Nag on the Lake

Sunday, November 01, 2026

Sunday Links

Sorry for the late Halloween links here. All week I thought today was October 31 and when I checked in this morning I got a surprise. Yikes!

Creepy Doll “It’s got a ruined eye that’s always open.” Thanks for the link Marco.

Trump denies writing 2036-volume comic titled Don And Jeff : Time Pedophiles

This Prostitute Set tells a story of glamour, temptation, deception, and self-preservation. Via Messy Nessy

Halloween Party

100 Objects #22 In 1998, the recording industry was thriving. But the company pressing more compact discs than anyone else in America wasn’t a record label…

Before the polio vaccine lots of people got the disease Here are some poliomyelitis survivors whose names you may recognize

It’s hearty soup season Yay!

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Halloween Horror Poems

How far from shore can a kangaroo swim? Probably further than you thought.

Sure, vote (an oldie but still à propos)

The xylophonist

The Unread turns your unread emails into zombies to kill

This is a good one from Jeb’s Jukebox: ‘Every Now And Then I Have To Cry’. (A repost from 2018)

Parable

This guy found a solution to high rents in Vancouver.

A gondola system to get rid of mice

Canada’s Eurovision 2027 finalists have been revealed. They hail from across the country, British Columbia to New Brunswick.

Kudos to the post office for delivering this letter in a timely fashion

Artificial Intelligence Still Needs Human Supervision

Saturday, October 31, 2026

Time Change

Feed your pet an hour early 🐈 #pet #cat #dog #catlife #doglife #fish #wintertime #timeshift #timechange

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— Stuff I found (@stuffifound.politicalmemes.org) October 25, 2026 at 6:27 AM

The Thing on the Fourble Board

This radio horror story is perfect for Halloween. A worker on a deep-drilling oil rig finds that something has found its way up the well - something that can't be seen.

Via Memo Of The Air

Friday, October 30, 2026

Donna, my new Facebook friend, shared this hilarious post. She found my wallet outside the Big Red Market in Thorold where I’d dropped it, and turned it in. She also asked friends on a St. Catharines Community Group if anyone knew me. My friend Sean notified me that it had been found and I picked it up. I was very grateful to Donna because I’d had to change all my credit cards when I moved. Shortly after that I lost my wallet and had to change everything again. It was such a relief to have someone go the extra mile to reach out to me and an example of how FB can still perform a valuable community function, despite Zuckerberg. (After hearing this my sister bought me a wallet on a chain to attach to my purse.) Anyhow read this story about someone else’s bad week, it’s brilliant.

The Nag According to AI - I Got a Kick Out Of This

I’ve been doing this for a very long time and sometimes I feel like I’m blogging into a void but apparently someone’s been keeping tabs on my feeble efforts. Mark, a follower and occasional commenter on NOTL, decided on a whim to have AI check me out. The question he asked was “Who writes Nag On The Lake?” and this is what came up (I cut out some redundancies):

The Early Years: Bellamy started blogging as a way to compile personal internet discoveries. The site quickly grew a dedicated following among people who loved quirky, thoughtful, and aesthetic media long before algorithmic social feeds took over.
The "Nag" Persona: The blog features lighthearted running jokes about the "Nag" persona (Bellamy) and her husband, affectionately dubbed "Mr. Nag". This gave the site a cozy, personal, and highly human touch that set it apart from corporate content aggregators.
Longevity and Community: Over more than two decades online, the blog has built a collaborative community, frequently exchanging links and shout-outs with classic curation mainstays like Neatorama and Everlasting Blort. Today, it remains one of the few surviving independent "link blogs" from the mid-2000s era that still updates daily.
The history of Nag on the Lake is closely tied to the golden age of independent internet curation. Launched on Blogspot, it grew from a hyper-local diary into a widely respected hub for global internet oddities.

The Golden Age Of Link Blogging
During the late 2000s and early 2010s, "link blogging" was a thriving ecosystem. Blogs like Nag on the Lake, Neatorama, The Presurfer, and Everlasting Blort served as human-curated filters for the web before algorithms and social media timelines took over. Bellamy built a reputation for finding deeply fascinating, non-viral content, focusing on: Vintage photography and forgotten historical archives, short independent films and animation, quirky art installations and architecture.

Longevity
While the vast majority of mid-2000s blogs have gone dark or transitioned to social media channels, Nag on the Lake remains entirely active. It stands as one of the longest-running, continuously updated independent link directories on the internet, maintaining its classic Blogspot layout and daily posting schedule for two decades.

Teddy Bear the Porcupine's Halloween Feast

Via Memo Of The Air

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Midnight Dance (1996)

This is an animated visual interpretation of Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre, produced by Raw Nerve Productions.

Via Miss Cellania

Tamara In The Green Bugatti

How Tamara de Lempicka’s life and times shaped her work – from her affluent upbringing and flight from the Russian Revolution to her experience in 1920s Paris.