Links for 5/10/23

The Real History of the Luddites (Audio)

They ride exact replicas of Tom Blake’s 1920s wood surfboards

The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room

A Warning On the Future of Music: with Author Ted Gioia

Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact

Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on

Signs directing public access to Malibu beach only last eight days

Up to 70% of California beaches could disappear by end of the century

Meet the Surfing Girls of Iran

Nan Madol

Exxon just made record profits, also knew even more about climate change than we realized

Links for 9/18/23

Life Doesn’t Have to Zuck

Earth now way outside “safe operating space for humanity,” says new report

Even Dimming The Sun Wouldn’t Save Antarctica’s Ice Now, Scientists Say

The history of rock and roll poster art

Werner Voss’s Rock’n’Roll Museum

Joyce Carol Vincent: How could this young woman lie dead and undiscovered for almost three years?

Manus Island and Nauru: previously unseen testimony and AI imagery reveal ‘unimaginable’ part of Australian history

Column: Is the reign of the surf thugs at Lunada Bay finally coming to an end? Looks like it

Snoop Asks in @hypebot: “How can you get a billion streams and not get a million dollars?”

How to Responsibly Dispose of Your Electronics

Insurer cites “growing catastrophe exposure” as it stops new sales in California

Insurance giant halts sale of new home policies in California due to wildfires

Links for 5/13/23

Listen to Brian Wilson’s isolated vocals on “Don’t Worry Baby”

See Photos of the Hand-Built Boat That Might Sail from Sausalito to Hawaii

Das Meer und der Müll – Treibgut in der Tiefsee – Dagmar Röhrlich (2008)

The thinking error that makes people susceptible to climate change denial

See how a quick-fix climate solution could also trigger war

1960s Queensland – ‘Route One: Highway to the Sun’

How We Met: Poison Ivy and Lux Interior

Uranium Stories: the largest nuclear disaster in US history, 43 years later

Links for 4/7/23

How a tax break meant to curb climate change could make it worse

The terrible toll of the cruise ship industry

Last orders? Belgium’s Trappist beers under threat as vocations run dry

All the ways the most common bit of climate misinformation is wrong

As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now

Where Did All the Surfable Waves Go?

The Mythical Indigenous Australians Guarding their Rainforest

Lost Albums: Jim Fassett | The Symphony of The Birds

Skategeezer’ Explores Death and Dying in New Book

ENDLESS WAVE:
?Skateboarding, Death & Spirituality

Genetics reveal how humans island-hopped to settle remote Pacific

Links for 3/11/23

Could a Ming dynasty Buddha found near an Australian beach rewrite history?

High seas treaty: historic deal to protect international waters finally reached at UN

Fantastic Nantasket: 1905

The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret

A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds

“I Don’t Come Onstage To Pose and Play Some Pyrotechnic Scales. It’s To Kick Some Serious Ass”: Dick Dale Talks Gigs and Gear

Yap: How Did You Know We’d Like TV? (1981)

Link for 8/14/22

Reasons not to Buy a Bamboo Toothbrush

The U.S. Tested 67 Nuclear Bombs in Their Country. Now They’re Dying in Oklahoma.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-u-s-tested-67-nuclear-bombs-in-their-country-now-they-re-dying-in-oklahoma

Historical big wave surf film & TV archive acquired

The Theft of the Commons

Vintage Dick Dale Playing Drums & Saxophone

Bunger Surfboards

Snapshots From A Spring Party in 1965 Fresno

Cities For People: How Paris & Barcelona Learned Urban Planning From Groningen

Simpler Way to Learn Surf Etiquette

The Wrought Iron Bug

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 4/23/22

The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage

Fires, Floods, FFS Enough! Email Your Local Candidates In the Lead Up To This Year’s Federal Election.

Private paradise: The French Polynesian island locking locals out of beaches

New clues shed light on ‘pivotal’ moment in the great Pacific migration

New Australian Craze “Roller Boarding” 1964

Is it time to begin rewilding the seas?

First Session at Huntington Beach

Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

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