The Curious Corners #99

Well, hello there ✌️. It’s number 99, with 💯 around the corner. Still alive and kicking! It’s been quite a ride with ups and downs, but it’s you (the reader) who keeps us motivated to collecting interesting things from around the web.

I still haven’t got an idea on what to do with the 100th edition, I might make another digital summary into a small ebook. Ah well, we’ll see to it when we get there! Without further ado, here are 20 wonderful things for you to enjoy! 🎉

• Lemons are invented.
• A vernier acuity clock.
• A city made by octopus (octopi?)
• The jaws of a snail.
• Niche museums.
• The maintenance race.
• Clear ice with directional freezing.
• Saving data makes a USB drive lighter.
• The mansion underneath the Bay Bridge.
• Saving the Salyut 7 space station.

The Curious Corners #98

Hi there! Glad to have you around for this edition of the Curious Corner, I’m hoping you’re doing well, spring is around here and the weather is finally looking up a bit! 🌞

Normally I tend to shy away from asking questions, but I (Joost) am looking for freelance opportunities related to technology & software-development, there’s more information about me on my personal website. I’m available for remote or local work in the Netherlands, mostly Python / JS related stuff! 🐍

Anyway, that’s all! Now back to where you’re all here for! 20 fresh urls from all over the web!

The Curious Corners #97

Hello there! 👋 This months curious corners are all listed below as usual. If you're new here, welcome, this newsletter curates interesting things from the web, You'll make us happy if you share this newsletter with colleagues, friends, family and foes! The last one might befriend you again ✌️.

Oh and I'm counting down towards #100! Three more months to go! 🧁

Anyway, here we go!

The Curious Corners #96

Hi! 👋 Welcome to another edition of the Curious Corner of the Internet. No ChatGPT crafted text to be found here. Just unique links with a single line description crafted by a human, fresh out of the oven! 🍞

Here you go, enjoy your discoveries and share them! 🎉

• Saturn and its army of moons.
• Clothing for displaying your pet.
• The houses on the London Bridge.
• How to moor an airship.
• Where’s all the Chartreuse?
• Drink the clouds.
• From a cliff.
• Sensing sunlight.
• A travelling pub on rails.
• Selling punch in the 1720’s.

The Curious Corners #95

Well hello there! Thanks for being a part of this newsletter! 🎉 It’ll be great if you could recommend or forward it to friends who might be curious!

Loads of strange things this time around, a bit of history and unique things! Here you go:

• An undo button for elevators.
• The Big Red Synthesizer.
• What time is it on the moon?
• Strange arcade machines. (Thanks Paulien!)
• A list of twice baked food.
• The alps, as seen from the Pyrenees
• The spaghetti tree.
• The pigeon neck illusion.
• Sound travels further in cold weather.
• A money museum.

The Curious Corners #94

Well hello there! I hope this newsletter finds you in good spirits! This edition has two member suggested links, thanks Krispijn and Arnold, you’re awesome! 🎉 We’re slowly approaching the 100 editions!

I’ve got a small confession to make, the last couple of images in some of my latest newsletters have been generated with wonderful algorithms, I hope you do like the style, it’s sometimes nice not too worry too much about licenses.. (I do think it’s hard to figure out how AI’s should stand in this, especially with training data…) 🤔

Ah well, enough thinking! Here we go for the links this month, enjoy! 🙏

Hey there! It’s awesome that you’re reading this newsletter, if this is your first one or if look forward to each one, enjoy it! 🎉

Next year we plan on growing this small newsletter bit by bit and maybe incorporate new forms of it as well. It originally started out as a talk/performance and we’d love to get back on it! 🎤 If you have interesting spot or option please let us know via the email in the footer!

We’ve also received a couple of wonderful compliments on this newsletter in the mail, which motivates us to keep going! We’ll get back to the senders in no time! 📧

Alright, back to the links:

The Curious Corners #92

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of urls! Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

• A digesting duck.
• Doing laundry at the end of the world.
• Finland’s unnamed islands.
• Poisonous books.
• The museum of failure.
• A weird little timezone in Australia.
• The curse of the blue diamond.
• How truffles travelled the world.
• The putter.
• The hummingbird clock.

