Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Miss Cellania's Links

You might think that a home is "cursed" if two famous musicians died there, at the same young age, only four years apart. But then if you consider how many famous musicians spent time partying hard at Harry Nilsson's fashionable London flat, it may seem inevitable that the odds would eventually catch up with you. (via Strange Company)

Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay. Ya think? (via Metafilter)

Cat stands up for Russian anthem.

A top ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in health care, named for Martin Shkreli, the price-hiking “pharma bro” that everyone loves to hate. (via Nag on the Lake)

Italy’s Great Garlic Divide. In most of Italy's long culinary history, garlic was seen as something only poor people ate. (via Damn Interesting)

5 'Ugh' Trump Stories The News Totally Forgot About. The administration can get away with a lot while we're busy talking about war and impeachment.

10 Great Acid Westerns. You've probably seen at least one of them. (via Boing Boing)

How to Be a Better White Person in 2020.

Ecologist Serves A Massive Burn To Founder Of AccuWeather After He Tells Her To Get Educated.

12 Skills That Are Becoming Obsolete. Are they important?

A blast from the past (2007): Imaginary Geography.

9 comments:

MarkOfIowa said...

Miss C, The Old School (Obsolete) Skills link seems to be broken...

Miss Cellania said...

Hmmm, the whole site is down. I hope that's temporary, because I work for them!

Bruce said...

Interesting. The link was working earlier this morning.

Miss Cellania said...

It's working now. The site's back up!

gwdMaine said...

Some people are like Slinkies ... not really good for
anything, but you can't help smiling when you see one
tumble down the stairs.

Anonymous said...

Down for me. Expired certificate?

xoxoxoBruce said...

The cat standing for the Russian anthem is a Bad Gateway.

Miss Cellania said...

I don't know, ya'll, they are working fine for me.

hearsetrax said...

Cute cat and I agree with you gwdMaine