I find it strange, and deeply ironic, that a year on, an otherwise fine article still boasts an obviously doctored photograph of NI Vavilov. Seriously, who thought that was a good idea? See Nikolai Vavilov as he never was: A true scientist does not deserve a fake photo.
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
As I continue reading and sometimes re-posting things written on this day, I've decided to do one more thing at the end of a session: go to a random site in the IndieWeb WebRing. Today, I found something that resonates down the years: how to organise the content of a weblog.
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Not intuitive, I know, but this post is, in fact, a reply to the post I had found. So you could click on the Replied to a post on intothebook.net. It goes to https://intothebook.net/does-chronology-have-meaning-in-a-virtual-space/
@billbennettnz Not intuitive, I know, but the post is, in fact, a reply to the post I had found. So you could click on the Replied to a post on intothebook.net. It goes to intothebook.net/does-chro...
, Apr 27 2022 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas it’s an interesting post, but I can’t see anything other than strict chronological order making sense.
, Apr 27 2022 on micro.blog
@billbennettnz For me, it feeds into the Gardens and Streams discussion, and my take on that is that my garden is private, but occasionally I float a well-grown plant down the stream.
, Apr 27 2022 on micro.blog
Having moved my Dropbox folder to an external disk in an effort to reclaim space internally, I then discovered the value of an actual symlink, which means I don't have to rewrite anything. This is a good thing.
The fight for “post” rather than “blog” is lost in many quarters, but the fight for “blog” itself is lost when none other than John Naughton can calmly point to a Substack newsletter with “Heather Cox Richardson had a memorable post on her blog:"
https://memex.naughtons.org/thursday-14-april-2022/
The latest issue of Eat This Newsletter just went winging its way to all the subscribers, who will be seeing what I make of raw material from @bearistotle, @battlesuperbugs and @whetstoneradio, among others. You can read it too, at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-179-a-fresh-look-at-farming/
The joy of correcting a human-powered transcription. When the transcriber hears
“Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy” as
“the Gordon's Eyes Trilogy”
This is some of the most exciting news I have read in a long time. I hope Ben does find time to rebuild Known and would be willing to lend whatever support I can. “Another stable release” would be a wonderful start and would please lots of people.
A very warm welcome to the [redacted] new podcast subscribers who joined via Google Podcasts this past month. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWF0dGhpc3BvZGNhc3QuY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8
You know where to find me.
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I hadn't realised one of the bloggers I used to follow had suddenly died a while ago (because I stopped following him). Today, though, I was reminded of something he wrote not 6 but 16 years ago that is remarkably prescient. RIP @LanceMannion
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@jeremycherfas what was the particular prescient piece?
, Mar 13 2022 on micro.blog
@JeremyWxBaker Yeah, sorry about that.
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I’ve been bringing in old posts day by day, and this was one of today’s. (Hard to remember what does and does not get shared when I POSSE in different ways.
, Mar 13 2022 on micro.blog
Hi JC! On the subject of re-reading... I re-read "The First Champanzee" in the last week, after 20 years! The overall message so very relevant today (notwithstanding numerous details now outdated). I realise I failed to acknowledge in my book "The Secret Dinobird Story" some bits I must have got from T1C, but I'm writing a substantial piece now on the subject for a net journal. Not sure how into palaeoanthropology you are these days, but I've discovered one or two interesting papers that might be of great interest. I'll try to email you of I can find your address 🙂
Sounds interesting. I shouldn't be too hard to find.
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TIL there are far-infrared mirrors. Can't wait for next winter in the bathroom.
The value of the Gender Pay Gap bot, explained, withe link to the marvellous collection of organisations that felt it necessary to hide their shame.
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@jeremycherfas thanks for mentioning this! That is such a nice idea and good use of such public data :-)
, Mar 11 2022 on micro.blog
@V_ Isn’t it though.
, Mar 11 2022 on micro.blog
Just finished putting together the latest Eat This Newsletter, looking at label as a form of truth, ruined bread as a metaphor, tree-planting as a menace, crop-modelling as a pipe-dream and cheese as surplus.
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In the nick of time, I wrote up my celebration of Fornacalia 2022. Looking forward to another year of unburnt grain, and more besides.
I don't judge a book by its cover, but I do prefer to decide based on other factors. If they have a free-return policy, I would maybe buy, but otherwise, no way.
Today is the five year anniversary of installing WithKnown here. We’ve had our ups and downs, and it has been generally positive. Not sure about the future though, I must be honest.
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I don't know what you mean by “cross” but I know for sure that nobody has ever crossed a strawberry with a pineapple.
