Panomphaean Hot Links

Short, Fat and Ugly, Lucy Malheur (2021) Lucy Malheur is a German singer/songwriter/producer who, with very few exceptions, only publishes her own songs.

Freebird.

Party girl.

A mall flat.

Jersey Dog.

Human press.

O(ffs) Canada.

Comfy stoves.

Circles in B&W.

Ignorant fools.

Read the Plaque.

How to romance.

Medical panic porn.

Smooth OpeRATTor.

Mystery Pickle Jar; story here.

Moonstone [via Memo Of The Air].

Water & sewer bills: $20K [Scroll up].

Quitting flipbook [via Everlasting Blört].

Making famous faces [via Miss Cellania].

Little Miss Foamface [via Thompson, blog].

The trouble with radiators and heater cores.

How to uglify a house and become famous anyway.

IMO the Bourbon Street live webcams get better after midnight.

[Top image: Nordic sphere retreat found here, via This Isn’t Happiness.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Stereoballs

The Project G stereo, produced by Canadian company Clairtone from 1964 to 1967, was a design marvel with its rosewood cabinet and rotating “sound globe” speakers. Famous owners like Hugh Hefner and Frank Sinatra showcased it as a symbol of sophistication. Despite its $2,000 price tag (around $20,000 today) limiting its market, fewer than 400 units were sold. The Project G has since become a collectible icon, epitomizing the sleek 1960s Jet Age style. Pictured here is Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and an unknown model. Photographer unknown, circa 1964.

[Images are of different models of the same series, found here, on the Clairtone website and elsewhere.]

Bolwoningen

In 1968 the Dutch government allocated funding for an experimental housing project in the city of Hertogenbosch. Responding to a call for submissions, artist/designer Dries Kreijkamp proposed Bolwoningen (Ball Houses), and his unusual concept was chosen. The design sat on the shelf until 1980 when construction of fifty of the small homes began.

Each 18-foot diameter sphere consists of prefabricated panels made of fiberglass-reinforced concrete mounted on a cylindrical base. Weighing only 2.8 tons, it can be disassembled and relocated.

The experimental neighborhood of Bolwoningen remains as a tourist curiosity, and holiday rentals are available.

[Images and story found here.]

Free Range Cage Chicken

Seems to be an advert for a product called ChickenOrb.
Here’s a training video.

[h/t Pam M. via Facebook.]

Drawing The Wild Hot Links

Croc crock.

Dealing with ghosts.

How to draw a hole.

How to draw a ladder.

Card magic with cheese.

Cows herd car thief to police (infrared video).

Cambodian DIY snake trap (NSFK). Those boys caught a big one.

TRUE. A dentist travelling to the Arab Emirate of Dubai from London was sent to prison (along with her young daughter) because she admitted to having a single glass of wine on the plane en-route. After international outrage, they’ve since been released. The UAE are supposedly our allies…

Sharia Law in Dubai. Not sure how accurate this is. The laws seem to change per offense (kinda like the vague and indecipherable  Twittter and FaceBook Terms Of Service rules).

No pop stars, no vocal show offs, no overpaid social justice warriors “taking a knee.”

[Top .gif: A sphere has a constant diameter, and so does a Meißner Tetrahedron, discovered in 1911. Here’s the book used in the graphic example above.]

Ball Busting Hot Links

Party Cat.

Funny Gull.

Chickenado: “Trust me! I can get us out of here! This way!”

Antnado: “Army ants are one of the most efficient killing machines in the animal world.”

Buddy Hackett went out for a pizza.

Foster Brookes came in for a roast.

The walls are closing in. Pass it on.

Social Breakfast Media Club.

No reason those people should have not been wearing life jackets.


From the Economic Funnies Department:

Taxation is theft.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains economics in 39 seconds.

Ocasio-Cortez supporters discuss socialism.


Saw this message on a church sign recently:

HONK IF YOU LOVE JESUS.
TEXT & DRIVE IF YOU WANT TO MEET HIM.
DRINK & DRIVE IF YOU WANT TO MEET THE OTHER GUY.

[Top image from here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 136 – Zero G, Clearing The Neighborhood & A Floating Oracle

[Found here, here and here.]