Holiday Weekend Linkages: Loquat Edition

Hi would you enjoy being depressed at downtown Camden in the 1930s vs today pic.twitter.com/xQtHHlYq6h — Joseph (@bicycleriiights) May 27, 2021 Like loquats? Thank the Mexican orchard workers who saved them Amazon Introduces Tiny ‘ZenBooths’ for Stressed-Out Warehouse Workers Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism Belcampo: ‘farm to door’ butcher admits misrepresenting origins of meat How to design a sailing ship for the 21st...

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Weekend Linkages: Ghost Kitchens, Cats and Recursion

...Some parody billboards just dropped in England and Wales. Via @BrentToderian Ghost kitchens of China Goodbye to the Future: The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower Metro’s Oscar Nightmare NSFW explanation of cat domestication ‘It’s like a place of healing’: the growth of America’s food forests Print rooms, prints, and their printed borders This week’s strange real estate listing A plaque about plaques...

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Let’s Just Call it Sunday Linkages Until My Schedule Changes

one of the wildest home inspector tik toks ive seen pic.twitter.com/CKI8snirxd — kristin (gone bonkers) (@jkac) April 23, 2021 Mars Sucks The pole vaulting shepherds of the Canary Islands If you’d like to live in a giant Taco Bell and have $6,000,000 laying around this house is for you A 1,000 year blue dye mystery solved Kid, I blew up the honey: fallout from nuclear bomb tests detected in US pots Gender reveal party host turns himself in to pol...

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Tuesday Morning Fruit Linkages

We’ve been reading Adam Leith Gollner’s entertaining book The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession and Gollner mentions a number of intreguing internet resources, perfect for a little post holiday weekend surfing: More than you ever wanted to know about the world’s smelliest fruit: Durian (Durian Palace) The California Rare Fruit Growers, “Pushing the Limits of Fruit Growing, Worldwide” (CRFG) The world’s largest f...

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