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

1. Brooklyn’s Hidden “Hole in the Wall” Restaurant Serving Up Home Cooked Caribbean when we write hole in the wall, we mean it literally. There’s no name, no sign, no hours, no menu, no door to walk through. Just a rectangular cutout from a storefront grate, just by the intersection of Kingston Avenue and St.…

In the Parlour with Cecil Beaton

His name was familiar to me, but I’ll admit that before this post, I didn’t know much about Cecil Beaton. If I’m honest, it was actually his 18th century English manor I fell in love with, Reddish House; the conservatory to be specific. A conservatory or sun parlour if you will, is just the sort of thing…

That time President George H. W. Bush Escaped Cannibals

In WW2 nine airmen escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on a tiny island 700 miles south of Tokyo. Eight of these men were captured, tortured, beheaded and eaten. The 9th man was George H. W. Bush, the only one who survived. I came across a particularly astounding insert on Wikipedia…

Where the Statues of Paris were sent to Die

The stony gaze of the statue upon his executor says it all. Most of the bronze “men” that once watched over Parisian streets and public squares of the French Third Republic met a most undignified end many years ago, snatched from their pedestals and erased from the history books. During the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, the…

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

1. Turtle Beach More than 250,000 olive ridley turtles on Playa Ostional to lay their eggs in a mass nesting known as arribada. Photo by Kent Gilbert, Corbis, found via Kateoplis. 2. A 360-Degree Bubble Lets You Ride Atop a Plane Imagine being able to, mid-flight, take an elevator or staircase up to the SkyDeck, a…

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

1. The Weirdly Awesome Micro Cars of Hungary All you need to know about these cars found on Jalopnik. 2. This News Headline The Mysterious reappearance of Flight 513, more about this dubious story here. More eye-brow raising headlines from Weekly World News here 3. Basra, Iraq, once the “Venice of the East”, Then &…

The Messy Nessy Chic Best of 2015 Countdown

I suppose this would normally be the time where I talk about our annual growth, achievements and what not, but really, I’m a creature that doesn’t like change all that much. I could talk about our first big acquisition offer which came in 2015, but then again, we turned that down. I got some really great press coverage this year,…

Made in America: A Bavarian Clone Town

Leavenworth was once on the verge of becoming a ghost town until it became an American “little Bavaria”. Before economic ruin took hold of it in the early twentieth century, the town was an important logging hub in Washington and served as headquarters to the Great North Railroad. Despite its rich history of pioneer settlers…

Skiing in Montmartre, Paris

It’s become a bit of a tradition every time it snows in Paris, that you’ll see a group of ski-crazy Parisians boarding the gondola up to the Sacré Coeur with skis and ski boots in tow. It’s not exactly the Alps, but see how they get on… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GkLRgbNIr8]

Oh, Just a Gingerbread House Rendition of the Overlook Hotel from “The Shining”

Nothing says “Happy Holidays” quite like a cult horror movie turned miniature winter wonderland in the form of everybody’s favourite Christmas cookie! Come play with us… I logged on to Reddit to see what the online bulletin board had to share this Christmas Eve, and found something rather remarkable– this 4×5 foot wide homemade gingerbread house…

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