I think we'll manage to resist this purchase. But isn't it cool? #coffee https://bombinate.com/shop/barisieur/white-barisieur-coffee-alarm-clock/1781411324555691847

Two meticulous maps showing the names and locations of every brothel, bar, casino and saloon that existed in the Cheyenne and Levee Districts of Chicago between 1870 and 1905. https://calumet412.com/post/37266559139/this-to-me-is-the-most-interesting-thing-ive-ever

These are cookbooks that make me appreciate my library. I'll look at them once, but I don't think I need to keep them. Shout-out for the expression "tweezer cookery." https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/15-cookbooks-we-love-to-read-outside-of-the-kitchen-article

"Now the popular image of most ancient and medieval clothing is typically a rather drab affair, with the poor peasantry wearing mostly dirty, drab brown clothes (often ill-fitting ones) and so it might be imagined that regular folks had little need for involved textile finishing processes or dyeing; this is quite wrong." https://acoup.blog/2021/04/02/collections-clothing-how-did-they-make-it-part-iva-dyed-in-the-wool/

English Folk Expo has launched the Folk Talk Academy, a new online learning hub for the music community covering a wide range of music industry topics....The new hub will host nearly 50 lectures between May and August from a host of music industry experts" https://completemusicupdate.com/article/folk-expo-unveils-folk-talk-academy/

Go on, you know you want to look
https://www.boredpanda.com/former-actors-with-normal-jobs/

When you meet a grazing goat, your job is to calculate the total area of the region it can graze on. It’s a math test, after all. https://www.quantamagazine.org/solve-math-equations-that-are-stubborn-as-a-goat-20210506/

Lighthouses around the world. Though apparently not all of them, so don't complain to me. https://geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/

Inside a Custom 1920s Rolls-Royce Phantom: Incredible, a palace on wheels inside a vintage car. https://www.excelenciasdelmotor.com/otras-secciones/curiosidades/rolls-royce-phantom-el-fantasma-del-amor

I can’t run no more
With that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud
Ah but they’ve summoned up a thundercloud
And they’re going to hear from me
—Leonard Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wRYjtvIYK0&t=241s

3D Model of Van Gogh's The Starry Night allows you to see the texture of the painting the way people in the MoMA get to view it, more accurately than ever before. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-starry-night-756b03a918544497b7a4ba644e37550b

The U.S. Postal Service advertises that first-class mail — your average letter with a 55 cent stamp — arrives within “1-3 business days.” That is an official standard set by the Postal Service. We decided to test it. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2021/04/23/we-mailed-100-letters-to-test-the-postal-service-we-did-not-get-speedy-delivery

TIL The first gender affirmation surgeries took place in 1920s, at a facility that employed transgender technicians/nurses, and which was headed by a gay Jewish man.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

Once upon a time, microcomputers weren't all-in-one devices. They were put together from standalone components, each with its technical merits -- and we had to know all about every one of them. By @estherschindler in 2015 https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/digital-business/11-things-computer-users-will-never-experience-again/d/d-id/1323564?

FWIW, I've never been fond of buffets, especially "all you can eat." I'm so little that I fill up fast; those restaurants always made a lot of money on me.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90631539/rip-all-you-can-eat-buffets-a-eulogy-for-pre-covid-pastime-ill-weirdly-miss-a-lot

Cross your legs, stretch your hymen: Danielle Dreilinger on the college courses that sought to curb divorce. https://lithub.com/cross-your-legs-stretch-your-hymen-toss-your-ambition-the-world-according-to-early-marriage-classes/

More than 40 years after launch, Voyager 1 is still making new discoveries. The latest achievement by the craft is the detection of a faint, plasma “hum,” indicating that there may be more activity in interstellar gas than previously thought.

Surely I'm not the only one thinking, "Wait wasn't there an SF movie that started with this scene"?

https://newatlas.com/space/voyager-1-plasma-hum-interstellar/

Two red leather cases, designed in the 1970s by Sangorski and Sutcliffe to look like two large books, open up to reveal 59 small volumes covering just about everything that a wealthy educated gentleman would want to read on his travels. https://www.onthebookshelf.co.uk/2021/03/charles-is-travelling-library.html

Cats will sit in any square, even ones generated by an optical illusion. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-find-that-cats-love-to-sit-inside-squares-ev-1846828029