What’s cool? These seven links are cool

Summer’s starting, and when the weather gets hot, you need something cool. These links below aren’t cool in that way, but they are cool nonetheless:

For example, this moped design by teenage engineering is definitely cool. Other cool transportation is this solar-powered chocolate factory supplied by a sailing ship.

When people first started putting things on the Web, virtual tours were very cool. Guess what? They still are. Check out this recent virtual tour of the Basilica Santa Maria.

The great Gina Trapani has built a page showing her Life in Weeks. Cool stuff. Speaking of the Web, here’s some cool stuff you can do with the web site, Bluesky

If you need a cool place to get away, how about these Postcard Cabins? Some of them are awesome. Also awesome is this clip of an Olympic gold medalist runner dominating the 100m at her kids sports day event! Any time someone says they would have a slim chance against an elite athlete, show them this.

It’s getting hot out there. Stay cool.

Not your average bungalow! Here’s the top 10 cabins to get away to

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Over at Yanko Design are 10 of the cabins they chose as the best for 2022. Best for 2022, and 2023…really any year you want to get out of town and into some place nice and rustic.

Whatever the season, wherever the location, these places are the kind of places most people would like to spend some time. I’m more of a city person, but I would be happy to hang out in any of those 10 cabins.

what you see in this post is just two of the places they write about. To see more on these top 10, click here.

On tiny homes, 2021 and 2022

I don’t know what it is, but I am fascinated by tiny homes. While many of them are unattractive, the ones featured in these four pieces are anything but:

All four links are to Yanko Design. (As are these images.) Check them out: they’re beautiful and set in gorgeous locations.

With the way real estate is going, we may all be living in such tiny spaces soon.

What’s this? Just some beautiful cabins to imagine escaping too

Like many of us, the people at Dwell have been thinking of escaping as a form of dealing with the pandemic. They have gone from fantasing about it to compiling this amazing list of cabins for us to drool over. The above is just one of thirty five amazing places, all of which you can see, here: 35 Magical Tiny Cabins to Pin to Your Mood Board Immediately – Dwell