Afternoon links.

• OMG, AGREED! (With a few more !!! for good measure!)
• The Beowulf manuscript is now online at the British Library.
• Portland's Longfellow Books got NAILED by Nemo, but without the heroic actions of the local fireman, it would have been MUCH worse: ""When I got there, they had already broken in a side door," said co-owner Chris Bowe. "There were maybe 20 of them, and they were amazing. Instead of standing around and letting the water fall, they were carrying books to safety. ... I couldn't believe how fast they worked to save the books. They saved an enormous amount of stock.""
• At the Guardian: Top 10 children’s books 2013. Interesting to see the authors that have mega staying power. *coughRowlingcough*
• Also at the Guardian: Joanna Nadin's top 10 laugh-out-loud reads for 5-8-year-olds. (So funny, as I associate Joanna Nadin with YA noir.)
• Instructables inspired by Little Brother and Homeland. (via boingboing, obvs)
• Mini-libraries.
• At Bookriot: High School Horror Stories. #3 is especially brutal.
• At the Smithsonian: Most of What You Think You Know About Grammar is Wrong.

Comments

[Jessica Silverstein]

Re: the brutal #3. The way to get Vaseline out of hair? Mineral oil and baking soda. And several days.

Having never heard of a hot oil treatment, I told my friends I had been babysitting a kid who wanted to style my hair and she accidentally used Vaseline instead of mousse.

But yeah. In every other respect, that story is my story.

[Leila]

I am so, so sorry. And I am also so, so thankful that my mother went the medicated shampoo route when I got head lice in elementary school. Holy cow, SO THANKFUL.