Places I have been

Happy birthday nightporters and stackcats! Hope the weather is better for you than here right now \o/

Apparently my life didn't have enough complications already, since I got another one added last night, so I'm still not entirely able to focus right now. What I have been doing is saving links to my Delicious account, although most of them have to do with crochet and craft (if you're interested, I use the same username over there as here). But I do have a few of more general interest. Well. I say general interest. Mostly they're pretty things and Radio 4.

There's some great stuff on the BBC iPlayer right now. I particularly recommend the History of the World in 100 objects, The Classic Serial "What is a man?" which is about Henry II and his sons, the In Our Time archive and From the Ban to the Booker which traces the history of lesbian fiction (although I don't get on with her books, I love listening to Val McDermid).

The pretty stuff I am looking at includes the work of Baptiste Debombourg, who creates art out of staples; The Evolution of the Book; Dante's Internet; and two pieces about design: Color theory and The Global Visual Language of the BBC which is a fascinating look inside the process.

I've also been skimming this book, which is a vision of libraries in 2010, written in in early Seventies.

And finally, this article suggest you should ship your luggage rather than trust it to the airlines. I'm not sure I trust the post office more...