I've been meaning to ask for a while now: what do you mean when you call an entry a link sausage? It is, obviously, a collection of interesting links, but why sausage?
I haven't read the hurricane FAQ yet (will be in a minute); does it discuss whether it would be possible to harness the energy generated by a hurricane to supply the power needs of humans? Imagine the ads for electric cars: "Fly like the Wind! Have the Power of Two Hurricanes at your feet!"
(Yeah, ok, I know that harnessing a hurricane's power is about as likely to happen as dispersing it. I just like the idea.)
I copied the label from someone on my friends list who was doing entries like this before I started doing so. As Nancy pointed out, it's a play on "sausage links" (and being a mismash of links to assorted topics bundled up into the casing of a journal entry, calling it a sausage made of links is not too terribly far a stretch). I think I got the name from browngirl who got it from almeda, and I thought that having a name for this sort of entry made sense (and, pre- tags, a customary title for such entries, made it easier to look for entries like this), so I propogated the meme.
Harnessing hurricanes ... I'm guessing that finding a way to suck energy out of the storm surge would be easier than building wind-power facilities able to handle those speeds. But those are just the most obvious approaches, and I haven't sat down to think about what other avenues there might be. Interesting.
Heheh, I too had been thinking in terms of it being a whole random set of different bits stuffed into a neat little container. OTOH the "sausage links" term wasn't one I was particularly familiar with, so I evidentially only got half the joke! Hence also it was only the past few days that I figured this one out. I'd always sorta assumed it was a US brand or something :D
Oh yes, and I was going to say re Nancy's comment, that here it's more usually sold in butchers and supermarkets, but I'm not really feeling like making 2 comments now ;)
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I haven't read the hurricane FAQ yet (will be in a minute); does it discuss whether it would be possible to harness the energy generated by a hurricane to supply the power needs of humans? Imagine the ads for electric cars: "Fly like the Wind! Have the Power of Two Hurricanes at your feet!"
(Yeah, ok, I know that harnessing a hurricane's power is about as likely to happen as dispersing it. I just like the idea.)
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Harnessing hurricanes ... I'm guessing that finding a way to suck energy out of the storm surge would be easier than building wind-power facilities able to handle those speeds. But those are just the most obvious approaches, and I haven't sat down to think about what other avenues there might be. Interesting.
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Oh yes, and I was going to say re Nancy's comment, that here it's more usually sold in butchers and supermarkets, but I'm not really feeling like making 2 comments now ;)