- Happy Valentine's Day with a flurry of related blog posts about love tokens, bouquets, and matchmaking for endangered species. [via O Say Can You See? blog, NMAH and Unbound blog, SIL]
- Not so easy to put up on the frig . . . the challenges of saving creations in virtual worlds (particularly relevant to those parents whose children play Minecraft). [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- With the snow the Washington, D.C. region received this week, it is hard to imagine choosing to sleep outside in the snow in a three-sided building, but that is just what artist Abbott Handerson Thayer and his family did. [via Archives of American Art blog]
- Check it out - The Digital Public Library of America and the Brooklyn Public Library launched new Tumblr blogs. [via InfoDocket]
- Taking a serious look at what it means to be "cool" at the National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition, American Cool. [via Face to Face blog, NPG]
- That is just super awesome - Marvel Comics opens up their metadata for non-commercial use. [via InfoDocket]
- One cool cat - an interview with Craig Saffoe, Curator of Great Cats at the National Zoological Park. [via Smithsonian Science]
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