Sunday Links

50 Times Things Got "Opened" And People Found Interesting Things Inside (image above)

When a conservator at the Guggenheim Museum restored its 1909 Pablo Picasso painting "Le Moulin de la Galette" she found a hidden dog in the masterpiece.

Moderator Mayhem: How well can you handle content moderation? (via Miss Cellania)

The world's most beautiful post offices expand our sense of what an “office building” can be.

Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she? Knitting as a WW2 Espionage Tool  

A Freedman Writes His Former Master

C'mon in, sit down and relax in this Ambient Garden (via webcurios)

The Life Behind The Architecture: While Frank Lloyd Wright worked on some of the grandest buildings in the world, his personal life was often a mess and he courted scandal.

6 Foods That Never Expire 

Composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto prepared a playlist for his own funeral. Sakamoto died of cancer in March at age 71. "He truly was with music until the very end," said his management.

The Leaflet mapping platform has created a map which allows you to compare the size of Greater London and the Tokyo metro area with any other location in the world. (Maps Mania)

One of the world's largest life forms spans 80 football fields and weighs some 6,000 tons. Listen to Pando

TruffVels, an unexpected but intriguing food mashup (via Miss Cellania)

It is an accepted convention that the Civil War was a man's fight but at least 750 women fought in that war. (source)

Behold The  McMansion: Bloated, dreary, amenity-choked domiciles are taking over small towns (even my own!) 

 The Poor Man's Rembrandt Project: From June 19 to 25, 2023, Henk Schiffmacher and his tattoo artists will be tattooing in Rembrandt’s home and you can get an original Rembrandt tattoo done. (Hyperallergic)

Wirecutter somehow knew that I am preparing for the great migration and sent me tips.

How Tokyo Became an Anti-Car Paradise The world’s biggest, most functional city might also be the most pedestrian-friendly. I always imagined that Tokyo, a city of 37m people, would be noisy and air-polluted but I was wrong. (via TMN)

The Evolution of the Negroni Cocktail Over 163 Years

The Receipt is a series that documents how different Bon Appétit readers eat and what they spend doing it. They look at a flight attendant, a bartender, a lunch lady and many more. 

The Story of Sweetpea, A 27 Year Old Cat

It was World Bee Day yesterday so I'm posting this piece about  car companies and bees. (Alpine, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Jaguar Land Rover, Lamborghini, Mahindra, Mercedes, Porsche, Rolls Royce, Toyota, Vauxhall, and Volkswagen all have bees) 

Artists' Illustrated Love Letters  from the collections of the Archives of American Art.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Lovely violin cover by Julien Ando.