What I saw on the web on 2020.10.21

[reblogarythm]

1. Songs for the Philologists
   by J.R.R. Tolkien, E.V. Gordon, et al
   https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:32873/
   silly poems in obscure languages!
   via a Phuulish fellow
   
   
2. Raga Bhinna Shadaj
   by Murali Mohan Gowda
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HQPD7kPvfQ
   Bhinna Shadaj is a raga mostly played within the Dagar tradition (which is Gowda-ji's tradition)
   via FB
   
   
3. Outpatients may have to pay for some treatments now covered in Alberta
   by Elise von Scheel
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-health-services-medications-treatments-patients-pay-1.5769645
   because things get worse
   via rss
   
   
4. Fascinating time-lapse security cam footage of a spider spinning a web
   by David Pescovitz, reblogging someone else
   https://boingboing.net/2020/10/21/fascinating-time-lapse-security-cam-footage-of-a-spider-spinning-a-web.html
   and now that web can be seen world-wide! It's a world wide web!
   via rss
   
   
5. Awesome Falsehood
   by Kevin Deldycke
   https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
   a list of all those "Falsehoods Progammers Believe About [foo]" articles
   via Cory Doctorow
   
   
6. Pope Francis endorses civil union laws for gay couples in new documentary
   by The Associated Press
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-documentary-gay-rights-1.5770754
   not something I was expecting to see any time soon
   via rss
   
   
7. Femme Africaine
   by Star Feminine Band
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdDp6VAXXbk
   some fine Beninois music
   via boing
   
   
8. the tale of Thomas Massey-Massey
   by henryclervals
   https://henryclervals.tumblr.com/post/189862751082/happy-christmas-to-my-favourite-story-of-all
   in preparation for the yuletide season
   via miriamthewalrus
   
   
9. David Graeber on the 'Extreme Centre'
   by David Graeber
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9afwZON8dU
   late Graeber-saheb again bringing refreshing wisdom
   via Ran Prieur
   
   
10. Laura Vaughan explains the Lirone with Pinchgut Opera
    by Laura Vaughan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J-CQ4MQCJ0
    Lirones are wicked instruments
    via reddit