Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Miss Cellania's Links

The First Detective. Sherlock Holmes, Jean Valjean, and the FBI can all trace their roots back to one Frenchman who turned a life of crime into a life of fighting crime.

Rare Photograph of Billy the Kid Found at a Flea Market. This is not a repeat of the 2015 story.

How many holes does a straw have?

America's private health-care is rationed, but socialized medicine is luxury medicine.

Colin J. Carlson‏ is a biologist, but he's not an expert on foxes. Still, he decided to make a list of foxes and rate them with letter grades for their "weirdness" in a Twitter thread. (via Metafilter)

Things People Should, But Don't, Tell You About Having Kids.

Strange and Curious Wills of the Georgian Era in the Canterbury Court. Many contain final and lasting insults. (via Strange Company)

Stray Cats Captured in Martial Arts Poses by Hiroyuki Hisakata. (via Swiss Miss)

The Twisting History of Blood on Film. (via Digg)

Meet Doug Jones, One Of The Biggest Movie Stars You’ve Probably Never Seen. That's because he's almost always buried under a layer of latex and prosthetics as an alien, a monster, or a ghost. (via Metafilter)

1 comment:

gwdMaine said...

During hoeing season it's socially acceptable to use
one hoe to whack your weeds once you've mulched with
straw. If you don't mulch enough, the weeds will break
through and you may have to hoe again. Just run your
hoe lightly under the surface. Straw may fly everywhere
but no matter, things will still grow. Sometimes you
can get away just by adding more straw (8" thick works
best) but don't wait too long because the weeds may
grow beyond the point of hoeing and then you won't get
anything done hoeing like that. In this case, instead
of hoeing around, just pull the weeds by hand. Bottom
line, hoeing is quicker when weeds are small and just
a few minutes with a hoe can get it done.

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Never mind.