So, what's this Shibboleth stuff, anyway?

[akicif]

The JISC (who sound as if they ought to be an alien race, from EE "Doc" Smith or Doctor Who) have had an animation produced that does a pretty good job of explaining the principles behind what I do during the day.

It's not going to help you set up your own Shibboleth Entity, but it does explain why you might want to.

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[megamole.livejournal.com]

Is a shibboleth like a shoggoth but dribblier?

(g, d & r vvvf)

[akicif.livejournal.com]

It ought to be. And the Dutch version ought to be called Scheveningen....

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Please clean the phlegm off your screen.

I have been to Scheveningen. There is a good steakhouse there that does Argentine beef.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

I've not been to that steakhouse, but I've been to the Israeli-Indonesian fusion restaurant and takeaway on the prmoenade near the Kurhuis(sp?)

Scheveningen also had the world fireworks championship in the same week as ConFiction (1990 Worldcon in Den Haag) - hundreds of thousands of guilders worth of pyrotechnics going up in smoke two or three times weekly).

I had a lovely Argentine steak at one of the many steakhouses on Lange Leidsedwarsstraat in behind Leidseplein - which is basically "pick a Latin American cuisine, any Latin American cuisine".

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Aarrgh. "Prmoenade" looks dutch, but it's just promenade. And s/weekly/nightly/ into the bargain.