Sunday, September 10, 2023

Sunday Links

Photography: Dimora Italia Real Estate

Are you looking for a home with more space? Perhaps this 43,055 sq ft fresco-filled palazzo  (image above) will fill the bill.

In the last decade, an estimated 40 million Americans lived within 1 mile of a mass shooting. How Near do You Live to a Mass Shooting?

Men On Fire Photographs of fire breathing acrobats.

’Not really’eggplant parmesan from Smitten Kitchen (of course)

Items that fell forward during the last moments of the Titanic, listed in Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember, 1955

Man walks into a bar, says to the bartender “Make this if you can

Iconic photos and the cameras that captured them  These photos are familiar but we know little about the people who made each one. And even less about the cameras that were used to take them.

Strange Flowers a celebration of some of the most eccentric, extravagant and extraordinary personalities of the last 200-odd years.

The Rules of Bralessness You’re welcome!

If you lived in this English cottage where John Le Carré wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy perhaps you might be inspired to write a great novel.

I was born into a generation in Canada who saw the US as the flashy big brother we idolized and wanted to emulate. Many of us now hesitate to visit there because of gun violence, racism, sexism and social inequality and it saddens me. These posts on Mastodon illustrate the decline of American society over the past 50 years. via Miss Cellania


Snobots: they prevent the build up of alpine snow with loud farts.

The owners of this London house renovated it to honour the dwelling's mid-century roots and to give it a distinct “Kubrick feel"


For those who like these things: Burning Man fiasco memes

Tenement Town tells stories of the historical buildings of Edinburgh (my favourite city) and the people who lived in them. Great site.

When rock star Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash in 1959, his trademark black glasses were not found at the site. Buddy Holly’s Lost and Found Glasses



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