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• lesbian pulp fiction - how to be a retronaut
• you wouldn't want to be Andy Warhol's landlord - letters of note
• 22 manly ways to reuse an Altoids tin - art of manliness
• from velouté to casserole: a question of green beans amandine and Campbell's cream of mushroom soup - gherkins and tomatoes
• semper ubi sub ubi - urban dictionary
• John Betjeman's 'Invasion Exercise at the Poultry Farm' - ancient industries
• keyboard (ASCII) art and typewriter portraiture - boingboing and letterology
• a scarf with a secret hiding place for your valuables - better living through design
• on muscular women - brain-pickings (with some 1901 Edison footage of a trapeze striptease!) and how to be a retronaut
• some valuable thoughts on living in the present - liberty london girl
• how to cast out rats & mice, the old-fashioned way (Mäuseexorzismus!) - laudator temporis acti

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• feeding James Dean's kitten Marcus - lists of note
• 'his eyes raked boldly over her' - the romance writers phrasebook - awful library books
• 'Those Various Scalpels' by Marianne Moore - lumpy pudding
• creamy peanut butter soup (urgh) - retro-food.com
• a brilliant auto-correct disaster - lazy self-indulgent book reviews
• Barbara Hanrahan on the sun - whispering gums
• 'slide to unlock' - a phrase used to describe a girl who is 'easy' - urban word of the day
• thoughts on dioramas (I love them) - the smart set
• can an astronaut imitate the falling movements of a cat? - how to be a retronaut
• on the use and abuse of condiments (in South Australia, 1858) - the old foodie
• different 'varieties' of lorem ipsum - how about orange

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• the last Tasmanian thylacine (so sad) - how to be a retronaut
• good fiction reads featuring food - gherkins and tomatoes
• Australia Day menu, 1922 - the old foodie
• guide to housecat coat colours chart - moderncat
• 'an eccentrical lady' - this is probably what will happen to me - georgian london
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - awesome people reading
• 'work mouth' - urban dictionary 
• heraclitus (podcast featuring kenodoxia) - in our time (bbc)
• defrosting your frozen words in summer - laudator temporis acti
• the best bites in Rome - parla food
• lentil spaghetti bolognese - not quite nigella
• hardly one. hardly one - Gertrude Stein's rejection letter - letters of note
• make your own grecian urn - dollar store crafts

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Some food bits and pieces:

• ezra pound cake's Mama's Trash-Good Orange Crush Sherbet. Containing the goodness of condensed milk and orange soft drink.

• the art of manliness' campfire cooking: 9 easy and delicious foil packet recipes

• beverly hsu's helvetica cookie cutters

• results of the annual jell-o mold competition

• what can i substitute for chicken condensed soup? - from the kitchn (the answer is quite terrifying)

• gherkins & tomatoes on the history of eating cats

• not quite nigella's 5 minute chocolate mug cake

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• Yum... Lemon Layer Cake with Campari Frosting (from serious eats).

• Sassoon at the Cambridge University Library (from war poetry)

• The Old Foodie explores a scrumptious menu for the Royal Family during Ascot Week 1938. I can't decide whether Consommé Jeanne Garnier would have been divine or foul: a chicken consommé with pigeon added when the consommé is clarified, then champagne is added; then a final garnish with rice and prawns.

• Dr Clelia Mosher, the Dr Kinsey of the late Victorian era: an early sex survey from the Stanford archives (via arts & letters daily)

• Eye candy: Diem Chau's (pleasure of tiny things) carved crayons for Nike for the World Cup.

I'll go back & look at these properly...

1. Anthony Gottlieb on What do philosophers believe? And what do people ask them in mid-air? (from More Intelligent Life).

2. The Journal of Ancient Fingerprints (via ancientworldonline).

3. Emails From Crazy People (via georgie love).

4. 'One Day I Will...' go to macaron classes at the Paris Ritz (via paris breakfasts).

5. Ancient Industries' on Marianna Kennedy's resin and glass works.

6. Elizabeth Berrier's wire sculptures (via modern cat -- below, the life-size wire portrait 'Fluffy and Mask'):

7. And let's buy some foolish gadgets: Skunk Duster, USB surgeon drive and maybe a Benedictaphone.