Weekend Linkages: Beware the Pointy Shoes

June 13, 2021

...Skeletons reveal the cost of medieval fashion for pointy shoes Nailed it: man, 82, builds bench for wife in 30 minutes after council plea ignored Why We Shouldn’t Paint Brick Streaming with Laughter… the quest for the funniest online service fails No, Small Isn’t Beautiful The NFT market bubble has popped and we’ve got the charts to prove it...

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Weekend Linkages: Walking the Chicken Backwards

Mr. Homegrown

June 6, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards A thread on the horrors of parking Why brick walls collapse 10 exercise myths ‘One of the worst jobs I ever had’: former Citizen employees on working for the crime app Marx the journalist...

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Holiday Weekend Linkages: Loquat Edition

Mr. Homegrown

May 30, 2021

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Hi would you enjoy being depressed at downtown Camden in the 1930s vs today pic.twitter.com/xQtHHlYq6h — Joseph (@bicycleriiights) May 27, 2021 Like loquats? Thank the Mexican orchard workers who saved them Amazon Introduces Tiny ‘ZenBooths’ for Stressed-Out Warehouse Workers Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism Belcampo: ‘farm to door’ butcher admits misrepresenting origins of meat How to design a sailing ship for the 21st...

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Weekend Linkages: All Plants and Mirrors

Mr. Homegrown

May 16, 2021

Saturday Linkages

Build a protected garden enclosure Mayor de Blasio’s strange burger and fries moment A Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection Digital tulip fever Chipotle Is a Criminal Enterprise Built on Exploitation A Caledonia house on the edge of a crumbling cliff has sold after a monthslong saga The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory Ever wonder what all of those surface car parking lots in downtown LA used...

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Weekend Linkages: Ghost Kitchens, Cats and Recursion

Mr. Homegrown

May 9, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Some parody billboards just dropped in England and Wales. Via @BrentToderian Ghost kitchens of China Goodbye to the Future: The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower Metro’s Oscar Nightmare NSFW explanation of cat domestication ‘It’s like a place of healing’: the growth of America’s food forests Print rooms, prints, and their printed borders This week’s strange real estate listing A plaque about plaques...

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