Thursday, July 06, 2023

Miss Cellania's Links

In Search of the Ultimate Pornstar Martini. (via Nag on the Lake)

19 Photos Of Absurd Rules Jobs Enforced That Show The Very Real Horrors Of Working In 2023. Several are illegal.

What Are the World’s Roundest and Most Rectangular Countries?

13 Non-Actors Who Had One Job and Absolutely Nailed It.

Lofoten: The Warmest Place in the Arctic Circle.

Subway is now serving freshly sliced meats and 4 new sandwiches. But you have to weight the idea of fresh-sliced deli meats against the thought of a meat slicer in use 12 hours a day, operated and cleaned by underpaid and inexperienced fast food workers in a hurry. (via Metafilter)

How Wingnuts Made Violent Extremism the New Normal. From Ruby Ridge to January 6 and beyond, the radical right has unrelentingly attacked democratic norms for almost half a century. (via Fark)

What Indiana Jones Gets Right About Archaeology. As Dr. Jones returns to the big screen, a real archaeologist acknowledges the movie franchise's shortcomings while espousing its merits. (via Smithsonian)

The impossible paradox of car ownership. For many working-class Americans, cars are a burden and a necessity. (via Digg)

1 comment:

xoxoxoBruce said...

Lofoten is “warm”, not quite warm enough for me, but it’s certainly beautiful.

How is the Subway meat slicer different from other deli and sandwich shops? For that matter the supermarket slicers?

I’ve always wondered where the dividing line is between archeologists and grave robbers lies? How long to I have to be dead before they can legally dig me up and have there way with me?