Writing instruments
At Submitted for Your Perusal, two poster-like images of Writing Instruments Through the Ages.
The Sharpie Liquid Pencil
Writes like an uncooperative ball-point pen.
Eagle Verithin display case
A colored-pencil display
Pens, pencils, and weapons-building
Sixth-grade teachers ban pencils from the classroom.
The new Blackwing pencil
An extended review, with photographs
Artisanal pencil sharpening
For reals
Margaret Atwood's rules for writers
Pencils
Illinois Central Railroad Pencil
A railroad pencil, and the role of the Illinois Central in blues
Carnival of Pen, Pencil, and Paper
Like it says, at Office Supply Geek
"Sound-testing a MONGOL"
Pencil ad, 1940
Carnival of pens, pencils, and paper
"At The Pen Addict ('. . . there are WORSE addictions, right?'), there's a carnival of pens, pencils, paper, and supplies."
Stolen Mongols
Mongol pencils worth half a million pounds
Eraser Day
Hymen Lipman, eraser patenter
Why the pencil?
Link to a piece asking and answering the question
Mongol No. 2 3/8
A pencil of the past
Young woman with a pencil
Still from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington