Weekend Linkages: Advent Hauntology

December 11, 2022

All Saint’s Margaret Street. Photo: Diliff A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories If you like the idea of Christmas ghost stories let me recommend the writings of M.R. James that you can access here for free Eric Garcetti’s Broken Sidewalks Coincidence department: Will Self discovers evensong and the hidden charm of All Saint’s, Margaret Street (which we visited last month in London) Watch out for the flu Chocolate P...

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Weekend Linkages: Advent 4

Mr. Homegrown

December 18, 2022

Saturday Linkages

...Detail from Canterbury Cathedral. Pruitt-Igoe: A Black Community Under the “Atomic Cloud” LA Trade Tech has a nearly 100-year-old vacant theater on its campus that it plans to demolish This house may or may not be real Hide Glue from the Gas Station Kisho Kurokawa’s metabolist masterpiece ‘capsule house K’...

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Weekend Linkages: Easter Making

Mr. Homegrown

April 9, 2023

Saturday Linkages

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...Re-growing spring onions Make a pallet coaster Paper sundial kits 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities Operation Breakthrough: America’s Failed Government Program to Industrialize Home Production...

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Weekend Linkages: Behold the Inside of My Head

Mr. Homegrown

April 16, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...Source: the deep interwebs ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent (a great podcast episode on the hype surrounding AI) The art of Henricus Jansen A house with a strange design feature What is Acid Communism? Gareth’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales...

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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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