Here are some cool links for Saturday, 17 September 2011:

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  Pick Punch: make guitar picks from old credit cards, plastic gift cards, photo IDs, etc.

• Which Book: service that suggests books for you to read based on your criteria, mood, and other preferences

• If I owned a castle, this is what I’d …

Above is a picture I took yesterday of a little cluster of mushrooms I discovered on a pile of mulch in our yard.

Below are a few Internet links from the last couple of weeks. Highlights include why creative people are eccentric, six exercise machines to avoid, word of a new Sherlock Holmes story …

Above: The Inn at Virginia Tech, in beautiful Blacksburg, Virginia.

Below: Galumphing links this week includes a call to visit Mount Vernon (especially in the spring), a reminder about plants that are poisonous to dogs, recipes for all those James Bond drinks we read about and saw in the movies, …