To celebrate this not being a leap year, a variety of things for you today.

First of all, by way of Pastor Paul McCain of Cyberbrethren, a short but oddly fascinating film about calligraphy.

Pastor McCain says, “Type designer, illustrator and artist Seb Lester will revive the BlackLetter script that has been out of use for more than three hundred years. He will document his efforts on video, a gorgeous tribute to handwritten letters.” Link to original here.

From Mitch Berg at Shot In the Dark, a celebration of the brave men who sabotaged the Nazi atomic effort in Norway in 1943. I’m a day late with the anniversary, but I had to share it.

I’ll cop to it; after the 2009 “Nobel Peace Prize” award to a president who, as of the award deadline, had done nothing to warrant it, and has done even less since, my self-esteem-respect as an American of Norwegian anscestry has taken a bit of a beating.

But it’s on days like today – the 70th anniversary of the Norwegian raid on the Vemork heavy-water plant at Ryukan, Norway – that I get a bit of that old Norse møjø back.

Finally, a great little lesson in communication, from David All.