Weekend Linkages: Easter Making Mr. Homegrown April 9, 2023 Saturday Linkages 2 Comments Re-growing spring onions Make a pallet coaster Paper sundial kits 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities Operation Breakthrough: America’s Failed Government Program to Industrialize Home Production
Weekend Linkages: AI, That Damn Metaverse, Living Pantries and Compressed Air Mr. Homegrown April 2, 2023 Saturday Linkages 4 Comments Image from the deep internets. The stupidity of AI Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland. No, Cities Aren’t Doomed Because of Remote Work Los Angeles’s Metro Is Using Classical Music as a Weapon ‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy
Weekend Linkages: A Random Beginning to 2023 Mr. Homegrown January 8, 2023 Saturday Linkages 2 Comments Church members propose urban village for congregation A Very Moynihan Train Hall Thanksgiving: ‘Wow, I Can’t Even Sit Down?’ Hero of 2022: Those LA Police Funding Billboards Gramsci on hating new year’s day 2-Dog Backpack Boat: the Dogmaran Are Aliens Who Visit Earth Likely to Be Socialist?
Weekend Linkages: Advent 4 Mr. Homegrown December 18, 2022 Saturday Linkages Detail from Canterbury Cathedral. Pruitt-Igoe: A Black Community Under the “Atomic Cloud” LA Trade Tech has a nearly 100-year-old vacant theater on its campus that it plans to demolish This house may or may not be real Hide Glue from the Gas Station Kisho Kurokawa’s metabolist masterpiece ‘capsule house K’
Weekend Linkages: Advent Hauntology Mr. Homegrown December 11, 2022 Saturday Linkages All Saint’s Margaret Street. Photo: Diliff A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories If you like the idea of Christmas ghost stories let me recommend the writings of M.R. James that you can access here for free Eric Garcetti’s Broken Sidewalks Coincidence department: Will Self discovers evensong and the hidden charm of All Saint’s, Margaret Street (which we visited last month in London) Watch out for the flu Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Christmas Tree Pops