Links for 12/25/22

This solar oven is an outdoorsy person’s dream

New York teens have started their own anti-smart phone Luddite movement

Cory Doctorow interviewed about cyberpunk and surveillance capitalism in The New Yorker

Dimming the Sun To Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, yet We’re Inching Toward It

Torren Martyn & needessentials bring us a Real Surf Movie

Did you know? The term “goofyfoot” sprung from Walt Disney’s character Goofy!

Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction | George Monbiot

Wayne Lynch: “And now it’s gas.”

Boardroom Interview – Matt Calvani Part 1

The Earth Is Humming—Here’s What It Means

A map of the world for fish

A Beautiful Pandemonium

There are only two US states where it’s legal to own the ocean

How Doggerland Sank Beneath The Waves (500,000-4000 BC) // Prehistoric Europe Documentary

Links for 11/27/22

Trickle-Down Streaming Mechanical Royalties Will be Be Up for Discussion

Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction

Shaping Methods of Mike Davis | LittleCoveSurfboards

CSS { In Real Life } | Web Sustainability and the Ethical Dilemma

The oceans give us life. We give them plastic.

An Open Letter Against Apple’s Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

West Papuans: The Forgotten People

Does vinyl sound better? Here’s what the science says

Eames Office x Globe

Links or 5/8/22

Media gets it wrong on Elon Musk and Twitter: The issue is oligarchy, not “free speech”

Introducing The Waxhead

Nano state: tiny and now everywhere, how big a problem are nanoparticles?

8 Endangered Places We Can Still Save From Climate Change

The little island that won: how a tiny Pacific community fought off a giant mining company

How do we stop the plunder of the Pacific? A panel of experts give their solutions

The 5 mass extinction events that shaped the history of Earth — and the 6th that’s happening now

Links for 3/8/22

Indigenous Water Governance in the Anthropocene: Non-Conventional Hydrosocial Relations Among the Wayuu of the Guajira Peninsula in Northern Colombia

The internet is tricking our brains

The Voices Of Black Women Were Essential To Phil Spector’s Wall Of Sound

A Celebration of Opening Title Sequences (And Why They Need To Come Back)

Fiji Flashback: Unearthed footage shows Suva in the 1960s | RetroFocus

Teen Dance at Lloyd Goodfellowship Hall [Menominee, MI April 1965]

The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai: LA Exotica: The Trader Vic’s Experience

What is the value of a wave?

A fascinating look at how climate change affects the lobster industry

Dale Davies Surf Movie surfing 50’s & 60’s VOL 1

Journeys Into The Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#1)

Big Tech’s Censors Come for Science

The Popular Sport of Surfboarding (1925)

This City Bench Absorbs More Air Pollution Than A Grove Of Trees

Links for 3/6/22

The Limits to Growth at 50: From Scenarios to Unfolding Reality

Hawaiian leis and aloha at Martin Luther King Jr. march on “Bloody Sunday” in the Deep South, 1965

Inside L.A.’s Lowrider Car Clubs

The sad story of Astrud Gilberto, the face of bossa nova

The Battle to Save Waikiki Beach

In 1962, Chubby Checker’s sold-out Twist Party was quite the show

Little Pattie – He’s My Blonde-Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy [Sing, Sing, Sing 1963]

Ceibita en Verano

The Dick Dale Virtual Museum

The wave pool backlash

A proud Aboriginal man and his son, from near the Kimberley Coast in North Western Australia, 1890-1910. They both carry boomerangs and the man has a woomera spear strapped to his back.

When did scientists first warn humanity about climate change?

California 1940’s, Newport Beach in color

Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, RIP

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 1/16/22

“Wave Goodbye” – the battle to save Australia’s surf beaches – Perth, Sydney, Byron


 

Climate Change Is Going To Be Gross


 

Jonny Teupen – Tabú


 

Escapism


 

“We’re calling time on human exceptionalism” says Superflux


 

We Are the Land: A History of Native California


 

A Day at the Beach 1928 – Biarritz France 1920s


 

The Largest Autocracy on Earth


 

Blue carbon: the hidden CO2 sink that pioneers say could save the planet


 

Do the Saigon twist! Meet Phuong Tâm, Vietnam’s first rock’n’roll star


 

Have Sumatran fishing crews found the fabled Island of Gold?


 

Geoengineering 101

Links for 11/7/21

Kon-Tiki


 

A Brief History Of LA’s Indigenous Tongva People


 

Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030


 

These facts about dunes will blow you away


 

The Death of the Bering Strait Theory


 

The Facebook whistleblower says its algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why.


 

Supreme court, Facebook, Fed: three horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse


 

Halt destruction of nature or risk ‘dead planet’, leading businesses warn


 

Tiki Tatsu-ya Raises the Bar to Islander Heaven


 

‘Shark calling’: locals claim ancient custom threatened by seabed mining


 

WTF Happened In 1971?


 

Temperature change across the planet from 1880 to 2020. The acceleration of global warming in the 21st century is “impressive”


 

Finding, restoring and sharing Australia’s lost surf films


 

55 Bel Air in Honolulu 1967