The Amazing Online Building Technology Heritage Library

July 26, 2018

Design

...eamed up with Internet Archive to digitize 9,500 pre-1965 construction and building technology documents for your perusal via the Building Technology Heritage Library. Enjoy strange Murphy bed contraptions? They’ve got you covered: Tiny Hawaiian kit homes: Vintage seed catalogs: Fans: Fuddy-duddy 1920s home furnishings: 1960s lamps: And a few bad ideas: In case you’re wondering, Jim Brown’s boyhood dream was to build giant factories to manufacture...

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Our Week in Pictures

Mr. Homegrown

May 14, 2018

Design, Thoughtstylings

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...n theory-speak on the recursive nightmare that is this hot dog statute but I’ve got contractors to juggle and more unfashionable furniture to build. What projects are you tackling this spring/summer?...

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Saturday Tweets: Tanning Fish, Trees and Dealing with Medieval Mansplainers

Mr. Homegrown

April 28, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...prepper #tanning #fishing #Inuit #salmon #Alaska — TheUrbanAboriginal (@TheUrbanAbo) April 27, 2018 A study shows Seattle's poorest neighborhoods have less than one-fifth the tree canopy of the city's wealthier areas. https://t.co/MxHaIbBI3N — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) April 26, 2018 When you want a small base for a $26 LED light and things get out of control. The classic posable desk lamp design is really fun to make out of plywood....

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A Three Step Strategy for Curing Internet/Smart Phone Addiction

Mr. Homegrown

March 8, 2017

Thoughtstylings

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...k at your phone/computer first thing in the morning. Pick up a book first. Build something. Garden, pull some weeds and plant some vegetables. Go to concerts, plays, lectures etc. Seek out a spiritual practice that involves both private time and scheduled group engagement. Read and apply some of the “deep work” anti-distraction strategies found in Cal Newport’s blogs and books. I think the common thread with these activities is redirection and phy...

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Saturday Tweets: Bike Rants, Super Monster Wolf and Marginalia

Mr. Homegrown

March 10, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...) March 7, 2018 SBLA’s @JoeLinton on Musk’s freeway-tunnel scheme: highway builders say ‘If we build another freeway, congestion is going to get better.’ What we’ve seen is the opposite, the more capacity you have, the more congestion you get. https://t.co/0NG7qpSvHB — StreetsblogLA (@StreetsblogLA) March 5, 2018 Here’s my statement of realistic optimism: If everyone realized the true urgency of the climate emergency and acted accordingly, we’d “s...

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