Sunday Links

How to Build a Bird Kite This is a craft tutorial that doubles as a meditative experience. 

Operation Cowboy In 1945, a group of American soldiers set out to rescue hundreds of horses from a Nazi farm in Czechoslovakia.

The Lecherous Limericks of Isaac Asimov

The Great Pigeon Relay A post about the rescue of Passenger, a pigeon who showed up in a guy's car.

Are you more ****** Than Average? (via Webcurios)

This week's house envy is a frescoed apartment in beautiful Lisbon.

In 1887, as the Eiffel Tower was being built, a Committee of Three Hundred led by architect Charles Garnier protested the structure: When foreign visitors come to our universal exposition, they will cry out in astonishment,  'Is this the atrocity that the French present to us as the representative of their vaunted national taste?’ (Thanks Bruce!)

This egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal. I'm not sure I've ever seen one in the flesh. Have you?

You can see the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale Pavilions online.

Rusty Blazenhoff visited that rare blooming corpse flower at the abandoned gas station in Alameda, California and has pictures to prove it.

Milo might be the cutest dog you have ever seen but his habits are simple and revolting. (Hilarious but not for the squeamish) via MeFi

How to Understand the 1960s in 11 Books

The secretary who turned Liquid Paper into a multimillion-dollar business You knew she was Mike Nesmith's mum didn't you? (Thanks Bruce)

"Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble"? Nope. 50 Common Misquotations

Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Underground Railroad has been made into a ten-part series and it is one of the most harrowing things I have ever watched. The novel was built on recognizable historical moments but how much of it is actually true? Link

What does it mean to be untouchable? Class and caste in India during covid.

 Worst Responders Thanks Bruce!

14 larger than life TV characters we never saw onscreen. (Via Miss Cellania) 

 344 Marilyn Monroe covers Via Memo Of The Air

Fashion forward or fashion fail? Just $528US!

A new word for you: The F-150 Lightning, an electric pickup truck, has a frunk.

The jade burial suits of China (Via Strange Company)

I adore this set of handmade William Morris ceramic buttons. Etsy 

In 1984 this British TV Show  demonstrated internet shopping and how to check your email on the go.

A Soviet Ghost Town on an Arctic Norwegian Isle