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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Weekend Linkages: Advent-ures Await

Mr. Homegrown

December 10, 2023

Saturday Linkages

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...Mike the British Museum cat All roads lead to Thaxted British (and U.S.) children shorter than other five-year-olds in Europe, study finds JFC, calm down about the medieval Church The destruction of Cincinnati...

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Weekend Linkages: A Forgotten Painter, Early Music and More!

Mr. Homegrown

November 19, 2023

Saturday Linkages

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...Cathedral Wagon On A Medical Train. Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia. Photo: Emile Ducke The sun painter Free early music online radio station Seed to plate, soil to sky : modern plant-based recipes using Native American ingredients The Coast Realty Archive...

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Weekend Linkages: Too Many Cars

Mr. Homegrown

September 11, 2022

Saturday Linkages

...Cancer breakthrough is a ‘wake-up’ call on danger of air pollution Milwaukee, 1870s & 2022 Mr. Biden tear down this highway Tiny Houses, Big Dangers for Homeless People ‘An unfinishable, endless house’: the untold story of Casa Sperimentale All types of drywall and concrete anchors DIY Low Cost Floating Valve for Low Tech Irrigation Automation With Ollas...

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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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