The Curious Corners #91

Hi there! I hope this edition of the Curious Corner found you in good spirits! I'm on holiday when you're reading this email, somewhere roaming in Vietnam... The edition contains quite a few unique things and I can highly recommend the jumping beans. 😬

• The secret integer between three and four.
• Visual utopia's.
• The mystery of blue honey.
• A jumping bean.
• Mysterious balancing stones on frozen lakes.
• Speedrun wikipedia!
• Egg boxing.
• The hyperinflation gallery.
• The singing ice machine.
• Fugitive colors.

The Curious Corners #90

Hi there ever-growing audience of this newsletter! This edition is send from my new home I (Joost) just bought! 🎉 We’ve lined up quite history related items, so if you’re into that! In case you’re not, these are not the boring history things from the books so give it a chance, or just randomly click around!

Don’t want to click twenty times to open them all at once? I can recommend the Link Clump plugin if you’re using Chrome!

• A roman routeplanner.
• The deadly tomato.
• The Seahenge.
• Where the streetcars used to go.
• The wind as a musical guest.
• A caterpillar with a green stripe.
• The art of sharpening pencils.
• The 13th month.
• The oldest known song.
• Cooling with saltpetre in 1810.

The Curious Corners #89

Hey there! I spend some time of my holiday tinkering with Midjourney, an amazing tool that lets you create images from a prompt (in this case, the prompt of the image for this newsletter was "the curious corners of the internet". 👀

Let's go with this months curious corners I've found! Enjoy! 🎉

• Absurd trolley problems.
• Why roller coaster loops aren’t circular any more.
• The international slide rule museum.
• Pigeons of war.
• The victorian hyperloop.
• A compendium of so-called 'Known Unknowns'.
• Reversible faces.
• Must love bogs.
• A salmon cannon.
• How rattlesnakes rattle.

The Curious Corners #88

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. 👋 The summer schedule is to keep this newsletter running, We've got more then enough material and time to have it ready! If you're new here, the premise is simple: If a single line description tickles your curiosity, you'll click it 👆.

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

• Piecharts of dogs.
• A book of all colors.
• The life-cycle of a corpse flower.
• Why houses in Bermuda have white stepped roofs.
• How icecream became comfort food.
• Checkbox olympics.
• A frog that cannot jump.
• A single page calendar that's always right!
• A library with books that can be read in 100 years.
• Do octopuses dream of crabs?

The Curious Corners #87

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. This edition is a bit later, mostly due to stuff related to moving and a cycle tour of 235 kilometers... (in a single day!). Anyhow, this month might just be history month due to the amount of historical things in this edition, enjoy! 🙏

• Helmets for the art of looking.
• Stamps with mistakes.
• A growing typeface.
• The watch that came from the cold.
• Haribo's history.
• Composing the Windows 95 sound.
• Mining minerals from your body.
• Mithradites of Fond du Lac.
• We domesticated the blueberry.
• Crossing the alps with an elephant in 1959.

The Curious Corners #86

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of urls! Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

• The $10,000 micro-park.
• Instruments from the music tree.
• The social hierarchy on a submarine.
• The fastest racecar for that reached 1 micron.
• A new carnivorous plant.
• Seeds that walk.
• A clock by earth.
• Strangly shaped antennas.
• The french mania around balloons.
• Perfumes also use accords like music does.

The Curious Corners #85

While the weather has been strange this week, the steady flow of interesting things from the curious corners of the web continues! Happy to have you around and forward this if you think someone needs to discover something today! ⏭

• A meme pop-up book!
• A ghost word in the dictionary.
• A croissant lamp.
• Technicolor Tokyo.
• Marble pillows.
• An underwater musical performance.
• Breaking a Tetris record.
• The secret of a silver clasp.
• Where did language come from?
• The cube rule of food identification.

