Saturday Tweets: A Solar Powered Blog, Caravansaries, Moths and Michaelmas

September 29, 2018

Our new self-hosted, solar-powered blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content. https://t.co/err1n0Jb8d pic.twitter.com/WofAjYoC4q — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) September 26, 2018 The mother of all Iranian caravansaries: @atlasobscura https://t.co/LrKw76GhZF — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 29, 2018 Survival on the sea: https://t.co/eggkX3RSZ2 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 29, 2018...

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Mortise and Tenon Magazine

Mr. Homegrown

October 22, 2018

Design

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...focuses on craftsmanship, Mortise and Tenon, edited by Joshua Klein, is itself a work graphic design artistry. In the current issue woodworker Kate Fox turns a neighborhood tree that had to come down into a Viking sea chest in a process she describes as, “four days of hard labor, one friend with a chainsaw, a scissor-jack pinched from my ’67 VW bug, lots of swear words, and a Costco bottle of ibuprofen.” In another article we get to see the insid...

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Saturday Tweets: Hello 2019

Mr. Homegrown

January 5, 2019

Saturday Linkages

...3d1 — World of Succulents (@SucculentWorld) January 2, 2019 Unsurprisingly self-driving cars are not as easy to make as boosters said 2 years ago. Also, looks like they’ll be used to automate and deskill the heavily unionized transportation sector: https://t.co/cCYUu2POXy v — david a banks (@DA_Banks) January 5, 2019 Happy National Bird Day. Starling murmurations function through chaos theory and critical mass mathematics, but they also wander int...

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Putting Your Civic House in Order: How the Young Members of the Family Help

Mr. Homegrown

July 10, 2017

Gardening

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...n as if it were nothing at all. In tilling the soil many a child “found himself.” In one school there was an Italian boy who just naturally could not help fighting. Though punished, he had a fight almost daily. All of a sudden he got interested in the work in agriculture and asked for a garden of his own. All the good land having been apportioned he was given part of a dump heap in a mean corner of a vacant lot just being put under cultivation. Af...

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Saturday Tweets: Bad Data and Cats

Mr. Homegrown

January 12, 2019

Saturday Linkages

...maybe access to spare parts. Maybe we'll also decide that designed obsolescence is unethical too. #ClimateBreakdown#ExistentialThreat#breathehttps://t.co/OmMdYeeeDP — Tom Butler (@TheTomButler) January 9, 2019 Self-driving Tesla knocks over autonomous robot https://t.co/ergHYw4Czn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 9, 2019 pic.twitter.com/W7Ct498939 — raskolnikov did nothing wrong (@hannahgais) January 9, 2019...

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