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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 713)

1. An antique railway car miniature made by a retired French postman A wooden-framed railway car is finished with tinted straw in decorative manner to create wall murals, carpets, inlay furnishings, and walls in the interior, and slatted boards and window frames on the exterior. When opened, the interior room has built-in furnishings including table,…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLX)

1. The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be They may be vine-smothered ruins today, but the lost cities of the ancient tropics still have a lot to teach us about how to live alongside nature. Not only did societies such as the Classic Maya and the Khmer empire of Cambodia…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 712)

1. Photographing the Williamsburg Bridge Riders A few of my favourite shots from the Instagram account of Adam DiCarlo found via Kottke. 2. How Kodak invented the “snapshot” 3. Taking Baths, Drinking Alcohol & Other Strange Ways Famous Writers Got Inspiration Journalist Blythe Roberson copied her favorite writers’ schedules to see if they would offer the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 711)

1. Just a Female Street fight duel with sand-filled socks Published in “Le Petit Journal” November 1st 1902: There are Apaches of both sexes as seen recently in the rue du Général-Morin. Louise Henin, a beautiful girl of twenty, became mortally angered by Andrée Merle, twenty-three years, for reasons difficult to specify. They resolved to meet in a…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 710)

1. This delightful collector of tiny things Jane Housham is a collector, sorter, cutter-outer, writer, artist. 2. This charming 1950s menu When French restaurateur Andre Frelier and his wife Yvonne opened L’Omelette bistro in 1932, it quickly became a favorite spot for Stanford University students because of its cozy lounge, open fireplace, reasonably priced drinks…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 709)

1. The Making of Alex Chinneck’s new looping barge He’s the same guy who made the famous sliding houses & more. More of the “how it was made” on his Instagram. Found via Present & Correct. 2. This great little place, in Hatcher Pass, Alaska Photographs by Kelsey Hayden. How to stay here. 3. Inside…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 708)

1. This excellent Twitter (X) thread about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that people listed in the replies on a map! Link to the first tweet in the thread. But a reader informed us that the bookstore…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 707)

1. A new hotel in Rome designed by Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me By Your Name The Palazzo Talìa is 26 rooms and the Challengers director designed its public spaces and one of its suites. Book it here. Found via Will O’Connor on X. 2. Bulgarian beach bar sarcophagus turns out to be genuine…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 706)

1. The marbelised “Literatur” passageway in the Museumsquartier in Vienna Free to wander through, the mural (painted by Austrian artist Johanna Kandl) is inspired by the marbled endpapers used in Baroque book production. The vending machine dispenses literature written by young Austrian writers. Found on the Tess Newall Studio. 2. A Time Capsule Department Store…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 705)

1. The oldest functioning planetarium in the world Hidden behind a pocket-sized door in a doll’s house-like building in the sleepy Dutch town of Franeker is a room so unique that even a King was star-struck. Explore the extraordinary world created by wool weaver turned astronomer, Eise Eisinga. His creation of a fully functioning planetarium in…

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