How would you like your Bible: handwritten by 30,000 people? Or on Xbox?
• "When the night's nailed up its colours to its mast/Like some swab loaded to the gun'les 'n' lashed to the plank": the love song of J Alfred Pirate. (Via Bookslut.)
• The glamour of newly discovered words (apparently including "damson").
• Plenty of delicious words in the new Oxford historical thesaurus, quite a few of which have been found by Languagehat.
• Luc Sante on postcards.