Sunday Links

Photograph © Kirsten Bos

I like this  C-Shaped Forest Retreat (above) in the Netherlands. 

Read the very first reviews of The Catcher in the Rye.(Literary Hub)

When I go on holiday I abhor shuffling along in a crowd with a common goal of ticking something off their bucket list. I love an empty art gallery, restaurants without lineups or an untrodden path with a view so this post on the world's least visited countries appealed to me. Unfortunately getting to most of them would be an unpleasant experience.

How to serve a head shot cocktail. (via Miss Cellania)

Journal of the Identical Lunch  "A tunafish sandwich on wheat toast with lettuce and butter, no mayo and a large glass of buttermilk or a cup of soup"

An AI version of Johnny Cash Singing "Barbie Girl"

Life before cellphones: The barely believable after-work activities of young people in 2002

Doll for love An artist’s stitched tribute to his heroes.

Tater Mitts No peeler? No problem.

What kind of fuckery is this? Balenciaga's $27,000 blue jeans are actually cotton and linen pants painted by hand to look like faded, worn-out jeans. The process took 100 hours of labor to achieve the desired effect on each pair.

Divorced, befriended, married or dead A Spanish newspaper used 2021 census data to map out whether there are more single people or married couples in every census tract in Spain.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to clean one’s home with a puff of canned air? My Frida Kahlo Dollhouse (via everlasting blort)

Luckies exists to create cool things. Their website is chock full of original gifts for that special person.

Fit For A King A roundup of castles for sale in the US (via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese)

PSA for iPhone Users: Don’t fall for this scam that threatens to delete all your photos and videos. 

Charlie Watts’s book collection is going up for auction. Rolling Stones drummer was a bibliophile and collector who owned rare editions of books by George Orwell, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and more. The auction house describes his collection as “an unparalleled library of modern first edition books, the finest and highest value collection of its kind to come to auction in over twenty years.”

Have you been tying your shoes incorrectly? There is a mathematically correct way to tie that bow (You’re welcome)

Here’s something you don’t see every day: A story about a haunted appliance

This film  celebrates the timeless beauty of ancient Islamic, Ottoman, Greek, and Byzantine art forms. (Warning:flashing images)

The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s photographic survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)

Is that an earworm? A bug in your ear? No it’s just an earring.

I didn’t expect that sound (via everlasting blort)

Wanna see something disgusting? Of course you do! Taste test (via Tacky Raccoons)