Sunday Links

Tomato Bus Stop - EMEASLEY

Konagai, Japan’s fruit shaped bus stops (image above) are adorable bits of whimsy.

New Word Order : Arrange three articles taken from Wikipedia's Neologisms By Decade in chronological order. It’s fun. (via Webcurios)

Stephen Fry is a British national treasure. Here are some of his best moments on the Graham Norton Show 

Turn On, ”the first computerized TV show” was canceled  in the middle of its first episode (1969) 

Clone-a-Lisa: Can you reproduce da Vinci’s masterpiece in under 60 seconds?

Access a bubble level, do a breathing exercise, find fun facts and more…11tricks you can do with Google Search

We have brothers, sons, lovers but they can’t live here! This purpose-built co-housing development is entirely managed by the women who set it up as an alternative to living alone.

The Early History of Counting “The notched tally stick itself testifies to the intelligence of our ancestors. No invention is simpler and yet more significant than this.” (via TMN)

In 2021 a portal was installed in Lithuania next to Vilnius Train Station, allowing anyone who uses it to make contact in real time with inhabitants of the Polish city of Lublin.

Does anyone out there still wear ties? This might make your life easier. (via TYWKIWDBI)

Skye’s the limit This home at the north tip of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, looks heavenly.

Speaking of mug shots, here’s one of Janis Joplin from the Tampa, Florida Police Department, 1969. She was charged with using vulgar and indecent language at a concert.

A nifty visual illusion

#Gravetok influencers post videos of themselves visiting burial sites, cleaning headstones and following recipes inscribed on them.

A Google Map of the Brain: This new 3D map allows you to take a look inside a human skull and explore atlases of the brain's regions and neural connections.

A NYC apartment built in 1909 that has been preserved in time. (via everlasting blort)

Sweet: Yellowstone Wolves Caught on Camera Bringing 'Toys' Home to Their Pups 

Memory Hacks: How to remember names, dreams, and the elusive word that’s just on the tip of your tongue.

Butters (this reminds me of the time our dog, Liz, showed up with an unopened plastic-wrapped package of chicken thighs)

Specially impregnated atomic mask and mittens

We are currently mid-move and living between two houses. The new place is much smaller than the one we have lived in for the past 36 years so my days are spent passing Solomon-like judgments on which of our weird and wonderful possessions will come with us, which will be sold and which will be tossed. I pack, transport and unpack ridiculous numbers of large Tupperware containers. My knees and elbows ache and so does my head. My buddy Marco sent me this article to cheer me up: How I Imagine My Moving Day Will Go