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Since I’ve been totally negligent about the Friday Tenâ„¢, I thought I’d post these ten things I’m looking forward to doing while I visit London for the next eleven days:

Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites (which is the reason for the trip)
Visiting my friend John and meeting his partner Nick
V&A: Style and Splendor and [...]

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There’s a great post with relevance to the whole "war on Christmas" buzz at Liz Opp’s The Good Raised Up: The Jew in me at Christmas time. She tells a story of being at meeting for worship on Christmas day and listening to the kids in First Day School:
I was learning that the story of [...]

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Kenneth Davis’s Don’t Know Much About Mythology is an engaging, funny read. I learned a lot about world myths, as well as learning a fair bit about the European myths with which I was already familiar. I enjoyed his cheeky, sometimes breezy pop references. I loved some of his wordplay. (Inanna’s withering gaze she learned [...]

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You’ve just got to go to going jesus (follow the various links along the left sidebar).
(Found at pinkfish.)

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There’s a very entertaining article about Sudoku at American Scientist Online – Unwed Numbers. (Really! Even in American Scientist!) I enjoy Sudoku enough that I even bought one of the small collections of puzzles. It’s very satisfying to be able to pick one up now and then.

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The Guardian has an amazing Arts special reports page with many Bach stories and resources in response to BBC-3’s upcoming broadcast of all of Bach’s works.

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