Dethe of LivingCode writes in response to Elaine’s response to my piece on turning a lawn into a meadow:

Good tips for creating meadows (add our thanks to Elaine and her mother-in-law). We want to do this with our front yard (the back yard is kids’ play area and vegetable garden). Something about what you said reminded me of an article I read on English hedgerows—they date these by how many individual species are found in a hedge, roughly 1 species per hundred years. Not sure what the metaphorical implications of this are, maybe *diversity takes time.*

And I think the technical term for spreadiness is “promiscuous.” %-)

More serious alternatives are here: http://www.thesaurus.com/roget/I/168.html

Gary Turner writes:

I thought this might appeal to your sense of humour.

Gary’s right. It’s a meta-approach to “warchalking,” the instantly-amusing idea of adopting the old hobo chalk signs to mark when you are within WiFi range, because heaven knows there’s nothing worse than running your WiFi card over the beach only to find out that you were getting false positives from old tin cans and crumpled foil candy wrappers, not from the pile of gold doubloons and lost engagement rings you were hoping for.

Martin Roell blogs enthusiastically about some thoughts inspired by Gary Turner‘s site where he has recorded the voices of a handful of his readers and co-bloggers. “I could suddenly feel the Internet,” writes Martin.

(Martin blogs in German, which is something of an obstacle for many of us, including me, even with the absurdist help of Google’s translation tool. On the other hand, where else are you going to see the word “faktenfaktenfaktenreichen”?)

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