# Post a link to something beautiful. No arguing, no cheesecake, & no beefcake, please. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021 "2015-01-27T17:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/41 "2015-01-27T21:12:47Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > [God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H6XEIEqYik) by Postmodern Jukebox. > > I think it’s awesome anyway. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/42 "2015-01-27T21:26:59Z")
I’m wrapping up a unit on states of matter with my third graders, and today at the end of a lesson I showed them one of my favorite clips: a riff on Neil deGrasse Tyson answering the question, “[What’s the most astounding fact you know?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU)” It’s lovely and mindblowing. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/43 "2015-01-27T22:27:00Z")
10,000 people singing the Ode to Joy: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBlQZyTF_LY) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/44 "2015-01-27T22:34:05Z")
[http://www.english.txstate.edu/skerpan\_wheeler/ESkerpan\_2310/Authors/cummings.html](http://www.english.txstate.edu/skerpan_wheeler/ESkerpan_2310/Authors/cummings.html) > **[That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the… | Poetry Foundation](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44397/that-nature-is-a-heraclitean-fire-and-of-the-comfort-of-the-resurrection)** > > Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows | flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- “I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am… immortal diamond.” is on Mom’s (well, it will be for three of us eventually) tombstone. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/45 "2015-01-27T22:43:30Z")
[Waterfall at the bottom of Cloudland Canyon, Lookout Mountain](http://blueridgecountry.com/downloads/363/download/ga-cloudland-canyon-sp.jpg?cb=8878ef8f669175620e4a91618b8ff00f). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/46 "2015-01-27T23:21:49Z")
You just had to put [_that word_](http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Cakes/Cheesecake.jpg) in my head, didn’t you? You just HAD to! (Eye of the beholder?) All kidding aside, making something (especially something difficult) from scratch has a certain beauty to it. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/47 "2015-01-27T23:36:09Z")
The incomparable Maddy Prior [singing Gaudete](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDc2FD-vy8M). ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/48 "2015-01-27T23:51:50Z")
[“Tulips”](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178974) by Sylvia Plath. It’s incredibly sad, but a peaceful, beautiful kind of sadness. _I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions._ [“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”](http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html) by T.S. Eliot. I still remember how I felt the first time I read it - just overwhelmed by its . . . perfection. [“Who Knows If The Moon’s”](http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1670/who-knows-if-the-moons/) by ee cummings. [“Young Woman Drawing.”](http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_17.120.204.jpg) Thought to be a self-portrait by the painter. Joan Baez: [“Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You.”](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtrmg4_joan-baez-babe-i-m-gonna-leave-you_music) Lastly, this picture was making the rounds a while back: in Egypt, [Christians protect praying Muslims.](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/03/article-0-0D0815F9000005DC-902_634x472.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/49 "2015-01-27T23:56:46Z")
[Beethoven’s 6th](http://youtu.be/D2cQ_SG9g-w) performed by the best orchestra of all-time. Sit on your porch one Sunday afternoon and hear man touch nature’s hand. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/50 "2015-01-27T23:59:53Z")
[http://iwantachange.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/starship-enterprise.jpg](http://iwantachange.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/starship-enterprise.jpg) [![](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/07/article-2046673-0E4815D300000578-542_634x450.jpg) ](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/07/article-2046673-0E4815D300000578-542_634x450.jpg) [http://cyly.eu/img/2014/02/mustang-p51wallpaper.jpg](http://cyly.eu/img/2014/02/mustang-p51wallpaper.jpg) [![](https://cruiselinehistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/rms_titanic.JPG) ](https://cruiselinehistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/rms_titanic.JPG) [![](https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/650137main_pia15416b-43_full.jpg) ](https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/650137main_pia15416b-43_full.jpg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-TGKJ9MgCOQ/hqdefault.jpg "George Frideric Handel - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGKJ9MgCOQ) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/51 "2015-01-28T00:08:20Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q3X3cRPDSSA/hqdefault.jpg "Handel: The Music for the Royal Fireworks (Complete) Sir Neville Marriner") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3X3cRPDSSA) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/52 "2015-01-28T00:23:43Z")
