Drawing on the findings of the Finlaggan Archaeological Project, researchers at the University of St Andrews and Smart History have created a new digital reconstruction of Finlaggan as it may have appeared in the fifteenth century – in the latter phase of its medieval glory days.
Lords of the Isles - 15th Century Finlaggan from Smart History on Vimeo.
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Friday, May 31, 2019
Sleeping Venice
French photographer Thibaud Poirier took photos of Venice during the city’s quieter hours, perfectly capturing its serenity and timelessness.
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Art Cooking
Open Culture is one of my favourite blogs. Today's OC post features the art and cooking of famous artists in videos from The Art Assignment, a PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green. The Art Cooking playlist adapts recipes cooked by famous artists like Picasso, Kahlo, Dali and O'keefe.
Below she tackles Salvador Dalí 's Bush of Crayfish in Viking Herbs from Les Diners de Gala.
Below she tackles Salvador Dalí 's Bush of Crayfish in Viking Herbs from Les Diners de Gala.
Thursday, May 30, 2019
RIP Leon Redbone
On May 30th 2019, Leon Redbone, singer of old-timey music, crossed the delta for that beautiful shore. He lived in Toronto in the 70s and I saw him perform in clubs and coffee houses there many times.
ain't misbehavin' from jednooki jack on Vimeo.
“He departed our world with his guitar, his trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat,” a post on his site read.
ain't misbehavin' from jednooki jack on Vimeo.
“He departed our world with his guitar, his trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat,” a post on his site read.
The year 2100. In an effort to combat overpopulation, the postmortem social network 'Anvil' is released.
"Anvil" invites us on a journey through the eyes of a young woman in her final moments on earth.
Artist: Lorn
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Artist: Lorn
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Tweet Of The Day
Best werewolf transformation scene ever created pic.twitter.com/aaWBVler0v— laney (@misslaneym) May 29, 2019
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Not So Pretty In Pink
Companies get away with slapping the colour pink on a product, marketing it to women and charging twice as much as they do for the same product without the feminine label. The so-called Pink Tax is unfair to women. In the case of the product above the only difference appears to be that the lady laxatives are "Comfort Coated", i.e. enteric coated so they dissolve slower. This does not account for the price difference. It pays to read the labels.
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The Persistence of Chaos
A cybersecurity firm commissioned online artist Guo O Dong to take a 10-year-old laptop and infect it with six seriously malicious computer viruses. The artwork, titled The Persistence of Chaos is isolated and airgapped (whatever that means) to prevent against spread of the malware and it just sold online for more than $1.3m. The artist may put the proceeds toward another project. But he says he’s also considering another idea: taking the money and burning it.
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Anatomy of a Scene - The Florida Project
The Florida Project is one of my favourite movies. In this video director Sean Baker talks about a scene with Willem Dafoe.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019
DBS Before/After
David Sangster was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinsons in 2011 at the age of 29. He is married with two children and is an Ambassador for World Parkinson Congress. He received DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) in April 2019 and it has proven to be life-changing.
This Steak Is Hyper-Real
I know this steak looks good enough to eat but don't grab your your knife and fork - it's actually a hyper-realistic painting by Japanese artist Yoshinobu Saito.
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— 斉藤幸延@Yoshinobu Saito (@yonyon76) February 6, 2018
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Moon Shining
In 2015 footage circulated purportedly showing director Stanley Kubrick talking about his alleged involvement with NASA in faking the U.S. moon landings. This video by Fabrice Mathieu parodies these conspiracy theories.
« MOON SHINING » or: How Stanley Kubrick shot the Apollo 11 Mission? from Fabrice Mathieu on Vimeo.
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« MOON SHINING » or: How Stanley Kubrick shot the Apollo 11 Mission? from Fabrice Mathieu on Vimeo.
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First Shave
For young men, learning to shave is a rite of passage. Samson Bonkeabantu Brown always knew he was different and that first shave had special significance.
This ad from Gillette has been released on Facebook to coincide with Pride month.
This ad from Gillette has been released on Facebook to coincide with Pride month.
