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!

• A small language.
• A non-linear writing system, dropping the sentences, constructing glyphs.
• The story of an imaginary word that once haunted our books.
• The taxonomy of bread-clips.
• Museum of the fossilized internet. (Thanks Erwin!)
• Inside photos of the Ekranoplan.
• The bioremediating missile.
• Bridge houses in Amsterdam turned into hotelsuites.
• Reproducing linnen armor.

• Music for an audience of 2,292 plants.
• The jellyfish problem.
• Oysters that knew what time it was.
• Medieval Jolene, Jolene.
• A museum of Winamp skins.
• Optimizing peanut butter & banana sandwiches.
• Hand-stitched keycaps for your keyboard.
• There are no correct alternate histories; there are only plausible alternate histories.
• A 300 year old butcher’s shop.
• Custom instruments & arcades.
• The Nine Elms cold store.
• What does space smell like?

That’s it, thanks for reading! Let us know by email if you have any suggestions for the Curious Corner!

Joost & Kees