From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #38: Furniture, ships and greek humor
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** The Curious Corner #38
Hiya! Happy new years! Hope you had a blast these past few weeks! I surely did!
Things are looking up for this newsletter! I’ve acquired an iPad and made some (technical) improvements for collecting these curious corners that I share with you every month. Thank you for joining me on this wild discovery! If you like the the Curious Corner, please help us further along by sharing this newsletter (it’s as easy as one click! Thanks for spreading the word!): http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| Share (http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|: |URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| Tweet (http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|: |URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|&mini=true&title=|URL:MC_SUBJECT| Share (http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|&mini=true&title=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|) https://plus.google.com/share?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| +1 (https://plus.google.com/share?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) |FORWARD| Forward to Friend (|FORWARD|) Here we go for this month: * Old cut-away drawings of the London Underground (http://londonist.com/london/transport/london-cutaways) . * Write (https://github.com/samihasan/eskendereyya/samihasan) Arabic with Latin script. * Remixing (http://weburbanist.com/2016/12/13/remixing-architecture-building-collages-capture-spirit-of-cities-countries/) architecture. * A town so big underground (https://www.wired.com/2016/12/tamara-merino-coober-pedy-explore-underground-mining-town-australian-outback/) they even have a chapel below the surface. * See through (http://www.tatianefreitas.com/projects/6264130) furniture. * Lost poems (http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture-poetry/magdalena-edwards-lost-neruda-poems) by a rebellious poet. * Want to learn How electronics (https://thimble.io/) work? * A garden designer (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/dec/26/cambridge-student-discovers-hidden-life-renaissance-spy?CMP=share_btn_tw) or a spy? * The isdalen (https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/the-isdalen-mystery-1.13249066) mystery. * I wish for you not (https://www.quora.com/If-you-were-to-tell-a-genie-I-wish-for-you-not-to-grant-me-a-wish-what-would-happen) to grant me a wish.
http://www.mackie-art.com/ * How he became the best at the worst job (http://www.gq.com/story/man-who-cleans-up-plane-crashes) in the world * Die you know there is a Windows for submarines (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ukgovernment/2008/12/17/windows-for-submarines/) ? * Greek humor that Involves en emptying cup (http://99percentinvisible.org/article/pythagorean-cup-practical-joke-chalice-overflows-ancient-greek-humor/) . * Ships (https://www.mapbox.com/blog/ships-in-the-bay/) in the San Francisco bay. * A motor with just one moving part (http://hackaday.com/2017/01/03/thermoacoustic-engine-has-only-one-moving-part/) . * Ships underneath (http://www.upout.com/blog/san-francisco-3/map-shows-ships-buried-underneath-san-francisco-2) San Francisco, not shown on the previous map ;-) * The garden of modern earthly delights (https://vimeo.com/191632804) . (Thanks Floris (https://twitter.com/floridee) !) * A stairway converted to a tsar palace (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/05/kiev-apartment-resident-vladimir-chaika-scruffy-stairwell-gilded-palace?CMP=twt_a-world_b-gdnworld) . * The history of the clothespeg (https://medium.com/the-economist/the-curious-history-of-the-clothespeg-3f8615519c61#.i8gqfsn8p) . * Know your cephalopods (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1I4JY6UkAY18hd.jpg:large) !
That’s it, thanks for reading! Let me know by email (mailto:jsplattel@gmail.com?subject=A%20suggestion%20for%20the%20Curious%20Corner!&body=Hi%20Joost!) if you have any suggestions for the Curious Corner!
Joost
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