Tweet Of The Day
When you are given the name "Skeffington Kelso", expect life to be one big round of Incident. (Severance News 1915, via @_newspapers) pic.twitter.com/Ht3Gif8gIL— Undine (@HorribleSanity) May 27, 2019
Monday, May 27, 2019
London Street Scenes 1967
Film of London, England in the summer of 1967. Guy Jones has added in sound for ambiance and worked on color scheme.
Regal Photographs of Nigerian Brides
Lakin Ogunbanwo’s series e wá wo mi presents a rich portrait of Nigerian heritage. Through this series, which means “come look at me,” the photographer reflects on the nuance of identity—that of the brides and his home country.
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Tweet Of The Day
A German dog hospital, treating wounded dispatch dogs coming from the front, 1918 pic.twitter.com/0dBB7Iu5Zm— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) May 26, 2019
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Planespotting
Jean-Lesage International Airport in Quebec City has made life a little easier for photographers. Local plane-spotting group YQB Aviation worked with the airport to determine the best angles for capturing photos of planes and installed panels for photographers to shoot through. They created 10 sites around the area of the airport that provide the best views.
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Counting the Costs
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| 7.06 cubic meters-the average volume of ice lost on Naradu glacier each minute |
Photographer Dillon Marsh combines photography and computer generated elements to draw attention to the dramatic climate changes that are occurring as we go about our day-to-day lives. He has compiled data from scientific reports to calculate the rate at which certain glaciers are losing mass then created accurately scaled ice models and placed them within typical human environments.
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| 18.64 cubic meters-the average volume of ice lost on Chhota Shigri glacier each minute |
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The Spice Bus Rides Again
Above and Beyond
At the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago there is an exhibit comprised of 58,307 dog tags. Each dog tag represents the death of military personnel in the Vietnam War and is arranged in date order of death. And, each dog tag shows their name, date of death and military branch.
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This guy is epic lol pic.twitter.com/kMLZJes2tj— Damascene Sage Ψ 𝓹 ۞ 𝓽 ۩ (@PsychologyDoc) May 16, 2019
Queen Elizabeth Hotel Adds Peace Symbol for 50th Anniversary of John Lennon Bed-In
On this day in 1969, Beatles member John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono occupied rooms 1738, 1740, 1742 and 1744 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel In Montreal to protest against the Vietnam War. The rooms are now collectively known as Suite 1742. The hotel has added a peace symbol to its emblematic logo to honour the 50th anniversary of the bed-in.
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3D printed portraits made with DNA from cigarette butts I love the Wellcome Collection.
The cat who saved a Japanese rail line: the ‘cat master’ became so famous she was knighted.
The Beat Scene: Burt Glinn’s Vivid Portrait of a Subculture Via Blort
Brooklyn's Revolutionary Social Club: It safeguards the boots of Mexican revolutionaries, and the sound bites of rebels; it collects buttons, posters, and anything upon which one could scrawl a grassroots manifesto.
Periodic Table of Music Genres by DJ-Glass
A Wisconsin Bar Had an Enormous 1885 Circus Poster Hidden Within Its Walls
Animated Editorial Illustrations by Andrea Chronopoulos
Name That List, #58
Flying Body Parts Lawsuit Crazy!
Some of the world’s oldest people have lived on the Japanese island of Tokunoshima. Can a Drink a Day Keep the Doctor Away?
How Do You Move a 320-Year-Old House Across an Ocean?
Giant Arms in Venice Form A Bridge
A Glimpse Into A Disturbing Masquerade Ball This mysterious surrealist party took place at a Rothschild’s mansion in 1972.
Women in Rock and Roll's First Wave: For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s. They were wrong. Via
The Oliver Twist workhouse is becoming a block of luxury flats with a "poor door"
What it's like inside an Amazon fulfillment center "I was no doubt the worst packer on the floor during my two-package stint."
What next? Be a part of something with NOTHING
Floating dairy farm in Rotterdam shows how food production can become less vulnerable to climate change.
No More Wasted Space Between Your Fridge And Counter Great idea!
Death and Life in Great American Cities: To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond.
