Tuesday links

February 5th is World Nutella Day - here's a canonical list of Nutella recipes.

Mapping the Oceans - How cartographers saw the world in the 16th century.

Here's a toilet seat that monitors your heart health.

"I should have killed you when I had the chance" - the movie supercut.

When the U.S. Interned Italians in Montana, They Rioted Over Olive Oil.

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Photo Gallery of Early Supercomputers.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and are all February, Groundhog Day and Super Bowl-related.

Thursday links

The massive 19th century fight over Sunday mail delivery.

The U.S. Air Force Learned to Code and Saved the Pentagon Millions.

Male contraceptive advice: just wear a polyester sling, and let the heat and the electrostatics do all the work, with bonus Monty Python.

Skittles and Nine Holes, or Bumble Puppy: sporting pastimes in the Georgian era.

The Cutting-Edge Science That Can Turn Everyday Objects, Like a Bag of Chips, Into a Listening Device.

How People Created Ice in the Desert 2,000 Years Ago: the ancient art of "night-sky cooling."

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include Nikola Tesla's birthday, the U. S. Navy's 1920's ice cream barge, how alcohol and caffeine helped create civilization, and eye-searing fashion ads from the 1970's.

Wednesday links

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879: here's a short bio, video, an explanation of gravitational waves, and the strange post-mortem travels of his brain. Related: Einstein's forgotten inventions.

Why did ancient people drill holes in their heads?

The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files.

3.14: Happy Pi Day.

The woman who thought she was married to Napoleon.

Death-Defying 40-ft Vertical Plunges: The High-Diving Horsewomen of Atlantic City.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include solving crimes with knot analysis, Daylight Saving Time history (including Ben Franklin's proposal), a street-legal jet-powered Volkswagen Beetle, and, for Chuck Norris' 78th birthday, his 5 most badass movies, supercut of Norris's best kicks and a bunch of Norris "facts".

Thursday links

Happy Bastille Day: Here's the classic Jonah Goldberg article on the subject.

How to Cook a Pig in the Ground, Hawaiian Style.

Man Spends $51,000 On Supercomputer That Only Plays Tetris.

From Kurt Vonnegut in 1988, a letter to the Ladies & Gentlemen of A.D. 2088.

The U.S.-Canada border runs directly through this Library.

A Brief History of Trial by Combat.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include Nikola Tesla's birthday, an archive of 3,000 vintage cookbooks. why the Star Trek and Star Wars universes turned out so differently, ancient Minoan culture illustrated with scantily-clad Barbies dolls.

Tuesday links

The first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861 at Fort Sumter

These unlucky people have names that break computers

I keep hearing ads on the radio for this: The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud: from 1995 to 2001, there was only one real winner - Uncle Jerry.

Get the Nobel Prize ready: Powdered Booze Could Fix Your Clogged Arteries.

You can judge a lot about an animal from its snout.

Man hacked random-number generator to rig state lotteries.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include wasps building rainbow colored nests, the peculiar history of life insurance, a Women are teachable 1940's booklet to “assist male bosses in supervising their new female employees" and a 1967 booklet on how to get a man, and advice from 1658 on giving up wine (spoiler - there are decomposing eels involved). 

Instructions from 1984: how to send an 'E mail'

Via Youtube: 

How to send an e mail 1980's style. Electronic message writing down the phone line. First shown on Thames TV's computer program 'Database' in 1984

Tuesday links

Apocalypse on March 8, 2016: freak supermoon, eclipse and asteroid on same day 'signal end of world'

The Spite House, an Architectural Phenomenon Built on Rage and Revenge.

This 1953 Film Perfectly Explains How Mechanical Computers Worked Before We Had Microchips.

Old English Words We Should Still Use Today.

The Story of Strawberry Fields Forever.

Meet the Last Generation of Typewriter Repairmen.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include Oregon Trail for Adults, a declassified CIA assassination manual from 1953, what it's like to live in the town where The Walking Dead is filmed, and cities in Russia what no one is allowed to go.

Tuesday links

"I should have killed you when I had the chance" - the movie supercut.

Scientists Are Lifting Fingerprints Left by People Hundreds of Years Ago.

100 best infographics.

Here's a roundup of recommendations for beer, wine and whiskey pairings to go with all of those Girl Scout cookies you're buying.

The World's 20 Most Impressive Fortresses.

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Photo Gallery of Early Supercomputers.

ICYMI, Thursday's links are here, and include a canonical list of recipes for World Nutella Day, lots of Super Bowl links, the top 10 Pyrrhic victories, and a discussion of the fact that humans are the only animals with chins.