Oooh...

WikityWidget can handle links after all... just not in html format, it parses the raw url only and does not mask it with link text when creating an external link.

I wonder if there are any other things it can do along these lines, or notation to force it to handle links in a more complex manner... will play around with this and see...

Open Question

What are the vices of the Seelie Court? What are the virtues of the UnSeelie Court? And vice versa?

I'd prefer it if members of each court answered about their negative perspectives of their own courts and their positive perspectives of the ones they don't belong to, since I can see this quickly getting into a set of accusations or propaganda and away from reality if people start talking negatively about courts they don't belong to and positively about ones they do. But I won't be too strict about that as long as people are trying to be constructive in their answers.

What's negative about each of these courts? What's positive about each of them?

I have the weirdest hunch that the responses I get back are going to correspond quite well to two human groups I'm observing... which kinda freaks me out.

Oh, I have walked the Pattern to the Place where Pattern Ended...;-)

Chaos Vortex You scored 62%

More often than not, you lean toward chaos rather than order. Chances are you have a difficult time keeping things clean or orderly, but chances are you also don't really care too much. You're most likely a free spirit, artistic and creative, whether in a traditional pursuit like painting or writing, or a less conventional one like programming or rhetoric. Your predominating element is probably water.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 71% on chaopoints

Link: The Chaos Test written by miratos on Ok Cupid

Side Observation

You know, I've been described as being more of Order/Law than of Chaos. It just occurred to me that I'm actually more like the Unicorn of Amber.

The Unicorn was a creature of Chaos, but was the source of the Courts of Amber and the Pattern of Amber, which spread the influence of Law. In the same sense, the Serpent was a creature of law creating the courts of Chaos and the Logrus.

I'm not an especially organized person. If you don't believe that because you've seen me organized in one area of my life through concentrated effort (such as my notetaking) I highly suggest you come look at my room and the number of papers and notebooks stuffed at random into drawers. Organization is not really in my nature in high degrees.

Nor do I especially go in for regimented organizations. Never have. Hierarchical command structures tend to drive me crazy as commonly implemented. I like a great deal more personal autonomy to perform my job in a group, whatever that job may be. I really don't like people whose main function seems to be to give orders to other people. The only manager-sorts I've ever really respected are the ones that know when to jump in with their employees and help get a job done, rather than sitting back and bitching that the employees aren't working fast enough.

So, I'm of Chaos. But the thing is, I build. That's part of my nature too. I like to build things. I like to create. Sometimes concrete things like websites and such. Other times, systems that I think will be beneficial. Sometimes even social systems and organizations. Hard to build such things on Chaos. That's where Order comes in. By building, I'm imposing order on the universe in a sense.

Just some thoughts, feel free to take them with a grain of salt. Maybe it all just boils down to the fact I'm not really comfortable with the "lawful" classification. *shrugs* Chaotic Good... or at most Neutral Good. That's more comfortable to me.

DancingLights:

If you don't have this already, you really should grab it before September. :)

Anyone else who wants a copy can go grab it too. :) Teh filk is gooood. :)

Tom Smith and Steve Jackson - Talk Like A Pirate Day.mp3