Weekend Linkages: Walking the Chicken Backwards

June 6, 2021

...Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards A thread on the horrors of parking Why brick walls collapse 10 exercise myths ‘One of the worst jobs I ever had’: former Citizen employees on working for the crime app Marx the journalist...

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Weekend Linkages: Goblincore, Casino Bombs and Hoes

Mr. Homegrown

August 1, 2021

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...Goblincore: the fashion trend that embraces ‘chaos, dirt and mud’ Drivers for Elon Musk’s Loop get a script about their ‘great leader’ Enter the Dragnet FBI Artifact of the Month: Harvey’s Casino Bomb (Via Mark Frauenfelder) How many years until we must act on climate? Zero, say these climate thinkers Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group...

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Weekend Linkages: View From the Roof

Mr. Homegrown

April 3, 2022

Saturday Linkages

...Wordle but in Morse Code A secretive LA group has a new mission: paint untouched crosswalks RIP Christopher Alexander That mushroom trend . . ....

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Weekend Linkages: All Play and No Work

Mr. Homegrown

July 18, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Drawing by finish architect Uno Ullberg, 1903. Bicycle powered car All Work and No Play Google Maps Provided Users With a ‘Potentially Fatal’ Hiking Trail on This Mountain Historic “Garden City” is Surprisingly Anti-Gardening Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist Weird fractal Romanesco cauliflowers start life as failed flowers...

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Weekend Linkages: Billionaires Gone Wild

Mr. Homegrown

July 11, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Via @AmbJohnBoIton. The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest Elon Musk’s Plan to Dig Car Tunnels Under Miami Is Filled With Holes Giving the Sickness a Name: Walker Percy & acedia Stripped Down: How Hollywood’s Favorite Pole-Dancing Studio Came Undone...

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