Sunday, September 14, 2025

Sunday Links

© Guédelon


How to Build a Medieval Castle: Guédelon Castle, in the Puisaye region of north-central France, represents a modern effort to build a thirteenth-century castle using only construction materials and techniques employed by medieval builders and artisans. (Via TMN)

If you like pina coladas …

It’s Just a Mess 23 people explain how tariffs have suddenly ruined their hobby.

I have been a follower The Modern House for at least a decade and have spent many, many hours looking at lovely houses for sale in the UK that I have no hope of purchasing. I pore over the photos, the floor plans and maps of the ones that strike my fancy and imagine what it would be like to live in them. They celebrated their 20th anniversary this summer and I wish them many more.

A Timeline of Land Speed Records

The torcedores would sit at these neat orderly desks, rolling cigar after cigar. And you would hear something maybe unexpected in these factories. While people rolled cigars, you would hear the sound of a daily news report, or maybe a poem or a novel, being read aloud. Read aloud by a person known as the reader How cigar factory ‘Readers’ shaped Cuban political movements 

This is the world’s biggest animal migration and it is spectacular.

Why Wikipedia works Via PfRC

The Oldest Waiter He drank 3 gallons a day of mountain valley water which he called his ‘Mountain of Youth’

Booty Swing Via Memo Of The Air

Mouse Magic Taxidermy Via Things Magazine

fifty thousand names is the winner of the Tiny Award 2025. It was made in commemoration of every single man, woman and child who, as of March 2025, had been killed as a result of Israeli attacks on Gaza following the Hamas atrocities of 7th October 2023.  Via Web Curios

A repost of an urban legend about Bono.

Banksy mural of a judge beating a protester is scrubbed from London court

10 Questions to Answer Before You Die (split into 5 questions to ask and 5 actions to take before you die)

 Living in the Present with John Prine - an excerpt

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