"It was then that Delirium noticed that she had absentmindedly transformed herself into a hundred and eleven perfect, tiny, multicolored fish." — Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones
Mom returns books in ‘Gossip Girl’ series she kept off library shelves since 2008. She seems like a perfectly reasonable crazy person. Honestly, I do see where she’s coming from, and she was well within her rights to prevent her children from reading the books, to ask that they be re-shelved, to protest the books in general. But she wasn’t within her rights to keep the books, and her actions are even less appropriate because the librarydidre-shelve the books upon her request. She should be made to pay the fines. [via]
And finally, Dramatic Reading: Batman – Nemesis Fight [via]:
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The article doesn’t state which flowers they used to plant in Kuala Lumpur, but they’re most likely using faulty reasoning. Many flowers commonly available are scentless because they are bred that way. When breeders cross-pollinate for color, bloom size, disease resistance, etc., the scent often disappears. Using “old fashioned” cultivars or cross-pollinating with the straight species can bring back scent less expensively than genetic change in a test tube. Plus, that’s a plug for planting more diversely, rather than in the monocultures which industry has driven us toward.
The article doesn’t state which flowers they used to plant in Kuala Lumpur, but they’re most likely using faulty reasoning. Many flowers commonly available are scentless because they are bred that way. When breeders cross-pollinate for color, bloom size, disease resistance, etc., the scent often disappears. Using “old fashioned” cultivars or cross-pollinating with the straight species can bring back scent less expensively than genetic change in a test tube. Plus, that’s a plug for planting more diversely, rather than in the monocultures which industry has driven us toward.