Weekend Linkages: Reaching for the Theory

August 27, 2023

...Coit Tower mural by Bernard B. Zakheim, 1934. New York’s traffic-halting astronomer How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels Wildlife webcams San Francisco’s Audium Plastic waste scrimshaw Luke the dog...

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Weekend Linkages: AI Mushroom Books, Sandwiches and Mystery Totem Poles

Mr. Homegrown

September 3, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled Tennessee woman sets record for world’s longest female mullet Mystery totem pole appears on coastal path in south-east England Sandwiches of Histsory...

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Weekend Linkages: Not Enough Trains

Mr. Homegrown

September 10, 2023

Saturday Linkages

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...A mini Red Car at L.A. Train fest Plant-based meat once seemed unstoppable. What went wrong? Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again? Pruitt-Igoe residents exposed to government testing seek compensation. ‘What about us?’ ‘Rat tours’ boom in rodent-infested New York Building Myself a Reading Tracker App with Airtable and Deno Fresh, Part 1...

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Weekend Linkages: Bass Face

Mr. Homegrown

October 1, 2023

Saturday Linkages

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Meme found on the interwebs (not sure where). Totally agree about Trader Joe’s! On the Origin of the Bass Face Demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social, ecological, economic, and climate transition A school for “radical attention” The rock’s the star: meditative film about a Cornish stone goes global A Kali Mirch Paneer Pasta Recipe from Pijja Palace Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate...

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Weekend Linkages: A sign, some chickens and a strange real estate listing . . .

Mr. Homegrown

August 15, 2021

Saturday Linkages

...How the Happy Foot/Sad Foot sign got rescued Life under COVID in Florida Include These Items In Your Chicken First-Aid Kit ‘A literal return to the earth’: is human composting the greenest burial? End of the line for Uber? How the Pandemic Now Ends Strange real estate listing of the week...

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