Sunday Links

Johnny Swing makes furniture from coins (above) with each design requiring thousands of nickels, quarters, half-dollars or dollar coins.Via bookofjoe

Swan Lake Bath Ballet

20th-century garden landscapes A showcase of Britain’s most extraordinary gardens and landscapes from the twentieth century to present day.

Townscaper : An instant town building toy.

100 Wishes Of Hatcham: Residents of Hatcham, New Cross Gate, London have created 100 Delft Blue ceramic tiles to visualise their wishes and words of wisdom.

AIDS Memorial Quilt Is Now Entirely Online: The 48,000 panels share stories of care and craftsmanship, memorializing 125,000-plus victims of HIV and AIDS since 1980.

Hot water freezes faster than cold. Now you know.

The annoying boxes puzzle 

The Secret History of Washing Machines It began with The Drum in 1782…

With this shortcut all you need to do is say  ‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’ and it will kickstart a chain of events.

How to stop your glasses from fogging up when you wear a mask  Via Pasa Bon

Larry Burrows took this iconic photograph in Mutter Ridge, Nui Cay Tri, South Vietnam in October 1966. Here's the story behind the photo 

In 1854, a new railway station opened in London, but only the Royal Family was allowed to use it — this was Queen Victoria’s private railway station at Nine Elms.

If a Centaur and a Gorgon Had a Child 

 Beer Mats of the 1970s Satire Via FB pal Hal.

Now you can live like a Golden Girl The iconic ranch house used for the exterior shots of Blanche Devereaux's Miami home is on the market and it's lovely.

Andean condor can fly for 100 miles without flapping wings Condors are expert pilots but we just had not expected they would be quite so expert.

Hue love it : A fantastic collection of old paint charts, catalogues and home colour books.

How to rescue a raccoon from a dumpster

Behold Vermont Beautiful aerial photographs of my favourite American state. We took a lot of holidays there when my sons were growing up and I have many fond memories of those times.

Why so sad? Your chicken has no arms? No problem Via Rusty's Electric Dreams

Krasnoyarsk Compared to New York 

A Forgotten Futurist's Vision of Paris Albert Robida was a graphic novelist who has been described as a lesser-known Jules Verne.

Cambridge University Professor Cooks 4000-Year-Old Recipes from Ancient Mesopotamia Is it vegetarian if you use blood?