A frequent contributor to Fortean Times, the Mary Evans Picture Library is pretty darn cool.
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Wordsearch
A really nice free wordsearch maker tool. Useful for making your own activity placemats.
International Language… Crochet.
People who have figured out that the Japanese have advanced cute technology that can be harnessed in cute crafts.
Info and Substitutions
A Cook’s Thesaurus, and like a regular thesaurus, some substitutions are better than others…
Misc. Victoriana
Victorian London, in many guises.
Edisonclarification!
To clarify, those Edisonblog! posts are drawn word-for-word from his diary (available as scanned pages here). He’s an odd guy, that Edison.
The Best Folk Are Circus Folk
Page upon page of archived photos of circus folk.
Patently rhetorical questions
Toward the end of an article about how computers are getting too good at text recognition is an odd bit: "H-P no longer owns the patent, said Brigida Bergkamp, a spokeswoman for the technology giant. She declined to disclose what had happened to the patent." The patent was acquired by an undisclosed buyer? Isn’t the point of a patent to get people to license it? Isn’t that made harder if they can’t find out who you are? Isn’t who holds a patent public information?
Edisonblog!
Menlo Park N.J.
Sunday july 12 1885
(it’s the rest of the day, and a long one, so continue in the extended entry…)
Ardneh’s Sword review
Ardneh’s Sword, Saberhagen. If you’ve read Empire of the East and the Books of Swords. This was just about exactly what you’d expect it to be. Saberhagen, bless him, does not misuse “whomever”. I was left wanting something more substantial; I’m re-reading at least the first three Books of Swords now, to see whether there was more to Ardneh’s Sword than I saw.
Update: here‘s what I found.