Short On Sleep But Not On Links

Put me down as one who prefers Daylight Savings Time year round. Adjusting twice a year to the time change is annoying but we can still enjoy fun stuff from around the web, well rested or not…

• Doctor Who dressed up as David Tennant (Now you know how my cell phone greets me.)
• Karlo Tatad: Converter Quirks
• Forbes: The World’s Youngest Billionaires
• AmandaOnWriting: British and American English
• The Colors of J. Herbin Fountain Pen Inks
• lifeimitatesdoodles: Review of Stillman & Birn’s Zeta Paper
• Real Simple: The Less Stress Checklist
• FPGeeks: Wahl-Eversharp Releases New Collections
• Tea Guy Speaks: Slow Motion Tea Time With Alan Rickman

Pen Links Plus Doctor Who And Winston Churchill

Like bow ties, watches are cool. Maybe not as cool as a fountain but close. (If you don’t get the bow tie reference, sadly you aren’t a Whovian.)

• A fountain pen collector gets seduced by a watch
• AlvaroRC shares great fountain pen photos with the Fountain Pen Collectors group on FB
• Doctor Who should own this TARDIS guitar
• The Pen Addict: The Pilot Custom Heritage
• Palimpsest: Winston Churchill and his Pens
• Daniel Smith: Neutral Tint Can Expand Your Watercolor Palette Exponentially (See the paint out) and Gentian’s use of it
• Pendemonium’s National Handwriting Month Contest & Special Offer

Start The New Year With A Few Tasty Links

From food to the TARDIS with pens and inks in between…

• How to Make a TARDIS Bigger on the Inside
• Business Insider: 20 Inspiring Rags-to-Riches Stories
• PenHero.com: Library Of Vintage Pen And Pencil User Guides
• Pen and ink illustrations by Japanese artist Sagaki Keita (h/t HisNibs.com)
• Boston Magazine visits Crane and Company
• The Pen Shop: Handwriting Guide
• 7 Delicious Things to Make with Leftover Coffee
• Rosemary and Sea Salt Roasted Pecans (h/t Speedmaster)

Sundry Links For A Sunday Afternoon

Busy Sunday? Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy a relaxing break with some lively links…

• Nakaya at Nibs.com
• Vinita Pappas painting classes at Create 38 are now $39.99 per month
• Pencils.com – Pencil History
• Tom Noble watercolor exhibit at Venetana Fine Art until December 31
• The Mary Sue – Art Nouveau Doctor Who (Oh, yeah!)
• Jet Pens now carries the Kaweco Ice Fountain Pen with a BB nib + the new Iroshizuku colors (Yum!)
• Nan Rae is now posting brush painting tips daily. Good for inspiration, too.
• Got $1.5 mil to spend on pens? (h/t Edison Pen Co.)
• Whatever! – Featured Pen -The Edison Hudson
• Moleskine covers make great gifts

And lastly, from Dave Brubeck’s Associated Press obituary:

Brubeck believed that jazz presented the best face of America to the world.

“Jazz is about freedom within discipline,” he said in a 2005 interview with The Associated Press. “Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

“Many people don’t understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz. … And that is really the idea of democracy — freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.”

Inkophile Links – All Sorts

Proof there’s more to life than ink and pens… (Did I really say that?)

• An ancient mode of transportation that could work on other planets
• Physicists Propose Way to Test If Our Universe is a Computer Simulation
• theguardian: In celebration of the thumb piano
• You don’t understand quantum physics? Neil Turok will help you
• What happened to Rory’s dad after the latest Doctor Who episode?
• Things You Need to Know About Wiping Personal Data From Used Devices Before You Get Rid of Them
• 10 Things You Should Not Refrigerate
• Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters

Inkophile’s Linky Treats For A Sunday Brunch

Definitely not nutritious but tasty just the same…

• The Well-Appointed Desk: Kaweco Student Pen Review
• Physics at Work lets children into the world of science
• Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
• Who writes the most felicitous sentences?
• Daniel Smith’s 11th Annual Customer Art Contest
• DanielSmithBlog: Proof it’s never too late to learn to paint
• Just might be the coolest aquariums ever!
• Tardis decor (h/t Less Herger) My fave is the teapot.

Inkophile’s Got The Links From Doctor Who To Nutella

Doctor Who has vanquished the Daleks 34 times and still they comeback for more. I love a great villain!

• Jet Pens: Black Bottled Fountain Pen Ink Swabs
• How to Stop Facebook from Tracking You
• Every Doctor Who villain since 1963
• Android wins the smartphone wars
• Ink Stone for the Practice of Japanese Calligraphy
• The Food in my Beard: Nutella Tootsie Rolls
• Gentian flexes her Estie

And a quote from Socrates: “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”