Saturday Linkages: Squirrels, Dry Winter, Workbenches

November 28, 2020

...The best thing I’ve learned this week is that when squirrels fall/jump – they land like superheroes pic.twitter.com/XuY80hCuNp — ᴊᴀᴄᴋ 👑 ✨ (@JackDMurphy) November 27, 2020 I Twitter thread on what it’s like to work on Black Friday in the U.S. Very dry weather across California through mid-December Make Christmas Ornaments With Toilet Paper Rolls A disaster water filter kit Free e-book on building your own workbench...

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Slime Molds: You Are Weird but You Probably Know That

Mr. Homegrown

January 18, 2022

Gardening, Mushrooms, Native Plants

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...log Aaron who encouraged me to rejoin the Los Angeles Mycological society and runs the awesome LA Mycological society book club!...

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Weekend Linkages: Spiders and Fast Food Ghosts

Mr. Homegrown

July 17, 2022

Saturday Linkages

...Michael Grave’s original plans for Portland City Hall had a little town on top via @jmfowl. Two Men Had To Be Extinguished After Catching Fire At Goop Store A beautiful art book about spiders LA Restaurants Are Breathing Life Into the Architectural Ghosts of Fast-Food Past China Miéville: “If you don’t feel despair, you’re not opening your eyes” Energy use from US cryptomining firms is contributing to rising utility bills...

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The Agony and the Ecstasy of iPhone6s Repair

Mr. Homegrown

July 21, 2022

Design

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...nergy and human toil. To make sure the adhesive seals you stack a bunch of books on the phone. The video tutorial I watched used a copy of Steve Job’s biography. I substituted Marx’s hefty Grundrisse. As I think Marx would say, our iPhones are embedded in a web of social relations and physical conditions. If you want to understand this device, you might start with disassembling it and you’ll need a book of many more pages than Job’s biography to b...

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Killdozer Nation

Mr. Homegrown

December 29, 2022

Thoughtstylings

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...In the interest of whittling down that pile we’ll begin with a review of a book, Killdozer: The True Story of the Colorado Bulldozer Rampage that I found in one of the Little Free Libraries I visit on my morning dog walk. On June 4th, 2004 the author, Patrick Brower, witnessed this bizarre and largely forgotten incident in which Marv Heemeyer, a skilled welder and muffler shop owner, demolished the town of Grandby Colorado with a DIY tank. Dubbed...

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