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

Links for 2/20/21

Honolulu 1954


 

A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future


 

Surf Film Filmography


 

While Hollywood Had the Sunset Strip, East L.A. Had the ‘Latin Strip’


 

Stan Ross Larry Levine Interview 1988


 

Meet the Melanasians: Black People with Naturally Blonde Hair


 

Was Music City L.A.’s Greatest Record Store?


 

Music Of The Magindanao In The Philippines


 

GM and Ford Knew, Too: Reporting Reveals Auto Giants Recognized Looming Climate Crisis in 1960s—and Helped Bury Reality


 

Red Rover: 1957


 

Duke’s Ulcers: How Surfing’s Most Popular Icon Dealt with White Supremacy

Links for 8/16/20

The plastic we use unthinkingly every day is killing our planet – and slowly but surely killing us


 

Wandrè – L’artista della chitarra elettrica


 

Short Series Co. Ft Dylan Cox__long Version


 

The Roots Of Ska: From Tennessee, Through Jamaica To The Best of British


 

The Big Green Lie


 

Chongolio


 

Transforming Vintage Cars to Electric


 

Permalink Hank B. Marvin interview – July 23, 2019 (NAMM.org – Oral Histories series)


 

Water


 

High on a Cool Wave (1968)


 

Brilliant Corners: Papua New Guinea, Chapter One

Links for 7/14/20

P.F. Sloan: Let’s Live for Today


 

Seafood fraud: why your Mediterranean swordfish might actually be shark


 

Keystone XL Pipeline Stays Blocked in U.S. Supreme Court Order


 

The Celestial Sounds of The Space Agency


 

David Stone Martin & Mary Lou Williams


 

Our World: Summer 1963 (1987)


 

The Tongan Castaways of Ata Island | Surviving with one of the six boys


 

Canada: DNA discovery lends weight to First Nations ancestral story


 

must we burn the single blade


 

California’s Indigenous History Is a Story of Genocide and Resistance


 

The Fender Jazzmaster


 

“Spooky Boy” – Mathieu Maréchal with Dusty Springfield. Vid by Thomas Lodin

Links for 5/9/20

The First Wave in Bali: An Unexpected Tale of Infidelity, Adventure, and Entrepreneurism


 

Tales of love and loss: people from Oceania share their ‘extinction stories’


 

Carbon Pricing


 

Fluctus Splitters Trailer #1


 

The greatest electronic albums of the 1950s and 1960s


 

The Spillway, Victoria, Australia. The Ultimate Flex Machine (dir. Jason Cameron, 1975).


 

9’9 Chop OP at Lafitenia with Myles Doughman


 

Fifties Fun


 

www.brightonbeachsurfshop.com


 

“A Dance With Plants” – balmy Costa Rica


 

How The Surfaris Wrote Wipe Out


 

Time to ditch the harmful myth of the ‘noble’ hunter-gatherer


 

Kindheit auf St. Pauli Sechziger

Links for 9/22/19

America’s Great Climate Exodus is Starting in the Florida Keys


 

How the Surfers of Ireland’s Favourite Surf Town Are Championing Sustainability


 

This is what climate change looks like in Australia – in pictures


 

Charleston musicians are challenging Spotify’s business model at rallies across the country


 

Ten Unsung Italian Library Music Composers


 

How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies


 

Polynesian seafarers ‘discovered’ America long before Europeans, says DNA study


 

The Koch brothers tried to build a plutocracy in the name of freedom


 

Kustomrama


 

Ocean Film Festival


 

João Gilberto, a pioneer of bossa nova, has died at 88

Links for 9/14/19

In 1868 a Scottish castaway had to make a new life among the people of the Solomon Islands


 

Volkswagen is electrifying classic VW Beetles


 

Time Capsule: The cranking Haleiwa section from High On a Cool Wave


 

The Archivist: You Crazy Diamonds


 

Weather-related events are estimated to displace 143 million people by 2050 – but rising seas are already threatening tiny tropical nations. Can anything be done to help them?


 

Submissions are still open, and here’s the latest news from NSFF


 

Amazon fires: Bolsonaro actively trying to devastate rainforest, leaked documents show


 

The Climate Trail is a Free multi-platform game about climate refugees fleeing ever worsening conditions after inaction on climate has rendered much of the USA (and the world) uninhabitable. The game combines the adventure and play of the journey north with visual novel elements where characters reveal how and why this climate apocalypse unfolded.


 

The best street performance, ever! No competition…

Links for 7/21/19

In too deep: why the seabed should be off-limits to mining companies


 

Reyn Spooner: Behind the Brand and its Iconic Hawaiian Shirts


 

Ice sheet collapse: The greatest unknown in climate science


 

Anti-Nazi youth movements in World War II


 

Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic on Fire


 

The Sound of Success, Mobile Food Truck Edition


 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw7s1uDY_vA


 

Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it’s gone


 

Weird ‘Plasticrust’ Caused by Pollution Forms on Portuguese Island


 

How Culture Works: Adapt, Teach, Learn.


 

Sea levels, and heads in the sand


 

Seafood Without The Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?


 

For the sake of our health, we need to kick the indoor habit


 

Psychedelic Vinyl – Vinyl Records LP’s For Sale