Saturday Linkages: Late Again!

April 18, 2021

...Reddit user BrewCoven repurposed an old TV for a cat bed. ‘Unorthodox and magical’: how tree stumps can transform your garden Weeding and mulching are satisfying, but we need ground covers to eliminate those chores Germinating Bed of Osiris Gilles Deleuze correctly describes the world we live in today back in 1990 Strange real estate listing of the week Resign Mitch O’Farrell: sign the petition!...

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Saturday Linkages: Late Sunday Edition

Mr. Homegrown

April 11, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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pic.twitter.com/kxYi7S4cYd — Kurt Kohlstedt (@KurtKohlstedt) March 30, 2021 The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make Urban Fish Ponds: Low-tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities Anywhere but Here: Ponte Tower More than 5,000 people attend illegal party at Tonto national forest in Arizona Weird Zillow listing of the week An internet mystery: someone built a copy of the Borgund Stave Church in Connecticut and the craftspeople weren’t ha...

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Saturday Linkages: News From the Far West

Mr. Homegrown

April 3, 2021

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My friend bought a scrying mirror (commonly used in the occult for predicting the future) and walked in to see his black cat standing on two legs and staring into it… pic.twitter.com/h6gtirl1nN — MKB (@MatthewKBegbie) March 28, 2021 The Edwards Go Electric ‘I felt I killed my children’: lead poisons California community – and fills kids’ teeth Last Night in Echo Park More on Echo Park Cult classics: the faded glory of California’s fringe sects –...

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Saturday Linkages: Twitter, Architecture and Those Long Recipe Blog Posts

Mr. Homegrown

March 27, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...This Hell-Site: A year of pandemic-related misery has salted the earth of Media Twitter AI Excels at Writing Pointlessly Long Recipe Blog Posts Mars House “is a fraud” says 3D visualiser of world’s first NFT house Architectural assistants break silence on poor working practices Tiny Paper Houses to Build at Your Desk...

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Saturday Linkages: On hold

Mr. Homegrown

March 13, 2021

Saturday Linkages

https://youtu.be/YoBV7hKysCk The best/worst house ever via Crappy Cheapo Architecture Wealth and incarceration shown to scale Green health: a tree-filled street can positively influence depression, study finds Standstill Traffic May Be the Only Thing Keeping Crash Deaths From Skyrocketing Return of the conversation pit? The weird world of Bruce Goff This is why Venice is the most beautiful city in the world – A series of 40 facades of Venice More...

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