Weekend Linkages: Behold the Inside of My Head

April 16, 2023

...Source: the deep interwebs ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent (a great podcast episode on the hype surrounding AI) The art of Henricus Jansen A house with a strange design feature What is Acid Communism? Gareth’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales...

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Weekend Linkages: Throwing Axes in the Garden

Mr. Homegrown

August 14, 2022

Saturday Linkages

Bragging rights if you know where this is and leave a comment . . . Aubergine dip, chicken skewers and beans with dill: Yotam Ottolenghi’s Persian recipes Bunya nut bounty: How to process and cook Australian native bunya nuts Block ads and trackers with a Pi-hole A Twitter thread on what a Pi-hole is Elon’s Biggest Boondoggle: Why did the world’s richest man spend the past five years trying to sell cities a hole in the ground? Philadelphia Become...

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Weekend Linkages: A Random Beginning to 2023

Mr. Homegrown

January 8, 2023

Saturday Linkages

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...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?...

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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’...

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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 P...

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