Sunday Links


How to Make an Image Transfer Pumpkin

Warning: clicking on this link will make you cry. Last Moments

This 6 part Instagram post is too good not to share. It's a hoot. Read it.

Roy Cohn’s Will : Musician Donald Fagen shares a true story about George Plimpton, Buck Henry, and the last will and testament of Roy Cohn.

If Each of Us Planted a Tree, Would It Slow Global Warming? Thanks Bruce!

'I'm A Fat Boy Now' - The Diabetes Miracle (1922): This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child.

How this chair became a pop culture icon. Via MetaFilter

The 'Wikipedia Of Maps' Came To The Rescue After Hurricane Dorian 

Very Ugly Plates (not as cheap as they should be) Via

The Music of Dire Straits in the Sahara c1995.

Photographer Ezra Stoller Turned Buildings Into Monuments 

Dear Juliet: If Shakespeare's Juliet was an advice columnist, what would you ask her?

Halloween is coming! Here's something to listen to while you're waiting for trick or treaters: 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone Via 

 ‘I asked her for her number and she said no’ Does anyone else read The Guardian's Blind date column? I'm hooked on it.

A poem to internalize

Cultural Mashups Ephemera Set to Music Via Memo Of the Air

These 'UFO abduction' earrings!

Listen to history: Historical Records by Dani Gal  is an ongoing project that documents political events of the twentieth century.

The theory of Dunbar's number holds that we can only really maintain about 150 connections at once. But is the rule true in today’s world of social media? Via PfRC

Octopus in a Cup

Should I eat it? How to tell whether expired food is Safe to Eat Via MetaFilter

Forcing the patriarchy to be held accountable for its actions: Meet India’s group of low-caste female vigilantes 

Ming, the Siberian-Bengal tiger who spent three years in a Harlem apartment

These are amazing: Photos of Dogs in Mid-Air by Claudio Piccoli

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