Weekend Linkages: Ghost Kitchens, Cats and Recursion

...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

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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Weekend Linkages: Floored

Armstrong Flooring model 5352, the best-selling flooring product ever made. Odds you’ve been in a house with this if you lived between 1930 and 2000: 100%. Designed by Hazel Dell-Brown of Armstrong. pic.twitter.com/dl6krEmPZq — Mass for Shut-ins (Podcast) (@edburmila) May 17, 2021 City, Suburb, Server Farm: the Urban Geography of Amazon A private bar where you can drink, hug, and ditch masks? Welcome to Risky Business in North Hollywood Crime App...

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Let’s Just Call it Sunday Linkages Until My Schedule Changes

one of the wildest home inspector tik toks ive seen pic.twitter.com/CKI8snirxd — kristin (gone bonkers) (@jkac) April 23, 2021 Mars Sucks The pole vaulting shepherds of the Canary Islands If you’d like to live in a giant Taco Bell and have $6,000,000 laying around this house is for you A 1,000 year blue dye mystery solved Kid, I blew up the honey: fallout from nuclear bomb tests detected in US pots Gender reveal party host turns himself in to pol...

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