Hey there. I am back, sort of, and trying to get back in the swing of things, as it were. Fortunately, the crack team of (unpaid) link senders has been busy while I've been gone, which means you have all sorts of stuff to read while I get things together. Also, some photos are up over on the Flickr account. Have at it!

From Cassandra:

-- The jellyfish are coming. Be afraid.
-- Killing people for their fat sounds very post-apocalyptic.
-- Is our children reading?
-- A hundred movies online, for free!
-- a love poem (in prose form) to typewriters (PDF).

From Josie: An Art Nouveau exhibit has opened at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and looks beautiful.

From Julie:

-- "A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which was kept in a toilet in Oxfordshire, sells for nearly twice the expected price."
-- A red phone box becomes the country's smallest library. Is it a Tardis in disguise? Because then it might be the largest library, you see...