Sunday Links

(François Prost, 2023)

François Prost photographed the facades of cute roadside love hotels in Japan that offer private rooms with prices advertised by the hour. The series is a love letter to the kitschy landmarks that dot Japan’s highways.

A sustainable and adorable trio of cabins in the Helsinki archipelago.

Hex codes for all 16.7 million colours

Form Letter: Thank you for choosing United Healthcare for your healthcare needs. After a careful review of the claim submitted for emergency services on December 4, 2024, we regret to inform you that your request for coverage has been denied

A gruesome but interesting story about the 1955 LeMans 24-hour endurance race which became known as Racing's Deadliest Day

Snake Oil? Evidence for popular health supplements.

While Trump rails against U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants Russians are flocking to his properties to give birth to U.S. citizens.

Fascinating facts about Japan’s Golden Submarine and her final journey and fate.

Big britches

Introducing the First-Ever Smart Thermostat for Perimenopausal People

What is a Spamalanche? You don’t want to find out.

Eugene and Marie established an “all-encompassing” world of their own – a world where stages of exotic theatres were mounted. Eugene Von Bruenchenhein And His Wife Marie: A Love Story

What do hard-boiled eggs, actors, aspirin, and railroad travel all have in common? They all incurred the ire of Raymond Chandler. (Literary Hub)

Suffer the Children: The Tragic Fate of Indigenous and Doukhobor Children in Canadian Governmental Care

Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About Thanks to Vaccines “Parents in the early 1950s lived with a terror: the substantial prospect that their child could touch the wrong toy and end up in a wheelchair, an iron lung or a grave.”

Pigcasso 

“When I worked at Cafe Minnie’s in 1995, I was the target of more customer complaints than any other server. Thus my claim to have been ...The worst waiter in Seattle“

Riding made them feel “happy and scared.” Happy because freedom is joyful. Scared because of the fury it provoked in men. These women were some of Afghanistan’s best athletes. Then the Taliban came back.

The World's Largest Mammal Migration Is Taking Place in Zambia Right Now

Hoteru Kariforunia e yōkoso