I love your blog

Bo at The Expvlsion of the Blatant Beast has kindly nominated Nemeton for the "I love your blog" award.

I have already nominated eight blogs at MetaPagan, so I won't repeat those nominations here, much as I love those blogs.

So, here are some more blogs that I love:

{feuilleton} - a blog mostly about art, films, and writing, with occasional forays into the occult & the world of gay. Now returned after a brief hiatus due to a technical hitch (that's good, I was getting withdrawal symptoms).

Curious Expeditions - a blog about the weirder corners of life (and death), including Victorian mourning customs, tragic songs, stuffed things, hair sculpture, and weird things in jars in museums.

The Silver Eel - thoughts on literature and life

The Woolamaloo Gazette - more thoughts on literature and life

Notes from underground - blog by Methodius about Orthodoxy, Inklings, and South African politics. Fascinating.

Liz Williams: journal - an SF writer and Druid in Glastonbury

Kathz's Blog - a Quaker writing about pacifism, green issues and literature

Necropolis Now - this blog started as an exploration of funerary monuments, but has now broadened to art and goddesses

There are other blogs I enjoy reading from time to time, but these are ones that I visit regularly.

The rules are:

1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Link to the person from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links to those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs nominated.

NB - it is not compulsory for nominees to also nominate blogs.

new poetry blog

I have created a blog just for my poetry, so you don't have to search for it on my website and my various blogs. It's called Le Beau Ténébreux.

This is the place where I will post my new poetry (and some of my old poetry when I get time). Le Beau Ténébreux is the nickname of the main character in the book What's Bred in the Bone, part of the Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies. It seemed like an apt description for my muse, who usually appears as a dark man with an air of mystery (and no, he does not bring me chocolates).

my best posts

Some of my more memorable posts on Nemeton:

• The Colours of Paganism (guest post at ColorLovers)
• the darkness at the end of the paradigm
• Narnia haiku
• religions as software
• Godde doesn't exist yet
• Krakow
  
• Imbolc 2008
  
• Imbolc 2007
• The Visionary
• the withy king and the stone king
• reading late at night haiku
• bookish meme
  
• Corfu
• Pagan history
• Pullman vs Lewis
• Pullman vs Lewis #2
• the nature of consciousness
• witches in history
• diversity is strength
• is Cold Comfort Farm SF?
• diffusion or archetypes?
• last morning in Prague
• Vyšehrad
• Prague castle
• Václávske náměstí & Staroměstské náměstí
• first night in Prague

harassment

Here's something that leaves a really unpleasant taste in the mouth: the harassment of Kathy Sierra. The comments that were posted about her were not only of an extreme nature, but seemed to hinge especially on the fact that she is a woman in the world of information technology. As a female web developer, this scares me. It's bad enough being hassled for being a geek, without people hassling us for being girl-geeks as well. The comments and threats made against her were completely unacceptable.

I don't know if the answer is a code of conduct for internet use - the problem is, it should be completely obvious how to behave on the internet (hint: it's the same rules as face-to-face interaction) but despite all the rules and guidelines you see on forums and mailing lists and the obviousness of how to behave, you still get the occasional troll who cannot write civil posts and fails to show any consideration for others' feelings.