Saturday Linkages: Sad Cookbooks, Pancakes and Tiny Homes

The saddest cookbook ever written: http://boingboing.net/2014/01/06/the-saddest-cookbook-ever-writ.html … Another take on sourdough pancakes http://www.wildyeastblog.com/2009/02/24/sourdough-pancakes/ … Simply Yoav –His Yurt and Life http://feedly.com/e/X0VjVnaF How to pull out a car from a frozen lake… Russian style http://feedly.com/e/fHtOIUrv Old World Woodworking Tools http://feedly.com/e/0H12BeW1 Tiny Apartments in Cities: Trending Concept h...

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Saturday Tweets: Under New York, Moths and Caturday

...t Simple (@rootsimple) January 26, 2019 If we called them “emotional support bicycles” do you think airlines would stop charging extra for flying with them? — Bicycle Lobby (@BicycleLobby) January 25, 2019 terret monstre grapes, painted by amanda almira newton, 1914 pic.twitter.com/jsL3dCRIcy — old fruit pictures (@pomological) January 26, 2019 Happy #Caturdaypic.twitter.com/VPNxplL6MP — Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) January 26, 2019 Demon with bad...

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Saturday Linkages: Arboreal Angst

The Emperor Charles and ‘Carlina’ in Giovanni Cadamasto’s herbal: Harley MS 3736 via Medieval Manuscripts Blog Arboreal Angst: a short history of recent architectural/plant mashups Louisville needs trees! Cedar plant swing holder Ancient watering hole in Southern Arizona at risk from border wall construction On the Surprising Benefits of an Un-Mobile Phone Is Our Fear of Smartphones Overblown? Same Pesticides that are Killing Bees Significantly S...

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Saturday Tweets: Your Own Personal Disney Castle

...Westminster Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, built in 1887 and demolished in 1960. An excellent example of a mid-rise Victorian building, which one could just as easily imagine as an apartment building. I can't imagine too many complaints if new apartment buildings looked like this pic.twitter.com/4W2TruZdbQ — Robert Kwolek (@RobertKwolek) February 14, 2019 Highways: publicly subsidized Parking: publicly subsidized Gasoline: publicly subsidized...

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Saturday Linkages: The Kirghiz Light’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

...A Winged Figure, Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1904-1911. Comet NEOWISE Dazzles at Dusk What to do With Blackberries Poll: Who always wears a mask in public—and who doesn’t? CoronaShock and Socialism ‘Not just weeds’: how rebel botanists are using graffiti to name forgotten flora Extreme atmospheric rivers: what will California’s strongest storms look like in a warming climate? The Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo...

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