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Bestiary online. Medieval meets modern in an online book of beasts. I adore bestiaries and catalogues of fantastic beasts, so this site is a complete joy to me.

Gallery of Graphic Design – an archive of old print advertising from mainstream American magazines dating between 1932 and 1969.

Square America I’m endlessly fascinated with vernacular photography; I am a voyeur of the past, I think. Found photographs of the amateur variety, updated regularly. Has a companion blog also linked on the Blogs page of this site.

The Costume Gallery probably the most comprehensive website of fashion-history information on the Internet. Encyclopedic link library, as well.

cockeyed.com – Home of “How Much Is Inside”

Lileks.com – You’ll never look at Kitsch the same way again

The Sneeze.com - Home of Don’t Eat It Steve, Treebrain, and Jokes From The Booster-Seat

100 Year Old Weblog Snippets of petty history from Kansas City’s early years.

Bad Gods a humorous bloggy thing from half of the Brunching Shuttlecocks team.

Brunching Shuttlecocks No longer updated, but the archives are worth a visit.

Puff’s Legs Bad jokes for free.

Luly’s Vintage Blog Wonderful blog of vintage fashion.

Saturday Night Live Transcripts For in case you need to re-memorize one of the GAP Girls’ skits.

Quiddity obsolete pop culture, vintage amusements, nifty & bizarre trivia. Also a blog!

What if they did? A blog of clever and off the wall ideas, of things that could be pretty darn spiffy if they moved from conceptual to reality.

Meepzorp perhaps a long-lost Conehead relative. Good lord, I don’t know! TheirBlort is really quite fun. I highly recommend

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog – Even more amusing still if you read it all with Middle English pronunciations. You really should.

World Wide Words – A site of etymologies and explanations of idiomatic usages. Fascinating to a word nerd.

Etymonline – Internet etymology encyclopedia. The history of thousands of words explained. Also word-nerd bait.

Visual Thesaurus – Creates a spiderweb of related words based on your searches. Fun, though now that it has become a subscription site, you can only play with it for a limited time before they shut you out. Boo!

Free Rice – Now that you’ve gone to all these wordsmith sites, you can test your vocabulary skills AND donate food to people in impoverished nations.

Mother Earth News – their archives are beyond amazing. Not just hippie stuff about making your own yogurt and granola. If you are interested in building a forge, a miniature greenhouse, or a DIY water heater, it’s here. Great tips for organic gardening, critter care, home improvements, and environmentally-friendly living.

A Dress A Day – vintage sewing patterns, sewing tips, interesting fashion sites, shopping links, and fashion history. This is one of the fashion-and-sewing sites that comes about as close to perfection as it’s humanly possible.

Gutenberg.org – free e-texts of books no-longer under copyright. Many classics can be found here

University of Virginia e-text library – Another amazing resource of e-books – includes a good selection of translated works, too.

The Memorial Hall digital collection a cool, online museum of historic artifacts.

More to come