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Make Your Own Landscape Lighting

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Design, Gardening
...staircase accidents, and I run them only during the hours they are likely to be needed. We need to embrace the night not try to hold it back. That said, I’m happy with this DIY effort and plan on making some more lights with some of the metal cutting skills I’ve picked up doing inlay work on a bed project. More on that in a future post when I get that bed done....

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Dovetails by Hand

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Design
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...d, outdated hand skills just for the sake of those skills. You can make perfectly serviceable drawers entirely by machine but if you have the time and are making things for yourself not for work, I think doing it by hand is the way to go....

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Join or Die: Why You Should Join a Club

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Thoughtstylings
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...tempting to undue the damage of a neoliberal order that, I think, is one of the main factors in why we don’t belong to things anymore. My reservations aside, if this film gets more people to get together, even to just have a dinner party, that would be good thing. Join or Die is touring the country right now and will likely hit a streaming service at some point. If you’re part of an organization you can also request a screening which would make fo...

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These Cheese Puffs are Gangsta

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Food
...has strayed too far from his musical roots, what with his cavorting with Martha Stewart, chilling with Rick Caruso and clowning around at the Olympics. Perhaps, like the future shoe-free Nike company, he should swear off the music (if he hasn’t already?) and ascend to the realm of pure signs. Whereas we may have previously imagined Snoop rapping through a cloud of pot smoke, he’s now, apparently, more likely to disappear in a puff of powdered che...

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Disaster Nationalism: A Politics of Cleansing Violence

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...d to ailments such as cardiovascular disease rather than to the conditions making people vulnerable to the disease. If one wasn’t tuned in to politics, one might have been aware of losing a loved one, of misfortunes piling up, of the quality of life generally getting worse, without having a face to put to the crime. In those circumstances, resentment might either remain below the threshold of awareness or settle on a personal or political scapegoa...

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