Sunday Links

A drawing for the Eugene and Nancy Bavinger House, a landmarked home in Norman, Oklahoma, that was demolished in 2016. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

The Oklahoma architect who turned kitsch into art (Image above)

An unusual but effective method of tooth extraction.

Everyone has a soulmate. He found his.

Glenn Explore is a 3D open-world driving game that lets you drive a virtual car anywhere on the planet. Read more: Maps Mania

The reviews have been more entertaining than the movie. A commenter on Fark described it as a "two-hour bland infomercial for the future death of democracy."

Homo Mobilus: People photographed with their vehicles.

There are over 300 references to muffins in the Epstein files.These appear to be references to actual muffins, not code words for sex trafficking, drugs, etc. Lacanian Group Chat describes how she  replicated Jeffrey’s favourite baked good. Via Web Curios

Watch out for falling iguanas

A great collection of WPA posters. The WPA was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects during the Great Depression. Via everlasting blort

OH MY GOD. He has boxes of Pokémon cards! A Daughter Goes Through Her Dead Millennial Father’s Storage Unit

When 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide in April 2025, he left no note. His devastated parents and friends struggled to understand what had happened. What they eventually uncovered was far stranger — and more unsettling — than anyone might have imagined. (Duck Soup)

Good news for cheese lovers? Maybe.

What goes around comes around Some welcome positive karma.

Fallout - Would You Survive a Nuclear War? A huge investigative project explores a grim strategic reality: how 450 nuclear missile silos scattered across the Great Plains are designed to act as a "sponge." 

A century of hair shows how lead exposure collapsed

Have you ever wondered what you would look like as a Claymation figure? Me neither but I went there nonetheless and it wasn’t pretty. Via Web Curios

Stay or go: What's next for coyote that escaped to Alcatraz?

Family Matters: Judging from what he wrote in his last will and testament, Dr. Dunlop of Upper Canada was not very fond of his family.

What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan? (Don’t worry it’s not your mummy)