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See also Old faithfuls | DAVID STUART GARDENS](https://davidcstuart.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/old-faithfuls/) and [The elusive flavour of a perfect strawberry – The Campaign for Real Farming](https://www.campaignforrealfarming.org/2012/06/the-elusive-flavour-of-a-perfect-strawberry/)
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Case in point: the Deep in the Weeds podcast network at https://deepintheweeds.com.au/ @deepintheweeds with some excellent shows and episodes that could easily interest a wider audience.
There's plenty that is interesting in @emilyjwils article, but given that podcasting is global in scope, I do think it is a pity that the focus is entirely on the US -- apart from one ex-pat thrillingly discovering banana biodiversity.
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Case in point: the Deep in the Weeds podcast network at https://deepintheweeds.com.au/ @deepintheweeds with some excellent shows and episodes that could easily interest a wider audience.
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20/25 on Adactio's Font or Food? quiz. Not too shabby.
Hear me, O @tavolamed, As a foolish person, who knows not my ward, I await the set form of words with which Curio Maximus will proclaim the time for holding the #Fornacalia, so that I may celebrate on the last day to which it can be postponed.
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I too know not my ward. You and I both being fools, can offer at the quirinalia on the 17th. Don't forget the mola salsa! ;) tavolamediterranea.com/2019/02/07/bre…
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Trying to use OCR in iOS is really tricky unless you can mask off the bits of the page you really don’t want. Unless I am failing to find a better selection tool. Maybe crop first?
Agreed, kefir is a total doddle (though I don't do any of the variations that other people do). I do feel bad when I don't have anyone to give surplus grains to. Although yoghurt is more of a faff, it isn't that difficult, especially with a good thermometer and a vacuum flask.
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Yes I’ve offered super healthy surplus kefir grains numerous times on Twitter and no one takes them. I don’t think I could live without kefir, so naturally find it implausible that others can!
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
Understood. I've a mind to try folding them into a loaf of bread as an experiment.
@jeremycherfas Translation, please (doddle, faff)! BTW we enjoyed the yogurt-cast.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
Understood. I've a mind to try folding them into a loaf of bread as an experiment.
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
A doddle is something very easy, as opposed to a faff which is not actually difficult, but might be complex, with many steps. Kefir is pour milk onto grains in container, wait. Yoghurt is heat milk, wait for it to cool a bit, add yoghurt, keep warm, wait.
@JMaxB A doddle is something very easy, as opposed to a faff which is not actually difficult, but might be complex, with many steps. Kefir is pour milk onto grains in container, wait. Yoghurt is heat milk, wait for it to cool a bit, add yoghurt, keep warm, wait.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
Wow, that could be a whole lot of fermentation. Interesting idea. Fold them into unleavened dough?
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
@jeremycherfas Thanks! The podcast reminded me that, in my own lifetime, it was possible to find people who didn't know what yogurt is. In the late 1960s I used to pack a small carton in the lunch I took to my summer job. A workmate/friend asked me what it was. I explained that it was milk cultured with bacteria. He said "You mean GERMS!"
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
Yup. I’ve heard people say they have leavened a dough with nothing but kefir, but I think I’ll just try putting some in my standard sourdough.
, Jan 24 2022 on twitter.com
@JMaxB to me growing up, pizza was a unknown thing, pasta felt like new thing and Chinese food was some I read about in books, I had no chance of trying sushi until I was 30 something (I think) ... I now feel like a real country boy 😋
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
@jemostrom They used to tell us that Scandinavians live on cod and potatoes. It seems that times have changed.
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@JMaxB I remember that my grandma to the main village with the order: Go and by some pork. She was eating moose meat and potatoes twice a day, almost every day and she was fed up with it 😋
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
@JMaxB great story. My mum was a health food nut way back, so we had brown bread bricks and made our own yoghurt in the sixties. Some things just stay with you.
, Jan 24 2022 on micro.blog
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If mussels are “the oyster of the poor,” what were they when oysters were the oysters of the poor?
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I'm quoting Grimod de La Reynière, attributed, in Kettner's Book of the Table (1877), page 308. Hence the quotations. Full entry is even more fascinating. But good point.
, Jan 21 2022 on twitter.com
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Perhaps I'm old fashioned (no perhaps about it) but I am having a hard time seeing the value (to me) of Research Rabbit. As Ton says, it would just feed my inner collector.
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@jeremycherfas I'm curious about it. If you aren't writing up your own research or needing to keep up with a particular body of research, I don't think it would be helpful. I'm probably going to try it, though.
, Jan 19 2022 on micro.blog
@kimberlyhirsh I will be interested to see what you make of it.
, Jan 19 2022 on micro.blog
It may be Monday, it may even be Veganuary, but Eat This Newsletter happens not to be meatless today.
