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

1. Kite Flying with Alexander Graham Bell In 1899, Alexander Graham Bell, famous for inventing the telephone, began experimenting with kites in search of insights into the possibility of powered flight. The basic problem of creating flying objects is that as a body’s surface area is squared, its weight is cubed, limiting the maximum size…

Meet the Bizarre Youtuber dropping the Best Undiscovered R&B Songs of the Year

If you don’t know who Justin Kuritzkes is, until a few minutes ago, I was in the same boat. On my daily aimless scroll through the depths of internet forums, I was randomly drawn to a link titled “Falling in Love with a Photograph”. Just listen to this… It’s pretty damn catchy right? At first I thought…

Kid Brothers were too Poor to buy Card Games so instead, they Made their Own

For those of us that grew up with the means to buy the commercial card games, do you know where they ended up? I know most of my mediocre board games and card collections gathered dust in the parents’ basement for years before they finally inevitably ended up in the trash. But for two brothers who couldn’t…

French Phrases Hidden in English Words (A Cartoon Crash Course)

I think one of my proudest moments in grade school was the time my teacher asked the class if anyone knew where denim came from. I over-excitedly raised my hand and blurted out, “Nîmes! The city in France!” My grandparents were from Nîmes and they had bestowed me with the rather obscure fact that the English word “denim” was a play on…

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

1. The Man who Collects Stones For years, every day, Luigi Lineri has walked along the Adige in search of stones… In the mid-1960s, Lineri noticed that some of the small rocks that have supported the watercourse for millennia, although smoothed by the incessant passage of time and water, still bear the traces of some…

Photos taken by the Mars Robot are Way Better than Our Holiday Snaps

NASA’s red planet robot, a rover called “Opportunity”, has spent the last 12 Years vacationing on Mars. Since his landing in 2004, he’s taken over 200,000 photographs of various Martian landscapes, craters, meteorites, unusual rock formations and even evidence of past water activity. In celebration of its twelve year holiday roaming an alien planet, which by…

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

1. A Double-Decker Caravan complete with chandelier and marble fireplace Image (c) Matt Bucknall What was once derelict scrubland at Sutton House in Hackney has been transformed into a late 20th century-themed urban oasis with an edible garden, and art installations including The Grange – a 1970s caravan fitted out as a historic stately home. Details on…

California Dreaming on the Last Hippie Houseboats

Hippies and houseboats; they seem to go together almost like wine and cheese. At least, they used to, especially in California in the 1960s when a mix of old beatniks and young hippies formed a community of whimsical water homes in the Bay Area… I found this photostory lurking in the depths of the LIFE archives, titled “Floating-Houses-California”…

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

1. Before alarm clocks were invented, there was the knocker-up The old English occupation known as a “Knocker-Upper”, involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they were awake. It lasted into the 1920s. Found on the Geneology website. 2. Calling Secret Service…

Style Comeback du Jour: Tattooed Jeans

That’s it. I’m starting a girl gang where we all go around together in our Levis 501’s with embroidered tattoos on our butts and hips. The inspiration behind this new aforementioned direction I’m taking in life? The creator of “Good for Nothing Embroidery”, Marie Sophie Lockhart. Of course she’s Parisian, but she’s now based in Brooklyn, taking…

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