Weekend Linkages: Omicron, Belgian Houses and Farts in Jars

Spotted in San Francisco: some strange brickwork. Omicron could peak in U.S. fairly soon. Maybe. 30 Belgian Houses That Are So Bad, They’re Good The Getty’s Gift to Locked Down Los Angeles: 71,139 Ed Ruscha Vintage Streetscape Photos Digitized Column: He’s L.A. food royalty. He began with a taco cart. Let street vendors thrive TikTok Star Who Sells Her Farts in Jars Starts Selling Fart NFTs A Night at the Church of Salt Bae, America’s Newest Cele...

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Weekend Linkages: Perfection Salad

Strange Zillow listing of the week Frank Sinatra’s Chatsworth Home Listed For $21.5M (It’s actually kinda nice) Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk’s Starlink antenna hits surprise problem Climate change, rising temperatures will lead to rise in kidney stones – study Vision Zero failure: 18 bike riders killed in Los Angeles in 2021 Gas stoves and indoor air quality There is No Red Pill Hacked Prius Running on MUNI Power Lines (spoiler: this is...

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Weekend Linkages: Is This Charcuterie?

Thank you Jimmy C. for texting me this image. Posted a joke about hobby tunneling last week and this week it’s in the news A new philosophy of art just dropped World’s best building award won by rainwater-harvesting hospital in rural Bangladesh (thank you Nic for the link!) Dawn of the Space Lords NFTs Are, Quite Simply, Bullshit The Great Los Angeles Train Robbery Is an Exercise in Misdirection The exact moment the German health minister became...

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Weekend Linkages: Historic Rain

...The truth about California’s annual termite swarms Can’t confirm this but some people might be eating monkey chow Man Obsessed With ’90s Lives In Time Capsule And Uses Outdated Technology Way beyond my abilities but this lip syncing project made me laugh How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel Friend of the blog Jenn Berger has an art show up I saw a good cat this weekend Stay safe California friends...

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