Friday Links!
Leading off this week, and it's an excellent read: How The Crooks, The Cons, And The Legends Built America's Largest Stadium For The Beating Of The Century.From C. Lee, and this could come in handy: Grate Your Butter to Soften It Quickly. Next, and it could also be useful, it's The tiny breaks that ease your body and reboot your brain. If you can afford to live there: Vienna's recipe for living well. This is a remarkable story: In race for fluency in time for Olympics, Tokyo great-grandmother proves it's never too late to learn. This is so clever: Japanese Kaiju Figurines Apologizing at Press Conferences. Quite a lifespan: Faxing is old tech. So why is it also growing in popularity?
From Steven Davis, and this is fascinating: How Kaleidoscope Mania Seized 19th-Century England. Also, and this is very cool, it's The Secret of Parabolic Ghosts.
From Wally, and this is fantastic: Photographer Captures Toys In Amazing Action Shots. This is mind-boggling: The Embroidered Computer.
From Meg McReynolds, and it's a great read: Rascal Flatts restaurants failed nationwide. Did a Mafia soldier pull the strings?
From David Gloier, and it's bizarre: The U.S. Army Once Blew Up Tunnels In A German Town To Chase Away A Ghost.
From Geoff Engelstein, and it's incredible: Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years.
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