On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I promised the other day to run down a partial list of infrastructure-related weblogs I like reading regularly. So, in delivering on that promise...

I'll admit up front to the bias towards the Spacing Magazine-backed regional weblogs. I contribute to the Ottawa edition, and went to work with them on the basis of their magazine's in-print material. So, in addition to spacing_ottawa, we have four others:

Spacing Vancouver
Spacing Toronto
Spacing Montréal
Spacing Atlantic (focused on the Canadian cities of the Atlantic coastal provinces: Saint John, Fredericton, Moncton, Halifax, Sydney, Charlottetown, St. John's and so on)

(While I've got your attention: Spacing is looking for contributors to similar weblogs they've got in the works for these cities: Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ville de Québec. If you live in any of those cities and you've got informed opinions on the infrastructure there - the definition of "infrastructure" is more wide-ranging than you might think! - go talk to them ASAP!)

Added to that from across Canada:

Public Transit in Ottawa
Public Transit in Vancouver (which apparently has fallen fallow since 2008! Distressing!)

From the rest of the planet:

The Transport Politic
The Next American City
Atlantic Cities
Good
BLDGBLOG

Anyone have any recommendations for adding to this list? I know it's incomplete!

Michael Enright meditated briefly on the meaning and qualifications of heroism this morning on The Sunday Edition.

Seeing as I hope to keep making at least part of my living through other forms of thought experiments, it seemed proper to pass along a linkage to the essay he put forth for consideration.

http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/essays/2011/01/23/who-is-a-hero/

Wondering if there's any such novels, one-offs or series, that I don't already have that might be worth a look-see...

Baseline assumptions regarding my tastes: I've got most of the Trek stuff I care about, Clarke's Odysseys, some of Niven's stuff for Known Space, Rob Sawyer's Starplex, most of the Honorverse books, Chris Claremont's Nicole Shea trilogy, and Jack McDevitt's Priscilla Hutchins stories among others. I'm also tempted to throw in David Brin's Earth given some of its angles.