Saturday Linkages: Let Them Eat Cake

March 7, 2020

...Coronovirus plans: stay home and make a cat cake. Coronovirus – Things You Can Do Our Economic Model Is Making Us More Vulnerable to Coronavirus How to Make a Garden Fountain Out Of, Well, Anything You Want You Already Live in Quarantine The One Defense Against Weaponized Memes ‘The best thing about Wellington’: Mittens the cat has paws all over New Zealand capital Visit the Chocolate Shop...

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Saturday Tweets: Spiders, Boomerangs and a New HGTV

Mr. Homegrown

July 7, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...via @Curbed — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 2, 2018 I’m getting better at making and throwing #boomerangs. This thing was made out of light weight, cheap, underlayment plywood from home depot. Got the plans from this ridiculously large and entertaining database https://t.co/9gtj8155J2. Fun to browse just to see silly shapes. pic.twitter.com/XxFfqWwvpu — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) July 6, 2018 Meanwhile, in the beautiful world of medieval m...

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Saturday Tweets: Yuri Gagarin Pesach KonMari, Stick Shifting and a Procedurally Generated Infinite CVS Receipt

Mr. Homegrown

March 30, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...ar with a stick shift and clutch pedal requires the use of all four limbs, making it difficult to use a cellphone or eat while driving. Lapses in attention are therefore rare, especially in city driving.” https://t.co/sbnOiaRhNp — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) March 26, 2019 “The 66-year-old had Googled directions to her neighborhood and found that the app had changed the name of her community from the ‘Fruit Belt’ to something called ‘Medical Park...

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Make Your Own Molding With a Table Saw

Mr. Homegrown

July 13, 2018

Design

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...convenience of being able to easily hang and move around pictures without making a lot of holes. Should you wish to join the table saw cult, I’d recommend getting a SawStop table saw. I have an inexpensive Delta table saw that works fine, but I had a chance to use a SawStop during a class and they seem well made in addition to their unique finger-saving safety feature. If you do not have space for a table saw or other power tools, one of the best...

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What to Do With Junk Mail and Shredded Paper

Mr. Homegrown

July 23, 2018

Domesticus

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...part interview with Kreigh Hampel, recycling coordinator for the city of Burbank if you’d like to get the lowdown on what it’s like on the receiving end of all our garbage (Part 1, Part 2). And the possibility of a trade ware with China may make things even more complicated. China no longer wants our trash. So what to do about reducing paper waste at the source aside from the obvious (sign up for paperless bills). The Data & Marketing Association...

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