Strong Verbs Are Just Better

Another Damned Medievalist at Blogenspiel has the latest edition of Carnivalesque, devoted to "really cool stuff I wish I hadn't missed the first time round" in the world of ancient and medieval blogging.
I've been seeing links to Carnivalesque around the medieval blogosphere, but it wasn't until owlfish suggested I volunteer to host an edition that I managed to figure out what it was. So, for the benefit of the similarly confused:
"Carnival" blogging is (apparently) a fine tradition, whereby persons bloggging in the same field band together and on a regular basis one of them produces a links-fest post keeping the others up to date with the exciting things going on across their blogosphere and/or in relevant news. Carnivalesque runs monthly, with alternate months devoted to either early modern or ancient/medieval topics.


Courtesy of Another Damned Medievalist and her spectacular Carnivalesque edition, I can definitively say that Magistra et Mater is a very cool and well thought out blog.


Via the same route, I discovered the History News Network and the Cliopatra history blogging awards. I just put in a nomination for Per Omni Saecula as "best new blog".


If you're feeling weighed down by the woes of your life at the moment, Leslie Doon at Riddle 47 offers a cheerful thought.


Speaking of Riddle 47, I mentioned the other day their Grendel Drawing Project. Jennifer Lyn over at Per Omni Saecula contributes her own (adorably cute) image of Grendel.


FINALLY... before you aussies go out to vote today, have a go at this lovely game courtesy of the SMH: Whack*A*Poll