Chris Howard's Writing & Art

If you had to come back as an insect...

...you'd definitely want wings like these.  Shot this beauty in the garden fondling all the flowers.

Try not to laugh...

I dare you.  Almost what I was going for with the character study, Zombie Hunters into Gardening, but far funnier...and real.  Well, you know what I mean.

Goths in Hot Weather A celebration of the Sunshine Goth

Via Miss Destructo's Twitter stream.

http://twitter.com/missdestructo
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4H kids helping the NH SPCA

My kids are in the Seacoast Kids 4H here in New Hampshire, and they're helping out the NH SPCA.  You can too!


About the New Hampshire SPCA Since 1872, the New Hampshire SPCA has been committed to the prevention of animal cruelty and to educating the public about the humane treatment of domestic animals. Serving over 121 communities in Rockingham and Stafford Counties, southern Maine and northern Massachusetts, we provide adoption, education, investigation and sheltering services in a professional and compassionate way.

Kindle

I'm off to buy a Kindle! Alice bought me a Sony Reader for Christmas a couple years ago. I love it, and I've been using it since. But it's time to get the new thing.

Get your own:

Rainbow over Exeter

Alice and I were in Exeter yesterday evening doing a little shopping, and this is what the rainstorm left.

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Obama action figure

Okay, it doesn't get any better than this:
http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html

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Historic newspaper archive search

Part of the Library of Congress' Chronicling America project.  Full-text search across well over a hundred newspapers from around the country, and you can search by state and date range.  A lot of this is pre-1923 which also makes a lot of this public domain.

Go to the LoC newspaper search page

I searched for "mermaid" (of course) and found the "Mermaids of the Cliff House Beach" from The San Francisco Call, November 06, 1910, Page 16--including the mermaid on the right typing at a typewriter.

Click the image or the link below for the full page:

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/lccn/sn85066387/1910-11-06/ed-1/seq-16

Neil Gaiman on Colbert Report last night

Who knew Colbert was a Tom Bombadil fan?  ...His songs are the stronger songs, and his feet are faster.
Interview with Neil is in the third segment:

http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=221834

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F+W Media offering free book downloads

...including 70 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes.

http://www.fwmedia.com/article/freebookdownloads/

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Blue Whale up close

The WDCS (The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society) has created a very cool animated, scrollable closeup view of a Blue Whale--a "life size" Blue Whale.  Kind of like Google Earth--or maybe it's like Google Balaenoptera musculus. 

Check it out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale
http://www.wdcs.co.uk/media/flash/whalebanner/content_pub_en.html
Thanks InkGypsy