Thanks to Lisa Gold’s research blog, I’ve found what I think is the best, most fully-functional and most-likely-to-succeed research helper I’ve ever encountered. It’s a plugin to your Firefox browser called Zotero. Way too many features to list, but basically: saves, archives and organizes anything you can research from the web, from everyday pages to [...]

“We think we are a modern nation but the queen’s guards are walking round with an entire dead bear on their heads.” Robbie LeBlanc, director of PETA Eurpoe, expressing his distaste about the fact that the iconic hats Buckingham Palace guards wear are made of bearskin. Apparently a lot of bearskin: according to LeBlanc, as [...]

Courtesy of Boing Boing (is there anything they can’t do?), here is a link to a fabulous freelance researcher and writer: Lisa Gold. She’s got some pretty fantastic credits to her name, including doing research for Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. And personally, already her site has paid off in research gold for me, thanks to [...]

Hey kids, you can head over here to listen to Episode Five of Interviews from the Edge, which features Davis and me waxing eloquent and stepping all over each other’s lines as we try once more to make sense of the weirdest book you’ll ever love, Abecedarium. I’m positive you’ll love it, but I just [...]