The Best Restaurant Table Is Yours, If You Ask for It
20 of the most beautiful villages in Italy
Digital Collections of the Library of Congress Free to Use
Whimsical Street Art Cal inserts cartoon illustrations into statues, vents, iron plates, peeling walls, weeds, and abandoned objects.
Saturday, May 25, 2019
Political Baskets
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| Resisting the Mission; Filling the Silence More about this set of baskets... |
Cherokee artist Shan Goshorn's baskets send a political message. They are woven from fibers, maps, treaties, photographs in a traditional cherokee format. There is a story behind each one.
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| Invited to the Table of Deceit More About This Basket... |
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Mail Boat Jumpers
Looking for a job that keeps you fit? The US Mailboat hires "mailboat jumpers" to deliver mail to homes around Geneva Lake in Wisconsin. The jumpers leap to each dock from a slow moving boat, run to the mailbox, swap the outgoing mail with the incoming, and leap back on board in about 10 seconds.
Via Futility Closet
Via Futility Closet
Tweet Of The Day
VITAL UPDATE: my road runner porch-buddy used to run away if I wanted a pic but now when he catches a lizard he KNOCKS ON MY DOOR and then parades his catch around and poses, it’s amazing. Who’s a good boy! Mr Meepmeep! 😍 pic.twitter.com/388tpsFmVp— Havi Brooks (@havi) May 19, 2019
Brown Eyed Girl Never Sounded So Sad
Van Morrison's upbeat song, Brown Eyed Girl, sounds so melancholy when Marc Durkee performs a slowed down version in a minor key.
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Tower of London welcomes its first raven chicks in 3 decades
According to legend, the Tower of London must be occupied by at least six ravens at all times, or else great harm will befall the kingdom.
Being four ravens richer has brought ravenmaster Skaife great joy and relief.
"I am the happiest father around at the moment," he said."I'm so pleased that they've had babies here. It's so exciting for the Tower of London."
More: CBC Radio
Friday, May 24, 2019
Murmuration
10,000 porcelain birds created by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang form a calligraphic landscape at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Samsung AI Turns a Single Portrait Into a Realistic Talking Head
Samsung has figured out how to create realistic talking heads from as little as a single portrait photo. A team of researchers at the Samsung AI Center in Moscow, Russia, share their new system that has this “few-shot capability.”
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Tweet Of The Day
This Japanese game show (Slippery Stairs) deserves a TV Award for Best Drama.— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) May 24, 2019
( 9 minutes of pure gripping anxiety! ) pic.twitter.com/WVEbSnPknv
The Bavinger House
In 1955 architect Bruce Goff built an “organic house” for artists Nancy and Eugene Bavinger. It was a spiral with no interior walls. Each “room” was a saucer suspended from the ceiling. Unfortunately the house fell into disrepair and was demolished in 2016.
Bruce Goff: A Creative Mind - Bavinger House 1950 from SKYLINE INK on Vimeo.
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Bruce Goff: A Creative Mind - Bavinger House 1950 from SKYLINE INK on Vimeo.
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The Romanovs Twilight
During the Russian Revolution in 1917 seventeen members of the imperial family lost their lives. 45 other members of the extended Romanov family managed to escape Russia and fled to other parts of the world. The Russian news agency Tass has created a data visualization project which traces the history of every single member of the Romanov family from 1847 to 2007.
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The Quintet of the Sunset
Because everyone likes a good cat video.What we expect from our relationship with animals reveals how we want to be treated and respected.
The Quintet of the Sunset by Jie Weng from Yilisoo Films on Vimeo.
The Quintet of the Sunset by Jie Weng from Yilisoo Films on Vimeo.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
The woman who helped discover dinosaurs
The great fossilist Mary Anning got her start at the age of 12 when she and her brother Joseph discovered a remarkably complete Jurassic-era fossil of an Ichthyosaurus.
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McHive?
The world's smallest McDonald's has just opened. A new campaign orchestrated by Scandinavian agency NORD DDB has several Swedish branches of McDonald’s playing home to fully functioning beehives.
