A Dozen Links From Around The Web

This ought to keep you out of trouble for awhile…

• Facebook Scam Alert – What Really Happens When You “Like”
• Creepy ghost town emerges from sea in Argentina
• Spontaneous Order Experiments Take Hold in Detroit
• Rants of the Archer: It’s Carnival Time!
• New York man finishes writing out entire Bible by hand (Now that’s dedication.)
• 20 ways to keep your internet identity safe from hackers
• Paper Salads
• Win a Danitrio, a Montblanc, or a Conway Stewart
• Sunshine Pen Pals
• Feelgood stories from The Guardian: a daddy, a sea lion, and quadruplets
• 7 Signs of a Bad Doctor
• The 16-Year-Old Who Changed Medicine Is Out to Change It Again

Links For Handwriting, Calligraphy, And Pen Junkies

This is a rarity. All nine links are pen and handwriting related. How totally on topic!

• JBBPensPaper (calligraphy items on Etsy)
• NYT: Kate Gladstone on Handwriting Matters; Cursive Doesn’t
• Gentian adds an ink reservoir to a dip nib
• Italic handwriting and calligraphy lesson (h/t Kate Gladstone)
• Yikes! Look at the price tag on the Sailor Kai!
• Mommy Kat and Kids has a pen giveaway but hurry to enter. It’s ending in two days.
• PerthNow: Tech-savvy kids can’t push a pencil
• Mattias: Platinum Carbon Desk Fountain Pen (He’s the artist who introduced me to the Namiki Falcon.)
• Leigh Reyes on taking better pen photos

Links From Pens To Fish To Cursive

Don’t even try to connect the dots but do enjoy this fresh batch of links…

• Word. Notebooks (According to a company rep, the printer says the paper is FP-friendly.)
• Writer’s Bloc Top 10 Fountain Pens
• New Rhodia Products in 2014
• Siamese Fighting Betta Fish
• Wonder Pens in Toronto
• Kate Gladstone on mandating cursive in North Carolina schools
• Edison Pen Company: Learn How To Tune Your Nibs

Links From Cake To College To Heavy Metal

Given the events of this past week, it was a challenge to ferret out some lighter fare but there were a few bits worth sharing.

• Man quits job by making a spectacular resignation cake
• Meet the family who sent six kids to college by age 12
• Wet Cell Phone Rescue Tool That’s Better Than Rice
• A blast of heavy metal ‘boosts blooms’
• Fountain Pen Give-Away Drawing is Close!
• Ricochet: The Gem of an Overwhelmingly Bad Week

Links From Yogi To Pens To A $1000 Rat

No lie. The rat costs more than $1,000!

• Yogi Berra Quotes (Met him years ago. Super nice and unassuming. Very impressed by him.)
• London Pen Club: Saturday Pen Club Theme – Demonstrators
• Chris Hadfield’s series of videos showing how various activities work in space
• JustDaveyB: Pilot iroshizuku inks dip penned
• Leigh Reyes: Snug as pens in a rug.
• Flying Steampunk Rat
• Marginalia: A Dying Art In An Increasingly Digital Age?

From Paper To Ink For Your Sunday Links

“Flaneur” is easily my new favorite word…

• Journaling Arts: Review of Stillman & Birn’s Zeta Paper
• James Yu and Magical China Inner painting world
• JustDaveyB: Sailor 1911 Medium Maroon/Gold inked with Pilot iroshizuku murasaki-shikibu
• mantisandme: Oh, Flaneur—
• The Missive Maven: International Geek Girl Pen Pals Club
• Ed Jelley: Lamy 2000 Fountain Pen – Handwritten Review

Did You Miss These?

From around the web this week…

• Leigh Reyes: Music ink in music nibs
• What can you still get with a dollar?
• Rumor has it the Miro Journal works with fountain pen ink (h/t Timothy Fribert)
• Elizabeth Spiers: On Keeping a Notebook in the Digital Age (h/t Leigh Reyes)
• PenArte
• GigaOM: Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself (h/t John Kutzman)
• Business Insider: The Best 404 Error Pages Of All Time (Maybe. maybe not. but still amusing.)
• Claustrophobic notebook S (for the non-writer)