Sunday Links

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FaceTime, With Lipstick there is something oddly soothing about reverting to purely cosmetic anxieties at a time when the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Civilization Tables. Bring a taste of The Hegra, The Kailasa Temple or The Petra to your home.

Frances Goldin, longtime East Village/Lower East Side housing activist, has died at 95. Here's a great New York story about her.

Cocktails From Around the World That You Can Make at Home : You can’t travel, but you could probably use a drink. How about a Mexican tepache? Just don't cover it - it will explode!

Attention all Deadheads: Massive collection of Grateful Dead recordings   available online free!  Via MeFi

T Magazine’s annual Travel issue retraces the land routes of ancient explorers along the Silk Road.

Inside King Arthur Flour, the Company Supplying America's Sudden Baking Obsession  How King Arthur Flour found itself in the unlikely crosshairs of a pandemic.

These are not mechanical parts you see but ... butterfly eggs! 

Fun to daydream: Modern-day castles to buy, from medieval and baroque estates to contemporary gems. Via Things

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem It took Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to answer a long-standing question about a strange knot discovered over half a century ago by the legendary John Conway.

Let's go for a Sunday drive! The Drive and Listen app lets you experience a virtual drive in dozens of cities around the world.

Pillow Girl (Ronnie Cramer) Psychedelic! Via Memo Of The Air

'Iso', 'boomer remover' and 'quarantini': how coronavirus is changing our language  Thanks Bruce!

Sure, the Velociraptors Are Still On the Loose, But That’s No Reason Not to Reopen Jurassic Park 

Brooklyn, Before It Was a Global Brand: A virtual historical walk with some very nice photos.

You might be partying alone right now but that's all the more reason to make this late-night drunken party pasta recipe

There was a time when Londoners would rent pineapples instead of eating them

Feeling nostalgic for the old Mac startup chime? Here's how to bring it back

Measuring Mount Everest, the Rooftop of the World: Chinese surveyors are en route to the peak to assess the mountain’s height, which may have shrunk after the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Thatcher Wine, guy with a funny name and book curator to the rich and famous, ranks celebrity bookshelves on Video Chat.

US Font Map: The United Fonts of America 

The Cork City Dump is a haunted graveyard of your childhood  As char­i­ties stopped ac­cept­ing toys they ar­rived in droves at the dump. Work­ers have placed them art­fully around the en­trance to Cork’s Civic Amenity Site.

Visit Places You Will Never Go: "We then inventoried our 21 bags of flour and wondered whose job it was to pick up the yeast. In reality we are off the grid as we have been for 43 years. I realized I have been predicting the apocalypse for decades and thank god I’m finally right." This is hilarious.  Via PfRC

His Grandmother Never Let Him See Her Photo Album It was only after she died that Johnny Quan found out about her illustrious career. Via Miss Cellania

Hear David Bowie, Bob Marley, Elvis Costello and Others Play in the Studio of  BBC DJ John Peel 

Ladies of the Good Dead: In her column “Detroit Archives,” Aisha Sabatini Sloan explores her family history through iconic landmarks in Detroit.