Bazaar Tales

05/02/2015

If like me you love anything to do with cartography I beseech you to visit this wonderful exhibition detailing the history and development of the Treaty city. Admission is free and it runs until the 15th of February.
http://www.huntmuseum.com/whats-on/exhibitions/limerick-my-city-my-home.aspx

Closed New Year's Day (January 1), Good Friday, Christmas Day (December 25), St. Stephen's Day (December 26), Easter Sunday.

27/01/2015

A beautifully illustrated infographic of the shared history of the worlds languages by Minna Sundberg.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015/jan/23/a-language-family-tree-in-pictures -1

Minna Sundberg’s illustration maps the relationships between Indo-European and Uralic languages

22/01/2015

Word of the day:
Gargalesis;
medical term used to describe the reflex movement and uncontrolable laughter associated with heavy tickling.
origin: from Greek, garglos (itching)

12/01/2015

Nobody cares what you are looking at whilst you stare into a smartphone, books on the other hand....
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/01/09/reinier_gerritsen_photographs_readers_on_the_subway_in_his_series_the_last.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru

Reinier Gerritsen doesn’t think books will be around much longer. That’s why you see them everywhere you look in his series, “The Last Book,” which is on display at New York City’s Julie Saul Gallery through Feb. 7. Like a scientist cataloging the last of an endangered species, the Dutch photograph…

07/01/2015

Homeric epic in Lego form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvsYEniseGk

Joshua Hanlon and Chris Phipson give you an in-depth look at Virtual LUG's recreation of Homer's Odyssey on display at Brickworld Chicago 2014. Complete guid...

15/08/2014

Judging books by their covers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Dr3sCOSX4

Originally shown by the BBC, this short documentary looks at the aesthetic beauty of books, derived from their cover designs and artwork, particularly those ...

27/07/2014

Grammar wars, who's side are you on Humphreys/Bragg?http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/27/john-humphrys-melvyn-bragg-historic-present

Today presenter teasingly berates Radio 4 colleague for 'speaking like newspaper headlines' in history show In Our Time

25/07/2014

A song for all you bibliophiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBU-MxydbWQ

Taken from the album "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" on Rough Trade Records

20/07/2014

As Stephen Fry dryly noted
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/20/kindle-unlimited-amazon-leaked-netflix-for-books-alarm-publishers

Amazon's leaked 'Netflix for books' plan will alarm publishers – and doom old-fashioned anonymous reading, writes John Naughton

17/07/2014

A periodic table of fonts, I think Dmitri Mendeleev would approve.

14/07/2014

The science behind that wonderful smell (well I would be biased). http://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5881789/why-old-book-smell-has-hints-of-vanilla

One word: lignin

12/07/2014

This could be a life changing innovation for so many people, sterling work. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/fingerreader-read-blind-mit_n_5565898.html?utm_hp_ref=books&ir=Books

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired, giving them affordable and immediate access to printed wor...