Coyote Crossing

Hold music

I know it’s been quiet around here. I’ve been working, a bit for money and more on working over the next chapter of the book in my head. Writing starts tonight.

While you wait, here’s some music I like. 

Seelinnikoi, by Värttinä, who are a force

With apologies to my readers in the Low Countries

Someone using rotating Netherlands-based IP numbers has been deluging this site with spam comments. We’re talking thousands of them.

I’ve cut off commenting privileges from an entire country as a result. I wish there was another way to address the

On clownsourcing

In a well-thought-out, provocative (as opposed to incendiary) 2006 essay on the perils of online collectivist thought, Jaron Lanier offers the following near-parenthetical tidbit:

The question of new business models for content creators on the

Carnivaled

My post Why Joshua trees are shaped the way they are has been included in the Scientia Pro Publica (Science for The People) Carnival #20, this iteration of said carnival being hosted over at Kind of Curious. The carnival includes posts on topics

A note on commenting at Coyote Crossing

Thanks to that quick post I dashed off a couple weeks ago, this site has been getting a lot of new readers. With new readers comes new comments. We like this.

However, a few of these commenters have left comments whose apparent purpose is not to

Intermittent intermittancy

The post has been linked by a few more large sites, and the little frills in the template that were just fine when we held steady at 100-1000 visits a day have caused hamster failure at 24 times that traffic.

I’ve trimmed the individual article

I wrote a book

True, it’s old news to some of you that I wrote a book about my adventures with my friend Zeke. There are a lot of new people traipsing through here unexpectedly, though. Not coincidentally, it looks like the huge crowds of new folks — as welcome

Your pressing questions answered

- Yes, I do know that the post uses a metareferential method first used (so far as I know) in a piece by David Moser from Whole Earth Review in 1990. I read it when the issue came out, enjoyed the piece very much, and had it in mind when I wrote

Blog slowness

Some of you may have noticed that the blog seemed to be offline for a bit on Monday night.

This is what happens when you get frontpaged on Fark.

Fortunately, my web host says that it will only cost me an additional 70 dollars a month for a

This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post

This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is

Howdy Stumblers!

This site is getting a huge amount of traffic from people using StumbleUpon, most of whom will be seeing the place for the first time. For you new folks, the tagline of this blog pretty much says what we’re about. For more detail:

Here’s a list

Walking With Zeke gets reviewed

I just noticed these new reviews on the Walking With Zeke order page. It’s particularly gratifying to know that the book is slowly making its way through the grapevine.

By Robert Hatch
A neighbor saw me walking my dog one day and said, “You

Quick pointers

I just found a blog I’ll be tracking:

The Voltage Gate is a blog about ecology and the creative process, a look at two disciplines both in isolation and through the lens of the other. Here you will find reviews of current and foundational

It’s Lurker Day

It’s been a few years since I did this, it would seem, so let’s just say it’s time again. If you’ve been reading Coyote Crossing for a while and never said anything, or even if this is the first time you’ve been here, consider this your formal

Oops!

It’s embarrassing, but I misidentified the tracks in this photo. The solution has been corrected.

This intellectual integrity stuff is hard … (continues)