Weekend Linkages for Your Memorial Day

...Crypto posters on telephone poles–signs of a bubble? How to Watch the (Potential) Tau Herculids Meteor Shower Tonight Gardeners use plant dyes to combat toxic chemicals used by fashion industry End of an era as New York removes last public payphone Eelgrass is an ancestral food in Sonora’s Comcaac community. Now it’s gaining global attention Much warmer and drier second half of May, and some thoughts about summer to come...

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Weekend Linkages: Pyramids, Strange Houses and F-ing Gourds

...Orange free peaches, painted by Elsie E. Lower, 1910. Via @pomological. A stepped pyramid in the desert Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? People are still taking that horse medication That time someone tried to set up a Vietnam war theme park (a podcast) Strangest Zillow listing ever The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis F-ing gourd season Can We Live Without Twitter?...

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Weekend Linkages: 217 Vacuum Cleaners

Spotted on a dog walk. FYI, I think it’s a joke. Long Twitter thread on cats that hide inside of furniture I think this might be my favorite bit of opera (thank you Lee!) My neighbor Chap does these amazing recreations of the colors of ancient statuary Looking for a cookbook made by motorcycle clubs or clowns? The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship Building with Mushrooms Traditional technique of hand ironi...

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Weekend Linkages: Beware the Pointy Shoes

...Skeletons reveal the cost of medieval fashion for pointy shoes Nailed it: man, 82, builds bench for wife in 30 minutes after council plea ignored Why We Shouldn’t Paint Brick Streaming with Laughter… the quest for the funniest online service fails No, Small Isn’t Beautiful The NFT market bubble has popped and we’ve got the charts to prove it...

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Weekend Linkages: Ghost Kitchens, Cats and Recursion

...Some parody billboards just dropped in England and Wales. Via @BrentToderian Ghost kitchens of China Goodbye to the Future: The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower Metro’s Oscar Nightmare NSFW explanation of cat domestication ‘It’s like a place of healing’: the growth of America’s food forests Print rooms, prints, and their printed borders This week’s strange real estate listing A plaque about plaques...

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