The Vintage Reader

I've been following The Orwell Diaries, a blog whose posts consist of George Orwell's diary entries beginning in August of 1938. Each post appears 70 years to the day after Orwell wrote it. In today's entry, Orwell reports that he visited a fifth-century megalith; the blog entry links to a satellite view of the site on Google Maps. I'll spare you the obvious comment about that and just say I think it's really neat, and the ability to hyperlink adds a completely new dimension to an old journal.

Also, Orwell included a newspaper clipping about a method of canning fruit without heat or syrup. I need to do a little research to see if this is actually a viable method of canning, or just a labor-intensive way to get botulism.