Stuff We Like

“…Clearly the chief ideal of everyone connected with the library movement is that it shall render its maximum service to humanity. We are
all imbued with the desire to bring nearer the time when all the men and women who in any way benefit by library facilities are making use of them.”
L.R. McColvin, quoted in Public Library Extension Activities by Harold Jolliffe (2nd Ed. London: Library Association. 1968.)

 

“Boys who never before thought of doing such a thing may now be seen at intermission seated in some part of the grounds, reading books instead of playing or telling harmful stories or planning to escape.”
F. G. Kraege, Principal Industrial School for Boys, Waukesha, Wis., The Use of Libraries in Reformatory Work, Conference on Charities and Corrections, 1896

 

Daily Grind
Better Myths
OMG That Artifact!
Scientific Illustration
Digital Archives Login
Forced Perspective home
Unshelved
Nedroid
Hobotopia (from the creator of our main page artwork)
Penny Arcade
XKCD
Chainsawsuit
Dharbin!
Dinosaur Comics
Diesel Sweeties
Double Fine Action Comics
Gunshow
Hark! A Vagrant!
I am Boey
Hijinks Ensue
Daringtonium
Wondermark
I’m superfantastic
…by Ken Levine
jwz
Slog
Fark
Cute Overload
Jane Espenson
engadget
Overheard in New York
BibliOdyssey
Distributed Proofreaders
Serious Eats
LAT Daily Mirror
MISCmedia by Clark Humphrey
Strange Maps
NeedCoffee
Zero Punctuation
Big Happy Funhouse
LP Cover Lover
Cute with Chris
Lonely Sandwich
Your Monkey Called
Angry People in Local Newspapers
Tom Gauld
Bad Postcards
Agence Eureka
Jane Brocket
Awful Library Books
Curious Pages

 

Weekly Grind
The Stranger
The Straight Dope
PostSecret
Useless Sites Archive

Learning
Wikipédia
Wiktionnaire
Google Translate

Columns and Stuff
Knitty
Whedonesque
Cliff Mass Weather Blog
McSweeney’s
Instructables
WikiHow
Lileks
The Weekly
The A.V. Club
Dirty Librarian
John Hodgman
Jonathan Coulton
Literary Detective
Defective Yeti
The Sneeze

Food
CocktailDB
Key Ingredients
Home Ec Texts Archive
What’s Cooking America
Feeding America
Taquitos.net
Seattle/King
County Restaurant Inspection

Victus Populi
Navy Logistics Library
Historic Menus: LAPL, NYPL, UW,
Not So Humble Pie
Vending Spree

travel
Amtrak Greyhound
Freighterworld Travelocity Roadside America!
QuikBook

Games?
BlaBla
The End

Toys
The Human Clock – A Photo for Every Minute of the Day
Today’s Front Pages

Audio
Retro Cocktail Hour
Public Radio Fan
Soulfood
Gotradio- mashups
Bob’s Ska Radio
KRVS
Radio Canada
Radio Grapevine
Handbag Hits
Shoutcast
Chico the Leo, Grown Folks Radio
Pittsburgh Oldies
Big Up Radio
70s-90s Jpop
Listenlive’s index of French stations
Listenlive index
Bear Family Radio
Soukous Radio

Galleries/Archives
Digital Public Library of America
Undercover Reporting
Historic Clip Art
City of Vancouver Archives
Antique Pattern Library
Papers Past, New Zealand
The Grocer’s Encyclopedia, 1911
NYC Municipal Archives photos
V&A
European Film Gateway
Old Bailey Online
MacKinney Collection of Medieval Illustrations
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum
Royal Society Journal Archive
Historical Dictionary
Square America
Soviet Xmas
Skarabej
Old UK Photos
National Agricultural Library
USDA Pomological Watercolors
Kentuckiana
GI Pamphlet Series
Prelinger
Brooklyn Eagle
Otis Historical Archives
Washington
State U digital collections

NYPL digital collections
U of Washington digital collections
Cornell institute digital collections
Chicago Public’s digital collections
Duke’s digital collections
McGill’s digital collections
McGill’s Cookbook Collection
U of Minn digital collectons
Academy of Natural Sciences digital collections
New York Heritage
Miami U in Ohio digital collections
US Military Academy digital collections
Syracuse U’s digital collections
Cambridge U’s digital collections
Lost Labor
American Memory
International Institute of Social History
Yale
Washington State Historical Newspapers project
BC Digital Library
UPenn’s Online Books Page
Harry Stephen Keeler
Cornell University Library’s Making of America Collection
Science and Society
Wellcome Collection
Google Book Search
Ingenious
Washington Rural Heritage
Flickr: The Commons
Online Archive of California
Digital Comic Museum
Vintage Ad Browser
Harvard Online Collections
Barnacle Press vintage comics
U of Florida Digital Library Center
Images from the History of Medicine
Henry Ford Museum Cookbooks
Clarke Historical Library
Janice B. Longone Culinary Archive
Cylinder preservation and digitization project
Google Art Project
The Newton Project
Salem Witch Trials Archive
Charles Darwin’s Library
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Surgeons at Sea
Tacoma Public Library Image Archive
Columbus Public Library Image Archive
University of Manchester digital collections
Locally Toned
Baldwin Library of Children’s Literature
New England Journal of Medicine Archives
Contentdm collection of collections
British Pathe
Documerica
Manitobia
London Lives
The Old Foodie

Things that are mysterious
Mysterious Feet