I found this helpful for an aran sweater I'm about to start

This blogger took a tour of the ecovillage founded by Gabriel of Urantia (who I've written about previously: https://americancynic.net/log/2012/6/7/gabriel_of_urantia/). It looks pretty nice.

How Life Imitates Chess, by Garry Kasparov

Larisa Arap (Russian: Лари́са Ива́новна Ара́п; born in 1958) is a Russian opposition activist who became a victim of involuntary commitment in the psychiatric facilities of Murmansk and Apatity, soon after publishing her article about mistreatment of patients in the same hospital where she was committed in July, 2007. She was released after 46 days of confinement, on August 20, 2007.

See also the documentary "God's Cartoonist - The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick":

https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/filmedia/play/2330/God-s-Cartoonist---The-Comic-Crusade-of-Jack-Chick

An interview with Sarah Kernochan about making and later finding the negatives for the Marjoe documentary.

Check out this hipster doofus.

Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (1851 – 8 May 1919) was a Russian revolutionary. She was friends with the nihilist Sergei Nechaev, tried to kill the governor of St. Petersburg, and co-founded the first Russian Marxist group.

Obviously chess and tetris are both very leaky metaphors for life, but I liked the comparison and the emphasis on inner life of tetris over external struggle of chess.