Sunday Links

Photography © Julian Parkinson

Burden’s Point is a sensitive renovation of two historic homes in Salvage Newfoundland. The nuanced architectural interventions are loosely inspired by the work of Newfoundland-born painter Christopher Pratt. (Image above)

How to Fold a Suit According to King Charles’s  Former Suit Maker

A river runs through Los Angeles but most people who see it probably mistake it for a giant storm drain.

Edinburgh Tenements are a window into the city’s political and geographic history. Edinburgh is my favourite city and, for me, these iconic buildings are a part of its charm.

Kitchen Drama

In last week’s link roundup I posted the New York Times List of the 100 best books of the last century. This week Literary Hub made their own list of books the Times list missed. Over the years I’ve read and enjoyed seven of them, started a few others that I found unreadable and today I found three others on the list that intrigued me enough to order them.

All that remains . . . Left in a field to decompose for  20 years,  a pair of Wrangler jeans is now down to its toxic skeleton.

Buddhist Pacifists at War In the early centuries of Vajrayāna Buddhism in India, practitioners worked to reconcile the religion’s teaching of nonviolence with the realities of warfare. Via

What's Going on With Boeing Aircraft? 

At The Two Puddings. We moved into the Puddings and after the opening night, I said, ‘I can’t stand this,’ and then I stayed forty years.

 Objects Hiding In Plain Sight  (via)

The dizzying ascent of the air fryer. In the blink of an eye it has become a staple of North American kitchens.

The “Puttin' On The Ritz" video was shot in one continuous shot with no edits and lots of rehearsal.

Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design (Via the new shelton wet/dry)

Who Goes Nazi? He is formless, almost faceless, a man whose countenance is a caricature, a man whose framework seems cartilaginous, without bones. He is inconsequent and voluble, ill-poised, insecure. He is the very prototype of the Little Man.

This is literally your brain on drugs. (NYT link)

Crows can count out loud like toddlers, when they aren’t cheating the test