I leaned back, closed my eyes and let this wash over me. Totally dreamy.
Allah-Las Sirenas
Sunday, October 04, 2026
Sunday Links
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| Image: Spoon & Tamago |
OrySnack is a Tokyo sake bar where your bartender is working from home. (image above)
Jikji, a collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings is the oldest book printed with movable type. It’s now digitized online. Read More: Open Culture
If I were having a barbecue I probably wouldn’t use this soundtrack but feel free to copy the link if it’s up your alley.
Soup season is upon us and I would love to make every one of these. NYT gift link
12 Best Places to Eat Soup Around the World I have eaten in just one of these restaurants (Au Pied de Cochon) and can’t remember if I had onion soup.
Don’t Cook That Really, just don’t!
1950s Australian Houses Made with Durabestos and Fibrolite!
There is a possible alternative to LASIK that reshapes the cornea without cutting it or using a laser.
We all have a place where we toss the detritus of everyday life, don’t we? Here is Grace Baldwin’s Giant Junk Drawer Project Via PfRC
A family-run strip-mall joint in the Houston suburbs may the world’s busiest restaurant. - NYT gift link
She went to the hospital and found out there’s no cure for stupidity
The History of House Colors
Bastardica Is it cool or does it suck?
The History of House Colors
Maps: The 30 Most Democratic & 30 Most Republican Major Cities In The US
When the moon melts over the sky and the sun is still sleeping behind the hill, when the cats stop hunting mice and before the crows find their first prey, the boys who are born in that moment, are given the name Zoran. (Aeon Videos)
Could it be that the Your Body, My Choice movement sends a confusing message to boys? Trying to make sense of America’s rape culture.
Lobster is Lobster A language game Via Webcurios
Saturday, October 03, 2026
Small World In Motion
Dr. Ning Xu’s first place entry in Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition captured the abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary
Dyskinesia.
Read more: Colossal
LEGO Sagrada Familia Speed Build in Less Than 10 Minutes
Antoni Gaudi began work on his masterpiece in 1882. It took 144 years to reach its major structural completion in February 2026. Lego has rolled out the official Sagrada Família Lego set. At 12,060 pieces, it’s the largest Lego set ever made, and it lets you build the Sagrada Família section by section, following the same order as the original architects.
See more: Open Culture
The Colony - A Beaver Condominium
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| Kent Monkman in front of his new sculpture “The Colony,” at Biidaasige Park Sept. 29. |
Kent Monkman, a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation, has created his first public sculpture, The structure features playful beavers dancing, feasting and celebrating. It highlights the vital role of beavers in the natural, Indigenous and colonial histories of Turtle Island.
Monkman was inspired by an 18th-century engraving by Veremondo Rossi depicting beavers taking shelter in a similar apartment-like structure while being pursued by Indigenous hunters
Friday, October 02, 2026
A c1900 Kitchen Garden
The walled garden at Gravetye Manor is one of the last great gardens of its genre.
Typictions
British artist James Cook used a portable typewriter to create detailed depictions of different Manhattan views from above. (Laughing Squid)
Currents Of Solitude
In this drone video by Jan Erik Waider an Icelandic horse and rider move across the a black sand beach.
See images from Waider’s new project, Currents of Solitude.
Via Moss and Fog
Thursday, October 01, 2026
Jane Goodall Died On This Day in 2025
In July,1960 Jane Goodall arrived by boat at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika with her mother−local officials would not allow Jane to stay at Gombe without an escort−and a cook, Dominic.
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