The Lake District’s world heritage site status is a betrayal of the living world | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
George Monbiot in scathing good form. The Lake District is a fantasy that would be much better off with a lot fewer sheep.
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.