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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Weekend Linkages: All Play and No Work

Mr. Homegrown

July 18, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Drawing by finish architect Uno Ullberg, 1903. Bicycle powered car All Work and No Play Google Maps Provided Users With a ‘Potentially Fatal’ Hiking Trail on This Mountain Historic “Garden City” is Surprisingly Anti-Gardening Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist Weird fractal Romanesco cauliflowers start life as failed flowers...

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Weekend Linkages: Ghost Kitchens, Cats and Recursion

Mr. Homegrown

May 9, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...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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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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