Weekend Linkages: Historic Rain

...The truth about California’s annual termite swarms Can’t confirm this but some people might be eating monkey chow Man Obsessed With ’90s Lives In Time Capsule And Uses Outdated Technology Way beyond my abilities but this lip syncing project made me laugh How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel Friend of the blog Jenn Berger has an art show up I saw a good cat this weekend Stay safe California friends...

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Weekend Linkages: How To!

...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: The Passenger

...It’s possibly the most LA thing ever to have a private, invitation-only opening for a piece of public infrastructure built for walking and biking and then provide the attendees with only driving directions. The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba Goblin mode Possum body slams skunk Music break Movie break...

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Holiday Weekend Linkages: Full Disclosure

Via @AmbJohnBoIton. A Nation Conceived in Liberty Confronts Its Queasiness With the “MILF Mobile” Car problems How the Twitter tide of plastic lost at sea has come to define our age Welcome to dystopia: getting fired from your job as an Amazon worker by an app Cities’ plea to Biden: Help us lower speed limits 135 questions for those who shape and those who (sometimes) occupy New York City’s extreme upper skyline Moldy Slides: Romantic Landscapes...

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Weekend Linkages: All Plants and Mirrors

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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