Holiday Weekend Linkages: Loquat Edition

May 30, 2021

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: Floored

Mr. Homegrown

May 23, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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Armstrong Flooring model 5352, the best-selling flooring product ever made. Odds you’ve been in a house with this if you lived between 1930 and 2000: 100%. Designed by Hazel Dell-Brown of Armstrong. pic.twitter.com/dl6krEmPZq — Mass for Shut-ins (Podcast) (@edburmila) May 17, 2021 City, Suburb, Server Farm: the Urban Geography of Amazon A private bar where you can drink, hug, and ditch masks? Welcome to Risky Business in North Hollywood Crime App...

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Weekend Linkages: Beware the Pointy Shoes

Mr. Homegrown

June 13, 2021

Saturday Linkages

...Skeletons reveal the cost of medieval fashion for pointy shoes Nailed it: man, 82, builds bench for wife in 30 minutes after council plea ignored Why We Shouldn’t Paint Brick Streaming with Laughter… the quest for the funniest online service fails No, Small Isn’t Beautiful The NFT market bubble has popped and we’ve got the charts to prove it...

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Weekend Linkages: Regime of Signs

Mr. Homegrown

June 20, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Woodcut by WPA artist Chet La More via @JoshLipnik Michael Jantzen unveils a series of experimental greenhouses from 1972 to 1980 The Hidden History of Culver City Racism [where I grew up] ‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the scorching US heatwave Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years A tale from haunted Wales Homemade Instant Oatmeal...

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Weekend Linkages: Summer Heat, Oaks and QAnon

Mr. Homegrown

June 27, 2021

Saturday Linkages

Ancient Egyptian vessel shaped like a pomegranate via @aic_ancient. 100 British chairs When Old Oaks Fall Nabhan: Food and Farming Crisis Requires Both Science and Faith Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes California’s yoga, wellness and spirituality community has a QAnon problem Uber and Lyft Donated to Community Groups Who Then Pushed the Companies’Agenda California dodges worst of historic Pacific Northwest heatwav...

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