Saturday Linkages: The week I discovered the honey buzzard

February 6, 2021

...https://youtu.be/RTkWjyIYiVk Make your own Bayeux tapestry memes Ladies and gentleman, the Oriental Honey Buzzard What does a cup of flour weight? It’s surprisingly complicated Obrigado, Internet. ‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos Cactus smuggler sentenced for importing illegal plants La-la land: the playful side of Los Angeles – in pictures The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1978...

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Saturday Linkages: First as Tragedy, Then as LARP

Mr. Homegrown

January 30, 2021

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From lockdowns to pool parties: how Covid rules vary around the world As Kate Wagner of MacMansion Hell put it, “None of you are ready for this real estate listing.” You have until 6:30 p.m. today EST to view Der Fliegende Holländer, the last Met opera filmed before the pandemic Car Lanes to Become Bike Lanes on 2 Major New York City Bridges Those Mysterious Dark Helicopters Were Landing On Multiple Downtown LA Rooftops Last Night The Strangest O...

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Saturday Linkages: Can’t Stop the Memes

Mr. Homegrown

January 23, 2021

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...In China’s New Age Communes, Burned-Out Millennials Go Back to Nature My Old Nemesis Titivillus Pocket Computers from the 1980s Pandemic viewing suggestion of the week: Out of the Past...

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Saturday Linkages: Will Your Next House Be Built With Mushrooms?

Mr. Homegrown

October 13, 2012

Saturday Linkages

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Fast Fungi Bricks via Dornob Gardening What I am reading from the Los Angeles Public Library: Organic Olives http://catalog.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/DoSearch?databaseID=965&terms=5013187&index=z … Garden planter turns out to be Roman antique: http://boingboing.net/2012/10/12/garden-planter-turns-out-to-be.html … DIY North House Folk School http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2012/10/north-house-folk-school.html#.UHTSPhsTC2o.twitter … HOWTO make a s...

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Saturday Linkages: The Calm After the Storm

Mr. Homegrown

November 3, 2012

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Got a storm damaged tree? See Trees Are Good for advice. DIY Build-It-Solar Blog: A Unique DIY Solar Pool Heating Collector Using PV… http://www.builditsolarblog.com/2012/10/a-unique-diy-solar-pool-heating.html?spref=tw … Build-It-Solar Blog: Large DIY Solar Space and Water Heating System in … http://www.builditsolarblog.com/2012/10/large-diy-solar-space-and-water-heating.html?spref=tw … Primitive Skills Roland Trevino of Altadena Makes and Uses...

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