Saturday Linkages: Covid and Non-Covid

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: #quarantinecats

...An overflowing pot of bean recipes Some guidelines for dealing with coronavirus in your home and community The Cloistered Garden Nassim Taleb on BBC4 on why this is not a “black swan” Some magazines I read: The Idler, The Baffler, Jacobin, Mortise and Tenon, Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding ‘Honest Labour’ – the Column that Named the Book The Mystic And The Warrior Slavoj Zizek, Jordan Peterson and the Toilet Paper Candidate...

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Saturday Linkages: COVID-19 Edition

...Théodore Géricault Raft of the Medusa. How to Clean Your Phone to Help Protect Against Coronavirus Beyond Contact Tracing: Community-based early detection for Ebola response Black-out Nights Some good news: after record dry February, a sudden shift toward wetter conditions Classic iPod Hackers Say There’s No Better Way to Listen to Music...

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Saturday Linkages: Let Them Eat Cake

...Coronovirus plans: stay home and make a cat cake. Coronovirus – Things You Can Do Our Economic Model Is Making Us More Vulnerable to Coronavirus How to Make a Garden Fountain Out Of, Well, Anything You Want You Already Live in Quarantine The One Defense Against Weaponized Memes ‘The best thing about Wellington’: Mittens the cat has paws all over New Zealand capital Visit the Chocolate Shop...

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