Monday, May 06, 2013

Miss Cellania's Links

How Sports Owners Made Their Money.

The Beatles Unplugged. Listen to an entire bootleg album that includes outtakes from the White Album sessions. (via mental_floss)

The First Draft of Star Wars With Green Alien Han Solo Gets Adapted Into a Comic.

NASA Wants Your Haiku. (via Metafilter)

My Education Among the Strange Kids of Rural Georgia in the 90s. A memoir of homeschooling. (via Fark)

The Jazz Age on Film. In anticipation of Baz Luhrmann's new film The Great Gatsby, here's a look at those who went before.

Toni Larroux Has Maybe The Funniest Obituary Ever. And now people across the country who never knew her wished they did.

A statue of Lady Justice perches 100 feet up atop the Marion County courthouse in Ohio. But now, a remote control helicopter is stuck on her sword, adding a modern touch to the scene.

What to do with the remains of a notorious bomber? Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow won't claim his body, and several cemeteries have rejected him for burial.

The Scientists Behind the Movies. Some of the weirdest science fiction thrillers are based on real researchers and their work.

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