Quickie

• An amazing collection of five centuries of board games at BibliOdyssey. Go and be amazed. I might add that Call of Cthulhu: Arkham horror is probably the awesomest board game ever, if you can spare eight hours for playing, because who can stop when you're stuck in R'Lyeh or wherever and Cthulhu or one of his sweet cronies is just about to devour everyone and everything? (Scrabble isn't a board game; Scrabble is pure bliss.)

• Five things I learned about women from James Bond books. Quite what you'd expect. (via)