- The Dance of Death — a very comprehensive old website on this theme in mediæval and early modern European art
- Pirating the Pirates, or, on the underground of film preservation
- To grieve, or not to grieve?: Kevin Buzzard on the new era of mathematics
- Try your own hand at redrawing Europe at the Congress of Berlin! I love the fuckass jaunty tune it plays at the start.
- A strangely relaxing watercolour playground
- Some winning entries in this year’s premier microscopic-photography competition
- Commission on Federal Paperwork: Drawings by Carol, 1976–1977
- Down in That London, a special report from the night of Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation (also, wow, how come Newcastle managed to pedestrianise our main shopping street first?)
- The Odyssey: A Greek Reader
- The New Yorker alleges that Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made
- Also thence: a profile of James Daunt, CEO of Waterstones, interspersed with how rumours of literacy’s death have been greatly exaggerated
- St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station: “It serves the village of St Keyne, and is adjacent to the Magnificent Music Machines museum of fairground organs and similar instruments.”
- The Flipbook of the Rings
- This is not a drill: Local 58 is back
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