Links for 1/6/22

Bungacast / CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 1

A wave traveling between two parabolic antennas

fringesurfer.tv

How to kill a god: the myth of Captain Cook shows how the heroes of empire will fall

“As I got into building guitars it bothered me seeing how many tropical and rainforest woods were still being used”: Lord Guitars’ Nate Lord on sustainability in the guitar industry

“Gremlins and Sandies in New Craze – Roller Boarding” – 1964

The NFT Report – Brad Troemel

Stone artifacts hint that humans reached the Americas surprisingly early

Gonzalo Guerrero

The Murph 12-String

waterbear

The Gospel of Consumption

Links for 12/27/21

The great Hap “Happy” Jacobs – innovator, shaper, thinker – gone at 92


 

Renewable Wind Energy Can Help Save the Planet and the Ocean’s Marine Life


 

Belchior Diaz Vihuela Made in 1590 by Belchior Diaz Vihuela in Portugal. Dubbed the world’s oldest guitar.


 

Did Neurological Damage Lead To Ravel’s Masterpiece?


 

The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing


 

VW Ponton Boat


 

Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past


 

Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts


 

Climate study linking early Maori fires to Antarctic changes sparks controversy


 

The Forgotten History of African Slavery in China


 

‘Odds are against you’: the problem with the music streaming boom


 

The Revenge of the Internet Archive: Google and the Metashills Lead the Long March Through State Houses to Weaken Copyright for the Metaverse


 

Journeys Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#3)


 

A hand carved chess set

Links for 7/26/21

The Map Of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before


 

Al Santos – a Pioneer In Hawaiian Bag Surfing


 

The Sandals The Endless Summer LP (re-issue)


 

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months


 

McDonald’s introduced an “impossible” meatless burger in 1962 but it was pineapple


 

Fender 1959 catalog


 

Stealing Children To Steal the Land


 

Apple Is Not Your Friend


 

Tech vs. Journalism


 

The 1963 dam break that flooded parts of Los Angeles


 

Doughnut Economics

Links for 6/21/21

New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time


 

If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist


 

The miracle of the commons


 

“This Is The BIGGEST SCAM of The Century” – Edward Snowden (NEW)


 

Points of No Return


 

Cameroonian maestro Francis Bebey explains “pygmy” flute music


 

Son makes a documentary about his QAnon-infected mother


 

Pacific Plunder


 

Carbon Pricing is a False – Solution to Climate Chaos


 

A world map that shows borders and absolutely nothing else


 

Why was the ancient city of Cahokia abandoned? New clues rule out one theory.


 

Surfing New York with David Arganda


 

The fight to save 100 years of Black history in gentrifying Los Angeles


 

The rise, fall and rediscovery of the Fender Jaguar


 

How China ended the lie of recyclable plastic