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M. O. Hammond - Photographer

The Blog of Death

A Gallery Of Albumen Prints

Giant Squid, Tall Tales and Truth

Presidio of San Francisco Pet Cemetery

The Top 20 Riffs: As chosen by the readers of Total Guitar magazine. Hard to believe that Satisfaction by the Stones or You Really Got Me by The Kinks didn't make the list.

Two new typically fantastic sites from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries are Doodles, Drafts & Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian and Chasing Venus: Observing the Transits of Venus 1631-2004.

A Simple Solace

Girl with a Pearl Earring: An In-Depth Study by Jonathan Janson

Plummie: A profile of P. G. Wodehouse by Geoffrey Hellman from a 1960 New Yorker