Saturday Linkages: And So On . . .

Chicken of the woods mushroom–more on this in a future post. Florence Caulfield and ‘The Illustrated Needlework Book’ This might be the most 2019 thing I’ve seen Sasquatch or Wendigo? Mysterious howls in Canadian wilderness spark confusion (Mini editorial: I think the native spirits are angry with us) Slavoj Žižek on recycling ecology and consumerism Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories Credit Card Skimmers Evolved:...

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Saturday Linkages: Trash Panda Paradise

Image: @scarytoilet Jessie Newbery: embroidery as art Reflections on Larry Korn’s Passing, the Preciousness of Elders, Friendship, Love, Kindness, Care How to Say I Love You in Greenlandic An Arctic Alphabet The Secret to a Perfect Hot Glue Mold Planting the Natural Garden a new book by Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen Poor Man’s Quinoa Bernie Sanders, filmstrip entrepreneur This year, why not serve your turkey with green maraschino cherries and wa...

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Saturday Linkages: Squirrels, Sharks and Nudists

Edward Burne-Jones – An Angel Playing a Flageolet. How the all-hands meeting became a way for bosses to give you the finger Use it and abuse it Safe Streets Advocates Stage Die-In to Protest Garcetti and City Council Lack of Vision Zero Progress Oil is the New Data Against We The Squirrels Already Know This: Southern California black walnuts are a local, tasty treasure Purists v partiers: the battle between two popular nudist resorts Shark Bites...

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Saturday Linkages: Holiday Edition

The Nativity, c. 1425 Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole) Google Nest or Amazon Ring? Just reject these corporations’ surveillance and a dystopic future The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes How our cities failed us this decade: We let big tech take over and dragged our feet on climate, but it’s not too late for change Overlooked No More: Julia Morgan, Pioneering Female Architect Just a whole bunch of ca...

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Saturday Linkages: A Happy Yam New Year

...Yam courtesy of Doug Harvey. Make yourself a rowboat in 2020 Sidney Barnsley architect and craftsman Alan Moore on William Blake’s contempt for Newton Are cats modernists? Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire Contrapoints on canceling Lawn out. Wildflowers in. “Act natural” pic.twitter.com/9rTkgM73te — Animal Memes (@AnimalMemer) December 29, 2019...

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