The British Museum has finally released the beginning volumes of its project to digitize historical manuscripts from its collection. On the Turning the Pages site, you can actually see and turn the pages of several great books, from Leonardo’s notebooks, to a 14th Century Haggadah, to an ancient Qur’an, to the beautiful Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell (the copy was King George III’s personal copy). The revolutionary software (it uses Shockwave) lets you click to turn the pages of the books, then magnify them to read. This is truly bringing libraries to the people.

http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation1.html

Just the thing to browse during my lunch hour.

Long day yesterday, hopefully today will be better. Not bad, exactly, just busy-busy like a bee convention. Fortunately, it was productive-busy rather than wheel-spinning.

This morning, I find myself wondering how far those little Eucharist wafers would fly, if you flung ’em like a bottle-cap or tiny Frisbee. I don’t think it’d be sacrilegious, as long as it wasn’t blessed or otherwise set up for transubstantiation yet.

Got a wake up call from RI at 2:30 am… because she is unwilling to even f-ing call him when a child’s life is on the line. making me the third step in the loop is stupid and poorly thought out. She shouldn’t hold an emergency beeper, if she can’t use it correctly.

Beta of There is pretty impressive so far. The roller coasters are nifty, but I really like the 2-man scooters and the portable housing. (The new houses on Tyr are beautiful, too.)

My daughter in the vampire game helped me to achieve thievery2 last night… she’s been very kind to assist in growth there. I haven’t talked much to my other relations yet, but look forward to doing so.

Built another super… “Stinkbug Junior” a insect-motif, with a robot arm that shoots dark miasma gas / tar pits like powers. a lot of fun, the “fart joke” humor is fine for this pre-wipe era.

Anydangway, have a good one, dear journal.