Views from the Reading Room

Well, it's a bit elliptical (as is anything I post tagged "connections", also). If you follow the "MammothFail" link, that'll explain the story so far. (But you probably won't understand the comments.) The "linkspam" contains more links than the mind can comfortably conceive, but they're not divided up into the useful, the ones where you have to already know what people are talking about, and the better-avoided, so I picked out popelizbet's post as a good place to start (and possibly stop, if you don't have a week to spare).