There's a fun quiz over at Ask the Past - if you always wanted to know whether your etiquette for the end of the 1880s is up to scratch, you can test it there.

In case you're not one of the typical social science folks and work with TeX, there's a collaboration thingie available now called Papeeria. It allows you to edit TeX documents together with other people, and if you are only working on one private project at a time, you can use it for free.

discardingimages has a rabbit warrior from the end of the 13th century. Proves (again, after Monty Python) that rabbits are fierce, dangerous creatures that should not be underestimated.

And finally, there's a long and interesting article about the ethics of accepting student volunteers over at Doug's Archaeology.