf n'existait pas vraiment - Some French commentary on the current generation of SF.

Life in pictures - In which I make a guest appearance as an Ewok on Julie Ann's blog.

You can draw, and probably better than I can - Another of Roger Ebert's meditations on life. I especially liked this bit on sketching: Begin with a proper

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[reynardo]

Are Jawas just undead Ewoks? I have no idea. But I still get shudders of horror at my husband's thesis - that Ewoks didn't show until after we'd met Yoda, and that they look somewhat like little wookies too, so that perhaps they're a result of Yoda and a Wookie...

And that's the part where I run off screaming.

[emmainfiniti]

Guest ewok is not necessarily a bad label.

A question, and a throwing up of hands in exasperation

[kateyule]

(a) Is elitist oligarchy a tautology?

(b) The master craftsmen - those who rate the most patterns, are most skilled and write the most patterns - have a skill oligarchy over the majority of beginner and intermediate handicrafters, who, because they do fewer projects and rate fewer patterns, are seeing their majority say in the ranking system diluted... 4 percent of the users - addicts - are responsible for half the site activity...If that’s not the definition of oligarchy, what is?

Well, Bob, the definition of oligarchy is "the rule of the few; government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique". So this situation is as much an oligarchy as yellow is crunchy.

Seriously: where's the "governing"? Patterns are getting rankings, for difficulty and for an unspecified aspect which the Young Reader dubs "quality". That's it. No one is made to take action or barred from taking action on the basis of these rankings; they don't set tax rates, or fee scales; they impose no consequences. They are a

Re: A question, and a throwing up of hands in exasperation

[jaylake]

Crunchy yellow heel!