Garage Philosophy

...s : Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies Erik Davis uses the phrase “garage philosopher” to describe the self-made DIY thoughtstylists of the 70s counterculture. Considering the epistemological mess we’re in right now, it would be to our benefit to re-embrace garage philosophy, to democratize and make practical the observations of the greats of the discipline. Unfortunately, my public school education, almost all the way thr...

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Saturday Linkages: News From the Far West

...gbie) March 28, 2021 The Edwards Go Electric ‘I felt I killed my children’: lead poisons California community – and fills kids’ teeth Last Night in Echo Park More on Echo Park Cult classics: the faded glory of California’s fringe sects – in pictures The ultimate catio? The Retro Encabulator device uses six hydrocoptic marzel vanes and an ambifacient lunar wane shaft What I was like as a teen one of the worst small town planning schemes I’ve ever s...

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Weekend Linkages: Historic Rain

...The truth about California’s annual termite swarms Can’t confirm this but some people might be eating monkey chow Man Obsessed With ’90s Lives In Time Capsule And Uses Outdated Technology Way beyond my abilities but this lip syncing project made me laugh How to Build a Low-tech Solar Panel Friend of the blog Jenn Berger has an art show up I saw a good cat this weekend Stay safe California friends...

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Who Needs Windows?

...brutalist AT&T switching center in New York above), all those Amazon warehouses, or Los Angeles’ hidden and still functioning urban oil wells. Our window free tour will visit some misguided office buildings, a Masonic temple and a trade school. So turn on that glaring bank of florescent lights, sit down in a dark cubicle and let’s take a windowless journey beginning with the headquarters of America’s most mediocre chocolate factory. Hershey’s Choc...

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Solar Eclipse 2024

...impact ionospheric structure and dynamics?” To answer this question HamSCI uses data collected though amateur radio transmission and reception reports. To participate in their eclipse experiment all I had to do was fire up my ancient and somewhat dusty $50 Radio Shack 10 meter radio and, using a digital transmission mode called FT8, send and receive as many messages as I could before, during and after the eclipse. My laptop generates the signals a...

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