My buddy Mike sent me his latest creation which he describes as “a visual style that blends the 'crayon box' chaos of Hieronymus Bosch and Terry Gilliam with a splash of Home Alone and Edvard Munch.” I think it captures the zeitgeist of the United States in the 2020s (and the lyrics are posted in case you want to sing along).
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Inside the Factory Where the Legendary Eames Lounge Chair Is Made
I bought a less expensive knockoff of this chair and it is quite comfortable. I would like to have an original but $$$.
I Got You
Besties forever… “I got you” ðŸ˜
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) March 30, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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Monday, March 30, 2026
What’s For Dinner?
If you go to your new boyfriend's place for dinner and this is what's on offer, come up with a quick excuse to leave.
Skateboarding Prehistory
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Sunday Links
The Red Book of Bath (image above) was recently acquired by The British Library. Read 10 things you didn’t know about it. Via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese
The Happy Newspaper prints only good news.
Check out the home and workplace of Mr Foxe and Mr Boxe, fine dressmakers. This is an absolutely charming website. Via Messy Nessy.
The Clockwise Ant A problem by Argentinian puzzlist Jaime Poniachik, from the February 1992 issue of Games magazine.
A Phone-Free Childhood? The seaside town of Greystones, Ireland, is experimenting with a voluntary ban on smart devices for preteen children. Most of the town has bought in.
Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art.
Does gloomy weather get you down? Blue Sky Experience is a recessed ceiling light that simulates blue skies and natural sunlight.How many people live within a 3km radius of you? 40,131people live that close to me in an area with mostly single storey houses. Via Web Curios
COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show - Scientific American
Lip Filler Accent: They don’t have lip filler but they talk as if they do. (archived article)
Cosmic Truths of Cheap Grocery Shopping These will save you money on food, no matter what you buy or where you shop. Via Miss Cellania
It started with a question from a three-year-old: The Complete History of the Polaroid Camera
So you’re determined to become a cat? Here are the five stages of felinization. Via Metafilter
In an effort to keep spaceships as light as possible edible spaceships were considered.
The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack (1967)
A Free Library of Short Stories Thousands of works originating from magazines, newspapers and short story anthologies have been converted to online text. Via everlasting blort
How Covid Rewires the Brain Patients recalled episodes in which breathing no longer felt automatic—going long stretches without inhaling unless they willed themselves to do so.
A cheerful little song about using lip balm after dental surgery. Via Mefi
The downsides of being a billionaire Does becoming rich alter one’s perceptions of status, friendship, obligation, and maybe even reality itself?
This heritage home in a Montreal suburb was completely reimagined by architects Mise à Jour Studio. Montreal is my home town and I have always appreciated the stone houses of Quebec. They are iconic architectural symbols of New France in the 17th–19th centuries.
Music For Sunday Morning
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, known professionally as CMAT, is an Irish musician and singer.
Via Memo Of The Air
Saturday, March 28, 2026
No Kings
Bruce Springsteen. #NoKings
— Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) March 28, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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