Hot Links: 08.08.2013

30 Days at Echo Park Lake

This weeks round-up of things I found on the internet:

• It’s hot, mix up a batch! 25 ice tea recipes.

• If you travel and love architecture, then kill it with the Phaidon Architectural Travel Guide App.

• 6 secrets of super productive to-do-lists and people who get shit done.
• Meanwhile, inside an abandoned underwater strip club…

• Would you eat a plate of living food?

• Cop selfies.

• Have you heard of jpegmini? It’s an app/website that reduces the size of your jpeg files without sacrificing quality.

• Time Travel: Let’s go back to Groovy Afghanistan.

• Find an heirloom tomato you LOVE at the farmer’s market? It’s easy to the seeds and grow it next year.

• A see-through car from 1939 – PHOTOS of the futuristic Pontiac Ghost car.

• Want to be a wizard identifying AGAVES? — here is the Sunset plant guide.

• Maps of never-realized urban projects — the cities that could have been.

• Self employed? 7 key times to ask for a referral.

• Acting you wage, not your title or age.

• Gala Darling on reasons who you should give up coffee ASAP + her favorite alternatives.

• And Tim Ferris (of 4 Hour Work Week) on his favorite 4 power beverages.

• Thing you were awkward as a tween? Prove it. Post your before/now pics on the Awkward Years Project.

My week in Los Angeles –

• I did it! This is day 31 of my 30 day goal to walk around Echo Park Lake everyday! It is the highlight of my day, so I am just going to keep going and see how long I can walk an unbroken chain of walks.
• I’m still going full full throttle on my summer work-a-thon. This week I worked on 5 websites/WordPress sites, a set of green walls in an atrium, a portfolio and a new garden. + A bunch of great projects coming up. I’m still still trying to break my work up into 90 minute units, which is really working for me.
• This week I am listening to Spanish for the Busy Housewife and Catching Fire (2nd book in The Hunger Games trilogy) on audio book.
• The test garden is cranking out tomatoes, peppers and beans right now and a few late strawberries. I’m starting to daydream about the fall/winter garden…
• I updated to Abobe CC ($50 a month), which is something I have been avoiding, but I knew I need to do. Hopefully it will improve my workflow and make me uber efficient.

Go enjoy summer!