What We Lose by Hiring Someone to Pick Up Our Avocados for Us

Guy Causes Google Maps “Traffic Jams” By Carrying 99 Cell Phones

Why Amazon’s Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society

Vienna’s Cultural Approach to Going Car-Free

Cat snoring through an echo microphone of the day. pic.twitter.com/Rkic9X0u6k

— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) February 6, 2020

Via @70s_party.

EPA re-approves key Roundup chemical

Hollyhock House Archive

What happened to that $100 laptop idea?

Goodbye Mars One, The Fake Mission To Mars That Fooled The World

The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time

The World’s Most Annoying Man

Car ads are bad for our cities

No Rational System Would Value Tesla at $100 Billion

‘Mindless growth’: Robust scientific case for degrowth is stronger every day

A dry (and warm, in most places) January in California

How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?

How a cat named Smudge’s distaste for salad created one of 2019’s most popular memes

Why the world is becoming more allergic to food

No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore

‘Like sending bees to war’: the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession

DIY Rolling Umbrella Base

A 27-year-old Costco fan loves the store so much he got a logo tattooed and had a birthday party in the food court

Music break: Lamento della Ninfa by Claudio Monteverdi

Yam courtesy of Doug Harvey.

Make yourself a rowboat in 2020

Sidney Barnsley architect and craftsman

Alan Moore on William Blake’s contempt for Newton

Are cats modernists?

Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire

Contrapoints on canceling

Lawn out. Wildflowers in.

“Act natural” pic.twitter.com/9rTkgM73te

— Animal Memes (@AnimalMemer) December 29, 2019