Sunday Links

“Cottagecore” in Paris

For a decade or more I spent a lot of time in Paris and loved seeking out the private villa streets. In recent years I've moved on to other destinations but this post makes me nostalgic for the City Of Light and its hidden corners.

Ekaterina Busygina's architectural photos in South Korea These are quite incredible. Via Memo Of The Air

Searching for America’s 1930s post office murals – a photo essay

Africans Used To Hide Escape Maps From Slavery In Their Hairstyles:  Cornrows helped the African slave population by providing a discreet and easy to hide way to transfer and create maps in order to leave their captor’s place.

This cabin in Norway doubles as a viewpoint and ski jump

COVID-19 is turning us all into this:'A thing of its own': the man with five-metre-long hair, unwashed for 80 years

This vintage-style kart, repurposed from a Volkswagen beetle fender, is adorable.

Frog and Toad Tentatively Go Outside After Months In Self-Quarantine 

Parkulator shows what percentage of your town is defined as dedicated to car parking. Via Maps Mania

Made in Taiwan?  George Psalmanazar was a mysterious Frenchman who successfully posed as a native of Formosa (now modern Taiwan) and gave birth to a meticulously fabricated culture with bizarre customs, exotic fashions, and its own invented language.

The Convenient Truth of Rotisserie Chicken: A look at America’s favorite illogically cheap, ecologically dubious roasted chicken.

Beach volleyball from above

Find Your Home's Flood Factor  (United States)

A food revolution in the Falklands This is an interesting article. I found out I know nothing about these islands and that Mr. Nag is an expert. I didn't even know that the Falklands and the Maldives are one and the same.

Alexander The Great- Submariner Extraordinaire Via Everlasting Blort

Raise your glass to the world’s finest distillery architecture

Riccardo Maria Chiacchio I: "All clothes have been washed in the Mediterranean Sea and been exposed to the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. All clothes will preserve the memories I have given them. All subjects were born and raised in Napoli."

Speaking in Tongues

Splendour and Misery of Soviet Interiors Photographs by Evgenia Maximova

I learned something new this week: A "buttload" is apparently a formal unit of imperial measurement

This is for real: Popular Pandemics Magazine: Charisma! How do we eliminate the scourge? Chicken Playground Appeases Vegans  and more…Via Boing Boing

How COVID-19 Led To Soaring Divorce Rates In The US, Visualized 

Sometimes one needs a room of one's own. The Ultimate Backyard Extra Room: The Mjolk Shepherd's Hut

Taxidermy Gone Wild Via Memo Of The Air