Saturday Linkages: Tall Bikes, Za’atar and So Much More

April 27, 2013

Growin’ Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds of Apples http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/heritage-apples-john-bunker-maine … Taming the Wild Thyme: A Visit to a Za’atar Farm in Lebanon http://ow.ly/kqeoi New Farmer’s Almanac for 2013: http://boingboing.net/2013/04/21/new-farmers-almanac-for-2013.html … Plants as Education: Kit Brings Gardening Back to the Masses http://dornob.com/37885/ Fortrait #4 “Subterranean Breakfast Nook” ht...

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Saturday Linkages: Can’t Stop the Memes

Mr. Homegrown

January 23, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...In China’s New Age Communes, Burned-Out Millennials Go Back to Nature My Old Nemesis Titivillus Pocket Computers from the 1980s Pandemic viewing suggestion of the week: Out of the Past...

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Saturday Linkages: First as Tragedy, Then as LARP

Mr. Homegrown

January 30, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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From lockdowns to pool parties: how Covid rules vary around the world As Kate Wagner of MacMansion Hell put it, “None of you are ready for this real estate listing.” You have until 6:30 p.m. today EST to view Der Fliegende Holländer, the last Met opera filmed before the pandemic Car Lanes to Become Bike Lanes on 2 Major New York City Bridges Those Mysterious Dark Helicopters Were Landing On Multiple Downtown LA Rooftops Last Night The Strangest O...

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Saturday Linkages: The week I discovered the honey buzzard

Mr. Homegrown

February 6, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...https://youtu.be/RTkWjyIYiVk Make your own Bayeux tapestry memes Ladies and gentleman, the Oriental Honey Buzzard What does a cup of flour weight? It’s surprisingly complicated Obrigado, Internet. ‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos Cactus smuggler sentenced for importing illegal plants La-la land: the playful side of Los Angeles – in pictures The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1978...

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Saturday Linkages: Forever Lent

Mr. Homegrown

February 20, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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The scars of solitary: Albert Woodfox on freedom after 44 years in a concrete cell The sweet it’s OK to eat at Lent: But does anyone actually like karamelli tal-harrub? A Modern Take on the Phenakistoscope Why a California scientist hosted superspreader event amid a deadly COVID-19 surge Texas prepping gong wrong, a thread A visual search engine Remapping Cultural Hauntology: An American Perspective ‘This Crap Means More to Him Than My Life’: Whe...

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