Weekend Linkages: Spring Brain Dump

...‘Les Animaux Mythologiques’ by Hinzelin Emile, (1857 – 1937) US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb’ Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores Did Pope Gregory IX Order A Medieval Purge of Black Cats That Caused the Black Death? Christianity Was Always for the Poor The night people All the buildings on Sunset Boulevard...

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Weekend Linkages: Pyramids, Strange Houses and F-ing Gourds

...Orange free peaches, painted by Elsie E. Lower, 1910. Via @pomological. A stepped pyramid in the desert Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? People are still taking that horse medication That time someone tried to set up a Vietnam war theme park (a podcast) Strangest Zillow listing ever The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis F-ing gourd season Can We Live Without Twitter?...

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Weekend Linkages: New Year, New Links

...The Kept and the Killed 2023 Top 10 of Olden Tymee Cook Books on Sandwiches of History⁣ 2023 Top 10 Worst Sandwiches on Sandwiches of History⁣ The San Francisco Bay’s Red Rock Island is for sale for $25M Headlights Seem Brighter? Jan. 18, 1968: Eartha Kitt Spoke Truth at the White House Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird...

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