This morning I realized I hadn't received any comments here for a very long time. I checked on Blogger and found 1100 unmoderated comments dating back to last March! Somehow my settings no longer enabled comments to be sent to my inbox so I was not seeing them. I fixed the problem and went through all the comments, deleted the spam and abuse and read and posted all the rest. Thanks to all of you who continued to react to my posts even though I appeared to be ignoring you.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
This Gorgeous Floating Research Station Cleans Oceans
Watch Iris Flowers Go From Bloom to Decay
Sunday Links
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Mothmeister's disturbing, but somehow lovely, Wounderland. Via Everlasting Blort
Sgt Pepper Photos: A project to locate the source images used on the cover of The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese
For your delectation: Hideous Jello lamps
A trippy visualization of the internet's evolution
Over 250 Pictograms Depicting Japanese Culture Free, the way we like it.
How many of these famous passages in literature can you identify?
Literary Hub has chosen some of the most quoted lines from literature and turned them into a quiz. I didn't do as well as I thought I would.
Now you can smell like a font with Autobahn's Alphabetic Perfume Collection
Welcome to the Woodlands Lodge, a Twin Peaks lodge for squirrels
PSA: How to disable a robot dog if it's attacking you. Via Perfect For Roquefort Cheese.
Generique, Miles Davis from the film "Ascenceur Pour L'Echafaud" Now I want to watch the film.
Because we all could use some good news: Cheese Isn't Bad For You Thanks Bruce!
The Virtual Fashion Archive Via Things Magazine
From the page to the floor: The art of dancing explained Thanks Bruce!
The complex constructed history of Chandigarh Chairs A group of design historians is creating a more accurate and just narrative of Pierre Jeanneret’s modernist furniture of the 1950s.
Bleeding edge products that don’t bleed. Could This Be the Lab-Made Dinner Party of Our Future?
Do different ways of using citrus peel to garnish cocktails produce different tastes?
The Stasi Scent Library Sometimes Stasi officials did not bother with being subtle and merely told subjects to put a cloth under their armpits or even under their pants in the groin area. The cloth was carefully handled by tweezers in an effort not to allow contamination by other human scents.
Dark, lovely impressionistic paintings by Reggie Burrows Hodges
People Share The Funniest Contact Names They Have In Their Phones
Can you guess which actor ditched acting to build trailers? Via Things Magazine
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Quails In Space
Experiments studying the effects of space flight on embryo development in Japanese quail, conducted in 1990 and 1992 on space station Mir, revealed that embryonic development and hatching is possible during space flight https://t.co/tjCfIh5gCx [video: https://t.co/7YvMETAVcf] pic.twitter.com/pBSYLBYVRV
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 27, 2021
A Century Ago
"A century ago, Russia was enduring a terrible famine, the Irish Free State was created, U.S. President Warren Harding was inaugurated, the Tulsa Race Massacre took place in Oklahoma, a new machine called a “dishwasher” was introduced, New York’s Madison Square Garden was home to “the world’s largest indoor swimming pool,” and much more."
The original caption reads: "Washington, D.C. - Louise Johnson and Sgt. Stubbie, the famous war dog, made a striking sight in the parade. Stubbie was the most decorated dog in the AEF, wearing wound and service stripes earned in action. Miss Louise Johnson is daughter of Colonel Johnson, of the General Staff, USA." # Bettmann Archive / Getty |
In May 1921, the Irish Republican Army briefly occupied and then burned the Dublin Custom House, which housed a British government agency, during the Irish War of Independence. # Bettmann / Bettmann Archive |
The original caption from April 25, 1921 reads: "All the drudgery of dishwashing—this three-times-a day task which comes to the housewife who does her own housework—has been eliminated by the new dishwasher shown in this photograph. It is the invention of a Cincinnati school teacher, who sought to make things a bit more pleasant for his wife. Incidentally, his idea was worth $12 to him, for a manufacturing concern thought so much of the 'dishwasher,' they purchased the rights and will seek to add a little joy to thousands of other housewives. With the aid of only hot water, dishes placed in a wire rack and set into the drum are made clean and spotless in two minutes." # Bettmann Archive / Getty |
See more at The Atlantic
Thanks Bruce!
The First Complete Photographic Tarot Deck
Tweet Of The Day
One of the most amazing clips I’ve ever seen.
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) February 21, 2021
Check out this “school bus” arriving in Mongolia...pic.twitter.com/UJluyjLgRf
Friday, February 26, 2021
Ancient Hunting Scene Fresco Restored
Oh Boy Records - 40th Anniversary Documentary (Teaser)
John Prine's Oh Boy Records, the country’s second-oldest artist-owned independent label and the oldest in Nashville, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year with a new documentary that will air as a mini-series on Oh Boy’s YouTube channel.
Lost Languages Revealed in Ancient Library
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Ted Cruz Piñata
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Brilliant LEGO Memes
Washing the windows of the world's tallest building
Stone Sushi
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The Town That Derailed a Diesel Train for Emergency Power
Photo: Ryan Remiorza (AP) |
Small Scale LA
Technicolour Beef Wellingtons by Anthony Rush
Frederic Edwin Church's Iceberg Paintings
The Many Lives of a New York City Doorman
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Dafa Metti
Globe Possibly Engraved on an Ostrich Egg by Leonardo da Vinci (1504)
Image by Davidguam via Wikimedia Commons |
Ochre Sea Star
Monday, February 22, 2021
POV Ski Ride
Type To Act
Lucky Knot Bridge
What Gordon Parks Saw
Like Chalk and Cheese
Sunday, February 21, 2021
This is not something you see every day.
