Nag on the Lake

Monday, February 23, 2026

Gangstagrass

A Hip-Hop / Bluegrass compilation

This Kangaroo!

https://tilbageidanmark.tumblr.com/post/809202475755339776/baby-kangaroo

What it’s like living next door to META’s data centre

Why aren't AI data centers REQUIRED to pay for their own power???? They use OUR utilities and resources to amass fortunes they don't share with US.

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— Rhuta Bhayga (@rhutabhayga.bsky.social) February 21, 2026 at 2:06 PM

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Sunday Links

Lancia Astura Spider Pininfarina (1946)

Italy’s Insane Showcars of the 1930s and 40s (image above) Via Things Magazine

The world’s oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to nest. Read more: Medium

Can you recreate a colour from memory? Apparently I cannot.

If a Tree Falls, by Rosa Lyster The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers. The owls, the string, the circle, the storm, the tree: all of it is true.

Can you guess who else had a Greenland obsession?

Wood-Fired Shower? I would love to have one of these in my backyard but my neighbours might object…

Casualties: In May 1884, a group of schoolboys on a beach in Zanzibar came upon a relic of the eruption of Krakatoa.

A few precepts to repeat whenever you are in need of comfort (which, if you’re like me, is quite often these days)

Labyrinth Locator An extensive database that will show you the locations of thousands of labyrinths worldwide.

AMOU: A map for the moments that matter to us. I fiddled with it for awhile and it evoked feelings. Via Web Curios

The Heaven Road in China is not for acrophobics. I felt queasy watching the video.

Visualized: Every time the word “democracy” was said or written into the Congressional record since 1880.

How The NYT Made Its Tiny, Animated Olympic Athletes

Ingenious space savers

The Case Of the Treasonous Dolls: One of the 20th century’s most bizarre espionage cases centred on a turncoat doll dealer and America’s first female cryptanalyst.

Need a List of Viscountcies? You’ll find it, and any other list you want, right here. Via Memo Of The Air

The Fort Erie, Canada - Buffalo, USA border crossing is confusing. This NYT article is about Americans mistakingly entering Canada. It happens on both sides of the border. I have twice entered the US by mistake from Canada at this crossing. When I immediately returned the Canadian border guards waved me through because it happens all the time.

Music For Sunday Morning

Isfahan - Bill Frisell

Saturday, February 21, 2026

The Jim Irsay Collection

JAMES BROWN: 'GODFATHER OF SOUL' STAGE CAPE

The Jim Irsay Collection is one of the greatest collections of music, film and sports memorabilia and historic Americana ever assembled. Items will be offered across four major auctions with proceeds of the sales to be donated to philanthropic causes supported by Irsay during his lifetime.

Secretariat’s Triple Crown saddle, Jackie Robinson’s game-used bat, Sylvester Stallone’s handwritten script notebook for Rocky and Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘Red Shark’ convertible are just a few of the articles for sale.