Today’s Google Doodle honors the birthday of Ladislao Jose Biro, who gave us his namesake pen. Hooray!

There are rumors going around that NYPL Labs may be going away. I hope the rumors are unfounded, but in any case, I’ve been spending some extra time over there helping with Building Inspector and other projects!

In more research news, the U.S. Census has a site showing the records of the famous and infamous.

Time Magazine has a “vault” of their old editions, which makes for some great reading.

If I ever win a lottery, I may reserve some time at the Studio Padron. It looks like an amazing reading retreat!