New Light on the Archimedes Palimpsest more inside

The Illustrations of Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. A wonderful astronomer and catastrophic entomologist.

A Primeval Tide of Toxins "Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This 'rise of slime' is killing larger species and sickening people." A long article from the LA Times. more inside

Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds is a graphic novel being serialised in The Guardian. Episodes one to eighty-something are currently available. Tamara Drewe is inspired by Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. Simmonds's previous graphic novel, Gemma Bovery, was similarly inspired by 19th century literature - some French book about some chick by someone called Flambé, or something.

Arborsmithing more inside

Dance, pipecleaner, dance! more inside

The Day the Cow Sneezed more inside

The Pigeon Fanciers of Damascus more inside

2-inch (and smaller) books

Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog via languagehath

Fudge Factory Comics

Architecture against Death. Because "people, particularly old people, shouldn't relax and sit back to help them decline". more inside

USB Art via Core77

Guess what day it is! more inside

Whomsoever can catch a fly with chopsticks has eyes sharper than the flying eagle.

Stanford Solar Centre: Folklore In the beginning there was only darkness and people kept bumping into each other. Fox said that people on the other side of the world had plenty of light but were too greedy to share it. Possum went over there to steal a little piece of the light. He found the Sun hanging in a tree, lighting everything up. He took a tiny piece of the Sun and hid it in the fur of his tail. The heat burned the fur off his tail. That is why possums have bald tails.

Whither the semicolon? more inside

Henryk Tomaszewski is dead

univers revolved Via Core 77

I love you, fully poseable metal person