Ok, watching a 140-year-old full-on Victorian mansion cruising through the city streets is hands-down one of the top wildest things I've ever witnessed.
— Austin Elliott (@TTremblingEarth) February 21, 2021
The Englander house moving from Franklin St to Fulton St this morning in SF pic.twitter.com/kqbyiy62ke
Tweet Of The Day
This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and place snow blocks and create an entrance--a shelter completed in one-and-a-half hours [full video: https://t.co/XXgxImEFrF] pic.twitter.com/pNY7wHHqji
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 21, 2021
London from above
Via Londonist
Sunday Links
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From World War I to the Rave Scene: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Structures Via Everlasting Blort
This house is so skinny that if you put on 10 pounds you'd have to move.
The fairy-tale village hidden off a busy Berkeley street: Normandy Village is an anachronistic slice of medieval life.
A nice piece of writing: For the Love of Oranges
Miss meeting up with friends at a bar for a drink during these socially distanced times? 'I Miss My Bar' Replicates The Atmosphere Of Your Favourite Watering Hole
Ken Burns Answers Every Question We Have About His Hair
Instagram Fruit The secret behind Del Monte’s Pink Pineapple. Thanks Bruce!
Paul Simon Tells the Story of How He Wrote "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
During these days of unvaried routine I'm looking for new recipes to shake things up a bit. Instagram Picks: home cooks to follow
Angelic: Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria & Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Pony exhaustion will do it every time! Things Women In Literature Have Died From Via MetaFilter
US Covid-19 deaths, explained in 8 charts and maps: If every American who died has left nine people grieving, as one study suggested, there are now more than 4 million Americans who have lost a loved one to the pandemic.
Islamic 12th-century bathhouse uncovered in Seville tapas bar
You Are Now Aware of Firematic Racing: A Combination of Drag Racing, the Olympics, and Fire Fighting Thanks Bruce!
10 Scientific Ways to Get a Cat to Like You (I suggest wearing tuna perfume)
Just The Recipe is an app that gives you the ingredients and directions without all the extraneous rambling, popups and email lists.
The Inglorious History of King's Cross and its Station - a haunt of Thieves and Murderers
How many wives did King Henry VIII have? Where does the word “fuck” come from? Why did people wear bearskin shoes? Wikipedia has all the answers.So on the 20th anniversary, OneZero asked the individuals who made Wikipedia what it is today how it all started. An Oral History of Wikipedia Thanks Bruce!
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Beaded Ear Saver For Those Who Wear Masks Often
Photo: Tara Kiwenzie |
Photo: Tara Kiwenzie |
Tweet Of The Day
Tiny Bunnies ! pic.twitter.com/ZixsmWcCDL
— ♡Dina Ribeiro♡ (@DinaRybeiro) February 18, 2021
Penguins Toiling In a Cigarette Factory
A Day In The Life Of A Sushi Master
Friday, February 19, 2021
From Snurfing to Snowboarding
Via Kottke
Good Morning Little Hedgehog
72- Hour Beef Wellington
1948's "Cars of the Future"
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Akari Kokeshi Light the Way in an Earthquake
The Surface of Mars in 4K
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Tweet Of The Day
Tower climber Kevin Schmidt shows what it takes to change a lightbulb on the top of a 457 meter high television broadcast antenna over the South Dakota plains while being filmed by a quadcopter [source and full video: https://t.co/9kpyYrXj2a] pic.twitter.com/FcwOXKVonC
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 17, 2021
Monumental Macramé
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Tweet Of The Day
Shadow of a Millipede walking 🐛
— Science is Amazing (@AMAZlNGSCIENCE) February 16, 2021
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by Chris Dull (Facebook) pic.twitter.com/efKggaYjNn
How to Transport a Bee Colony
Guy transports a bees colony by carrying the queen is his fist; the rest of the bees crowd around where their queen is 🐝🤯
— Science is Amazing (@AMAZlNGSCIENCE) January 28, 2021
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by daniirodman (TikTok) pic.twitter.com/euDdYlL9h8
Snow Rolling
Flipping Fantastic!
It's Shrove Tuesday
Danish beer pancake |
'Self Medicating Media'
Tired of staring at your own four walls? Spend your evening in a jazz bar in Paris (below), immerse yourself in a Harry Potter setting or take a carriage ride through the woods. Ambience videos pair relaxing soundscapes with animated scenery to soothe your soul. There’s a video for every taste and mood.
World's Longest Hockey Game
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Monday, February 15, 2021
Manatees Basking With Dolphins
Cake Shield
What a 16th-century plague survival guide has in common with COVID-19 advice
Sunday, February 14, 2021
The Animations That Changed Cinema
Sunday Links
Taking babies out for a pram ride at the Essex Babes' Hotel and Nursery Training Centre in 1926. FOX PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES |
The Rise and Fall of Britain's Biggest Pram Collection (photo above)