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Thanks to aralias, I've discovered Save the Words, a website dedicated to keeping archaic words from going extinct. It's quite a cute site, so feel free to browse. Fair warning, the words will beg you to "Pick me!" to save from extinction ( Read more... )

I just stumbled across this beautifully done video of five hundred years of women's portraits in Western art. I love the computer morphing between the portraits, the selection of portraits, and the music chosen.

Women in Art by eggman913 on YouTube.

It looks like I made my rec post one day too early. If you like Hawaii 5-0, or weddings, or just well written smut, go check out sheafrotherdon's latest, I Solemnly Swear Not to Set Myself on Fire.

I usually don't do rec posts, as (A) my friends' list used to be pretty homogenous, so anything I'd read, you'd likely already read, and (B) it feels like I'm always reading WIP's and I hate to recommend an uncompleted story. However, my friends' list has branched out into new fandoms, and I've recently read several really good-- and complete!-- ( Read more... )

After copperbadge admitted to not knowing the song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" or who George Harrison was--really, Sam, really?--artemidora posted a link to a video of an amazing rendition of the song played by Jake Shimabukuro on a ukelele. Yes, a ukelele. You MUST watch.

The UPS man made me VERY happy yesterday. He brought my copy of Out of the Ashes by rwday. I LOVED her book A Strong and Sudden Thaw (that's the original cover in my icon), so I've been quite looking forward to this sequel.

erastes got a sneak peak of it while being written, and here's what she has to say.

Is there anyone here who hasn't read copperbadge's brilliant new parody, The .doc File of J Alfred Prufrock yet? No? Good. I wouldn't have wanted you to miss it ( Read more... )

Two youTube videos I've got to recommend:Blame it on the Pop, a mash-up of music hits from 2009, and Iron Baby, a quick-- but very well done-- spoof of Iron Man.