Linkdump

Okay, the time has come. I’ve got this pile of links or images or whatnot that I keep meaning to look at/read/burn in effigy/save forever/etc. But they’re just sitting in tabs in Firefox. Never getting done. Asking themselves existential questions like, “Why am I here? What will happen to me?” And while I love tabs (awesome invention!), perhaps 25 of them is a bit many (cursed tool of procrastination!). So I am now shifting to a new tool of procrastination and confusion: the linkdump.

Unfortunately for you, I am linkdumping on my blog.

So this is a random pile of things that I couldn’t find a better place for. My organizational skills have apparently fallen tragically short.

Oh, also, feel free not to read any of this. It’s pretty much all for me.

Really interesting information on the building of the Washington, D.C., Temple:

http://lds.org/ensign/1974/08/to-build-a-temple?lang=eng

http://lds.org/ensign/1977/10/the-washington-dc-temple?lang=eng&noLang=true&path=/ensign/1977/10/the-washington-dc-temple

Some lovely bits by E.B. White, quoted in Orson Scott Card’s column (http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2011-09-22.shtml):

*“I'm in love, and I'm going crazy.”
(Translation of a Boston terrier's bark)

*(About love):

And if I have not said it well,
        Or even loud enough to hear it,
That is because I cannot tell
        How much I like, how much I fear it.

*“Natural History”

The spider, dropping down from twig,
Unwinds a thread of his devising;
A thin, premeditated rig,
To use in rising.

And all the journey down through space
In cool descent, and loyal-hearted,
He builds a ladder to the place
From which he started.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider’s web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning.

Phone swiping for credit card; Brice’s dream come true: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/technology/personaltech/googles-virtual-credit-card-can-replace-plastic.html?_r=1&nl=technology&emc=cta1

Interesting thoughts on birth in the context of Christianity:

http://womeninthescriptures.blogspot.com/2008/12/importance-of-birth.html

Hilarious description of the uses of common household items—for kids to learn:

http://www.parenting.com/blogs/parenting-post/kathryn-thompson/few-introductions

The toddler miracle diet:

http://www.nanceestar.com/KidsToddlerDiet.html

Haha! Now I only have 11 tabs! Success.