Weekend Linkages: Bagging on the Flippers

August 22, 2022

...The HGTVification of America Should It Be Easier to Take Away a Driver’s License? That Breezeway pic again . . . WeWork grifter pivots to residential real eastate. What could go wrong? I gotta kick my Twitter habit but this is pretty funny Worst flip ever...

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Weekend Linkages: A sign, some chickens and a strange real estate listing . . .

Mr. Homegrown

August 15, 2021

Saturday Linkages

...How the Happy Foot/Sad Foot sign got rescued Life under COVID in Florida Include These Items In Your Chicken First-Aid Kit ‘A literal return to the earth’: is human composting the greenest burial? End of the line for Uber? How the Pandemic Now Ends Strange real estate listing of the week...

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Weekend Linkages: Not Enough Trains

Mr. Homegrown

September 10, 2023

Saturday Linkages

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...A mini Red Car at L.A. Train fest Plant-based meat once seemed unstoppable. What went wrong? Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again? Pruitt-Igoe residents exposed to government testing seek compensation. ‘What about us?’ ‘Rat tours’ boom in rodent-infested New York Building Myself a Reading Tracker App with Airtable and Deno Fresh, Part 1...

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Weekend Linkages: Goblincore, Casino Bombs and Hoes

Mr. Homegrown

August 1, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Goblincore: the fashion trend that embraces ‘chaos, dirt and mud’ Drivers for Elon Musk’s Loop get a script about their ‘great leader’ Enter the Dragnet FBI Artifact of the Month: Harvey’s Casino Bomb (Via Mark Frauenfelder) How many years until we must act on climate? Zero, say these climate thinkers Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group...

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Weekend Linkages: Floored

Mr. Homegrown

May 23, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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Armstrong Flooring model 5352, the best-selling flooring product ever made. Odds you’ve been in a house with this if you lived between 1930 and 2000: 100%. Designed by Hazel Dell-Brown of Armstrong. pic.twitter.com/dl6krEmPZq — Mass for Shut-ins (Podcast) (@edburmila) May 17, 2021 City, Suburb, Server Farm: the Urban Geography of Amazon A private bar where you can drink, hug, and ditch masks? Welcome to Risky Business in North Hollywood Crime App...

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