Links

“The best snail grounds, sir, you may take my word for it, is in Putney and Barnes.” The entry on snail gatherers from Mayhew’s 1861 book ‘London Labour and the London Poor’.

via Metafilter, a maths teachers explanation of why 0.999…=1. Which is good value in itself, but the comments from people who are absolutely determined that it can’t be true are also good fun.

pictures of tiny stuff: ‘the Institute for the Promotion of the Less than One Millimeter proudly presents: the Micropolitan Museum of microscopic art forms’

Old material from the American eugenics movement over at the nonist.

via The Page; a review of a new translation of the Psalms. The review is interesting, though I didn’t find the quoted samples particularly exciting as poetry.