Dash-dash it all! Apple’s bad beta decision on em and en dashes
Lovely explanation of ems and ens and other arcana. Not surprisingly, though, no mention of ells.
Scrabblers of the world, unite!
Bookmarks, favs, likes - backfilling years of gaps
Peter Molnar's excellent guide to why you should keep your comments across the web on your own site and a high-level guide to how to do it. By high level, I mean that he walks you through the steps, not that he gives code to do anything automatically.
If nothing else, this should prompt me to devote real time to bringing all my old, carefully-hoarded entries into my new CMS.
The Craigslist Reverse Programmer Troll
That's the trouble with the internet. You got to a site because somebody smart pointed to something interesting, and bang! There goes the afternoon.
The indieweb includes RSS and much more, but @davewiner is still resisting change.
> As is often the case, Dave is focused on RSS rather than the web per se.
There's something very wrong with your economics when you need to double subsidies to get farmers to rotate crops
> BEIJING, June 20 (Reuters) - China will spend almost twice
as much this year on subsidies to encourage farmers in the
northeast to reduce corn plantings as it intensifies its push to
rebalance grain stocks.
> The country will issue 2.56 billion yuan ($374.95 million)
in funds to pay farmers subsidies to rotate their corn plantings
with other crops every other year as well as to leave some land
fallow, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.
> The funds are 78 percent higher than last year, and the
acreage targeted by the subsidies is double last year's area at
around 800,000 hectares.