In this issue, nourishment from @JLewisStempel, @JSTOR_Daily, @ModFarm and @OurWorldInData.
Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-173-januarys-point/
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Ah, serendipity. To read, almost one after the other, David Sparks and Ben Werdmüller saying very similar things about the purpose of work. David had a great Walt Disney quote: “We don’t make movies to make money. We make money to make more movies.”
A little late with the first Eat This Newsletter of the New Year, but my boss says that's OK.
Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-172-policy-potato-and/ for thoughts on FOPLs, ag and food policy in the US and the UK, potato bread etc
Happy Birthday Ben. Such an interesting list. On a quick read, some of those things are already here (though perhaps not polished enough), some of them will never be here, and some of them ought to be here already. Thought-provoking.
Maybe you really want to build your own, but if not, Newsblur is an RSS reader has an excellent ability to include email newsletters.
When a human-powered transcript flows seamlessly from "tide disputes" to "Thai disputes" without once taking on board that "tides are these ecclesiastical taxes ...".
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@jeremycherfas Oops! Big difference.
, Jan 06 2022 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas also tithes?
, Jan 06 2022 on micro.blog
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I realise it is absurd to take to Twitter to wonder where are the blog carnivals of today, but ...
... where are the blog carnivals of today?
https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/weeding-mendels-garden-and-other-blog-carnivals
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Life is a carnival
, Jan 06 2022 on twitter.com
I thought life was a blog. It certainly used to be.
, Jan 06 2022 on twitter.com
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This:
For all the talk about how the internet isn’t as interesting as in the “Good Old Days”, there are so many places I would happily spend time reading and contributing to if each day was at least twice as long. So many chats, so many forums, so many blogs, so much social media.
Thanks, Ton, for your post linking to Alan Levine's Google-taming post. With your guidance, it was easy to knock up a few Alfred workflows. I should note, too, that DuckDuckGo has a !bangsearch for !flickrcc (which gives slightly different results, because it uses a different CC code) and possibly others
Great insights into the botany of the pine nut via @BitKblog. The botany would be the same for Araucaria araucana seeds, but I wonder why they aren't marketed -- too rare? -- or how the flavour profile compares.
https://botanistinthekitchen.blog/2021/12/19/the-adoration-of-the-pine-nut/
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, Dec 22 2021 on micro.blog
Is the A.bidwillii nut not extremely important in Australia where it occurs?
, Dec 22 2021 on twitter.com
Traditionally very important. Not commercialised in the way Macadamia has been.
, Dec 22 2021 on twitter.com
@cn don’t you mean 🐒 🧩 ?
, Dec 22 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas the emoji faces the wrong way 🙃
, Dec 22 2021 on micro.blog
Wikipedia certainly agrees with that.
, Dec 23 2021 on twitter.com
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Chuffed to learn that @scotlandbread won @bbcfoodprog award for Food Innovation. If I were in Scotland, I'd be sourcing from Flour to the People. Instead, I gave a donation to the crowdfunder campaign at https://crowdfunder.co.uk/scotlandthebread
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Eat This Newsletter 171 is out, with Canadian chickens, proletarian food systems, sweetness and dark, and a tribute to NI Vavilov. All connected, even if somewhat tenuously. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-171-proletarian/
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Relaxing with a peppermint tea and some Lester Young, having put tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter to bed, or whatever one does in this digital age.
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2021-12-09
On Wikipedia
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John Naughton's online diary contains a good piece on Wikipedia.
Me: “So you’ve found a glaring error on a subject you know about?”
Critic: “Yes. Elementary mistake”.
Me: “So why haven’t you corrected it?”
Critic: Flustered (sometimes), irritated (often), defensive (much too busy)
But there's another aspect to this, which is the wiki-zealots, who are all-too-ready to block the Critic who does have expertise on a topic precisely because they are not members of the Wikitribe.
Eventually, those people give up and keep their expertise to themselves, doing Wikipedia and the world a disservice.. Well, Wikipedia is doing itself a disservice, but let's not quibble.
TFW you forget to Start a Workout when you start a workout -- and you feel somehow you‘ve cheated yourself even tough, of course, you haven‘t.
We saw The French Dispatch this afternoon and it was a total delight, if you are into that kind of thing. Want to watch it again immediately as there were so many visual treats that went flying by. Probably not for everyone, but for me a solid 5/5.
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@jeremycherfas Where/how did you see it? Theater?
, Nov 20 2021 on micro.blog
@JMaxB Yup. Local cinema. Suitably masked and socially distant.
