sj's Longest Now [v.1]

Well, my infatuation is only growing stronger, but I think I’ll go back to posting about communication and general dissemination of ideas and hold off on the wikilinks for a while.  First, however, I want to share one of the recent results of the Wikibooks project:  A colorful, neatly laid-out German primer for English-speakers, with audio files and external references (to websites and texts), broken into three levels of advancement.  In all, this is probably the equivalent of a full year of university German; I suppose that means that in print the text(s) would run you some $60. 

This trio of texts is complete now, though still undergoing quiet improvements; the project to develop this book was begun six months ago.  Of course many of the people who contributed had been gatharing their own private notes and images for years prior to that, but this is how life goes — 99% of all usefully-collated information gets packed up in a box and eventually recycled… as tree pulp, not as information.  A non-rival award of two oofm to those who reuse such order instead.

Coming soon to a Main Page near you:  the most commonly-observed photonic crystalline lattice, in living color.