A brief prescript: if you want some links that were too good for this roundup (not to shatter the illusion too much…), check out the nine new ones on the main site’s linkroll!

• The Netherlands is quietly shifting towards a four-day workweek (archive). Please stand for the national anthem.
• The history of the New Yorker’s vaunted fact-checking department (archive)
• Sonic Rush Rerun, the inevitable fan PC remake of the DS classic, has arrived, and i couldn’t be more excited
• Torturing a Sega 32X, for science
• Whose Penis? A lift-the-flap book
• Atlas of Space. Nothing that hasn’t been done before, but i like the presentation, and it gives me the inspiration to maybe possibly make my own clone at some point.
• The robots have come for the Piccadilly Circus caricature artists
• A gallery of old playing cards
• I successfully got clickbaited by the actual fucking railway company with this video.
• Tajikistan’s “Tunnel of Death”
• Vaybertaytsh
• List of stories set in a future now in the past
• Cai Guo-Qiang’s Head On is wonderful.
• The Scots woodlands are now home to… Black Hebrew Jacobites‽
• The number of Shakers left in the U.S. has risen to three
• Ông bà anh chị em, or, what happens when your language straight-up just doesn’t have pronouns.