Today, obviously, is the Feast of St. Dominic. Some good stuff from around the blogs:
A Penitent Blogger:

The cult denounced marriage, childbearing, and eating meat. They advocated cohabitation and suicide.
The Church spoke out, but with little effect: partly because the churchmen there lived very comfortable lives that did not seem to resonate with spiritual values.
The Pope sent two special missionaries to do what they could. One was a 30-something priest from Spain.

Godzdogz (the blog of the English Dominican Studentate) quotes from Fr. Simon Tugwell, OP

The Church, in the words of Psalm 44, has always been ‘clothed in variety’, not the least splendid aspect of which is the variety of her saints. Some become a kind of living image of holiness, attracting veneration during their life-time and becoming objects of cult as soon as they are dead. They leave behind them, in the imagination of succeeding ages, a vivid remembrance of what they were. The figure of St Francis, for instance, has haunted and inspired the Church ever since he died in 1226.
Other saints are, as it were, more coy, and hide behind the works which live after them and the ideals which they prompted others to follow. Their individual personalities make less impression on the Church’s memory; like signposts, they point away from themselves. People may come to forget them as individuals, but they cannot escape for long from the ideals for which they stood.
St Dominic is one of the coy saints. When he died in 1221, the Order which he had established buried him, sadly and affectionately, and then got on with the job he had given them. Unlike the Franciscans, they made no attempt to turn their founder into an object of cult; nor did they immediately start writing up his life to publicise his personal holiness. The earliest life that we have of Dominic is not called ‘A Life of St Dominic‘, but ‘A Little Book about the Beginnings of the Order of Preachers‘.

The Roving Medievalist has images of a bust of St. Dominic made from the measurements of his skull
The Dominican Nuns are celebrating
And, continuing to live in the now, get a good sense of the vibrancy of the Dominican vocation at the Dominican vocation blog for the Province of St. Joseph.
Who’s your favorite Dominican??
In addition, Intentional Disciples, the blog of the Siena Institute, which is an apostolate of the Western Dominican Province, will be all St. Dominic, all day.