Want to curl up with a good book? Take your pick: from Perez the Mouse to the Paston letters, from cheesy 19th-century novels to sober anthropological studies.
The Fate of Fenella by twenty-four popular authors—popular in 1891, that is—contributing one chapter each.
The Natural History of Carolina and the Bahamas by Mark Catesby, in two gorgeously illustrated volumes spanning the years 1729 to 1747.
Cakes and Ale, Edward Spencer’s tribute to English food and drink.
Here’s where it gets meta. Run a website long enough, and you start learning things—including plenty of things you would have been perfectly happy not knowing.
All the stuff that wouldn’t fit anywhere else. Along with the do-it-yourself MiSTings, this is where you’ll meet Judge Judy, the heraldic lion rat, reviews of long-forgotten movies, my obligatory venture into fan fiction, and more.
Idle thoughts from an idle webmaster, or, things that will never grow up to be pages of their own. Probably.
For all admirers of Two Set Violin.
If you know the difference between what is real and what is not real, you may like this.
Or, then again, you may not.
Things get interesting when you venture beyond the familiar ABC.
Everything you need to know about Prosyl, Nunacom and the rest of the family.
The Inuktitut language as seen from the outside—with some unavoidable digressions into the politics of the far north.
Reports from our favorite legislative body, the Nunavut Assembly.
Over here: reality. Over there, drifting away on an ice floe: our hopes.
If a picture says more than a thousand words, then a picture with caption has got to be worth . . . well, at least 1001 words.