Stuff You Learn When the Power Goes Out

...e and lock them unless there is electricity. So I could access our car and bikes, but I had no way of securing the garage which is right on the street. I didn’t want to leave it open, so if we wanted to go anywhere we’d have to take the bus. Clearly, I need to fix this. While I enjoyed our break from the interwebs, I also realized that a lot of information I depend on is now stored in the cloud. If the power had been out for longer I would have ha...

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Saturday Linkages: Passive Cooling, Cats and Three Mules

...film, BIKES vs CARS – WE ARE MANY on @Kickstarter http://kck.st/1f7i1Xj @homedepot @lowes: 2/3 of our food crops need bees! Stop selling bee-killing pesticides! #BeeAction @foe_us http://www.beeaction.org Your Future in Farming & Homesteading: FREE 3-Day Webcast Event! (Oct. 1-3, 2013) http://permaculturenews.org/2013/09/25/your-future-in-farming-homesteading-free-3-day-webcast-event/ … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Fol...

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Bike Porn

...ival you can watch a lot of the films online. Here’s a few: Macaframa “SF’s most talented street track riders.” Tico Jam 5 BMX bike porn in Costa Rica. I could watch these folks do their thing for hours. D.I.Y. Emancipation 101 A nice animation about how the bicycle brought freedom to women. Orange Bikes Take Manhattan All about a misguided viral marketing campaign from DKNY. The Way Bobby Sees It A gripping story about a blind mountain bike rider...

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Saturday Linkages: Cheapskates and Controversy!

...ay Signal Bigger Problem, Researcher Says http://huff.to/18Tnzw8 Will Google Glass End Distracted Driving?: http://blog.esurance.com/will-google-glass-end-distracted-driving/#.UYSRC4KyvdI.twitter … Bikes Bicycle hackers of 1948: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/08/bicycle-hackers-of-1948.html … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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