Sunday, February 17, 2019

Sunday Links


APOD: 2019 February 12

The Fab Four’s farewell, the Rolling Stones’ airlift out of Altamont, the Who’s infamous toilet stop … the great rock photographer Ethan Russell was there

Want to get away from it all? Irish island for sale: gulls, grass, wind and no mod cons

Finding Dick Davy a mysterious "lost" comedian who once championed civil rights and antiracism (Via BoingBoing)

Taking Philosophy to the Streets (Via PfRC)

Finding the Story of New York in 5,000 Dog Pictures 

The Books That Mattered Most to David Bowie, Bibliophile

Choose Your Own Corporate Adventure It’s a bright weekday morning, and you are just arriving at work. Are you Mike or Megan?

A pretty cool collection of Prince GIFs 

Rick Feeney, Official White House Squirrel Feeder  (Via Miss C)

Do you have stink bugs? I first noticed them in my house about four years ago and they have appeared every spring since then.  New Research Could Help Keep Stink Bugs Out of Your House

An Artist Searches for Her Missing Mother: As a way to process her feelings of grief, frustration, and loss, Lauren Hana Chai made a series of paintings titled Last Known Locations, each imbued with imagery inspired by her missing mother.

“The Witness,” a very short story by Jorge Luis Borges 

Very rich people review very expensive 2018 Winnebago Horizon

Movie Pitches for Women the World Forgot

Honeybees can crunch numbers, solve tasks, give directions, understand zero and share decisions.
More here

Rent-a- Goalie 
(Thanks Bruce!)

Two Weeks in the Yucatan Peninsula There's so much more to it than the Riviera Maya.

16 Secrets in the Life of a 1960s Playboy Bunny Few jobs have been as glamorous as the Playboy Bunnies of the 1960s.

Why Harriet Tubman made St. Catharines her home

A restaurant will bring a teddy to your table, so you do not have to eat alone

Tundra Lodge Rolling Hotel The Polar Rover provides the ultimate polar bear viewing experience.

Are you allowed to buy 'throwaway' plane tickets to avoid high fares? I admit I've thought about doing this.

Three's a crowd! Helle's toilet: Nine hundred years after the roughly carved three-person loo seat was placed over a cesspit near a tributary of the Thames, it will form the centrepiece of an exhibition about London's’ “secret” rivers.

Since we're talking about toilets: The Porta-Potty King of NYC Faces a Threat to His Throne



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