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 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

Links for 10/30/21

Why Grassroots Music Promotion Is Reaching Crisis Point


 

Tom Morey, the inventor of the bodyboard, passes away at 86


 

Lethal ‘forever chemicals’ taint our food, water and even blood. The EPA is stalling


 

Think big on climate: the transformation of society in months has been done before


 

The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba


 

The Historical Narrative About Geronimo Is All Wrong


 

Flower power: how one company is beautifying the wind turbine


 

Stolen “Bruce’s Beach” to be returned

Links for 8/7/21

not just bikes strong towns


 

Bruce Walker, 1951-2011 et plus


 

Mat Surfing with Paul Gross


 

The history of the 1966 BatMobile


 

A Peek Inside the World’s Greatest Record Store


 

These Are the People Who Built LA’s New Chinatown


 

Sisters with Transistors: inside the fascinating film about electronic music’s forgotten pioneers


 

Scientists find 25,000 barrels of possible DDT at ‘staggering’ dump site near California coast


 

Climate fight ‘is undermined by social media’s toxic reports’


 

If We Want to Clean Up the Oceans, We Have to Confront the Fossil Fuel Giants

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