Sunday Links

The Red Book of Bath (image above) was recently acquired by The British Library. Read 10 things you didn’t know about it. Via Perfect for Roquefort Cheese

The Happy Newspaper prints only good news.

Check out the home and workplace of Mr Foxe and Mr Boxe, fine dressmakers. This is an absolutely charming website. Via Messy Nessy.

The Clockwise Ant A problem by Argentinian puzzlist Jaime Poniachik, from the February 1992 issue of Games magazine. 

A Phone-Free Childhood? The seaside town of Greystones, Ireland, is experimenting with a voluntary ban on smart devices for preteen children. Most of the town has bought in.

Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art.

Does gloomy weather get you down? Blue Sky Experience is a recessed ceiling light that simulates blue skies and natural sunlight. 

How many people live within a 3km radius of you? 40,131people live that close to me in an area with mostly single storey houses. Via Web Curios

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show - Scientific American

Lip Filler Accent: They don’t have lip filler but they talk as if they do. (archived article)

Cosmic Truths of Cheap Grocery Shopping These will save you money on food, no matter what you buy or where you shop. Via Miss Cellania

It started with a question from a three-year-old: The Complete History of the Polaroid Camera 

So you’re determined to become a cat? Here are the five stages of felinization. Via Metafilter

In an effort to keep spaceships as light as possible edible spaceships were considered.

The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack (1967)

A Free Library of Short Stories Thousands of works originating from magazines, newspapers and short story anthologies have been converted to online text. Via everlasting blort

How Covid Rewires the Brain Patients recalled episodes in which breathing no longer felt automatic—going long stretches without inhaling unless they willed themselves to do so.

A cheerful little song about using lip balm after dental surgery. Via Mefi

The downsides of being a billionaire Does becoming rich alter one’s perceptions of status, friendship, obligation, and maybe even reality itself?

This heritage home in a Montreal suburb was completely reimagined by architects Mise à Jour Studio. Montreal is my home town and I have always appreciated the stone houses of Quebec. They are iconic architectural symbols of New France in the 17th–19th centuries.