How would you like your Bible: handwritten by 30,000 people? Or on Xbox?

• "When the night's nailed up its colours to its mast/Like some swab loaded to the gun'les 'n' lashed to the plank": the love song of J Alfred Pirate. (Via Bookslut.)

• The glamour of newly discovered words (apparently including "damson").

• Plenty of delicious words in the new Oxford historical thesaurus, quite a few of which have been found by Languagehat.

• Luc Sante on postcards.