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In Praise of Beaters

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Thoughtstylings
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..., I discovered the secret car companies don’t want you to know. 2020 BMW 8 series? No better than a 2002 Pontiac Aztek. 2020 Land Rover? No different than any Kia. They’re all just a hunk of plastic and metal with an inside full of rubber tubes, greasy metal parts and other thingies that I don’t know what they do. Zero to 60 in 6.8 seconds? Who cares. There’s so many other idiots driving around in hunks of metal and plastic that you can’t go fast...

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Make Your Own Furniture

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Design
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...sometimes called “Grid Beam” relies on either wood or metal with a regular series of holes drilled to accept bolts. Grid Beam is modular and you can use the method to make chairs, tables, beds and rooms. Pieces can be taken apart, reused and reconfigured. If you want to try it you’ll definitely want a drill press and a jig to make the holes uniform and square. Thankfully you can find many used drill presses in the wild as they are a common tool in...

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Kitchen KonMari Session, Illustrated

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Domesticus, Tidying up
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...t with and things that cause controversy. At one point I managed to snap a series of photos of Kelly running off with–get this–a bag of cat hair which she claimed would someday be used in some kind of highly conceptual cat hair felting project. After some tense moments, we managed to purge a decent number of unused kitchen items and Kelly rearranged the cabinet to place frequently used items on more accessible shelves. Ironically, the kitchen clea...

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Weekend Linkages: Regime of Signs

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Saturday Linkages
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...Woodcut by WPA artist Chet La More via @JoshLipnik Michael Jantzen unveils a series of experimental greenhouses from 1972 to 1980 The Hidden History of Culver City Racism [where I grew up] ‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the scorching US heatwave Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years A tale from haunted Wales Homemade Instant Oatmeal...

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