Saturday Linkages: Bad Ideas and a Few Good Ones

February 1, 2020

Via @70s_party. EPA re-approves key Roundup chemical Hollyhock House Archive What happened to that $100 laptop idea? Goodbye Mars One, The Fake Mission To Mars That Fooled The World The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time The World’s Most Annoying Man Car ads are bad for our cities No Rational System Would Value Tesla at $100 Billion ‘Mindless growth’: Robust scientific case for degrowth is stronger every day A dry (and warm, in most places) Jan...

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Saturday Linkages: The ‘rona Week 4

Mr. Homegrown

April 18, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...Image: from the Twitters, source unknown. The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1973 #WrightVirtualVisits Meyer Lemon PAMAlade We Must Reclaim The Local – Commentary Beyond To-Do Lists Why is ‘cottagecore’ booming? Because being outside is now the ultimate taboo Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket...

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Saturday Linkages on Sunday: With Cat Hugs

Mr. Homegrown

February 9, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...What We Lose by Hiring Someone to Pick Up Our Avocados for Us Guy Causes Google Maps “Traffic Jams” By Carrying 99 Cell Phones Why Amazon’s Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society Vienna’s Cultural Approach to Going Car-Free Cat snoring through an echo microphone of the day. pic.twitter.com/Rkic9X0u6k — Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) February 6, 2020...

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Saturday Linkages: Flee Past’s Ape Elf

Mr. Homegrown

February 22, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...6 Changes You May See As A Hen Ages – Hobby Farms The Whole-Grain Grail: A Sandwich Bread With Mass Appeal Fridges are not cool The LED status light problem Wuhan’s cat rescuer: the man saving pets abandoned during coronavirus outbreak Silicon Valley Is Quietly Building Its Own Wall Street–what could go wrong? Please don’t cut up your missal...

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Saturday Linkages: Cat Hugs

Mr. Homegrown

February 29, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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A Quick Primer On Poultry Vaccines You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus Fresh Hell from the Baffler Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too Our intersections are too dangerous. Here’s how to fix them Cyclist gets hit by car, then sued for $700 [editors note: this happened to me except it was $900] Listen: The Sound Of The Hagia Sophia, More Than 500 Years Ago The pungent legacy of Axe Body Spray Solar Class Jo...

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