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Some of these links are seriously old, but that doesn't matter, right? A good link is a good link.

Extreme Home Cinemas. The first gives new meaning to the phrase 'drive-in'

Make Me Mighty! Could be handy for naming characters ;)

Write your own academic sentence. I so wish this was an exaggeration...

Scroll Clock. This one doesn't really do anything, it's just weird to watch.

Link picked up from white_hart, thanks :) Dante's Internet.

Phone box becomes library. One of the most common conversations in librarianship nowadays is "what is a library for?" There's lots of answers, but I think this article illustrates that, for most people, if it's got books you can borrow, it's a library.

Did I link you to The London Skyline in Vegetables before? It's worth a repeat if I did.

I could spend hours and hours poring over the Victorian Infographics at Bibliodyssey. I need to do some practice for my 2nd Photoshop course next week, and think I just found my source material *drools*

Not my kind of thing, but this new white noise generator might be handy for some folk out there, ditto Universal darkroom, although the latter is a script rather than a DL-able programme, so I think there's little chance of my getting that one to work.

One new thing to me that I am having fun with is Fallen London, which I picked up through ar_gemlad on Twitter. RPG isn't really my thing, but clicking buttons is, so I'm enjoying prodding it gently and slowly to see what happens.

I've seen plenty of jokes about the iPad already (seriously, Apple? How many of you did it take to pick that name?), but the visual ones at Jezebel are my favouites.

And finally, because I know it'll be relevant to several friends' interests, the Bodleian's current exhibitions is Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures. There's no website with good pictures, but there's a brief description here and there's an exhibition catalogue available. The exhibition leaflet is pretty good, but given the lack of online presence, I'm thinking it's only for people who can actually come by Oxford at some point.

ION, I'm trying out Google Chrome at work as my main browser. We're getting on okay so far, although there's no way I would have considered switching before the decent number of extensions came out. It does some things well (so quick! so pretty!) but absolutely sucks at others (ask me where to save things when you download them! stop previewing this message as thought I'm signed in as heretoutopia and what the hell happened to my html?! *cough* that one was me...) My favourite so far is the gmail checker, because the little envelope rotates when you get new mail, or you read the message it's alerting you about. Simple things...

Some cross-posted from my library blog:

For my friends in Japan: What Tokyo libraries are doing in the recession. And the Boston folks too.

Libraries with views. I thought this was such a lovely idea, but it did make me think about the line from Ladies of Letters: "I was sorry to hear about your picture window. The best thing about your living room was being able to see out."

And so it begins. Yup, they're studying Twitter already.

Other things:

Some Roman historical fiction recommendations. The blog's author is looking out for books about Catalina at the moment, and since that's a pet subject of mine, I'd heartily recommend these as well!

Actually, while we're talking about all things Roman, it probably says something about my brain that I saw the following link and thought "Well, if Nightdog ever wants to take James and Gregorius to Rome, they'd arrive here." *ahem*
A wonderfully photographed blog about Ostia Antica
Still in that general area (historically speaking): Is this the origin of Scylla and Charybdis; The trials and tribulations of Roman publishing; celebrating Rome's 2762nd birthday

Coming back to our own time, the latest Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, so have some links of a more literary nature:

And The Pulitzer For Forgotten Fiction Goes To...

Bookswim. Netflix for books. It's easy to mock this by saying "isn't that what libraries do", but not everyone can get to a well-stocked library easily, quickly and frequently.

Long and interesting article about the enduring appeal of the Harlequin romances

Reviewing a review or "reviews should not be needlessly bitchy." Considering the golden-rule of fanfic concrit communities is "criticise the story, not the author", I thought this might be of interest to people.

Judging a book (bag) by its cover. WANT! (Creator's website)

Slightly more randomly:

Still Tasty gives you an idea of how long the food in your fridge will stay edible for. It's actually pretty realistic, rather than telling you to just chuck things past their sell-by date. Of course, I tend to follow the rule: if it's furry and/or moving, it's probably not good to eat. Before anyone asks, no, I don't eat peaches *shudders* FRUIT SHOULD NOT BE FUZZY!

*ahem* Moving swiftly on.

The Mistake Bank is an interesting concept for a website, collecting together both what people did wrong and what they learnt from it. Embarrassing in places, but also constructive.

Toorcamp. Hitting new highs on the geekometer. Not only is it a camp for hackers, it's a camp for hackers being held in a Titan-1 missile silo. Oh yes.

And even more randomly:

Bohemian Rhapsody as you've never heard it before.

[cross-posted from DW to LJ to try that out...]