‘The Art of the Steal,’ Documentary on the Barnes Foundation
A few years ago I watched this documentary on Netflix about a dead rich guy's art collection. I immediately watched it again with my wife (hi Katie!). The next day we booked tickets to Philadelphia to go see the collection for ourselves. If you don't want to read anything and want to just jump right to the documentary, it is available (at least for now) on Youtube. -Brian
The Frugal Five - The New York Times
Five people in all of history have held the frugal travel editor position at the NYT. Their job was / is to get dropped off in a country slightly off the beaten path and explore the best ways to enjoy that culture and location without spending a lot of money. In this fantastic article the five legacies get together to swap war stories and frugal travel tips. -Brian
Seamlessly by Private Jet - Touring Treasures
omg Brian where did you find this. Touring Australia by private jet seems like it would be amazing and also seems like it would be the most pretentious thing I've ever considered doing. I'm also going to assume it's insanely expensive, considering there are no prices on the website for the jet tours. Probably one of those 'if you care about the price, you can't afford it' situations. - Calvin
Dutch king reveals he held part-time job as airline pilot
I'm like 50% positive I had this guy as one of my KLM pilots once. I do like the idea of the leader of a country having some actual practical utility for the country's people... unlike other countries I could name. -Brian
The HondaJet Elite is the Honda we want most but can least afford - Roadshow
I'll take two please. -Brian
Bot writes Olive Garden commercial
This is my favorite thing. Thank you for sharing, Steph.
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials and then asked it to write an Olive Garden commercial of its own.
-Calvin
So there's a dude who, like all of us, read Hatchet as a kid, but unlike my HVAC loving tuchus (be careful googling how to spell tuchus by the way) he has moved into the woods and is videoing himself building a stone aged infrastructure using no metal, no tools, no power, etc. In this episode he makes a water powered forge / hammer / poundey thing. -Brian
E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
Also, the entire Lists category on McSweeney's. Thanks to JD for sharing. –Calvin