A really nice free wordsearch maker tool. Useful for making your own activity placemats.

People who have figured out that the Japanese have advanced cute technology that can be harnessed in cute crafts.

A Cook’s Thesaurus, and like a regular thesaurus, some substitutions are better than others…

Victorian London, in many guises.

Page upon page of archived photos of circus folk.

Toward the end of an article about how computers are getting too good at text recognition is an odd bit: "H-P no longer owns the patent, said Brigida Bergkamp, a spokeswoman for the technology giant. She declined to disclose what had happened to the patent." The patent was acquired by an undisclosed buyer? Isn’t the point of a patent to get people to license it? Isn’t that made harder if they can’t find out who you are? Isn’t who holds a patent public information?

In the second story I’ve heard in the last several months of bears appearing in Vancouver’s residential areas, Goldilocks has the tables turned.

Play coroner in your own home with The Virtual Autopsy. Thanks a regular reader and mystery fan for the tip.

Now online, the Occupational Outlook Handbook is one of the Collective’s favorite reference works.

I’m sure thousands of people take cruises every year without being infected with a ‘vomiting virus’.