Sagas of Icelanders

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BibliOdyssey

Poulpe Pulps: The octopus, known as poulpe in French, polip in Hungarian, and polypous in Classical Greek, is pluperfectly the essence of pulp. Here you will find hard-to-locate images of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure pulp and comic covers featuring the wily octopus.

Bikini Science

Scott Shaw

The Philippine Comics Art Museum: Online edition of the Museum, updated every Monday

Fabio Feminò:

O’Reilly Mac: Producing good prints that even come close to what you see on your computer monitor is still the most frustrating aspect of digital photography. It doesn’t have to be, however. Just remember these three steps: calibrate your screen, image edit your photo, and configure your printer.

Omphalo-Stepses

Great American Pinup

Ethan Persoff: “Two interesting snapshots of 1950s atomic anxiety. Full of bombs, communists, ducking, covering, charts, maps — and useful instructions for removing those pesky cancer-causing radiation fallout stains.”

Galactic Central is the mother lode of magazine archives, with publishing information and cover art, including a prodigious pile of pulp magazines.”

Link: Explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products.

Plan59

Los Angeles Public Library

SitePoint: “For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm, and the integration of established typographical techniques and rules was unimagined.”

Cyber-heritage: Featuring technical cutaway drawings of submarines, ships, aircraft and arms, plus contemporary photos of and on mostly “S” Class Royal Naval Submarines

The Imaginary World: “1949 NWCA CANDY SALESMAN BOOK. These pages all came form a 1949 candy salesman book – this is a good cross section of the candy that was available to the national market at that time.

Francesca Myman: Beware the tentacles of these maurading cephalopods (including nautilus, squid, cuttlefish, and octopus).

Matt Keveney: Animated GIFs of internal combustion, steam, and Stirling engines.