Sunday, August 30, 2026

Sunday Links


Somewhere in Japan: Gorgeous photos by Amsterdam-based photographer and art director Vincent Versluis (image above)

Mr. Nag and I are longtime fans of Modern Toss. Mick Bunnage and Jon Link celebrate 21 years of the British comic with a London exhibition of sweary cartoons, workplace rage and magnificently bad behaviour. Via Things Magazine

Sandringham’s former royal railway station is up for sale It is now a spacious and comfortable home.The richly decorated royal waiting rooms have been preserved largely as they would have appeared when royalty used the station.

How does bagged lettuce get contaminated with cyclospora anyway?  NYT Gift Link

A newBritish/Irish town every hour Via Web Curios

The Iowa State Fair Mom Calling Contest

The Albanian files documents 20 years of architectural change in Albania that is still unfolding Via PfRC

Rename Lake Ontario Now!

Embrace the kind of story that can hold its own literary weight while respecting that you still have a full life to attend to. Short But Sweet: Nine Novellas To Read In a Single Afternoon

Why scientists asked 1,000 people to bury their underwear 

Billie Eilish will star in a new film adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, directed by the brilliant Sarah Polley. I’m looking forward to this.

UK heatwave exposes 300-year-old hidden gardens as drought reveals forgotten historic landscapes across Europe

The materials of the past are never worthless. In the world of design, there’s a term that’s used for the practice of taking elements from older buildings and reusing them in new ones. It’s called spolia. Granby Rock was a version of that.

Things that happened to both Odysseus in the Odyssey and to me on my bachelorette trip.

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