{"id":10818,"date":"2011-06-03T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T11:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2011-06-02T07:55:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T11:55:52","slug":"the-link-dump-who-would-be-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=10818","title":{"rendered":"The Link Dump Who Would be King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Girl-Circumnavigated-Fairyland-Ship-Making\/dp\/0312649614\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1305123793&#038;sr=1-1\">The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making<\/a> &#8211; Interesting young-adult &#8220;fairy tale.&#8221;  There&#8217;s a useful review by Cory Doctorow toward the bottom of the page, and <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2011\/05\/12\/the-big-idea-catherynne-m-valente-2\/\">here&#8217;s<\/a> the author explaining her &#8220;big idea&#8221; at John Scalzi&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/costumemercenary.blogspot.com\/\">The Costume Mercenary<\/a> &#8211; Blog devoted to &#8220;photographs, sketches and concept art of pseudo-historical, fantasy, steampunk and scifi costume.&#8221;  Gorgeous stuff. <i>(Hat tip to Kitten Herder)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smosh.com\/smosh-pit\/photos\/rejected-young-adult-books\">Rejected Young Adult Books<\/a> &#8211; The first one cracked me up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heteromorphic.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Product_Code=PPS&#038;Category_Code=LDDM1&#038;Store_Code=H\">Living Dead Doll Pencil Sharpener<\/a> &#8211; Amusingly gruesome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmleather.com\/the-belts#!__the-belts\">Hobble Belt<\/a> &#8211; Quality leather belt that converts into handcuffs, should you find yourself in need of such a thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/sofiasanchezb\">Joyeria Osea<\/a> &#8211; Etsy shop specializing in silver &#8220;bone&#8221; jewelry, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/69000540\/silver-plated-hand-skeleton-necklace\">hand necklaces<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/70831729\/bone-ring-silver-finger-osseous-jewelry\">finger bone rings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.123stitch.com\/cgi-perl\/itemdetail.pl?item=KD45\">Spiderweb Scissors<\/a> &#8211; Needlecraft scissors with handles reminiscent of spiderwebs.  This looks like the sort of thing that Morticia Addams would use when darning socks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memebase.com\/2011\/04\/20\/memes-cereal-guy-neville-sexybottom\/\">Memebase: Neville Sexybottom<\/a> &#8211; Puberty can occasionally be very kind. <i>(Hat tip to Empress Pam)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1565129601\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1304515927&#038;sr=8-1\">Wicked Bugs<\/a> &#8211; New book by the author of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wicked-Plants-Lincolns-Botanical-Atrocities\/dp\/1565126831\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1304515927&#038;sr=8-2\">Wicked Plants<\/a> which explores the most &#8220;diabolical&#8221; members of the insect world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelongthread.com\/?p=7370\">Monster Tooth Pillow<\/a> &#8211; Super-easy tutorial for making a cute pillow to hold children&#8217;s lost teeth until the tooth fairy can claim them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making &#8211; Interesting young-adult &#8220;fairy tale.&#8221; There&#8217;s a useful review by Cory Doctorow toward the bottom of the page, and here&#8217;s the author explaining her &#8220;big idea&#8221; at John Scalzi&#8217;s site. 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