Bazaar Tales

If like me you love anything to do with cartography I beseech you to visit this wonderful exhibition detailing the history and development of the Treaty city. Admission is free and it runs until the 15th of February.
http://www.huntmuseum.com/whats-on/exhibitions/limerick-my-city-my-home.aspx

Hunt Museum | What's On | Exhibitions | Limerick: My City My Home Closed New Year's Day (January 1), Good Friday, Christmas Day (December 25), St. Stephen's Day (December 26), Easter Sunday.

A beautifully illustrated infographic of the shared history of the worlds languages by Minna Sundberg.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015/jan/23/a-language-family-tree-in-pictures -1

A language family tree - in pictures Minna Sundberg’s illustration maps the relationships between Indo-European and Uralic languages

Word of the day:
Gargalesis;
medical term used to describe the reflex movement and uncontrolable laughter associated with heavy tickling.
origin: from Greek, garglos (itching)

Nobody cares what you are looking at whilst you stare into a smartphone, books on the other hand....
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/01/09/reinier_gerritsen_photographs_readers_on_the_subway_in_his_series_the_last.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru

This Guy Took a Photo Every Time He Saw Someone Reading a Book on the Subway Reinier Gerritsen doesn’t think books will be around much longer. That’s why you see them everywhere you look in his series, “The Last Book,” which is on display at New York City’s Julie Saul Gallery through Feb. 7. Like a scientist cataloging the last of an endangered species, the Dutch photograph…

Homeric epic in Lego form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvsYEniseGk

Massive Homer's Odyssey in LEGO - Brickworld Chicago 2014 Joshua Hanlon and Chris Phipson give you an in-depth look at Virtual LUG's recreation of Homer's Odyssey on display at Brickworld Chicago 2014. Complete guid...

Judging books by their covers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Dr3sCOSX4

BBC - The Beauty of Books. Part 4: Paperback Writer Originally shown by the BBC, this short documentary looks at the aesthetic beauty of books, derived from their cover designs and artwork, particularly those ...

Grammar wars, who's side are you on Humphreys/Bragg?http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/27/john-humphrys-melvyn-bragg-historic-present

John Humphrys throws down gauntlet to Melvyn Bragg over use of present tense Today presenter teasingly berates Radio 4 colleague for 'speaking like newspaper headlines' in history show In Our Time

A song for all you bibliophiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBU-MxydbWQ

Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped Up In Books Taken from the album "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" on Rough Trade Records

As Stephen Fry dryly noted
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/20/kindle-unlimited-amazon-leaked-netflix-for-books-alarm-publishers

Kindle Unlimited: it's the end of losing yourself in a good book Amazon's leaked 'Netflix for books' plan will alarm publishers – and doom old-fashioned anonymous reading, writes John Naughton

A periodic table of fonts, I think Dmitri Mendeleev would approve.

The science behind that wonderful smell (well I would be biased). http://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5881789/why-old-book-smell-has-hints-of-vanilla

Why "old book smell" has hints of vanilla One word: lignin

This could be a life changing innovation for so many people, sterling work. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/fingerreader-read-blind-mit_n_5565898.html?utm_hp_ref=books&ir=Books

This Ring Reads Books And Magazines To The Blind CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired, giving them affordable and immediate access to printed wor...