Photos of a polka-dot cat, a giant grasshopper, a swan with another swan growing out of its head. None photoshopped, they swear. Click through here to see more. You’ll have to make an appointment with your optometrist afterward just to be sure your eyes still work. (h/t Kottke) My father would have loved this story,…
Anything you ever wanted to know about shoelaces, including many, many, many ways to tie them. (Ian’s Shoelace Site) I didn’t know that Frances Perkins had personally witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. (“Letters from an American” newsletter, August 13, 2025. See also here.) I’ve never seen a more accurate map of any European city…
Just the best story about Auburn University students answering the phone at the James E. Foy Information Desk in the Melton Student Center. Quote: “He told me that, one night, “this old woman called, and this is the only time I ever talked to her, but she talked for about an hour. She honestly wasn’t…
I remember seeing a sign outside a VFW post on Fireweed Lane in Anchorage which read: Freedom is not free. It was the first time I’d encountered that phrase and for years I thought it meant that only soldiers paid in blood and sacrifice for our freedom. No. American citizens have been holding America’s feet…
Read more How it comes out rests, as it always has, in our own hands.