Read Bungalow Magazine and The Craftsman Online

...’ve taken to reading bungalow related literature on my iPad and hoping the animals don’t freak out from the explosions. The interwebs have opened a whole world of old, out of print publications from the pre-Idocracy era. Two bungalow related magazines you can read for free are Gustav Stickley’s highbrow Craftsman and bungalow entrepreneur Jud Yoho’s more humble Bungalow Magazine. Stickley published The Craftsman between 1901 and 1917. The Universi...

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Midnight in the Desert

...ton. Among the features of the hole: the power to restore life to deceased animals, birth mysterious seal creatures from within the carcass of lambs and produce impossible objects such as 1943 Roosevelt dimes. During a commercial break on Water’s first appearance on Coast to Coast, listeners started searching the area around Ellensberg on an early internet satellite service called Terraserver. Mysteriously, Water’s property seemed to have been bla...

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Is Industrial Ag to Blame for the Swine Flu?

...int we’re in the wild speculation phase of the swine flu narrative and I’ll add that the press does a particularly bad job with anything that has to do with science. However, we’ve been trying to make the point that distributed agriculture, more people tending small numbers of animals, is most likely a safer practice than large factory farms. The exotic strains of E-coli and swine flu that have emerged in recent years could be the unintended conse...

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Weekend Tweets: Poppies, Insane Comics and Black Metal Cats

...Top L.A. Vegan Restaurant Owners Receiving Death Threats for Slaughtering Animals https://t.co/kJmVauMmwh via thr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 28, 2016 Highland Park Bowl is a stunning masterwork of Prohibition-era preservation https://t.co/DobuvSFzyF via @eaterla — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 27, 2016 No Knead Bread with Olives Recipe – GardenFork https://t.co/ibyIEKidc4 — Madkins (@Madkins2008) April 21, 2016 It would only take me an e...

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On the Possibilities and Problems of Groups

...st goal is “connectivity.” People can connect to feed the homeless, rescue animals or plant trees. Unfortunately, people can also connect to promote racism and hate, something the internet has made worse. I wish I had an easy set of points on how to form positive, long lasting and effective groups or just how to be a better member of a group. I don’t. But, as in most worthwhile tasks, perhaps the answer is to take things one step at a time. We, in...

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