The Curious Corners #84

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet and welcome to a new bunch of friends that just joined! Happy to have you around! In the case you spot something one of your friends, colleagues or family might like? Forward this email if you like! Cheers! 🍻

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy! 🎉

• A moving sofa problem.
• A perpetual energy wasting machine.
• Trees from the moon.
• Medieval Photoshop.
• The rise and fall of ski ballet.
• Turn your SD-cards into floppy’s!
• The most common dreams for each country.
• Almost pong.
• Why wizards live in a tower.
• Making smaller watches.

The Curious Corners #83

Hi there! A variety of interesting things just arrived in your inbox! Hopefully you’ll find something interesting, if not, let us know your interests. This months image is the ISS at night, something you won’t see often!

Here we go for this month, enjoy!

• Staying for the night in the Steel House.
• Settle this.
• An atlas of clouds.
• The history of pepper.
• Victorians flirted with cards.
• A proper civil war by the Swiss.
• The offroad school bus.
• A lego tide machine.
• An underwater worm made of clones.
• A medieval book that opens in 6 different ways.

The Curious Corners #82

Hi there! Happy new year 🎉! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of nooks and crannies!

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

• The impossible skilift.
• The Himalayan rhubarb.
• The longest train journey.
• Do coconuts kill people?
• Where does the Nile start?
• Saving the Shuttle simulator.
• A barrel eyed fish.
• The ancient potato of the future.
• Who invented the peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
• A beetle sculpture.

The Curious Corners #81

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Another month, another set of links for you to enjoy! If you have any feedback or would like something else, let us know via our email in the footer!

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

• Talk with the hand.
• A creature that eats its own brain.
• Scanning minifigures.
• The importance of salt.
• Nothing can be salvaged, but nothing will be lost.
• The Scranton Iron Furnaces.
• Women of the sea.
• Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour’s lamp?
• The most amazing bowling story.
• A x-ray timelapse of a plant.

The Curious Corners #80

Hi there! Just on the brink of the weekend! Edition 80! It's been 80 months of collecting stuff from the curious corners of the web!

We're glad to have you around. Here's the collection of this month:

• The inverse Everest.
• Elves in the upper atmosphere.
• Climbing the Mont-Blanc before 1900.
• The first space cat.
• Why the threads of soda bottles are cut.
• A very big little country.
• Robbing a bank on a bicycle.
• The art of smelling.
• A single objective: Don’t land.
• A river re-awakened.

The Curious Corners #79

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. It's been a bit of slog but I found 20 awesome things to share you again! Enjoy this list!

The Curious Corners #78

Hey there! Happy to have you around as the audience for this newsletter! This month is stocked with things related to anything transportation somehow.. A happy little accident as Bob Ross would say. Well, let’s see what we got:

• Growing for the space station.

The Curious Corners #77

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet, this time it's a bit delayed due to my holiday to the Czech Republic. I hope you'll find this edition just as awesome as I found my holiday to be! Thanks for being a member 🍻.

• A chocolate factory that looks like a chocolate bar.
• The first gas station in space.
• The secret life of machines.
• A stork shot with an arrow proved birds migrated.
• Machine generated libraries look like amazing places!
• Phil Tippett's stop-motion seems like a must see!
• How do you name origami models?
• If you have an Aeropress you can make churros!
• You're taxed if you have a beard.
• A racing horse with a meme worthy name.

The Curious Corners #76

Hi there, and welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet! Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by.

Lot's of new people joined since last month, thanks to The Slice, which I can highly recommend as another great newsletter!

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

The Curious Corners #75

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in the links that follow!

• A linear clock.
• Dirigibles where supposed to dock on the Empire State Building.
• A plane with 9 wings.
• A beautiful map of the Internet.
• Endpapers are works of art.
• Disguised cell towers.
• The most expensive carpets.
• The keen has disappeared.
• The art of making mud balls.
• A wind tunnel for testing paper airplanes.

The Curious Corners #74

Hi! Happy to see you around! This month contains some contributed corners, if you have something that might fit in here! Let me know by email! And my personal favorite is the weight of the Internet, what's yours? Feel free to share it on social media!

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

• The helicopter on Mars contains a bit of the plane from the Brothers Wright.
• The crate escape.
• You can sleep in a submarine in Arkansas!
• A future prediction by a chocolate company. (Thanks Marcel!)
• The man who stole a hotel.
• A newsletter reviewing canned fish!
• An infinite background generator.
• The Tamagotchi cemetery.
• The Morosini Institute for the Study of 3:32pm, April 10, 1954.
• As it turns out melbatoast & peché melba have someone in common! (Thanks Hay!)

