via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
Circa 1900
“Car ferry Transport, Detroit River”
The unloaded version of this
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co
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Watch a candy maker make candy canes by hand
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Capitalism and bureaucracy
Postal utopia. Early in the 20th century, three thinkers – Twain, Lenin, Weber – shared a model of paradise: the German post office… more
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The Great Outdoors – Children’s Books and Camping Out
via An Awfully Big Blog Adventure by Emma Barnes
I enjoy hiking, and love cross country skiing (on those rare occasions when I get the chance) but I’ve never been a great one for lugging around heavy backpacks full of clobber. I don’t like sleeping under the stars. Nor do I count among my skills lighting fires, pitching tents or rustling up something on a camp stove.
Yet my latest children’s book is all about camping. So what’s going on?
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Use Legos in Creative Ways For Practical Household Solutions
via Lifehack by Yvonne Dick
Remember those colourful plastic blocks that nestled into each other with a satisfying click? Maybe you even have a pail of them still hanging around? You can use Legos as an adult and have as much fun as when you were a kid with this list of creative and practical ways to use Legos for household fixes, entertaining, and design solutions. Where possible, I’ve included links to which Lego kits you’ll need, and instructions for how to do your own creative Lego build.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Dylan Thomas, bohemian
Dylan Thomas excelled in the role of doomed poet: Drinking, debt, squalor, petty theft, not-so-petty theft… more
Note to self: Hazel, you are only supposed to read enough of the main article to decide whether it should be included or not!
Note to my reader(s): this one is a time suck!
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Parallel universe where time travels in reverse?
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz
Could we be living in the past of a parallel universe? University of Oxford physicist Julian Barbour delivers this headspinner: continue reading
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Is Human Laziness Human Nature?
via Big Think by Jason Hrera
For most of human history, it’s been recognized that we tend to follow the path of least resistance. We go to comical lengths to avoid work of even the most trivial sort.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Fake musical genius
Mamoru Samuragochi was hailed as a great classical talent of his generation. His story was amazing – a deaf composer genius. And it was false… more
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Bodega cats, in their own words
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
I love this little video series from WNYC Radio: Bodega cats of New York City, voiced by the store owners whose little shops the cats live in.
Check out a couple here
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