Saturday Linkages: Twitter, Architecture and Those Long Recipe Blog Posts

March 27, 2021

...This Hell-Site: A year of pandemic-related misery has salted the earth of Media Twitter AI Excels at Writing Pointlessly Long Recipe Blog Posts Mars House “is a fraud” says 3D visualiser of world’s first NFT house Architectural assistants break silence on poor working practices Tiny Paper Houses to Build at Your Desk...

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Saturday Linkages: Bitters, Dogs and Native Plants

Mr. Homegrown

December 7, 2013

Saturday Linkages

What our hometown looked like in the 1920s. We Only Bond with Complex Landscapes | Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2013/12/we-only-bond-with-complex-landscapes.html … How To Make Homemade Bitters Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-homemade-bitters-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-197883 … 100 Years of Dog Breed “Improvement” http://wp.me/p1VSYl-eg Los Angeles Was Once a Forest of Oil Derricks http://southland.gi...

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Saturday Linkages: Expensive Grapes, Martha Stewart’s Drones and Sunscreen

Mr. Homegrown

July 12, 2014

Picture Sundays

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Some very expensive grapes. Top-notch Japanese grapes fetch a record $5,400: http://disq.us/8j5pz8 Martha Stewart digs drones via http://boingboing.net/2014/07/10/martha-stewart-digs-drones.html … Lead abatement, a wise economic and public health investment http://www.riskscience.umich.edu/lead-abatement-wise-economic-public-health-investment-report-finds/ … Can using sunscreen increase your risk of dying? http://www.riskscience.umich.edu/can-usi...

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Saturday Linkages: Holiday Edition

Mr. Homegrown

December 21, 2013

Saturday Linkages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6PQAI4TZE#t=0 How Children Demanding Play Streets Changed Amsterdam http://feedly.com/e/ejQo__gG Overpriced, useless, or just plain bizarre: an anti-garden gift guide http://gardenrant.com/2013/12/overpriced-useless-or-just-plain-bizarre-an-anti-garden-gift-guide.html … Half Of Supermarket Chicken Harbors Superbugs, Consumer Reports Finds http://huff.to/JKYa1W Why LA’s local water strategy is like ‘Superman 3’ htt...

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Saturday Linkages: From Bananas to Laird’s Laws

Mr. Homegrown

December 28, 2013

Saturday Linkages

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Breaking news from Mrs. Homegrown’s alma mater–banana plant busts through glass roof at Smith College conservatory http://www.gazettenet.com/news/9182534-95/banana-plant-busts-through-glass-roof-at-smith-college-conservatory#.UrzZKcw8rbU.twitter … Goleta considers groovy permaculture ordinance: http://www.independent.com/news/2013/dec/23/goleta-considers-groovy-green-ordinance/ … Spanish sperm whale death linked to UK supermarket supplier’s plast...

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