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Tourist impacts have resulted in the throttling back, closing of access, or even removal of historic sites around the world. Historic Sites That You Can No Longer Visit
Playing with fire: Flambé is back. (Before trying this flamboyant cooking technique make sure that the batteries in your smoke detector haven’t expired.)
This woman was the first person to complete a marathon in a Costco store. She refueled periodically with free samples and a signature Costco hot dog. (Kottke)The shoey Considered an Australian tradition, drinking from a shoe has a long history.
Rage keeps you breathing, an interview from 2020 with one of the last people in the world still using an iron lung. via Metafilter
Might Delete Later makes music from voicemails that people send them. Call +31658868630 to leave yours.
In Norway, ‘Texas’ is slang for ‘Crazy.’via Miss Cellania
A "party coach" is a consultant who helps people "find new ways to let loose." I don’t need one of these.Scary embroidered beadwork bags and accessories
“I was already wearing tight pants. I just did not activate them.” Tight Pants / Body Rolls is a strangely mesmerizing vintage video. I had to watch the whole thing. via FB friend Labour Singer.
The valence of husky voices Vocal fry has always been with us, with a famous fry influencer from olden days being Mae West. via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese
Cambridge academic escapes toilet using eyeliner and cotton via The New Shelton wet/dry
Special Report: "Generation X" a 1991 documentary via Webcurios
Not Everyone Commutes by Car In Canada and the United States 95% of journeys to and from work are made by car. Elsewhere in the world people often walk, cycle or use public transport in order to get to work.
The story of the three geniuses who joined forces to create one of the great classics in Western music: Miles Davis and the Recording of a Jazz Masterpiece
The title drops in movies make me wonder about the many times I've heard a movie had a working title of xxxx and not given it's name until after shooting and sometimes after editing.
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My favorite part of any project is putting a title on it. While you're doing it, it doesn't always seem to have a theme, but afterward it's obvious. Titles on links. Also headlines. There was a science-fiction book by John Sladek, called Mechasm, one of whose characters is a newspaper editor. Internally he narrates his life in headlines as things happen to him. "Small-town newspaper editor's wife leaves him, runs off with pool cleaner."
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