Saturday Linkages: Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind

...orry About Death Cap Mushroooms in California? Video: Furry porch pirate pilfers package from San Pedro pad Writing Tip: Use Zombies to Kill the Passive Voice Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City Socialism is as American as apple pie. Yes, really Grow old and be strong...

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Support the Master Gardener Program

...that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel. That is basically it.” Jeff, I’ve go an idea for a better place to spend that money: let’s plant gardens. That’s what the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program does here in Los Angeles County and they can use our help. The Master Gardener Program trains people to teach gardening using research-based informa...

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The Twittering Machine

...account of the glowing screens we’re all yoked to, The Twittering Machine (Amazon, Library), and I want to find the escape hatch in the Spectacle. Seymour notes that we are in an age in which we are all writing more than we ever did, in the form of posts, texts etc. But he asks are we “more being written than writing?” The book leaves me wanting to disappear into my wood shop to commune with a carefully curated set of had tools for the rest of my...

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Saturday Linkages: Wall of Cats

...te Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home The Committee to Save the Rich The A to Z of African dance Your new exercise routine A virtual Aubrey Beardsley show Now that we’ve ditched our Amazon associate program please support our new sponsor Wall of cats pic.twitter.com/7pbLe09SyR — Cats (@SpaceCatPics) April 30, 2020...

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Go Plant a Million Trees

...ast. Silver is the author of Trees of Power: Ten Essential Aboreal Allies (Amazon, library). The book celebrates the power of trees to feed us and solve a lot of the world’s problems including climate change and soil erosion. In the book Silver makes the provocative suggestion that we might all be better off with a greater emphasis on tree crops instead of clearing land for monotonous fields of wheat, corn and soybeans. He has an interventionist,...

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