June 3, 2024 From the influential JTB Japan in Your Pocket Series, volume 17, Japanese Family and Culture. May 29, 2024 Spoon Tamago reports on how, in Japan, This is the Time of Year Bamboo Shoots Grow, Sometimes Wreaking Havoc. Before he was Col. Hogan, Bob Crane was a DJ in LA. Three samples from his time at KNX (and unlike most air checks, the songs here aren't 'scoped' (or mostly edited out) for reasons of copyright): 1957, 1961 (Rod Serling interview), and 1965. May 26, 2024 Inside EVs: I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked. Nobody Cares About Western Brands in China. Some of the photos are amazing. Smithsonian: The Botulism Outbreak That Gave Rise to America's Food Safety System -‌- and canned food. May 22, 2024 Early on, Schulz experimented occasionally with portraying adults in Peanuts. In May 1954, he did a whole sequence where Charlie Brown entered Lucy in a golf tournement (click for a scan of the whole strip). Forbes reports on "Tourismphobia": Protests, Bans, Fees, And Fines At European Hotspots To Keep Visitors Away. In Japan, Fees introduced and climbing numbers limited in attempt to address Mount Fuji overtourism. ¥2000 to climb it; overnight 'bullet climbing' now forbidden during the July-August season, to experience that sunrise you must spend the night in the hut. More jargon: How 'kitty cats' are wrecking the home insurance industry. They're large storms and tornadoes, a reference to their being smaller than big natural catastrophes or "nat cats." May 19, 2024 Apologies for the long interval between updates; just not much worth reporting in Cyberspace now. Chevy's Malibu-canceling provoked several articles like Why US Automakers Don't Sell Sedans Anymore. Bottom line -‌- nobody wants 'em, you'd rather have an import, if that's the kind of vehicle you want. Every Sedan You Can Still Buy in 2024 doesn't have an entry for Ford; but Ford Boss Won't Rule Out Mustang Sedan. Apparently, the pony doesn't qualify as a sedan as it only has two doors? Or are they marketing it as a sports car now? Said boss also says no eMustang, ever. I collected the Originals (plus the Fantagraphics, later; but only through the 1960s) -‌- List of Peanuts reprint books at their fan wiki. Another MeFi posting: Sock It To Me, Baby! May 9, 2024 At The Walrus, Tim Hortons is Brewing an Idea of Canada That No Longer Exists. Smithsonian tells told the story behind the Failed Minstrel Show at the 1964 World's Fair (ten years ago, but still interesting). Slate: The Parents Who Want Daughters -‌- and Daughters Only. An aspect of IVF (or 'test tube babies'as old-schoolers like me think of the procedure) is the baby's sex can be specified. And some Americans are choosing girls? O Brave New World. Chrysler's Radical Single-stage Earth-orbital Reusable Vehicle, the SERV, whose design was 50 Years Ahead of Its Time. May 2, 2024 Two from Future Perfect at Vox: Philosophers are studying Reddit's 'Am I the Asshole'; and so infuriating, the reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars. At Oddity Central, Giant Floating Island of Lake Chippewa, Wisconsin must be pushed away every year by a line of volunteer boaters. Wikipedia documents various floating islands around the world including the man-made of Lake Titicaca. April 30, 2024 Charlotte Braun in a new Mental Floss article, the 'Peanuts' Character Who Met a Gruesome End. In a single response to fan mail, Schulz dispatched her with an ax blow to the head. Although she only appeared in ten strips (and never on Sunday) her Peanuts Wiki gets into it (with comparisons to Shermy) and even has an image of the axing (unlike at Mental Floss, which is illustrated only with photos of the Schulz museum in Santa Rosa). Smithsonian reports on the World's Largest Wildlife Crossing now under construction over the 101, in LA. According to CNN, it's all the rage: How to dress like a Coastal Cowgirl. April 27, 2024 Steve Mandich once did a whole 'zine about monorails. Samual Stone: Near-Perfect Sci-Fi Movies You Might Have Missed includes 'Repo Man' and many that I don't recognize. Ian Shaoles, the 60-Second Philosopher: Why Is the World So Weird? Yes, much longer than sixty seconds; and doesn't really answer the question, but still. Heptagon Gallery: Seven-sided Coins April 17, 2024 Electra Building, Vancouver BC It's always World X Day or International Y Day - look 'em all up at Holidays and Observances.com. The Atlas of Pizza: 23 Types of Pizza (With Pictures!) #1 Neapolitan (True Italian) or #5 (New York) for me, please (but I want to try #8, the St. Louis). April 12, 2024 This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but then, they Lost It! Resurrecting the sodium-vapor yellow-screen process. Mary Poppins! Utilizes a lot of that over-production young people can't seem to avoid when making video, but interesting nevertheless. The sodium-vapor process at Wikipedia. Mmmm, Low Pressure Sodium - we used small LPS lamps in Physics lab; they emit a characteristic smell. Answers With Joe: more vaguely annoying and yet, interesting video. Concerning Encephalitis lethargica, the sleeping sickness of the 1920s and 30s; and Tumbleweeds. Vox: how Covid rescued the DC Metro. Vintage Everyday compiles a sample of Roger Minick's photos of American Tourists at National Parks in