As always, let me know what types of interesting items you would like to see and I will keep an eye out for them especially. — Douglas
Get new shared links as I find them via my social media feeds:
- Garden | Great Design Plant: Try Blue Bells for Blooms in Dry Soil (6 photos)
- Food | Grilled Cheese Truck
- Food | Cassata Siciliana
- Garden | How To: Build a Birdhouse
- Technology | How to Make Google Drive Work Like a Desktop Suite
- Technology | How to Respond to Emails on Your Phone Infinitely Faster
- Garden | 10 Garden Ideas to Steal from India
- Technology | IFTTT Brings App Automation to the iPad, Adds Collections, and More
- Fun | THIS JUST IN: Crazy Time
- Technology | The Best Tools and Apps to Make the Most of Flickr
- Food | Ghirardelli Impressions Easter Brownies
- Technology | Magneto Is a Smart, Google Now-Like Calendar (and We’ve Got Invites)
- Garden | The Rooftop Beekeeper by Megan Paska — New Cookbook
- Technology | Robot Cage Fighting is Still a Thing!
- Career | Take 30 Seconds After Learning Something to Write Important Points
- Technology | Unleash the maps!: Last week, the New York Public Library released a massive collection of maps online…over 20,000 maps are available for high-resolution download. An incredible resource.
- Technology | 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Pro Gaming
- Garden | Great Design Plant: Feathery Cassia for Fragrance in Arid Gardens
- Garden | Cool-Season Vegetables: How to Grow Lettuce
- Garden | Keukenhof, Holland – the best spring garden in the world?
- New Media | Five Best Desktop Microphones
- Travel | Treat Yourself To A Day Of Punishment | London, UK
- Garden | FunBITS: iOS Apps for Better Gardening
- Fun | Homer’s Iliad Happens. | Shakespeare’s Plays as Three-Panel Comics
- Technology | Microsoft announces Skype TX with studio-grade audio and video for broadcasters
- Technology | Xbox One now shares gameplay footage direct to YouTube
- Garden | Book Review: Gardening Myths and Misconceptions
- Garden | Creating a There, There in the Garden
- Garden | Great Design Plant: Feathery Cassia for Fragrance in Arid Gardens
- Garden | Great Design Plant: Creeping Juniper Holds Its Ground
- Technology | Minecraft 1.7.6 released
- Travel | 6 Wonderful Places To Enjoy The Outdoors Around Los Angeles
- Technology | 5 Pointers To Supercharge Your Raspberry Pi Projects
- Technology | This GIF shows what sound actually looks like
- Travel | 10 Independent Coffee Shops You Must Visit
- Fun | Doctor Who slippers!
- Garden | 22 DIY Gardening Projects That You Can Actually Make
- Photography | Welcome the Finnish Museum of Photography to The Commons!
- Garden | Explore Your Garden Personality: The Extrovert
- Garden | Get Coneflower Blooms All Summer Long
- Home | March Checklist for a Smooth-Running Home
- Garden | Gardening for the Bees, and Why It’s a Good Thing
- Technology | Quartos.org – Shakespeare’s quartos online for review and comparison
- Garden | Book Review: British Gardens in Time
- History | Six Women Who Paved the Way for Female Engineers and Architects
- Garden | 24th Annual Spring Garden Show
- Garden | All About Brassicas, with Laura Russell
- Food | Video: How To Dice an Onion — Video Tips from The Kitchn
- Career | Use the “Three Whats” Technique to Structure Your Presentations
- Food | Egg – a new cookbook
- Garden | Veronica ‘Blue Bomb’: New from Parkers
- Garden | 23 DIY Stepping Stones to Brighten Any Garden Walk
- Garden | Arundel Castle opens in a blaze of colour for annual Tulip Festival
- Travel | LA Heritage Day 2014
- Travel | SwimmingHoles.Info Lists Free Swimming Spots and Hot Springs to Enjoy
- Career | Become More Productive Without Actually Doing More Work | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
- Food | Buona Pasqua! Italian Easter Recipes
- Technology | Morning, the Fantastic iPad Dashboard, Comes to the iPhone
- Career | Find Your Passion With These 8 Thought-Provoking Questions
- Technology | Gmail Makes Sending Mobile Photos Much Easier
- Technology | Simple Tags Makes Adding Tags to Old Posts Easy
- Garden | Flower Glossary: Scilla Peruviana
- Technology | AndroVid Video Editor – a surprisingly good free video editing app for your phone [Freeware]
- Technology | The photos from your phone, now one click away
- Technology | Orbital Mechanics
- Technology | Living Legos: Build Your Own Robot with TinkerBots Blocks
- Technology | iPhone app Superb wants to match users with new places
- Food | Move Over, Nutella
- New Media | IntroMate creates pro quality video intros on iPad in seconds
- New Media | Videvo – free stock video footage and motion graphics [Freeware]
- Garden | Wordless Wednesday – Spring Walks 1 – West Dean Gardens
- Technology | This Incredible Robotic Building Set Is Like Lego Come to Life
- Technology | 30 Simple Tools For Data Visualization
- Technology | Facebook Launches “Nearby Friends” With Opt-In Real-Time Location Sharing To Help You Meet Up | TechCrunch
- Food | 7 Delicious Easter Dessert Ideas
- Technology | 5 Free Apps For Keeping Great Notes
- DIY | ‘The Complete Modern Blacksmith’ by Alexander Weygers
- Technology | Swimming Upstream: Twitch Sells, Funds Indie Games
- Technology | Facebook’s Nearby Friends feature keeps track of your pals, but only if they want you to
- Technology | Five Best Text Editors
- Garden | 100 Flower : #031 Auriculas
- Photography | Greetings from Malibu
- Career | “How do I get rid of the fear?”
