links for 2006-07-15

An intake weekly article about a guy I know.

The MySpace page of “mr. Silent, a local superhero.

A catalog of UK library holdings, and information about books published in the UK

Strange controversy about a proposal to put a “life size” chess board in a public plaza in San Francisco.

Cool gallery of magazine covers of a science mag published between 1913 and 1920. One of them features the “death star” from Star Wars. Neat sci-fi images from really early on.

When we were kids, we had a homemade merry-go-round build by my grandfather. It wasn’t run by propeller, it was people-powered by the kids sitting on it. I’ve sketched out the plans for it for my co-workers, but can’t quite remember how the gear stuff wor

Sounds yummy!!!