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| The Old Boathouse, Alexandra Park by Robert Littleford (above) |
Don't know what to buy that special someone for Christmas? You can never go wrong with a cozy sweater.
Retro cool. Betamaxmas takes you back to your parents basement to watch all the holiday television of the 1980's from news to Ninja Turtles. (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
Would you like a vintage-looking car with a modern drivetrain? Of course you would! This Chinese Carmaker Is Building Cars From Alternate History (via Memo Of The Air)
Peter Sagal's 10 Rules of Twitter (each was learned by violating it repeatedly over the years)
Feeling crafty? Make this papercraft globe (via The Map Room)
From Ayn Rand to The Village People: The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time (I posted this in 2004 and it's still funny)
Earth's Black Box will record scientific data to give future civilizations insight on how exactly humanity fell.
We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever "Another course – a citrus foam – was served in a plaster cast of the chef’s mouth. Absent utensils, we were told to lick it out of the chef’s mouth in a scene that I’m pretty sure was stolen from an eastern European horror film."
The Fab Four interpreted by black artists: Black Beatles: R&B Covers 1963-1972
Instagram account of the day: Surreal Practitioner (Thanks Bruce!)
The invention of the Christmas Cracker
Word of the Year Shortlist: Dignity suit, menty-b, porch pirate, wokescold and more… (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)
46 of the Most Beautiful Streets in the World I was surprised to see how many of these I've walked along over the years.
Is this weird or what? Lick Your Cat
In 1970 Amerika, a U.S. government Cold War propaganda publication, hired photographer David Attie to shoot photos of a new TV show for kids. The recently discovered photos are part of a new book called The Unseen Photos of Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street, the official companion book to a feature-length documentary of the same name. (Thanks Bruce)
Chill out: Jelly Cam at Monterey Bay Aquarium
The peculiar fad for Little Switzerlands where the Romantic sublime meets countryside kitsch.
Take a soothing trip down the river: Islands of the St. Lawrence (1919)
Klinger assumes the ankle deep telegrams were all opened, read, and crumpled. It could have been much worse, ankle deep unopened. She probably licks her cat too.
ReplyDeleteTelegram crumpling is terribly exhausting.
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