Flotsam, Meet Jetsam
This has been around and about ye Webbe already, but nevertheless: Geoffery Chaucer Has a Blog.
Weirdo American Writer of the Day: Sure, you knew that Washington, Paine and Franklin were Famous Rosicrucians. But what about nutball novelist George Lippard? (no, not this guy). The multitalented dude who wrote the ne plus ultra of whacked out post-Poe American gothic, The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk-Hall. The apocalyptic dream of his unforgettable villain-hero "Devil-Bug" makes him required reading for every schoolchild. Or at least the schoolchildren who like, you know, extreme violence and heaving bosoms and anti-Semitic cariacatures. Um...OK, maybe not schoolchildren. But you should know about him, as you're probably beyond help anyway.
Two bog men discuss the archaeological diagnosis of "ritual murder." (Via ahistoricality via The Little Professor via Ed.)
I don't have the photographic chops displayed by Rory's latest pictorial odyssey. But I will say this: Helena and her dad got sole.