Sunday, April 20, 2025

Sunday Links

Image: Tom Hegen

Photographs of some of Borneo’s most beautiful floating markets (photo above) More: Moss and Fog

Just Room Enough Island: “Floating between America and Canada like nature's own panic room, this 3,300-square-foot middle finger to suburban sprawl hosts exactly one house and one tree – a minimalist masterpiece of misanthropy.”

Beautiful photos from Alcova Milano, a fair focused on emerging designers.

When I bought a couch from a friend, I had no idea I’d have to pay someone to take it apart. My Dream Sofa, the Couch Doctor, and Me

Why Hong Kong uses bamboo scaffolding, and meet the spider-men who climb it  When I visited the Gili Islands in Indonesia I watched workers erecting scaffolding for what would become a hotel. It was hard to believe that bamboo could support a multi-storey building. At night the workers slept together on a plywood platform without walls or bedding. Via everlastingblort


Common Sense Electric Belt, a belt for the million (Via Memo Of The Air)

Two-year-old Arizona child rescued by a very good boy.

The danger of Dishpan Hands

Before & After Photos A brilliant conversion of a 1940s single-storey home built by an architect who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright. I’m experiencing house envy.


The long, strange trip of the Titanic victims whose remains surfaced hundreds of miles away, weeks after the ship sank. Link via Miss Cellania

Recreate Trump’s fin de siecle bordello style with these cheap, faux gold dupes of Oval Office decor

Saving Potlucks One JPEG At A Time: Kau Kau Chronicles has recipes from dozens of out-of-print Hawaiʻi cookbooks that were published by community groups, schools, and as office projects.

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The Goalkeeper Who Got Lost in the Fog: Sam Bartram, a goalkeeper, was accidentally left on the field when a 1937 game was called off during the second half due to heavy fog.

The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.  Read more


Martin Roemers’most personal photograph ‘Their lives were getting harder, even with help. They did not want to go to a nursing home and neither wanted to live without the other. So they left this life together’




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