Fashion Illustrator designs new edition of Jane Austen

Fashion illustrator Ruban Toledo designed this fabulous edition of the classic Pride and Prejudice. Even books can be couture!

Scientists recreate warts-and-all 'image' of Shakespeare

A startling image claimed to be the closest likeness to William Shakespeare will appear on a TV documentary called Death Masks, due to be screened on the History Channel on September 13.

Read more here!

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Now here's a wedding registry gift

Beautifully hand-cut designs on bone china from Bob Ryan. I want!

Lima bean kitten children

I love Ashley G's prints on Etsy. Who knew bean children with kitten heads could be so cute?


Is it weird that I think anything looks cuter with tentacles? Well, maybe not everything...

Yowl Monsters

Little handmade Yowl Monsters from ClayWood&Cotton. I'm not quite sure what I'd do with them but I'm pretty sure I need them all.

Baby Animal Cuteness Overload

Baby dik-dik

The website ZooBorns has pics and videos of exotic baby animals from all over the world. It's the perfect site to visit if you have a case of the grumps. Here's a few of my favorites:


Baby sun bear


Ripley the barking owl chick


Baby Chimp


Baby Echidna


Baby Tenrecs

Visit their site for a full list of every imaginable animal and zoo. Here's some baby fishing cats going on their first hunt!

Read 16th-20th century literature from scanned originals online!

The Internet Archive has nearly 2 millions texts in their collection from library projects around the world, giving access to rare originals. This 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein contains original illustrations. Find scanned copies of early modern texts without have to visit your local university library. Run a search and see what you find!

The 10 Essential Classics (according to Penguin)

Penguin Publishers have compiled a list of their top ten list of the essential classics that "every well-read person should know about." Watch the accompanying videos for useful social situations to use your new-found literary knowledge. Here's the list:


1) Of Mice and Men
2) Jane Eyre
3) Pride and Prejudice
4) The Odyssey
5) Hamlet
6) Moby-Dick
7) Metamorphosis
8) Oedipus Rex
9) Waldon
10) Inferno

Giant Plush Microbes- the perfect gift!

Who knew syphillis could be cute?

Check out these grossly adorable little monstrosities from ThinkGeek. Get yourself some Chicken Pox, Common Cold, Ebola, E. Coli, or the Flesh Eating Disease. You can even share them with your friends! For the full list, click here.

All My Friends are Dead

All my Friends are Dead is an ingeniously dark little gem about life and inevitability. Read excerpts from the link above or buy it on Amazon.

The Recently Deflowered Girl

Ever look back on your deflowerment and wish you had a witty retort handy? Well look no further! Edward Gorey's darkly funny social commentary subtitled "The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion” outlines every possible circumstance in which one can be deflowered, and what one ought to say the thereafter.

Fully illustrated and endlessly amusing. Check out some selections here.

Camilla d'Errico- Love her!

Pseudo bestiality has never been so cute!

Play Super Mario from work!

You can even play as Mega Man from Mega Man, Samus from Metroid, Link from Zelda, Bill R. from Contra, or Simon from Castlevania! Go to the page here!

Sickest. thing. ever. From the blog:

Anyone who’s played Mario will flip out over this. Anyone who’s played Mario AND one or all of these other games will flip out 6 times as hard. Each mushroom, fire flower, and power up does something basically unique for each character. Some of them based on their character play in their original game, some of them completely new! You will not be able to stop. Ever.

Life on white

Life on white is a collection of 13153 images and around 543 different animal species photographed in front and on a white background.

All the animals, both domestic and wild, have really been photographed in front and on a white background. The images are INSANE. Check them out here!

Love literary T-Shirts!

Neal found this site with the raddest literary T-shirts!

Life in hell