The Twittering Machine

October 18, 2019

...account of the glowing screens we’re all yoked to, The Twittering Machine (Amazon, Library), and I want to find the escape hatch in the Spectacle. Seymour notes that we are in an age in which we are all writing more than we ever did, in the form of posts, texts etc. But he asks are we “more being written than writing?” The book leaves me wanting to disappear into my wood shop to commune with a carefully curated set of had tools for the rest of my...

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Binge on Opera for Free

Mr. Homegrown

October 5, 2020

Thoughtstylings

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...The streams are available through the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. To access them, without being a paid subscriber, you click “Browse and Preview” in the apps for connected TV, and “Explore the App” on tablets and mobile devices. Speaking of binge viewing, this week the Met is streaming all (count ’em!) seventeen hours of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle along with Tristan und Isolda, Parsifal and...

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Weekend Linkages: Sunspots

Mr. Homegrown

March 24, 2024

Saturday Linkages

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...Unraveling the Mystery of San Francisco 7-Eleven Stores Selling Onigiri With the Mayor’s Face on Them The website of the artist behind the Onigiri prank An app that shows if a book you’re looking at on Amazon is at your local library How to Build a Small Solar Power System Henry VIII’s pastry tent...

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Weekend Linkages: AI Mushroom Books, Sandwiches and Mystery Totem Poles

Mr. Homegrown

September 3, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled Tennessee woman sets record for world’s longest female mullet Mystery totem pole appears on coastal path in south-east England Sandwiches of Histsory...

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Biochar: Miracle or Gimmick?

Mr. Homegrown

May 17, 2013

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...ts and higher yield in others. In the Arboretum and St. Paul campus sites, we noted similar results, but more crops seemed to decline with biochar than without it. There’s nothing new about biochar. It was in use by native peoples in the Amazon region before Columbus. Hopefully this study will help clarify what types of soils and what crops benefit most from its use. Do you have an opinion about Biochar? Leave a comment . . . And thanks to Michael...

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