Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Miss Cellania's Links

French-Born Kaylia Nemour Wins Algeria’s First Gymnastics Olympic Gold. After a dispute with the French gymnastics federation, the 17-year-old made history for Africa at the Paris Games in her home country.

What does it mean that hundreds of thousands of players are clicking on a banana? Clicker games are the inevitable end-point of the rise of bots and microtransactions. (via Metafilter)

Skip’s Mo/Go Robotic Pants Help Power You Up Mountains. It's a personal partial exoskeleton in cargo pants. (via Nag on the Lake)

Adorable Animated Knit Frogs Celebrate Halloween.

Textile Artist Captures the Beauty of Nature With Colorful Woven Landscapes, plus a gallery of images. Adrienne Lee tells us how she makes her Painted Sky Textiles.

The Biggest Sports Rivalries This Year Are Between National Foods.

A Funeral Spoiled
: 1883. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the reporting, but the item was amusing enough that it was syndicated and republished on other newspapers, including at least one in Britain. (via Strange Company

Chicago Workers Cottages Gave Immigrants Access to Homeownership. (via Nag on the Lake)

An Enraging Family Mystery is Solved.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nemour’s story is very heart warming, it also brings up the mostly behind the scenes politics/intrigue that goes on in sports.

The woven landscapes are fantastic, that’s fine art to me.

A Funeral Spoiled is very believable, a lot of folks were almost and a few were, buried alive.

We still have worker cottages, they’re called cardboard boxes. A refrigerator box is best for families.
xoxoxoBruce