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These are my links for September 17th through October 14th:

• Fafblog: Giblets explains Obama. Scary, scary Obama! – “FACT! The previous fact was made up. But doesn’t the fact that it was so easily made up prove that a kernel of truth must exist within the lie, and doesn’t the existence of that kernel of truth prove that the lie is, in fact, true? Think about it! But not very hard!”
• THE MINIMALIST; In a Stockpot, Home Brew Beats Store-Bought – New York Times – Recipes for vegetable stocks.
• The Dish on Deliquescence in Coprinus Species :Cornell Mushroom Blog – SPLAT! Love the time-lapse sequence.
• MykoWeb: Getting Started with Mushroom Cultivation – How to start with a mushroom, grow bits of it in agar culture, make grain spawn from that, and use the grain spawn to make a fruiting culture.
• Talk To Action | Reclaiming Citizenship, History, and Faith – “Last Sunday our research team released a video, a ten-minute mini-documentary focusing on the Wasilla Assemblies of God and the video seemed on the verge of a massive ‘viral’ breakthrough when YouTube pulled it down, citing ‘inappropriate content’.” (Link includes video)

Well, it’s been a month and my knees never really did get all that much better. I guess that means it’s time for me to haul my carcass in to physical therapy. Just as soon as I get dug out around here. Hmph.

It’s almost certainly my own fault for not letting my knees rest. They’ve been just good enough for me to stump around on them; it’s only bike riding that really obviously aggravates them. But I probably did them no good when I was building the latest incarnation of the compost bin.

The new compost bin is designed to insulate the compost somewhat over the winter, and it’s basically a three-sided structure made out of sod, reinforced (barely) with cheap plastic-covered steel rods, with inside dimensions of roughly 3′ x 3′ x 5′. Properly speaking, I should probably drive some pipes through the sod walls to increase air circulation, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m enjoying how ancient and Celtic it looks now.