March 16, 2005
Nice stuff to look at
Das Reich der Liebe ("The Kingdom of Love") by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (Leipzig, 1777). Click for larger image.
Cartographical Curiosities, Map Collection, Yale University Library (via Mark Woods).
Woodcuts from Sebastian Brant’s 1494 book Das Narrenschiff ("The Ship of Fools") at Giornale Nuovo.
Katja posts on cowboy culture in East Germany.
Marja-Leena Rathje posts some beautiful prints by artist Bonnie Jorden.
The Art of James Bond (via Life in the Present).
February 25, 2005
Things to look at
Lowry Educational Site (from Plep). About artist Laurence Stephen Lowry, from Manchester. Interested in industrial scenes; painted Swansea, which is how I heard of him.
Battlestar Gallactica: Episode 1 online (link from Metafilter).
And the best for last: Romance Novels under the covers (via BoingBoing). My pick: Lord of the Tube Socks.
January 26, 2005
Bits and pieces
"You know you're living in 2005 when you accidentally enter your password on the microwave." And nineteen more (via Old Schooler).
New York Times Link Generator gives you weblog-safe links, and there is a bookmarklet (via Bibi).
More webby-introspection: Disturbing Auctions. I wish I'd had the Tartan Doll for the Robbie Burns night party I went to on Saturday (also via Bibi).
Akbar and Jeff are real! (from BoingBoing).
Lip balm for the literati. Choose from ShakeSpearmint, Brontë Berry, Alcott Apricot, or PoeMegranate (from the Catalogue Blog). Come on, they're not even trying! Steinbeck Grape. Milton Pippin, Granny Smith, and Golden Delicious. You could base a whole line on Jeanette Winterson alone.
Drawings of aliens by children (via Life in the Present).
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women: group blog which highlights cool (and some not-so-cool: Rhinoplasty glasses?) gadgets.
A collection of recent comments and posts on writing by hand, at Moleskinerie. Which led to a couple of interesting sites: Future of the Book and Visiting the Well.
Ballads & Broadsides and Last Words (also via Life in the Present). Madame de Pompadour's were apparently, "Wait a second." Lope Felix de Vega Carpio (1562-1635) got a little cranky: "All right, then, I'll say it, Dante makes me sick." My favourite is Civil War General John Sedgwick (1813-1864): "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--."
January 04, 2005
Some quirky things
Spent much of the day wrestling with a new course blog. It worked fine on one blog, but when I transferred the templates and settings to a new blog, just set up, it went haywire.
Sigh.
So, to cheer myself up:
100 covers of The House of the Rising Son. Yeah baby! from Boing Boing.
Gangantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais with illustrations by Gustave Doré (via Bibi's Box).
Wonderful, beautiful doorways from Lilith.
A pizza-box laptop case: "Each PowerPizza laptop disguise is handmade in London using genuine italian-style pizza boxes for maximum authenticity" (link from Mirabilis).
Ed Champion breaks the news: Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch coming to DVD. But wait: with Salman Rushdie. Now there's something to swoon about.
Beautiful new piece by Marja-Leena Rathje.
Infiltration: "the zine about going places you're not supposed to go."
Penguin kisses off a goodly proportion of readers: "What women really want is a man with a Penguin." Uh-huh. (heads up from watermark).
Supernatural Literature in China (via Plep).
This is really great!: Strindberg and Helium (from fishbucket).
The History of Phrenology on the Web. I think they mean, "The History of Phrenology, on the Web." Ohmigod, I just snarked at the British Library! (via Life in the Present).
Just in case anyone is, you know, feeling nostalgic for Xmas ... (from Long Story, Short Pier) And it that wasn't heartwarming enough, try It's a Wonderful Life with bunnies (from columbina).
This is super (also from Long Story, Short Pier).
Well! I'm feeling much better.