68 BCE – Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Venusia.
1894 – James Thurber, American writer (d. 1961) Columbus OH.
1896 – Start of Sherlock Holmes – Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter.
POD people • Cool Tools blog gives the print on demand site LULU the old college try and shares the results.
mitzvah • A collection of rare books owned by ‘the best read man in England’ Julian Blackwell of Blackwell’s bookshops, has been given by his family to Oxford’s Bodleian Library.
blog of note • Bruce has been at it again . . . banging away at the keyboard over at Oddball Observations.