Weekend Linkages: Sunspots

March 24, 2024

...Unraveling the Mystery of San Francisco 7-Eleven Stores Selling Onigiri With the Mayor’s Face on Them The website of the artist behind the Onigiri prank An app that shows if a book you’re looking at on Amazon is at your local library How to Build a Small Solar Power System Henry VIII’s pastry tent...

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Weekend Linkages: Art, Hoarding and Drug Eggs

Mr. Homegrown

March 17, 2024

Saturday Linkages

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...Print by Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) high res scans available here. Search for art images The Art of Meredith James Marie Kondo Appalled! Extreme Hoarding and Trash-filled Homes in Japan Here’s how to see ‘horned’ comet 12P/Pons-Brooks in the night sky this month How to make drug eggs...

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Weekend Linkages: Happy Easter, Happy Spring

Mr. Homegrown

March 31, 2024

Saturday Linkages

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...https://youtu.be/BW5L5fviP4M?si=1LAg0JY4nojez0h5 Just one link today: the transcendent last few measures of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal....

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Weekend Linkages: Let’s Get Liminal

Mr. Homegrown

March 3, 2024

Saturday Linkages

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...Better late than never news from the flower/celebrity gossip world ‘A soul killer’: what’s behind the US’s critical veterinarian shortage? How effective is honey for seasonal allergies? Museum Selfie-Takers Are Causing Damage by Backing Into Artworks Beware of the other’s dream Perfect peel at the 11foot8+8 bridge...

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Weekend Linkages: Cochineal Season

Mr. Homegrown

February 25, 2024

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...What industry “secret” do you know that most people don’t? (via Recomendo) Mass trespass on Dartmoor to highlight England’s ‘piecemeal’ right to roam laws Ex-deputy LA mayor loses bid to exclude ‘salacious’ evidence from racketeering trial Apple AirTag: Antitheft or Antistalking? Everything is Connected and No One is Saved Alone...

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