- Technology | Time Warner Cable Enables Hotspot 2.0 Across Wi-Fi Network | DSLReports, ISP Information
- Technology | Advanced Concrete Could Last More Than A Century Without Maintenance
- Technology | Tapping Into the Emotional Side of Video Games: Developing Hope, Healing and Love
- Garden | 6 Basic Elements of Classic Garden Style
- Garden | Artful Salvage: Old Doors Decorate the Garden
- Garden | Xeriscape Gardens: How to Get a Beautiful Landscape With Less Water
- Garden | The Quotable Garden: Writings That Will Grab Your Heart
- Garden | Field Guide: Alyssum
- Technology | Easy Arduino: Two Projects To Help You Get Started
- Garden | Create Garden Mystery With a Zigzag Path (9 photos)
- Technology | Apple releases iOS 7.1.1 with improvements to Touch ID, keyboard
- Technology | Minecraft Update 1.8 Preview Video Shows Off Terrain Customization
- Technology | HummingBoard, The Vastly More Powerful Raspi
- Garden | Ryland Engelhart’s 6 Tips for Better Composting at Home — Expert Tips
- Food | Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Poppy Seed Buttercream
- Photography | 7 Street Photography Tips and Exercises to Try This Season
- Photography | How to get Motivated to do more Photography
- Technology | Minecraft Realms is now live in North America
- Technology | The FCC tosses net neutrality out the window
- Garden | 6 Native Ground Covers for Tough, Dry Spots (6 photos)
- Technology | 5 Free Apps For Mapping Your Mind
- Technology |‘Relics of Technology’ turns dated gadgets into beautiful things
- Garden | A Potting Shed Puts a New Spin on Old Treasures (7 photos)
- Photography | Lunar Eclipse Time Lapse How-To, and Other Creative Space-Photo Projects
- Career | 10 Strategies Quick Learners Use To Pick Up Anything
- Fun | It’s What We’re Known For
- Garden | 21 best crops for your edible garden
- Garden | Nature’s Color Wisdom: Lessons on Pink From the Great Outdoors
- Garden | 10 Fun Features to Bring Your Landscape to Life
- Garden | Rudbeckia Mania: Go Beyond Black-Eyed Susan in the Garden
- Garden | 8 Elements of Mediterranean Garden Style
- Technology | Watch this awesome time-lapse video of the total lunar eclipse
- Technology | Mapping Urban Tree Canopies
- Garden | Field Guide: Boxwood
- Technology | Skype now offers free group video calls on desktop and Xbox One
- Career | Min / Max Note Taking for Conferences
- Career | Take Notes by Hand to Remember Information for a Longer Time
- Garden | 100 Flowers : Come on the Blues! #032, #033, #034
- Garden | P for Potatoes
- Technology | Authy Brings Two-Factor Authentication to Your PC, No Need for a Phone
- Career | 34 Most Difficult Things You Have To Learn In Your 20s
- News | Censorious Parent Calls Cops On Teen Giving Away Books In A Local Park
- Technology | You can now use the iPhone for free, as long as you don’t mind old gear
- Technology | Google Drive Can Now Send Presentations to the Chromecast
- Photography | DIY Hyperlapse: Make Your Own Timelapse Motion Pictures
- Technology | Google Launches New Standalone Docs, Sheets, and Slides Mobile Apps
- Garden | How to Choose the Best Plants for a Small Garden (10 photos)
- Technology | YouTube Creators Can Now Add a 3-Second Intro to All Their Videos
- Food | Miller Time: Grist & Toll Leads LA’s Local Flour Movement
- Technology | The Power User’s Guide to Better Virtual Machines in VirtualBox
- Technology | Foursquare splitting into two apps: Foursquare for discovery and Swarm for checkins (The Verge)
- Photography | How To Make Really Big and Cheap Photo Posters for a Party — Gatherings from The Kitchn
- Technology | Meet Vhoto: This new iPhone app scans your videos to find amazing still photographs (John Cook/GeekWire)
- Garden | Five lush plants that are drought tolerant
- Technology | VideoStream for Google Chromecast Streams Any Video to the Big Screen
- Garden | 10 Ways to Make Your Small Garden Feel Bigger (10 photos)