Monday, August 04, 2014

Miss Cellania's Links

A Fresh Start: Ctrl + Alt + Delete.

Cookbook Shows How To Eat Well On A Food Stamp Budget. And it’s free online. (via Metafilter)

Dr. Willie Parker works at the only remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.

Independent Artists At San Diego Comic-Con 2014.

This story about a roller coaster ride had me giggling uncontrollably. (via Buzzfeed)

A First-time Skydiving Experience, a Fall to Earth and a Terrible Accident.

A recurring theme in medieval art is “The Three Living and the Three Dead.” You’ll find it over and over, a scene in which three normal people encounter three walking corpses, or skeletons, or spirits of some kind who are obviously dead, but still acting as if they live. (via the Presurfer)

It wasn’t all that long ago, back in 1961, that a ship was destroyed by the wheat it carried. Not many people know the story today, but it sounds like a real mess.

Breaking Out The Broken English. Arthur Chu talks about putting on a Chinese accent when it’s expected. (via Metafilter


The Wealthiest Person in Each State. This map from Movoto is interactive at the site, and you can click each state to bring up a photo and a link to the Wikipedia entry on the richest person in each state. (via Uproxx)

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