Category: links

We Love You So has been hosting contests surrounding the release of Where The Wild Things Are. The entries have been fabulous, here are the Where the Wild Things Ought To Be entries, and here are the winners & notable mentions of the Fort Contest. I always make homemade pie crusts when baking pies, and… Continue reading Links for 10.17.09

Here’s a site with many fun desktop wallpapers to download, and includes very large sizes for those of us with large  screen resolutions. (found via How About Orange) A hilarious McSweeney’s feature that imagines a literary critic reviewing a resume. Many of you have probably seen the Domino’s commercial that claims people prefer Domino’s sandwiches… Continue reading Links for 1.18.09

Video of a very sweet, and very funny, Mario Kart love song. How to make homemade marshmallows. The best book covers of the year, according to The Book Design Review Blog. Extremely awesome Infinity Book Case. Fine Taco Photography. (Thanks Ryan!) Absolutely gorgeous new  penguin classics. They are totally worth drooling over online – unfortunately… Continue reading Links for 12.01.08

Beautiful 2009 calendar – I’ve already pre-ordered mine. :) Photos of gorgeous bookstores from all over the world. (Found on Books on the Nightstand.) Funny McSweeney’s article that imagines a university library getting the attention it deserves. (This post was brought over from emilyw.vox.com. Click here for the original post and comments.)

Interested in reading a blog that was written 70 years ago? The Orwell Prize has created a site that is reposting all of George Orwell’s diaries as a blog. The entries were written between August 1938 to October 1942, and will be reposted on the blog on the same days of the month that he… Continue reading Links for 08.12.08

Used booksellers share the funny, interesting, and odd things they’ve found in books. (found on Kimbooktu) Beautiful and whimsy decorating project on Design*Sponge: using your computer to create printable wallpaper with camo-photos hidden within the design. I wish I had a staircase (besides the four flights of stairs up to our walk up). Way too… Continue reading Links for 06.13.08

An amusing web page that shows many examples of a single painting being used on a variety of different book covers. (Thanks Ryan!)On McSweeney’s, Ernest Hemingway blogs about the top teams in college basketball. From the NY Times blog Paper Cuts: the Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing. Funny because it’s true. I struggle when… Continue reading Links for 04.01.08 (no fooling guarantee)

Easy DIY gift tags (inspired by the great Ed Emberley) Very fun “Book” parking garage at the Kansas City Public Library. More pictures of the gorgeous new library in Kansas City. A blog I found recently and love: 3191. Two people on opposites sides of the country take a photo each morning. They don’t talk… Continue reading Links 12.12.07

My favorite link of the day is a blog post by Stuart McLean of CBC’s radio show Vinyl Cafe. It’s an (at first glance) ambitious declaration of the end of his book purchasing days. He has too many books, and most are packed up in boxes in his basement and impossible to access quickly. He… Continue reading Links for 8.16.07

Kate Spade’s website has three awesome desktop wallpapers for book lovers. They feature beautiful old book covers. You can go to the site and click “Downloads” or you can click directly to them here, here, and here. It’s inspired me to design my own desktop background with my favorite covers, but I’m sure it won’t… Continue reading Links for 07.30.07