Some Dutch commies seem to have a quite a nice assortment of digital exhibits, some with English info as well. All in all a pretty nice web site!

The King County Library System will no longer be holding their twice-yearly mega-sales of surplus books, but instead will be selling them through a jobber that will sell them on Amazon. Their first jobber was Sweethome, in Texas, but their warehouse was vandalized, wrecking great quantities of books. The second and current jobber is bLogistics in Colorado. They, too, were beset by woe (collapsing shelves) delaying immediate profit. But with a startlingly large amount of effort on my part, I’ve figured out a way to see listings of what bLogistics is selling on Amazon. I don’t know if they’re selling books for anyone else (I hope not, since it sounds like they can hardly handle the volume from KCLS), but here’s an idea of what’s for sale from their warehouse.

Correction! The books are actually listed through a “storefront.”

Kawaii! It’s Astro-Boy’s birthday, and many small cute people are dressing up!

An interesting article Craig points out there, though when they said “nearly all the mainland churches in America oppose this war,” perhaps they mean mainline. Unless the Puerto Ricans have something else to add…

Have yourself a virtual shopping spree in any Washington State Liquor Store.

Headline from the Eastside Journal in 1941, “Agent Explains Care of Chickens After Blackout.”

Microscopic daggers on fabric can kill microbes! You’ll notice that it only works with natural fibers, this may influence uniform fashions.

Premise: you’re interested in Bollywood films on DVD, but you don’t know where to start.

Solution: a list of Indian films from your local library on DVD, ranked in order of the length of the waiting list, since presumably this is a rough indicator of popularity.

All titles are on DVD, and (probably) from 2002

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas 143

Mujhse dosti karoge! 116

Kabhi khushi kabhie gham– 110

Ek chhotisi love story 107

Raaz 85

Badhaai ho Badhaai 80

Bas itna sa khwaab hai 76

Company 70

Pyaar ishq aur mohabbat 67

Kasoor 65

Om jai jagadish 56

Jodi no. 1 43

Jis Desh mein Ganga Reehta hai 30

Abhay 23

An excellent example of a visual display of information that is immediately clear is again provided by The Economist. Just think how much less obvious this information would be as a list of percentages.

Yes, this is exactly my kind of thing: Snackspot.