Monday, August 09, 2021

Miss Cellania's Links

If you know English fluently and love word games, then you'll want to try the Divergent Association Task. Your job is to think of ten English nouns that are as different from each other as possible.  (via Metafilter)

Trump Is Planning a Much More Respectable Coup Next Time. (via Fark)

The year 1899 saw a shocking news story from Australia, in which a dead man won a bicycle race. It was in all the papers, so it must be so, right? (via Strange Company)

The Oldest Family Photo Taken at Stonehenge. Found int he collection of Queen's Brian May. (via Nag on the Lake

Die Hard Trump Supporters Increasingly Demand Violence If He Isn’t Reinstated, Homeland Security Warns.

Disney's new resort hotel Galactic Starcruiser will offer accommodations, meals, and a two-night immersive Star Wars experience for the whole family. It will cost you, though. (via reddit)

Behind the Photograph: A Tale of Two Hollywood Lovers. That's Rudolph Valentino and his second wife Natacha Rambova.  

My Seat at the Table. "This was the conversation that set us off on a journey about the myth of race, systemic racism, and what it’s really like to be Black in America."  (via Digg)

A Hallucinogenic Mushroom in the Garden of Eden?

A blast from the past (2013): Finding Oz in the USA.

1 comment:

xoxoxoBruce said...

I don’t understand why the trumpers are threatening to start a war they can’t possibly win.
You can’t defeat Apache gun-ships, A-10 Warthogs, and Tanks, with deer rifles... even AR-15 deer rifles.
An attempt to make the nation bow to their demands out of fear, or just a fundraising gimmick?