[I’m Going to Go Back There Someday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryEjm3k6uY0) [When the River Meets the Sea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaugIUuhmvI) [Amazing Grace-Sufjan Stevens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHoSUjoxTxQ) [Ogden Nash: A Lady Who Thinks She is Thirty](http://www.westegg.com/nash/thirty.html) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/53 "2015-01-28T00:24:51Z")
[http://www.carsofdreams.com/previous-cod-site/100-batmobile/hi-res.jpg](http://www.carsofdreams.com/previous-cod-site/100-batmobile/hi-res.jpg) [http://harbingerdesignandmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/jamesbond\_astonmartin\_00.jpg](http://harbingerdesignandmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/jamesbond_astonmartin_00.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/54 "2015-01-28T00:57:03Z")
I just heard “Atlantis” by Donovan for the first time yesterday. I can’t believe I never have. This video is lovely, as well. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9AUEjzVQwKo/hqdefault.jpg "Donovan / Atlantis") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUEjzVQwKo) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/55 "2015-01-28T00:58:20Z")
Do we have any mathematical beauty here, yet? [Vi Hart on fractals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422327029&x-yt-cl=84838260&v=Oc8sWN_jNF4) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/56 "2015-01-28T02:28:25Z")
[Some of your YouTube vids may be in here](http://jsgamingtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/server-room-hd-free-23325111.jpg). [Here’s a Google Data Center in Oregon](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02372/google1_2372256b.jpg). [Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY) [Sunset from the back yard of my house](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Vi2Woc4fCvo/VMhISEjRdLI/AAAAAAAAVU4/tMbnIcjCji8/s640/DSC_0008.JPG). ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/57 "2015-01-28T02:34:06Z")
[BOOM-de-yada](http://youtu.be/nC1yLD7R0ZU) [Rainbow Room, Madrid](http://bit.ly/1Ams2Zf) [Laburnum archway, Wales](http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/e5/2e/2e/laburnum-arch-in-may.jpg) [Anglo-Saxon shoulder clasp, Sutton Hoo ship burial](https://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/farberas/arth/Images/109images/Insular/Sutton_hoo/shoulderclasp.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/58 "2015-01-28T02:37:14Z")
Sunset between Lexington and Pisgah KY. [https://picasaweb.google.com/103353440908712928462/AthensOfTheWestLexingtonKY#6077183083424301906](https://picasaweb.google.com/103353440908712928462/AthensOfTheWestLexingtonKY#6077183083424301906) ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/59 "2015-01-28T04:26:35Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > [http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=frozen+waves+on+lake+michigan&qpvt=frozen+waves+on+lake+michigan&qpvt=frozen+waves+on+lake+michigan&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=0736D2F1150039E0967E82AAC4112D818F8AAA0C&selectedIndex=11](http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=frozen+waves+on+lake+michigan&qpvt=frozen+waves+on+lake+michigan&qpvt=frozen+waves+on+lake+michigan&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=0736D2F1150039E0967E82AAC4112D818F8AAA0C&selectedIndex=11) > > This is my first go at posting a link. Hope it works. > > I grew up along Lake Michigan and was always enchanted by the way waves would freeze in action. Sometimes very dramatic like the pictures show, other times smaller, but still recognizable as waves. This was my “Frozen”, long before Elsa and the Disney movie came along. That is SO cool! I’ve never seen it, thanks! \*\*Biggirl, \*\*love the staircase. [Pod of Beluga whales.](http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/51/0b/e9/510be974b21cc85be248d6851bfd59d9.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MsKaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MsKaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsKaren)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021/60 "2015-01-28T05:08:02Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Oh, and when image links don’t work the first time, one trick to try is to stay on the window that’s supposed to have the image, click in the address bar, and then hit enter to load it again (this trick works for that specific image, as well). The website is only showing the image when the referrer for the link is from somewhere on the same site: They want you to be able to see the image on their pages, but they don’t want it visible to people who aren’t seeing their page. Re-entering the address bar makes the referrer that same page, so it works. Thanks for this. That did work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-link-to-something-beautiful-no-arguing-no-cheesecake-no-beefcake-please/711021.md?page=4)