Saturday Linkages on Sunday

January 17, 2021

How it started/How it’s going Smart Cities and Finance ‘Not that good’: Montreal restaurant’s brutally honest menu pulls in the customers LA’s New Falafel Stand Is a One-Man Masterpiece That Hails From Iraq An anthropologist analyzes the Q Shaman This might be the most toxic workplace ever Some tips from the Recomendo Newsletter (Subscribe here): Educational resources that are likely free from your public library’s website: Lydia.com and The Grea...

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Saturday Linkages: First as Tragedy, Then as LARP

Mr. Homegrown

January 30, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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From lockdowns to pool parties: how Covid rules vary around the world As Kate Wagner of MacMansion Hell put it, “None of you are ready for this real estate listing.” You have until 6:30 p.m. today EST to view Der Fliegende Holländer, the last Met opera filmed before the pandemic Car Lanes to Become Bike Lanes on 2 Major New York City Bridges Those Mysterious Dark Helicopters Were Landing On Multiple Downtown LA Rooftops Last Night The Strangest O...

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Saturday Linkages: Gaslighting the Quarantine Cats

Mr. Homegrown

June 13, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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40 percent of Americans have taken “extremely unsafe” measures to sanitize their food and kitchens 3 Reasons Your Chicken May Display Red Legs Time to Get Blueberries in Your Freezer? Strawberry Feijoa Jam Your wedding’s been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good Inside NextDoor’s Karen problem What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride Writer Lane Moore condensed my mood in a Tweet, is anyone else feeling gaslit all the time lately...

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Saturday Linkages: The week I discovered the honey buzzard

Mr. Homegrown

February 6, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...https://youtu.be/RTkWjyIYiVk Make your own Bayeux tapestry memes Ladies and gentleman, the Oriental Honey Buzzard What does a cup of flour weight? It’s surprisingly complicated Obrigado, Internet. ‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos Cactus smuggler sentenced for importing illegal plants La-la land: the playful side of Los Angeles – in pictures The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1978...

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Saturday Linkages: Can’t Stop the Memes

Mr. Homegrown

February 13, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Turn Off Your Mind, Relax—and Float Right-Wing? Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine “Cocaine of the sea” — the illegal fish trade of the Mexican cartel and Chinese mafia Meaty meals and play stop cats killing wildlife, study finds NeoPixel Ancient Oil Lamp Kelly Norris on New Naturalism and Informed Plant Choices Grow Your Own Giant Sequoia Tree I love lava...

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