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More: It's Nice That
#LarsonShindelman #Mobilize
We visited this exhibition at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester NY yesterday. Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman who work collectively as Larson Shindelman, use publicly available GPS information embedded in social media to track the location of user posts and then travel to the location to create a photograph that both marks the physical place and reacts to the content of the original post. This exhibition draws on trending hashtags in Rochester to identify themes relevant to the community. It's an interesting concept and gets a thumbs up from me for being political.
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Banksy: "A Street Artist In Venice"
Never invited to be the part of Venice Biennale, Banksy once again invited himself to showcase his work. He showed up among other street artists to present his new work Venice in Oil, a multi-panel piece that shows a cruise ship towering over the historic city.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Body language explained by a former FBI agent
Former spy catcher Joe Navarro was a body language expert for the FBI. He knows a lot about body language.
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Attractive Cat Tower
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Joyce and Carmen would love to have this Three Poles Cat Tower designed by Jiyoun Kim Studio for a Korean pet goods company. It is the ultimate modern take on feline furniture.
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Street Photography Through Time
Guy Jones created this 20-minute video that offers a brief history of street photography as a slideshow of a photo for every year between 1838 and 2019.
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A New Exhibition Will Offer Amazing Frank Lloyd Wright Pop Art Starting at $50 - Dwell
Frank Lloyd Wright: Timeless is a new exhibition helmed by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Spoke Art gallery, who invited artists to depict Wright-designed buildings using 1930s-era Works Progress Administration travel posters as inspiration.
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Cooking With Poison in Japan
The native people of Amami Ōshima, a remote Japanese island, harvest and eat cycad—a plant that in its rare form can be deadly because it’s packed with poison.
Cooking With Poison in Japan from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
Cooking With Poison in Japan from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
Monday, May 20, 2019
If I Made a Commercial for Trader Joe's
It's booze, it's nuts, it's pills, it's cheese, it's the peanut butter made of sunflower seeds...
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Cartographic Beasts Of North America
This wonderful story map is an interactive version of Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin “Carte Genlle. de la France Septle. Contenant la Descouverte du Pays des Illinois” (1675) mapping an expedition two years earlier down the Mississippi River. It is filled with animals, some real, others fantastical.
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Tweet Of The Day
Coatis in reverse look like herds of tiny brontosauruses— 41 Strange (@41Strange) May 20, 2019
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Sunday, May 19, 2019
Boat Carved from an Olive Stone
This tiny boat was carved from an olive pit by Ch’en Tsu-chang in 1737 and measures just 1.4 by 3.4 centimetres. Inside the boat are eight figures, with the Song Dynasty poet Su Tung-po sitting beside the window at the table. The poet's Latter Ode on the Red Cliff which includes more than 300 characters is engraved on the bottom of the boat. The boat’s ornately carved windows are actually movable!
Sacred Spaces
Sacred Spaces by French photographer Thibaud Poirier looks at how the architecture and design of the world’s modernist churches have evolved to accommodate modernity without disturbing their deeply-rooted symbolisms and traditions.
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Sunday Links
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| One of Margaret Gillies’s illustrations for the 1842 Report of the Children’s Employment Commission |
The Report of the Children’s Employment Commission, published in 1842, was unprecedented, not merely for the level of shocking detail and first-hand evidence, but because it was illustrated. Link
You'll wish you were deaf: The World's Worst Records, a compendium of cringe-worthy cuts. Via
Nightmares, Ranked Made me laugh.
The Disability Collection hits a thousand diverse photographs on its first anniversary
Beach Sands Near Hiroshima Are Still Packed With 1945 Nuclear Fallout Debris The beaches on Hiroshima Bay are littered with this fallout debris up to a depth of around 4 inches.
Iron Man Jet Suit: Yours for just $373,310
This is love
What next? McDonald's to serve as mini U.S. embassies in Austria Via
Did you know the first webcam watched a coffeepot? 116 Amazing Facts for People Who Like Amazing Facts
The 20 best true-crime shows ever The six of these that I saw or listened to were absolutely addictive. I think I'll track down the rest.
