Saturday Linkages: Incas, Big Rocks and Cool Cucumbers

November 23, 2013

...t… http://bit.ly/HSeQ6B Look at My Big Rock by Evelyn Hadden http://feedly.com/e/0gB_TOO6 The coolest cucumber you’ve never met: http://modernfarmer.com/2013/11/coolest-cucumber-never-met/ … Food issues Americans – why do you keep refrigerating your eggs? http://io9.com/americans-why-do-you-keep-refrigerating-your-eggs-1465309529 … 35 sickened; how did E. coli O121 get into Farm Rich Brand Frozen pizza? Flour http://barfblog.com/2013/11/35-sickene...

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Download a Genuine 1920s Ringtone

Mr. Homegrown

June 27, 2016

Appropriate Technology

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...0s era telephone ringer box on your shiny new iPhone or Android device. I recorded the sound of my Western Electric 534A ringer box and turned it into a ringtone that you can download here for $1.29 in the iTunes store. I also uploaded a free version that you can download here as an mp3. If you download the free version you can turn that audio file into a ringtone using these directions. If the ringtone proves popular I’ll make a Western Electric...

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Street Life in San Francisco, Paris, New York, Victoria and Vancouver

Mr. Homegrown

December 18, 2018

Bikes, Thoughtstylings, Transportation

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...and more impoverished since we ceded them to automobile interests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRbMMqj0qw To us who live in developed countries these street scenes can seem chaotic. I would suggest that instead of chaos they show a city life that’s more democratic. No one form of transit dominates. You can walk, ride a bike, take public transit or ride a horse and not feel like a second class citizen for not owning a car. Here’s Victoria and...

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Saturday Linkages: Comfrey, a Parking Rock Star and Voracious Worms

Mr. Homegrown

March 22, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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...m Evolves to Eat Biotech Corn Engineered to Kill It – Wired Science http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/03/rootworm-resistance-bt-corn/ … Adapting to Climate by Being a Nomad within your own House http://feedly.com/e/M3JFioqL Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley http://la.streetsblog.org/2014/03/20/ucla-prof-shoup-talks-parking-in-berkeley/#.Uyyal0F4Lo4.twitter … Residents Fume Over Lead Contamination of Soil i...

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Saturday Linkages: Controversy Edition

Mr. Homegrown

August 24, 2013

Saturday Linkages

...macultur.html … MIT Has Had a Secret Pirate Program This Whole Time http://www.themarysue.com/mit-pirate-program/ … Things All Scouts Should Know: 16 Camping and Life Hacks from 1911 http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/08/20/things-all-scouts-should-know-16-camping-and-life-hacks-from-1911/ Hyping Don’t Believe the Hype(rloop) http://thebillfold.com/2013/08/dont-believe-the-hyperloop/ … Anonymous funeral director explains the big con behind the ind...

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