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.
Lalla Rookh, Thomas Moore’s marvel of Orientalism, illustrated by John Tenniel and others.
Conversations on Chemistry, Jane Marcet’s first venture into popular science, here in the 1817 fifth edition.
Bewick’s British Birds, illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts.
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, and more.
Idle thoughts from an idle webmaster, or, things that will never grow up to be pages of their own. Probably.
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.