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Mr. Nag makes a decent poached egg. Mine, on the other hand, “ assume the form of a lopsided Frisbee wearing a Victorian nightgown.” How to Make a Perfect Poached Egg
Noun Sense Is a daily word association game where you guess the most common noun that follows the adjective. There goes my weekend. Via Web Curios
Buy your own Eames House This kit-of-parts product supports the Eameses' overall vision of universal architecture for everyone. Via Things Magazine
A roundup of Weird Lady Lit
In Robert Heinlein’s 1959 short story “All You Zombies“ all the major characters turn out to be the same person, who takes on different roles through time travel and sex reassignment.
Inquiring minds want to know: Worldwide toilet paper consumption
11 Million Coloured Buildings: Bert Spaan has mapped all 11,333,878 buildings in the Netherlands, colouring buildings by their year of construction.
A writer grapples with the troubled advertisement of her family’s steakhouse.
I guarantee that some of these kids were traumatized: Olaf the robot from the movie Frozen dies in front of an audience at Disneyland Paris
“Any of these could be a gold mine” This teenager buys abandoned storage lockers.
In 1535, a senior courtier to King Henry VIII built a nice country house outside London, and nearly 500 years later, it’s still there. See Hackney’s oldest building.
The Lonely Funeral project was started by Dutch poet Frank Starikin in 2002. As of 2018, over 300 “lonely funerals” had been attended by poets who wrote a custom poem about their life and read it at their funeral, offering dignity to perfect strangers. Via swissmiss
Architypes: Lots of photos of French storefronts. I like this sort of thing. Via Web Curios
How To Gain Your Guests’ Approval (You’re welcome)
In 1976, 14-year-old Chris Espinosa rode a moped to his job demonstrating computers made in Steve Jobs’s childhood home. He still works for Apple. NYT gift link
