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Interactive new version of Dracula is up on Kickstarter, and it's SUPER cool:




"In our edition, you are not merely a reader – you are an explorer making your way through this archive of first-hand evidence, retracing this nightmarish story through the remnants it left behind: correspondence, charts and diagrams, memoranda, artifacts, photographs and much more..."

Read more (and back the project!) on the Kickstarter page ==>

We're getting rid of a biggish box of maps, all kinds: highway maps, depth charts for sailing, state and local, etc. They're nice and colorful and seem like they'd be a lot of fun for craft projects -- decoupage, jewelry, blank book binding, home-made cards, etc. Does anybody want them? If so let me know and I'll send them to you. I just hate for them to go to recycling when they're so pretty!

Yep. Really. Specifically, Dr Karen Norberg, of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain. Why, you ask? I don't care, I just think it's awesome.