Sunday, February 08, 2026
Music For Sunday Morning
I saw Train Dreams last week and it's stayed with me. It’s a beautiful film, based on a novella by Denis Johnson, that recounts the 80 years lived by Robert Grainier, a railway labourer in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. This song by Nick Cave perfectly captures the quiet melancholy of Grainier’s ordinary life.
Sunday Links
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| A drawing for the Eugene and Nancy Bavinger House, a landmarked home in Norman, Oklahoma, that was demolished in 2016. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago |
Everyone has a soulmate. He found his.
Glenn Explore is a 3D open-world driving game that lets you drive a virtual car anywhere on the planet. Read more: Maps Mania
The reviews have been more entertaining than the movie. A commenter on Fark described it as a "two-hour bland infomercial for the future death of democracy."
Homo Mobilus: People photographed with their vehicles.
There are over 300 references to muffins in the Epstein files.These appear to be references to actual muffins, not code words for sex trafficking, drugs, etc. Lacanian Group Chat describes how she replicated Jeffrey’s favourite baked good. Via Web Curios
A great collection of WPA posters. The WPA was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects during the Great Depression. Via everlasting blort
OH MY GOD. He has boxes of Pokémon cards! A Daughter Goes Through Her Dead Millennial Father’s Storage Unit
When 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide in April 2025, he left no note. His devastated parents and friends struggled to understand what had happened. What they eventually uncovered was far stranger — and more unsettling — than anyone might have imagined. (Duck Soup)
Good news for cheese lovers? Maybe.
What goes around comes around Some welcome positive karma.
Fallout - Would You Survive a Nuclear War? A huge investigative project explores a grim strategic reality: how 450 nuclear missile silos scattered across the Great Plains are designed to act as a "sponge."
Have you ever wondered what you would look like as a Claymation figure? Me neither but I went there nonetheless and it wasn’t pretty. Via Web Curios
Family Matters: Judging from what he wrote in his last will and testament, Dr. Dunlop of Upper Canada was not very fond of his family.
What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan? (Don’t worry it’s not your mummy)
Saturday, February 07, 2026
The Dinosaurs -Trailer
This documentary series, produced by Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment, is a journey into a lost world of the dinosaurs.
(Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)
Just Dance: Carmen
Stripping back flamenco to its core elements, contemporary flamenco artist Carmen Avilés leads a powerful street performance in Seville for this short film.
Read more: Nowness
Friday, February 06, 2026
Arctic Fever
“The history of the Arctic is long, rich, varied, and so too is its future. Where we are today is just another brief moment in its history.”
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| The Large British Steamer Bulldog, the American Ship Nautilus, and Other Ships at Nuuk, 1860 (title translated by Richard Margolis) by Aalut Kangermiu (also known as Aron of Kangeq), from the first issue of the Kalaallit (Greenlandic) newspaper Atuagagdliutit, 1 January 1861. Photograph: Thomas Fisher rare book library |
Arctic Fever is a newly opened exhibition on 19th-century Arctic exploration at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher rare book library. It finds 19th-century parallels to Trump’s Greenland obsession.
Read more: The Guardian
'57 CHEVY
Billy West bought this ’57 Chevy in 1968 for just $375. He’s been driving it for 58 years. What a sweet ride!
More: Just A Car Guy
Barnacle Geese Flying Over Edinburgh
Occasionally barnacle geese, usually keen to keep to the British coastline when in flight, are forced inland because of poor weather. When this happens, the lucky inhabitants of cities like Edinburgh will be lucky enough to witness the flight of a whole flock as they make their way further north.
Artwork Of The Day
A 3500-year-old drawing of a sparrow from the collection of the Met. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’
Read more: Kottke
Read more: Kottke
Thursday, February 05, 2026
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