"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

$10 Homemade Play Kitchen
Certainly wins for best use of duct tape. I wish we had room for a play kitchen, but we don't right now. Maybe when the attic is closer to a real play space....

Love Manor
Halloween Inspiration

What should a 4 year old know
Sometimes Google knows the answer to the question you didn't know you were asking.

This Peanut Looks Like a Duck
(a site about things that look like ducks)

Boston 1775
"History, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution in Massachusetts."

What Not To Wear (Superhero Edition)
"[a blog] Devoted to examining the costumes of superheroes, why they wear them, and how to wear them better. Call me the Fashion Sentinel!"

Retro Promo Archives

GRIN: Great Images in NASA

Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves (a blog)

Buffy vs. Edward: Twilight Remixed
"In this remixed narrative, Edward Cullen from the Twilight Series meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer at Sunnydale High. It's an example of transformative storytelling serving as a visual critique of Edward's character and generally creepy behavior. Seen through Buffy's eyes some of the more patriarchal gender roles and sexist Hollywood tropes embedded in the Twilight saga are exposed in hilarious ways."

What the Secretary Saw
From Vanity Fair; told in the first person voice of Bernie Madoff's secretary

Cardboard cat chaise from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

One Pretty Thing
"Daily inspiration for the handmade life"

Atlas Obscura
"Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world"

Masabumi Hosono: The Man Condemned for Surviving The Titanic
via Neatorama, which has been double plus good lately.

A clump from a recent Metafilter post:
The Luttrell Psalter
...with fancy, fancy flash interface and superzoom magnifier
Marginalia
...the website of the Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge
Got Medieval
...a funny blog - a "tonic for the slipshod use of medieval European history in the media and pop culture"

One more from Mefi:
Warner Brothers "Break Downs" and "Blow Ups" 1936-1947
...Pre-war blooper reels from Warner Brothers

A group from plep.org
Modern Medieval Map Myths
Northvegr: Texts for Northern European Studies
The Carpet Index: The Oriental Carpet in Early Renaissance Paintings
Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art by John Vinycomb [1909]
The Kings of Africa (photo portraits)
All American Space Fleet
... a set of trading cards from the 1950's. For me, the best part is the "tips" at the bottom of each card.

70's Danish interior design as seen in Porn Films
... probably Not Safe For Work, but no graphic sex shots. Cropped frames showing the furniture.

Judge a Book
Book covers and modern design

Wood Type Museum
"This Web Museum is established for the purpose of educating the general public, and the next generation, on the beauties of wood types and engraved blocks. Our mission is to gather, save, preserve, and interpret wood types and information about them.

As the demand for broadsides increased during first years of the nineteenth century, the need for the process of producing large letters cheaply arose. Wood was a logical material choice because of its ready availability, lightness, and proven printing qualities. In 1827, Darius Wells of New York City first found the means to mass produce wood letters. In March of 1828, first wood type catalogue was published by Wells. Throughout the wood type manufacturing history, many manufactories were in business. Among those, Wm. H. Page & Co., Vanderburgh, Wells & Co. and Hamilton Mfg. Co. was the most noted ones."

15 Sexist Vintage Ads

Vintage Sewing Info
... free online access to public domain sewing books from the 1800's - 1950's

The Vintage Sailor
... a blog about yardsaling for profit.

The Idle Parent
... this is actually a website promoting a book, but I like the manifesto on the front page. Tied to this recent NY Times article about the return of more relaxed parenting styles.

Ok, I think I'm done.

English Village for Sale
"An historic, 2,003-acre estate in England has been placed on the market. The estate, which includes an entire village near Andover in the county of Hampshire is priced at £23-25 million ($33-36 million)."

"The ring-fenced farming and sporting estate, in ancient landscape between Andover and Newbury in the North Wessex Downs, comprises 1,542 acres of arable and grassland, 425 acres of woodland a world-renowned high bird pheasant and partridge shoot, and the entire village of Linkenholt. If you have a thing for quaint English villages, this should be of interest because you don’t get more quintessentially English than this. The village includes a cricket-ground, a blacksmith, a village shop and 21 cottages and houses of various shapes and sizes, many of which are listed buildings."

That price actually seems very ... reasonable to me.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
OR,
ENQUIRIES
INTO
Very many received
TENENTS
And commonly presumed
TRUTHS.
By Thomas Brown Knight, M. D.
Based on The Sixth and Last Edition of 1672

Top 278 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants"

Chef Messy
Crafts for Kids

Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike
Wikipedia

F*** My Life
A user submitted blog about ... well, about everyday things in life that suck

Photographs from Ellis Island (on Flickr, from the NY Public Library collection)

I'm going to try something a little different today and post this now, then edit this post if I run across other stuff over the course of the day. We'll see how it works.