Weekend Linkages: Billionaires Gone Wild

July 11, 2021

...Via @AmbJohnBoIton. The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest Elon Musk’s Plan to Dig Car Tunnels Under Miami Is Filled With Holes Giving the Sickness a Name: Walker Percy & acedia Stripped Down: How Hollywood’s Favorite Pole-Dancing Studio Came Undone...

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Weekend Linkages: How To!

Mr. Homegrown

October 10, 2021

Saturday Linkages

...Make a sundial rock for the garden Watch Eric of Garden Fork build pizza oven 2.0 A song about why recipe blog preambles are so long Make a bat detector A video about Canada’s most infamous plant: giant hogweed ‘Overpopulation’ alarmism marginalizes those most vulnerable to climate change...

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Weekend Linkages: Cat on a Fridge

Mr. Homegrown

October 3, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...To Be a Field of Poppies: The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost What you learn about speeding when you put radar on a bike Short links list this week but this should make up for it...

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Weekend Linkages: Smoking Chickens

Mr. Homegrown

September 26, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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I really gotta stop looking at Twitter but that’s where you find images of smoking chickens. Is that a dishwasher or a Hindu temple? Inside kitsch pomo masterpiece Cosmic House (Thanks for the link Nic!) One Work: Gelatin’s The B-Thing Meet Thatcher Wine: the ‘celebrity bibliophile’ you didn’t know you needed The Last Glimpses of California’s Vanishing Hippie Utopias (Thanks Daniel for the link!) How To Build Your Own Trippy Meditation Pod Insect...

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Weekend Linkages: 217 Vacuum Cleaners

Mr. Homegrown

September 19, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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Spotted on a dog walk. FYI, I think it’s a joke. Long Twitter thread on cats that hide inside of furniture I think this might be my favorite bit of opera (thank you Lee!) My neighbor Chap does these amazing recreations of the colors of ancient statuary Looking for a cookbook made by motorcycle clubs or clowns? The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship Building with Mushrooms Traditional technique of hand ironi...

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