Small design changes

I'm thinking that this blog might move more towards an essay-based version of life rather than a blog-as-collection of links. Most people who read blogs will probably know about anything I link to already through a bigger website than mine. But I know that a lot of my readers read almost no other blogs apart from mine and don't have an RSS feed popping up constantly on their desktop - so there's a new ephemera section on the side - stuff that's newsworthy, interesting or amusing that y'all might be interested in.