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via @outrepart - Dave Lovely

via @outrepart - Dave Lovely

800-year old submerged graves containing the remains of "canonized children." - Dave Lovely

via @christianbok - Dave Lovely

wonders, indeed - Dave Lovely

that's "Anthropodermic bibliopegy" to you - Dave Lovely

"in seeing them we see ourselves" - absolutely - Dave Lovely

mind-bending collection of mathematical visualizations: I don't understand them, but I know what I like - Dave Lovely

a simple polling app that lets you ask multiple choice questions and provides a shortened URL that you can Tweet. - Dave Lovely from Bookmarklet

via @roundmyskull superb illustrations by Harry Clarke for Edgar Allan Poe's stories - Dave Lovely

I'm not big on Salvador Dali, but sometimes he was pretty cool - Dave Lovely

professors who were the sons of professors who themselves were the sons of professors, with a stage- or film-actress or a scientific genius thrown in. - Dave Lovely

aptly described as "more in one place than I've ever read about colour in my life. A perfect encyclopaedia" by http://sarra.tumblr.com, where I first found it - Dave Lovely

architecture photo-collections on flickr - Dave Lovely

brief guide to the Oulipo in the spirit of the Oulipo - Dave Lovely

classy song, classy video: ah nostalgia! - Dave Lovely

"White Camelias", mezzotint, 1911 - Dave Lovely from Bookmarklet

curiously like Brancusi's columns - Dave Lovely

"Allen Lane revolutionised publishing and his legacy is a window into 20thcentury British culture ": Telegraph article on the Penguin Archive at the University of Bristol - Dave Lovely

"This book examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the study of a specific case—the work of the twentieth-century French writer Georges Perec (1936–82). In Constraining Chance, James explores the ways in which Perec’s texts exploit the possibilities of chance, by both tapping into its creative potential and controlling its operation." New book on Georges Perec. - Dave Lovely

Justin Williams, Assistant Editor at Telegraph Media Group, is compiling a list of Britain's independent local news blogs and putting them on Google Maps. Terrific. - Dave Lovely

(very) large collection of maps - Dave Lovely

beautiful cover for Le Grand Meaulnes (translated as 'The Wanderer') - I wonder who the illustrator was? - Dave Lovely from Bookmarklet

..but what's that he's playing? - Dave Lovely from Bookmarklet

covers for books by Albert Camus - Dave Lovely from Bookmarklet

I miss the darkroom's ambience, the physicality of dodging and burning, the shaping of the light. - Dave Lovely from Bookmarklet

"Hart Island has had a very, very colorful history. Since the 1800’s, it has been home to a workhouse for delinquent boys, a hospital, an insane asylum for women, prisons, a Civil War internment camp, a reformatory, and a missile base. Many of the structures are still standing to this day (though in severely dilapidated states), including parts of the asylum, a stable, a theater, a laundry, workhouses, the missile silos, and a church...[it] continues to be used to this day as a potter’s field - a cemetery for the unknown and indigent. About 2,000 people are buried here each year from NYC. Riker’s Island inmates perform the burial labor, stacking pine coffins in two rows, 3 high and 25 across, then filling in the plot and marking it with a single concrete marker." - Dave Lovely

Why boil so much more water than pasta actually absorbs, only to pour it down the drain? Couldn’t we cook pasta just as well with much less water and energy? Another question quickly followed: if we could, what would the defenders of Italian tradition say? - Dave Lovely

"If islands cannot be made sustainable, nothing can. If islands can, then everything can." - Dave Lovely

"A mystical interpretation of a word, passage, or text, especially scriptural exegesis that detects allusions to heaven or the afterlife. [Late Latin anagg, from Late Greek, spiritual uplift, from anagein, to lift up : ana-, ana- + agein, to lead; see ag- in Indo-European roots.]" - "She was an anagogical writer, of that there is no doubt." - Joy Williams, NYT, 26.02.09, reviewing Brad Gooch's biography of Flannery O'Connor. - Dave Lovely

That's great she knows she can research at the library. My 5 yo's standard line the past 3 years has been, "Can't you Google it?". - Admiral Anika

Hehe Wirehead. Me too. I grew up on a college campus, and between the library and the science building my parents always knew where to find me. - jcunwired