Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I really like Google’s Doodle today, and also their link to Irish places. Lovely stuff.

Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics) has a limited-edition shirt relevant to my interests – “too late for tall ships, too soon for star ships.” Yep, that’s me, pretty much.

 Baseball is returning soon, hooray! Here’s the legendary Uni Watch on restoring old baseball magazine covers. 

A 1906 book imagined the Manhattan of 2015 as a medieval wasteland of sorts. This article is fascinating, not least because it mentions a Jack London book I’d never heard of which concerns a destroyed 2013 San Francisco. To the libraries!