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Writing

What Took Kate Spade And Anthony Bourdain Wasn’t Mental Illness

Started 11 years, 5 months ago | 13 tacks

  • What Makes a Good Movie Action Scene and Why They Sometimes Suck
  • Wild Miles on the Big River
  • I was snowed in inside a pub for nine days
  • Iit first appeared on page 92 of the Sept/Oct 1997 issue—and I wrote it.

Architecture

Secret House In the Woods

Started 11 years, 6 months ago | 8 tacks

  • A 1920s Hotel Lobby Hidden In An Upper West Side Apartment Building
  • Storybook Cabin
  • Little Homes On Big Land
  • Innovation Imperative's modular Tetra Shed goes on sale

Technology

Farmer so sick of poor internet signal he built DIY mast

Started 11 years, 9 months ago | 17 tacks

  • Solo Drone
  • Will Superintelligent AIs Be Our Doom? - IEEE Spectrum
  • Concept Video Shows Google Glass Used as a Targeting Display
  • How to Extend Your Wi-Fi Network | PCWorld

Religion

What ISIS Really Wants

Started 11 years, 9 months ago | 7 tacks

  • Guns of the Swiss Guard
  • Virtual afterlives will transform humanity – Michael Graziano – Aeon
  • Pope Francis Kisses Severely Disfigured Man And Prays With Him
  • Masculinity and the Liturgy | The Catholic Gentleman

Sports

Why Phil Mickelson was not DQ'd from US Open and why other pros disagree - Business Insider

Started 11 years, 10 months ago | 12 tacks

  • Trinity University Miracle Lateral Play - YouTube
  • The Rise and Fall of Professional Bowling
  • Surfers risk death paddling into historic 80-foot waves at Jaws
  • The making of an All Black: how New Zealand sustains its rugby dynasty | Sport | The Guardian

Aircraft

60 years ago: The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington

Started 11 years, 12 months ago | 10 tacks

  • "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?"
  • Darth Vader's theme from "Star Wars" in the style of Beethoven - YouTube
  • Aviations.Airplanes.Airliner.
  • Aviations.Airplanes.P47,

Outdoors

You Could Live Here Alone Forever

Started 12 years ago | 40 tacks

  • This creek divides the US connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
  • Wild Miles on the Big River
  • Fishing Knots: How to Tie The Four Strongest | Field & Stream
  • 10 Great National Parks You’ve Never Heard Of | Cool Green Science

History

Oldest message in a bottle found on Western Australia beach

Started 12 years, 2 months ago | 72 tacks

  • An employee whose job was to be sacked – The Vision of the Pension Playpen
  • The badass bomber jackets of WWII airmen
  • Rare Photos From Inside NORAD Will Give You Retro-Armageddon Nostalgia
  • How a Champagne-Laden Steamship Ended Up in a Kansas Cornfield

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