Weekend Linkages: Not Enough Trains

September 10, 2023

...A mini Red Car at L.A. Train fest Plant-based meat once seemed unstoppable. What went wrong? Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again? Pruitt-Igoe residents exposed to government testing seek compensation. ‘What about us?’ ‘Rat tours’ boom in rodent-infested New York Building Myself a Reading Tracker App with Airtable and Deno Fresh, Part 1...

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Weekend Linkages: Reaching for the Theory

Mr. Homegrown

August 27, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...Coit Tower mural by Bernard B. Zakheim, 1934. New York’s traffic-halting astronomer How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels Wildlife webcams San Francisco’s Audium Plastic waste scrimshaw Luke the dog...

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Weekend Linkages: Let’s Get Tetrahedral

Mr. Homegrown

August 6, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9) Dystopian On Trial: Alice Coleman’s Architectural Determinism HGTV Personality Tarek El Moussa Denies He’s Evicting North Hollywood Tenants To Build New Complex Gym shorts and a leotard: subway rider’s bonkers looks divide TikTok Hungry Summer Ghosts...

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Weekend Linkages: Quilts, Pedways and Past Futures

Mr. Homegrown

July 23, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...Quilt, Solar System. 1983.0618.01. Ellen Harding Baker’s “Solar System” Quilt Nobody Drives in LA — Exploring Downtown’s Calvin S. Hamilton Pedway A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000 The Best Commuter Bike Lights A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives (via Recomendo) Soda Can Aluminum Chuck Glider...

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