Tuesday Morning Fruit Linkages

September 2, 2008

We’ve been reading Adam Leith Gollner’s entertaining book The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession and Gollner mentions a number of intreguing internet resources, perfect for a little post holiday weekend surfing: More than you ever wanted to know about the world’s smelliest fruit: Durian (Durian Palace) The California Rare Fruit Growers, “Pushing the Limits of Fruit Growing, Worldwide” (CRFG) The world’s largest f...

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Friday Afternoon Linkages–Some Fun, Some Scary

Mr. Homegrown

October 10, 2008

Thoughtstylings

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Life is like a seesaw with a rusty bolt–a good kid on one end and a bad kid on the other and no way to tell whose ass is gonna hit the ground hardest. On the fun side of life’s pesky algebra equation this week: Mark Frauenfelder is experimenting with a unique way of drying persimmons using a traditional Japanese method as pictured on the left. Meanwhile, in a busy month of blogging, the intrepid urban homesteaders over at Ramshackle Solid show yo...

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Let’s Just Call it Sunday Linkages Until My Schedule Changes

Mr. Homegrown

April 25, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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one of the wildest home inspector tik toks ive seen pic.twitter.com/CKI8snirxd — kristin (gone bonkers) (@jkac) April 23, 2021 Mars Sucks The pole vaulting shepherds of the Canary Islands If you’d like to live in a giant Taco Bell and have $6,000,000 laying around this house is for you A 1,000 year blue dye mystery solved Kid, I blew up the honey: fallout from nuclear bomb tests detected in US pots Gender reveal party host turns himself in to pol...

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Weekend Linkages: Billionaires Gone Wild

Mr. Homegrown

July 11, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Via @AmbJohnBoIton. The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest Elon Musk’s Plan to Dig Car Tunnels Under Miami Is Filled With Holes Giving the Sickness a Name: Walker Percy & acedia Stripped Down: How Hollywood’s Favorite Pole-Dancing Studio Came Undone...

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Weekend Linkages: All Plants and Mirrors

Mr. Homegrown

May 16, 2021

Saturday Linkages

Build a protected garden enclosure Mayor de Blasio’s strange burger and fries moment A Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection Digital tulip fever Chipotle Is a Criminal Enterprise Built on Exploitation A Caledonia house on the edge of a crumbling cliff has sold after a monthslong saga The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory Ever wonder what all of those surface car parking lots in downtown LA used...

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