I Committed To An Email-Free Morning For 5 Days, Here’s What I Learned
How to turn a simple and really easy idea into a pot-boiler of dubious worth.
Are two spaces better than one? | Butterick’s Practical Typography
As ever, you can always answer a question in a headline with "No!" But the bigger point is this:
[A]rguing passionately about dumb topics is the web’s raison d’être.
Privacy notes from the latest Overcast
All interesting, useful and considerate. I expect nothing less. I suppose the only fly in the ointment is this gem:
Podcasting has thrived, grown, and made tons of money for tons of people
I'm not really seeing that.
"Who We Are: #8 India"
The Aryan-Invasion-Theory sure looks to be basically correct. As for the archaeologists saying that there’s not enough evidence of devastation, Reich points out that they can’t really detect the fall of the western Roman Empire, which hardly means it didn’t happen. War and migration are well-known important factors in written history – why not in prehistory? Because many contemporary archaeologist and historians think that wishing can make it so. They should be paid accordingly.
PESOS from https://www.reading.am/p/4XXy/https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/who-we-are-8-india/.
‘Consider flour as flavour’: Bakers turn to whole grains to give their baked goods a boost
“Folks in the 60s and 70s didn’t know how to work with whole grains, and were getting super gritty and dense baked goods,” says Kaufmann. For many in the counterculture, eating these brick-like baked goods was an anti-authority act unto itself. “You were committed to the idealism behind baking whole wheat bread, even if that meant retraining your palate to enjoy it.”
Refusing my mother's wholewheat quiche was the anti-authority act here.
The business model of the Internet is surveillance contd.
The moral is, in a way, obvious: it’s a confirmation of Bruce Schneier’s original observation that “surveillance is the business model of the Internet”. Being a pedant, I would have said “of the Web”, but since many people can’t distinguish between the two, we’ll leave Bruce’s formulation stand.
“Who We Are: #3 Neanderthals | West Hunter
Gratuitous, but fun:
Ernst Mayr, a prominent figure in biology had opined that hybridization was an unimportant factor in evolution, as far as I can tell for no particular reason at all. For equally mysterious reasons, people paid attention to him.
From a thread on Hackernews
I have a sneaking suspicion that if tomorrow Apple or Google just subscribed everyone to 99% Invisible and waited, FM radio would be dead in a year.
Sweet thought, but unlikely.