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**Carnival of the Arid

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Chris Clarke at Coyote Crossing is hosting the first Carnival of the Arid, a wide-ranging look at blog artistry coming from, or inspired by, the world’s arid regions. There’s a wonderful diversity of writing there, so go have a browse: http://www.faultline.org/index.php/site/item/carnival_of_the_arid_1

And, to continue with the theme, I recently came across a National Geographic web page on the Empty Quarter, with a mouth-watering (if that’s appropriate for the desert) short video from George Steinmetz, stunning photogrpahy from his ultralite flying armchair: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0502/feature1/index.html and http://www.georgesteinmetz.com/