Saturday Tweets: Bird Eyesight, Making and Marginalia

September 2, 2017

Clear-cut tropical forest revitalized with industrial orange peel waste https://t.co/tGl1sbVvif — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 2, 2017 Support A Skid Row Bike Lane – Sign the Petition! https://t.co/dLzwO0MFXk via @Change #bikeLA @lacbc — Colin Bogart (@ColinBogart) August 31, 2017 Right so I was researching bird eyesight and can someone explain why these feel like really obscure memes pic.twitter.com/qXkJg16iCV — max ✨ (@naxxramen) August...

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Saturday Tweets That Should Have Been Posted on Saturday but Are, Instead, Posted on Sunday Evening Because I Was at a Met Opera Telecast (Dialogues of the Carmelites) Followed by a Wedding and Was Too Tired by the End of the Day to Sit at a Computer and Come up with Clever Titles

Mr. Homegrown

May 12, 2019

Saturday Linkages

This. Is. The. Best. https://t.co/nRFVlRJVYJ — Tom Furtwangler (@tomfurt) May 7, 2019 Idea: All U.S. cities should pledge to protect their bike lanes. By the start of this summer. #RedCupProject #SummerLanes https://t.co/L8o88t7mIo — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) May 10, 2019 Automobile, defined: absolutely the least efficient use of space for moving people in a city.#transit #bicycles #walkable #urbanism pic.twitter.com/t37RCA3Xpa — Taras Grescoe...

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Saturday Tweets: Passover/Holy Saturday Edition

Mr. Homegrown

March 31, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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Set in the northernmost reaches of the Taklimakan Desert, this oasis-village is an often hostile place to inhabit. Yet despite the harsh environment, a culture rich with fascinating architecture and agriculture continues to thrive https://t.co/zkU5pt18WJ — Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) March 31, 2018 "Bicycles [unlike cars] let people become masters of their own movements without blocking those of their fellows." —Ivan Illich pic.twitter.com/TZOf...

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Picture Sundays: Adobe Brick Making Workshop

Mr. Homegrown

May 10, 2015

Picture Sundays

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...A few pics from yesterday’s adobe brick making workshop taught by Ben Loescher of Adobe is Not Software. If you’d like to join in on the fun we’ll be making more bricks next Saturday. Head over to the Environmental Changemaker’s website to sign up for either the brick making or the cob oven workshop in June....

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A Homemade Mattress?

Mrs. Homegrown

March 15, 2013

Design, Domesticus

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...the wool. It took her about 6 hours to fill the mattress. 3) Here is a webpage, in French, showing the mattress making process. Lots of useful pictures. I have to run it through Google Translate for more clues. 4) Do not fall for the eHow result if you search for how to make a wool mattress. It gets off to a great start by recommending you use glue, rather than stitching, to construct your mattress tick . (They call the tick a “fabric sheet pouch...

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