Friday, May 02, 2025

Miss Cellania's Links

The kerning on the pope’s tomb is a travesty. (via kottke)

When a Historian Saw This Haunting Photograph of a Nameless Native Girl, She Decided She Had to Identify Her.

Q-Nuts welcome the arrival of the Great Pumpkin. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.

In 1822, a stork shot in Germany inadvertently proved birds didn’t fly to the moon or hibernate underwater. (via Metafilter)

Trump’s First 100 Days: Destroying America Was The Plan All Along. (via Fark

The Kauri Gum Diggers of New Zealand.

The South Vietnamese who fled the fall of Saigon – and those who returned.

What happens when you follow the Bible literally for a whole year?

George Washington's favorite dessert was Great Cake, which required 40 eggs and four pounds of butter. If you prefer a normal-sized cake, use an adapted recipe from Mount Vernon.


7 comments:

DWVR said...

People used to laugh at me when I said that the ultimate goal of the "conservative" Re-pub Party all along has been to destroy the United States and make Americans suffer. They don't anymore.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Tom the Dancing Bug -- right on, as usual!

Anonymous said...

A.J. Jacobs' Year of Living Biblically is most excellent.

gwdMaine said...

You can make the candles on your cake really happy by blowing them out. They'll be delighted. . .

Happy Friday Miss C! Have a piece of cake.

Miss Cellania said...

Happy Friday, gwdMaine!

WilliamRocket said...

Pretty sure that if you DON'T follow the bible literally then you are just making things up as you go, and in a way that suits you.
You either need to believe the bible is the actual words of your god, or you can un-convert and be like me, free of the shackles of religion.
(un-convert in that you were born without any religion, and were wholly at the mercy of your parents and their geographically based religious beliefs ... not sure if un-convert is a word, but you get my gist).

Anonymous said...

I gave up reading when I moved to New Zealand.