Photos Document the Decorated Clay Houses of a Royal African Village https://t.co/u46HgnlFNu
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2018
Centennial at Tejon Ranch https://t.co/DMXelleR6H via @wordpressdotcom
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 22, 2018
Got in our @Zipcar we've been driving for 3 days. It doesn't start. Call Zipcar and get told that the car can't access the internet so it won't start. The only option is to have a tow truck come and tow it to somewhere where it has internet.
— Keith Smiley (@SmileyKeith) December 27, 2018
it took 1000s of years to get the amount of work to create light down to trivial amounts so everyone could use it
it took just 10 years to fuck it up and need a few megawatts of servers to turn one bulb on from the couch pic.twitter.com/ikgelQR3Ls
— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) December 27, 2018
Can corporate architects be done for unintentional manslaughter? How office design can kill employees…. https://t.co/sGIzkHR0pD
— Cameron Sinclair (@casinclair) December 27, 2018
“Many arborists assumed these stumps were dead, but Milarch and his son, Jake, discovered living tissue growing from the trees’ roots…” Giant coast redwoods, cut down in the 19th century, successfully cloned. https://t.co/FHL7Nzgj6H pic.twitter.com/dsAFkVoUp2
— Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) December 27, 2018
The shutdown comes to Joshua Tree, where, with no federal employees to keep an eye on things, people are littering, lighting illegal fires, and “stringing Christmas lights from delicate Joshua trees that they are supposed to leave untouched.” https://t.co/vfr6fh6vvN
— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) December 27, 2018
anyone want a home built to look like a castle by people whose experience of castles is limited to Game of Thrones and various Las Vegas resorts? https://t.co/kQfZv7i4Q4
— soor ploom (@spindlypete) December 26, 2018
To come to modern mathematical ideas of space, humans first had to concieve of it as an 'arena' in which things might be. My essay on the history of space as a scientific concept is Editors Pick 2018 at @aeonmag https://t.co/XcpSJ0WEt3
— Margaret Wertheim (@margaretwerth) December 27, 2018
Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound | Maryanne Wolf https://t.co/yfoBmftqXq
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 26, 2018
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) December 25, 2018
"One of the deepest ironies of our current situation is that the modes of communication that enable today’s authoritarians were first dreamed up to defeat them". https://t.co/Irigyf6QSc
— lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) December 24, 2018
— Meow Meow BEAAAAAMMMMMZZZ (@MeowMeowBeamz) December 21, 2018
Gaudete https://t.co/Z2ww43F4JM via @YouTube
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 26, 2018
My first introduction to Gaudete was the Steeleye Span version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtqU3qb_7so
Also, this reminded me of Pentangle’s version of Lyke Wake Dirge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT7CMAcBTew
“…putting the castle in front of the eyes of everyone from billboard rap artists to professional athletes to Southern California tycoons who would love to have an iconic Northwest, custom-detailed castle.”
So, people with more money than taste/common sense, and people who born-here Oregonians would really prefer that they stay the heck where they are…