Weekend Linkages: Throwing Axes in the Garden

Bragging rights if you know where this is and leave a comment . . . Aubergine dip, chicken skewers and beans with dill: Yotam Ottolenghi’s Persian recipes Bunya nut bounty: How to process and cook Australian native bunya nuts Block ads and trackers with a Pi-hole A Twitter thread on what a Pi-hole is Elon’s Biggest Boondoggle: Why did the world’s richest man spend the past five years trying to sell cities a hole in the ground? Philadelphia Become...

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Weekend Linkages: Omicron, Belgian Houses and Farts in Jars

Spotted in San Francisco: some strange brickwork. Omicron could peak in U.S. fairly soon. Maybe. 30 Belgian Houses That Are So Bad, They’re Good The Getty’s Gift to Locked Down Los Angeles: 71,139 Ed Ruscha Vintage Streetscape Photos Digitized Column: He’s L.A. food royalty. He began with a taco cart. Let street vendors thrive TikTok Star Who Sells Her Farts in Jars Starts Selling Fart NFTs A Night at the Church of Salt Bae, America’s Newest Cele...

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Weekend Linkages: Perfection Salad

Strange Zillow listing of the week Frank Sinatra’s Chatsworth Home Listed For $21.5M (It’s actually kinda nice) Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk’s Starlink antenna hits surprise problem Climate change, rising temperatures will lead to rise in kidney stones – study Vision Zero failure: 18 bike riders killed in Los Angeles in 2021 Gas stoves and indoor air quality There is No Red Pill Hacked Prius Running on MUNI Power Lines (spoiler: this is...

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