Saturday Linkages: Bad Ideas and a Few Good Ones

February 1, 2020

Via @70s_party. EPA re-approves key Roundup chemical Hollyhock House Archive What happened to that $100 laptop idea? Goodbye Mars One, The Fake Mission To Mars That Fooled The World The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time The World’s Most Annoying Man Car ads are bad for our cities No Rational System Would Value Tesla at $100 Billion ‘Mindless growth’: Robust scientific case for degrowth is stronger every day A dry (and warm, in most places) Jan...

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Saturday Linkages: It’s Caturday

Mr. Homegrown

January 25, 2020

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...View this post on Instagram Attention US Army: Young Moki would make a fine tank operator. but it won’t be a volunteer gig. A post shared by eric potter (@soundofericpotter) on Jan 18, 2020 at 2:47pm PST A kayak made from branches and tarp FRED episode 2 – a vision of heaven Unmasking the secret landlords buying up America Bedouin Lifestyle – Documentary in Wadi Rum, Jordan...

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Saturday Linkages: Covid and Non-Covid

Mr. Homegrown

April 4, 2020

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Hermann Hendrich, Parsifal. Mike Davis on Coronavirus: “In a Plague Year” What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage This Pandemic Is Not Your Vacation Take a break from the covid links: Make your own chalkboard paint with Eric of Garden Fork (and send Eric some love–one of his dogs passed on this week) Masoor Dal (Spiced Red Lentils) Recipe Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Fall into a German symbolist...

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Saturday Linkages: The ‘rona Week 4

Mr. Homegrown

April 18, 2020

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...Image: from the Twitters, source unknown. The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1973 #WrightVirtualVisits Meyer Lemon PAMAlade We Must Reclaim The Local – Commentary Beyond To-Do Lists Why is ‘cottagecore’ booming? Because being outside is now the ultimate taboo Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket...

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Saturday Tweets: Open Kitchens, Weedless Gardens and Copy Cats

Mr. Homegrown

July 15, 2017

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...Pack Mobile Architecture: This Building Will Self-Construct in 8 Minutes | Urbanist – https://t.co/7brPubdJf2 — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) July 13, 2017 Drivers who dislike cyclists don't see them https://t.co/eDClwbXSYl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 12, 2017 Who designed this NYC subway signage? @plitter solved a typographical mystery that is sure to delight design nerds! https://t.co/0UIW8Rc4ym pic.twitter.com/THDimxs171 — Alissa Walker...

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