The case for planting trees | Small Farm Future
Sensible, practical advice, it seems to me.
Paper to Paperless: A Guide to Digitalizing Your Journals with a Scanner App
Very thorough guide that covers both how and why you might want to do this. Most interesting, it links to a Python script for adding a Table of Contents to a PDF, which would be very handy indeed.
But shouldn't it be "digitising"?
"Meat traders came out in support of vegan activists who occupied Smithfield Market in London last night."
Happy to take your word for it, as The Times won't let me read without registering.
Daring Fireball: Correction: Regarding an Erroneous Allegation in ‘Richard Stallman’s Disgrace’
This is how you do this sort of thing.
Medium tests to save webpages from the internet
Don’t get me wrong. I am sure a lot of people like free stuff. But I just find it hard to justify removing ads / bypassing paywalls from external content while enforcing paywall for some Medium stories.
Well now, there's a thing.
h/t Peter Molnar
Decisions decisions. Do I accept the invitation to beta test nvUltra, or continue to enjoy The ARchive, or attempt to ride two horses in one ring?
Thanks. That's a very small part of his argument, and we've just had another good chat in which I asked specifically whether the UK could exclude or tax food imports. He said, absolutely. Look at Japan. Food is a strategic issue and outside the WTO. My fear remains that after Brexit there still won't be good food system policies.
TIL about Chewbacca Mask Lady, in the context of a New Yorker article about the measles outbreaks. Life is interesting.
“If you want people do to something, make it easy.” Richard Thaler has Lunch with the FT
Brexit means Brexit — that is one of the dumbest statements that has ever been uttered by a head of state. And I’m aware that there are thousands of tweets one could compare it with. I mean, it’s simultaneously meaningless and wrong.”
I've just had occasion to remember what a great thing PopClip https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/ is. If I could trigger when I have selected text from the keyboard I would be deliriously happy.
OH as two young American women look at travel brochures: I’ll do Africa some other time.
Salsa in Central Park
I don’t agree with Roger Scruton on much, but I do agree with him that limiting social dance to clubs and EDM festivals where everyone is drunk or high is not good for us. Scruton’s solution is to yearn for the glory days of eighteenth century Europe. My solution is to look to our friends from the African diaspora, whose social norms around music and dance are very different from those of white people, and in a lot of ways, more grown up.
Very well said; one the other hand, there is always Irish, Scottish and English "folk dancing" and its many derivatives, which are so much fun and which I could do, more and more often.
Going to extremes
Extreme Economies by Richard Davies, as reviewed by Diane Coyle, does sound like a book I would enjoy reading.