Weekend Linkages: Sunspots

...Unraveling the Mystery of San Francisco 7-Eleven Stores Selling Onigiri With the Mayor’s Face on Them The website of the artist behind the Onigiri prank An app that shows if a book you’re looking at on Amazon is at your local library How to Build a Small Solar Power System Henry VIII’s pastry tent...

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Weekend Linkages: Is This Charcuterie?

Thank you Jimmy C. for texting me this image. Posted a joke about hobby tunneling last week and this week it’s in the news A new philosophy of art just dropped World’s best building award won by rainwater-harvesting hospital in rural Bangladesh (thank you Nic for the link!) Dawn of the Space Lords NFTs Are, Quite Simply, Bullshit The Great Los Angeles Train Robbery Is an Exercise in Misdirection The exact moment the German health minister became...

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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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