Formatting the Word of God Why don't they make title pages like this anymore? Link swiped from plep.

Spam as folk art.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Day-by-day Da Vinci. Read the pages of the Notebooks by RSS, one at a time.

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center. Including The Negro Exodus From the Gulf States by Frederick Douglass [illustrated], The Aspern Papers by Henry James, The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and Tim Woodman ... a Sequel to the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum [illustrated] more inside

Traction at the turn of the century. Link from Miss Wurzel Tod, whom see for more pictures.

To induce orgasm, the stimulating wires could connect to a signal generator smaller than a packet of cigarettes implanted under the skin of a patient's buttocks. more inside

Alphabetical list of Captain Haddock's curses. Wikipedia article.

BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by inbound links. Little weird. A certain filter of our mutual acquaintence is valued at $46.83 per share; and the current top blog is PersianBlog, valued at $29,329.62 per share (and there's 1051000 of them). In other words, more inside

Maps of the Muslim World. Linkage from Milad's new blog focussing on Politics, Language and Cultures of the Arab World.

Tips for the traveler in the U.S. From Under the Fire Star.

Psychoceramics. [Quoi?] more inside

Curious George. more inside

Grail legends.

Go on, pick up the phone.

Inexplicable object of the week. I searched, I did. Can it really be no one's posted it here yet? Including a suppos... supplement to this post.

Elias L Information on the trips L

"Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the internet community." There's also Mathworld. I started with Conic Sections, and proceeded to get very lost.

Flash tour of the Cimetière du Père Lachaise. Pictures of the cemetary. [link courtesy of some monkey. Ought to look familiar to some. more inside

Cassini-Huygens approaches Saturn. More. [via laputan logic]

Striking photos of Kamchatka. more inside