Winnipeg strikes Workers' demands for rights and a living wage shook the nation over 42 days in 1919.
16th century ring that unfolds into an astronomical sphere Lovely.
Never let anyone see you change or show skin when in costume. Japan's Only Mascot School Teaches the Art of Cuddly Cuteness
Inside San Francisco's Plague-Ravaged Chinatown, c. 1900 The rumors of controversial mass inoculations had “plunged the town into disorder…”
Lady's Guide to Greenwich, London At the moment I am drinking a cup of Earl Grey Bluestar tea that I picked up at the Greenwich Market last month.
Finding Retreats Away from Streets How to escape traffic in Berlin.
81-Year-Old Babushka Takes Embroidery To A New Level Via
Yet more proof that the world is going to hell in a handbasket (as if we needed it).
Lost Cities of Palestine An extraordinary insight into Palestinian life in the city before 1948
Don’t Let the Angels Fall: The Curse of Cannes Sometimes, premiering a film at a prestigious festival is not the best strategy.
Bunny Yeager : The Brilliant Selfies “I was never a pin-up model. I did not pose for men individually like Bettie Page did. All the other models were wearing one-piece Jantzen and Catalina suits. I made my own and am beginning to think I invented the bikini, after the French did it.”
Those 'Ding' Sounds on Airplanes Actually Mean Something
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Our #Caturday Feline of the Week is the black sheep of the Beaumont Police Department. (Paris News 1947, via @_newspapers) pic.twitter.com/Bm2JjH78w3— Undine (@HorribleSanity) May 18, 2019
I Am Easy To Find
I wasn't sure what I was watching at first but as it progressed I was incredibly moved.
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Cornwall
I needed a moment of calm today. This did the trick:
● Cornwall 2019 ● from Adrian Cabello on Vimeo.
● Cornwall 2019 ● from Adrian Cabello on Vimeo.
1944 Canadian Army Emergency Ration
Game Of Thrones Dragon Lamp
This fire-breathing dragon lamp by Kvant 3D Printing is inspired by one of the most iconic symbols from Game Of Thrones.
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Bringing medieval Angkor to life
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Friday, May 17, 2019
15 Facts About Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat passed away earlier this week at just 7 years old. Mental Floss has shared a few things you may not have known about the cat who launched thousands of memes. Did you know that Grumpy's unique look comes from feline dwarfism and an underbite?
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An Unsolved Fashion Mystery
This sketch, published in a wartime newspaper, contained a secret message, ostensibly hidden in Morse code in the arrangement of dots and lines on the women’s dresses.
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This Speech Synthesis Model Recreates a Human Voice Perfectly
Henry Ford's Mirror of America 1962
This compilation of images and sequences from the Ford Film Collection gives us a peek at daily life in America between about 1915 and 1930. A little long but worth a look.
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Thursday, May 16, 2019
In Syria The Worst Natural Disaster Is Mankind
Amnesty International’s new campaign focuses on man-made disasters in war-torn Syria.
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Tweet Of The Day
I knit in city council because it helps me concentrate. Tonight I decided to knit in red when men spoke; green for women. Day 1 results. #reclaiminghertime #women power #listen pic.twitter.com/2nc65UB8GZ— suemontgomery (@MontgomerySue) May 14, 2019
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Street Stone
Back in 2012 graphic designer Alexis Persani and photographer Léo Caillard turned classical statues into hipsters.
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Tweet Of The day
— George Carlin's Ghost (@BlindMelon1967) May 10, 2019
THINGS YOU NEVER SEE
"You never see a Rolls Royce with a bumper sticker that says 'shit happens'."
Visit @TheGeorgeCarlin
Official YouTubehttps://t.co/0iFFyae9RW
Websitehttps://t.co/9DGZM9ZM6Q pic.twitter.com/0HAjS4HsQK
World's Shortest International Bridge
Let Stan Park Your Car At Gatwick
This robot uses forklift-like arms and artificial intelligence to create up to 50% more space in a parking lot.
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Catastrophe Quilt
This amusing prizewinning quilt was made by Susan Durovy of Palmyra, VA. The cat looks just like my Carmen.
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