The Curious Corners #73

Hi there curious person! 🕵️‍♂️ This month agglomeration of links contains things about boats & cars, a website run by the sun and other types of chess! As always accompanied with a wonderful image! Enjoy

• A music piece that’s long! (Thanks Arnold!)

The Curious Corners #72

Hi! Glad to have you around! In this 72nd edition there are at least two typewriters. All by accident I would say. Lot’s of history too, but if that isn’t your thing there’s more!

Enjoy this months links:

The Curious Corners #71

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of URLs!

Oh and a small update for people who can’t satisfy their curiosity! I’ve condensed most of the history of this newsletter into an ebook with links! You can for just $10!

The Curious Corners #70

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of urls! Just a small announcement, but we’re just passed the 600 subscribers, that’s awesome thanks for being here! 🎉

Bring on links:

The Curious Corners #69

Hey there! Glad to have you around! This month Curious Corner of the Internet is full of awesome stuff! We’ve also have a recommendation for another weekly newsletter at the end which I love! So keep on reading. 📚

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

The Curious Corners #68

Hi! 👋 Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of things we found!

We’ve gained quite a following since the last month, thanks for being a part of it! ✌️

The Curious Corners #67

Hi! 👋 Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety!

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

The Curious Corners #66

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. May this edition bring you something to explore in these strange times…

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

The Curious Corners #65

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. If you just had your holiday, appreciate this small piece of enjoyment to prolong your feelings! Or if you’re planning one or embark on a journey, take it all in!

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

The Curious Corners #64

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of urls!

Did you know you can always email me with inspiring things you find as well? Maybe you'll be included in the newsletter, just like Krispijn in this edition!

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

The Curious Corners #63

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of urls!

Before you dive into the links, I have some announcements to make:

1. We're now featured on Thanks For Subscribing , thanks to Frank Meeuwsen who curates it!
2. Some of you might know that I run a brewery as a hobby, and we are crowdfunding our 3rd beer in the Netherlands. If your a beer lover, feel free to pre-order a crate :)

The Curious Corners #62

Hi there! I hope you're doing alright in these strange times. Below you'll find 20 corners I've found on the internet in case you might be bored of just looking around for inspiration. Otherwise you can save this email and return to it when the moment arrives! Enjoy!

• Beautiful churches on exotic locations in Ethiopia.
• Tombstone cryptography.
• An airplane with an additional wing and motor.
• A (dis)integration loop.
• One beautiful automaton.
• Le Creuset has a Star Wars theme?!
• Do you know what Spomeniks are?
• The history (and possible futures) of typography.
• Parking chairs, Pittsburgh's weirdest solution.
• A city on water.

The Curious Corners #61

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Strange times it is. Hope you’re doing well! Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

• Ambushed by a big tumbleweed..

The Curious Corners #60

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of urls! Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

• Repopulating rare butterflies in a backyard.
• Early cryptographers in renaissance Venice.
• A history of Chinese pillows.
• High resolution imaging of Bruegel.
• Mexico’s ancient caviar.
• How to build a pyramid.
• A hidden Japanese settlement in British Columbia.
• Bibliomania, or the book disease.
• The crossword panic of 1944.
• Marmelada is not marmelade.

The Curious Corners #59

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of urls!

On to the links this month, enjoy:

• The restaurant of mistaken orders.
• A mythical hybrid animal in German forests.
• Hidden desert libraries.
• Re-making the camera that went to the moon.
• Digitizing a Polaroid SX-70.
• Decorated origami cranes.
• A puzzle about an infinite orchard.
• Ever wondered about the history of a scrollbar?
• Burying butter.

The Curious Corners #58

Hi! Welcome to the Curious Corner of the Internet. Whether you are a long time member, or just a passer-by, we hope you find something interesting in this wide variety of bits!

Our goal for this year is to send out this newsletter every month!

Here we go for the links this month, enjoy!

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