Friday, July 30, 2021

Miss Cellania's Links

What’s in the new infrastructure bill — and why it’s a big deal.

Are You Allowed to Criticize Simone Biles?: A Decision Tree. Also this. (via Fark)

The Time a Stiff Caught Fire. A curiously compelling story about saving a musician's career. (via Metafilter)

14 Plaques That Will Make You Smile. There are various rules and regulations for placing historical markers in places where historic things happened,  but anyone can put up a commemorative plaque. 

Mergers, twists, and pentagons: The architecture of honeycombs.

Say cheese! How Bad Photography Has Changed Our Definition of Good Pictures. 

Toddler loves her creepy undead baby doll.

Inside the Annual Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Competition.

The First Mars Rover. It landed in 1971.

A blast from the past (2012): 7 Fabulously Named Fossils.

3 comments:

gwdMaine said...

What do you call a goat that plays the piano?

Billy Joel.

Oh, la, la-la, di-dee-da
La-la, di-dee-da, da-dum

Happy Friday Miss C!

Miss Cellania said...

Happy Friday, gwdMaine!

xoxoxoBruce said...

Simone Biles critics can go straight to hell.
The Stiff that Caught Fire ads fuel to what was always rumored about the recording industry, payola, cocaine, and the love-your-work-but-you’re-not-making-me-money-so-go-back-to-your-day-job attitude.