Sunday Links

Sunday morning trompe l’oeil: "Revolution" by John Pugh in Ottawa, Illinois  (above) Thanks Bruce!

A doorway inspired by the dazzle camouflage scheme used extensively in World War I. Via PfRC

Squid Lamps At $4500 each I'd have to sell my house to buy them but then I'd have no place to plug them in. Via Everlasting Blort

When Emile Leray crashed his Citroen in the middle of  the Moroccan desert he knew he'd have to do something drastic if he wanted to get out alive so he built a working motorbike from the wrecked car.

City of Solitude For 76 days, 9 million people in Wuhan slept, ate, and waited inside the largest quarantine in human history. Via hypnophant

A history of door handles Often overlooked but where would we be without them? Thanks Bruce!

Dear Grateful Dead: Illustrated Letters from Deadheads To The Band 

Looking for something different to watch? Here’s a link to French films on Netflix

This week's house envy is in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Built in 1770 it is the oldest example of the one-and-one-half storey Neo-classical wood structure that was typical of early settlement dwellings in this area. Check it out.

I have a strong affection for both shepherd's pie and The Ivy so I'm definitely going to pin this one: The Ivy's Shepherd's pie, perhaps the ultimate comfort food

In the 1970s and 80s the Sea Gull Cellar Bar in Mendocino was famous for its live jazz performances. Here's a set from 1974 featuring Judy Mayhan Kiyoshi 
Tokunaga and John Gilmore. Via Memo Of The Air

For history lovers: Who Lived in Your House?

 Tuk Tuk racing is a thing and it's awesome  Thanks Bruce!

A Visual Guide to the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus: What scientists know about the inner workings of the pathogen that has infected the world.

James Bond’s Cigarettes

How Giant Ships Are Built Almost everything at this shipyard exists at enormous scale and vessels are constructed over years.

Surveillance. Harassment. A live cockroach delivery. US attorneys have charged six former eBay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalking campaign.  eBay Execs Made Life Hell for Critics

Step inside the wild world of competitive Pâté en Croûte

@danbarker spent an afternoon photographing the locations on the UK version of Monopoly

Archives Algeriennes retraces the history of Algeria through videos dating back to 1896. Via MeFi

Leftover Veggies? Maque choux is a fancy name for a dish that’s really the perfect opportunity to use up the odds and ends in your fridge.

Saving Africa’s Stunning Painted Dogs Via Miss Cellania

When the the wetland they inhabited was parched by drought and threatened by wildfires these wild platypuses were sheltered at a zoo in Sydney. The Return of the Platypuses

What happens when a restaurant critic turns chef? "Bloody hell. It wasn’t that he confited his own duck and cured his own duck ham. I expected that. It was that he whipped up his own mayo with his own parsley oil. The breadcrumbs had 10 ingredients. The only thing he didn’t do was gene splice himself with a duck and lay the bloody egg. As to how he got the frying of that egg so right, he refused to say."