the Early 1980s. Much more at his Sightseer site. Blinking Lighthouse Map. You can zoom out from the North Sea to see the whole world. "Show real colors" - really? Some lighthouse lights are green, red or yellow? April 10, 2024 About Jeonse -- South Koreans pay a huge lump sum when moving in and then no rent in lieu of the landlord investing the deposit, which is then returned in full when moving out. The Huffington Post lists Nine Parenting Practices From Around The World that may totally surprise you. #7 neglects to note that Italians take siestas, just like in Spain and Mexico, which is why they eat dinner so late. April 9, 2024 Did You Know that Triple-Decker Buses Actually Existed? and Towering Transit: Triple-Decker Buses' Brief Moment in Transport History. Neon Restaurant Signs at Restaurant-ing Through History. The Tokyo Weekender reports, Pachinko in decline in Japan. Kids think it's for old people. I did a lengthy post about "The Space Explorers" at MetaFilter yesterday. April 8, 2024 Architectural Digest videos: Architect Breaks Down 5 of the Most Common Los Angeles Homes. I had three apartments during my all-too-short LA residency; two of them were dingbats. Also, a different Architect Breaks Down 5 of the Most Common New York Apartments. At Boring Panda, 30 Times Architects Outdid Themselves With These Alien-Like Buildings although #29 is a sculpture, not a building, and hardly alien; and #20, it's Tyson's! March 29, 2024 A link for Easter from Present And Correct: a 1968 book of Ukranian Pysanky egg designs. No, you're not an excellent driver: Motonormativity -‌- The bias that leads to dangerous driving. March 26, 2024 I love small cars. Here's why they're become rare on American roads: Remember That Time the EPA Killed the Sedan? in the New Republic. Axios: Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities. Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's 'Fantastic Four'. The original film is available, at least for now, deep in the Internet Archive. At the Culture Club of The Sword and the Sandwich: animation In Soviet Times. Cheburashka, their 'Happy Birthday' song, and Vinni-Pukh, their version of Winnie-the-Pooh (whose embedded video link isn't working for me, but it's easy to find examples of him, via search). March 22, 2024 It's a big problem, fewer people paying attention. In the Financial Times, No news is bad news and in Slate, Welcome to Me Mountain. Esquire asks, Can You Go Sockless With a Suit? Should You? Now, the very idea of going sockless connotes a certain level of decade-old Millennialism that Gen Z-ers on TikTok would denounce as "cheugy". Er...how does one pronounce that? My second-language German has me instinctively saying choy-gee but the Urban Dictionary says it's chew-gee. Note that I consider going sockless a juvenile affectation, and IMO those short-short socks (which simulate this look) are feminine, I would never. For some reason I'd like to have a femur similar to my own in scale, and an artificial reproduction would be adequate; but I've just learned the real thing is available for a few hundred dollars at Jons Bones. They have skulls on offer as well. Naturally I'd want to know who these bones belonged to originally; I'm guessing Jon ain't telling. Directory of Cat Cafes in the USA. March 18, 2024 Sophie Schmidt at Rest Of World visited the DPRK eleven years ago, documented in It might not get weirder than this. She's just posted an update, What I missed when I went to North Korea. Louisville, Kentucky at the Sword and the Sandwich: Mitch McConnell, Muhammad Ali and Notable Sandwich #88, the Hot Brown. March 16, 2024 Vintage Wings of Canada: Polka Dot Warriors -‌- the Assembly Ships of the Mighty Eighth. Who remembers Norman Dog, from late 1980s alt.comics? He apparently passed away in 2020. Entry for Raymond Larrett in the Lambiek Comiclopedia. According to People magazine, in Teletubbies Turn 20: 11 Things You Never Knew About the Children's TV Phenomenon, Dipsy (the green one) is actually black, and Po (the red one) is Cantonese. March 13, 2024 Occupying a mansion above Beverly Hills: the Battle Over California Squatters Rights, where I learn of Mercedes G-Wagons (which I've no doubt seen, but thought were Hummers); Step-and-Repeats, what those backdrops are called, arrays of logos (which remind me of Louis Vuitton) behind posing celebrities; and the Squatter Squad, a 'same-day squatter-removal' service in Irvine. (archive link since original Curbed source is part of New York magazine.) De Zeen: Ten recently completed skyscrapers in New York City. That Steinway Tower, the world's skinniest supertall skyscraper and the second-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, looks like it would snap off given strong enouugh winds. Please Listen Closely, as Our Menu Options Have Changed. Rather than Customer Service Menu Hell, this is actually about daily menu recordings at a dwindling number of institutions and restaurants across the country. Reminds me of Tel-Med, a library of recorded health messages I'd listen to while killing time on-the-job in the early 1980s. IMO it's weird to label these 'hotlines' as this article does; aren't those for crisis situations, where operators are actually standing by?
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