, Nov 20 2021 on micro.blog
Why butter chicken, why not tomato chicken? @KanjiSuch explains:
If I had to guess, it would be that butter makes it sound fancier and nicer than just saying tomato chicken, because tomatoes are in many other chicken dishes, too.
From the transcript, now available.
There is, in my mind at least, some confusion between discoverability and promotion. That is, I want people to be able to find my podcast, which means I both need to promote it where the ears are and, if possible, make sure the ears can find it.
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@jeremycherfas Yeah, I wish there were some happy medium between the feeling of shouting into the void and the feeling that, at any moment, a million screaming randos might show up on my doorstep. I think you are right that it the slow, hard work of building community with webring-like tools is probably the best approach.
, Nov 15 2021 on micro.blog
I've lost track, Ton. What are you using now as your feed reader?
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I am using FreshRSS currently. I've dabbled a bit with Aperture/Monocle, with Yarns on Wordpress and with using a TinyTinyRSS instance. My TinyTInyRSS instance kept bumping into some 'bad bot' filters my hoster has in place (the same is true for FreshRSS btw). The upside to me for both Tiny and Fresh is that I find their php and mysql tech accessible, and have no trouble running it locally. Or at least more accessible than any of the IndieWeb stuff. I'd like to get to a working locally run Aperture/Monocle combo but can't and haven't figured out why. With Yarns, which has as a pre above Aperture it lives in the WP ecosystem I am at least more familiar with, I have issue with it storing all feeds in the WP content tables, even though everything in a feed reader is/should be ephemeral imo, just providing enough time to do something with whatever gets fetched (respond, bookmark, download to notes etc). Ideally I'd run yarns in a separate WP install to prevent it polluting my blogs database, but then you're back to how to ensure my 'reader' Wordpress instance can post to my 'blogging' WP instance.
Can anyone tell me which template I need to edit to add an extra link to <head> in @withknown CMS?
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@jeremycherfas are you ahead of me, and fully up to date with GitHub?
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
That html tag has got lost… #POSSEhiccough
, Nov 13 2021 on twitter.com
Yeah. WithKnown is wonderful, but it does have issues with, IMHO, over-aggressive tag stripping.
@cn I'm on Version: 1.2.2+2020061101
Github is at 1.3.1 202120201
But, y’know, inertia. Is the latest any less agressive about stripping tags?
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I don’t know, I sent a reply from my blog which may not have reached you regarding use of FooterJS in lieu of template hacking; although I can certainly look into that for us…
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@cn No sign of it yet … And no rush either. I might just bite the bullet and upgrade. But not today.
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas my install may warrant diagnosis (being PostgreSQL, and older than current…)
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas having “PubSubHubbub hub” field empty possibly not helping?
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@cn Mine? Yours? I think all this recent crypticity is affecting your communication. 😀
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas the field in my settings was blank; your blog gets twitter replies (via brid.gy?) which has stopped working for me (Stars happen).
The “crypticity” is a distraction from the week plus common(ish) cold 🤧
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
@cn Get well soon. In the meantime, I am somewhat distracted myself.
, Nov 13 2021 on micro.blog
For the sake of completion, the solution is to edit Themes/Solo/templates/default/solo/shell/head.tpl.php or the equivalent file in whatever theme you are using.
And remembering to edit it again when you upgrade…
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Created an account at alltogethernow.io. It's a start.
Intrigued by a new role-playing board game called Rulal Commerce, based on China's demand for tea and what it is doing to Laos. Can't find any explanation of the significance of the name, though. Does it, I wonder, mean anything?
https://pim.cgiar.org/2021/10/25/rulal-commerce-boardgame/
Step aside 75%, which achieved mythic status as the amount of genetic diversity lost since ~1903. The new not number is "almost 80%", the proportion of studies in a global meta-analysis that found evidence of some genetic erosion. I hope that's clear.
https://agro.biodiver.se/2021/10/almost-80-is-the-new-75/
Huge congratulations to Chris Otter, whose fascinating book Diet for a Large Planet has just won the AHA Bentley Prize in World History. We had a great chat about how the British created global food outsourcing and made it was it is today.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/large-planet/
15 years ago today I wrote enthusiastically about @Mann_Library @Cornell gathering up great graphics to share and inspire.
The old website remains at https://web.archive.org/web/20170719024829/http://martha.mannlib.cornell.edu/charts/ but where are the original submissions and what happened to the project?
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Thanks. I'd love to see it available online.
, Oct 16 2021 on twitter.com
We'll pass your note along to Ms. Wightman!
, Oct 16 2021 on twitter.com
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On this day in 2009, I never thought I would be directing this post to @danielpunkass https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/the-software-ate-my-homework-honest.
Long may it continue.
@jeremycherfas Can you provide the link?
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