Sunday, March 14, 2021

Sunday Links

Link - Thanks Bruce!

Blackbird Cabin: From a back of a napkin sketch to a serious piece of design engineering. 

World War II Couple's Love Letters Found Beneath British Hotel's Floorboards 

Some neighbors are better on your T-shirt. When Sid Vicious lived across the hall

Maps Mania brings us two sites that show the locations of thousands of bombs that landed on London during World War 2.

Very creepy

Yet another case highlighting the significance of wrongful conviction in the United States: Hertz "deeply saddened" that it took 5 years to find the receipt to free an innocent man 

Some Memes to mark a year of lockdown. Via Miss Cellania

Spring is Here, Cats Flying Back Home 

A series of Then and Now photographs from around the world at The Guardian

I was hoping we wouldn't be wearing masks by now but we are so this might be helpful: How to Prevent Foggy Glasses While Wearing a Face Mask Thanks Bruce!

Apparently there was a time when making wine for children was okay.

Incarceration in Real Numbers

A beautiful essay about hearts and hummingbirds Via MetaFilter

14 Things You Might Not Know About 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' 

I've been enjoying ginger lately and will try to grow my own: How to Grow Ginger in Containers And Get a Huge Harvest

Gore Vidal and Orson Welles Play Warhammer Via MeFi

BirdCast - Bird migration forecasts in real-time

The lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco. 

I like this sinuous stone house that blends into a Greek hillside.

Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online Via Everlasting Blort  (and here's a link to some of my related posts)

Picasso's owl 

Lockdown LPs Via Things Magazine

From The Guardian: A lost poem by Vladimir Nabokov, written from the perspective of Superman as he laments the impossibility of having children with Lois Lane, has been published for the first time.

The best bus shelter in Britain

Paris Apartment Renovation Reveals Hidden Revolutionary Frescoes

Famous meme faces then and now

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