Sunday Links

(Hiwire Blog)

Hiwire Costumes creates distinctive, handmade costumes with exquisite details. (image above) Their costumes are functional for the aerial, dance, and pole arts. Via Messy Nessy

The English Person With a Chinese Stomach How Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero.

See everything that ever happened: Globe of History Via Web Curios

Beautiful colour plates from Shin-Bijutsukai (“New Oceans of Art”), a Japanese magazine published in monthly issues from 1902 to 1906.

Six Things That One Person Ruined for Everyone

Look at this faucet! I did some digging and found that it is the 1950 Belle Aire made by Lefroy Brooks.  Via Memo Of The Air

Yes, There's a Parallel Parking Championship

Seven years ago Carole Turek embarked on a seemingly impossible quest to photograph every hummingbird species in the world—all 366 of them. (Audubon)

What's the Best Position to Sleep In?

The Utah Look If you want to feel ugly go to Utah.

How big is it? Size of Life

A Thousand and One Nights in Italy In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style. Via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese

What happens to the stuff no one wants? 

Feeling mappy? Make this spiral globe ornament

Which Canadian locales have the best chances of seeing a white Christmas this year? 

This holiday let in Somerset, England is a Pig Sty but I’d stay there.

The Black Sheep: There was once a country where everyone was a thief.  (A short story)