Trek: Don't miss today's Google Doodle, in honor of the 46th anniversary of Star Trek. You can click around on it for happymaking Trek sounds. AND! There are three progressive interactive doodles, which tell a wee story of Kirk, the Gorn, and one poor red-shirt. \o ( Read more... )

I ordered a (rather pricey) used copy of Rosemary Sutcliff's Blood Feud from a seller on Amazon. As it turned out, the book came to me from the UK. It's an Oxford University Press edition (1976), and in its former life, it was a library book - from the Tredegar Branch of the Gwent County Library, which Google has helpfully informed me is in Wales. ( Read more... )