Just been through the annual ritual of replacing the batteries in my Garmin Vivofit, which is nice, but didn't do anything for the broken display segment. Still, I can live with it.
Structured Procrastination
via gwern.net
[W]hat could be more noble than using one character flaw to offset the bad effects of another?
I do fear that "episode" is going the way of "blog post," a battle long since lost.
When it comes to mushrooms, always best to be absolutely sure they are edible rather than fairly sure they aren't. But you did miss a treat.
Weeknotes 30 - Get me a red — Nat Buckley
Frankly, if I wanted to read a detailed report on the work you did in the past week, I’d become your boss.
Via Phil Gyford
Its bad enough feeling bad about monthly round-ups. I'm not going to foist weeknotes on myself or anyone else. But this is a good reminder.
Uses This / Paul Ford
in 2019 the web is less about documents and more for restaurants
This, from one who knows.
Just confirmed that my little script for posting podcasts I've listened to from Overcast to WithKnown fails when there is more than one episode of the same show in the queue. Pinning that down is going to be ... tricky.
My Changing World: An elegy for the window fan
So glad to see this site spring back to life, and this post is a great example of how anecdote can illuminate data.
Well just fancy that
"States with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings, and a growing divide appears to be emerging between restrictive and permissive states."
A brief history of the “walking simulator,” gaming's most detested genre
As a non-gamer, I had no idea that this was even a thing. And some of these games are almost tempting. Found via Craig Mod's Ridgeline newsletter.
Thinking about the Land: A Personal Perspective on the Origin of Organic Farming – Rachel Laudan
Rachel Laudan is promising a personal look into some of the history of the organic farming movement in England. Looking forward to the rest of her series.
Currently reading: Kim by Rudyard Kipling
I realise the risk I run saying this, but I do believe that the amount of spiced ham this site has received has dropped off over the past six months.
Walk vs. Hike — Ridgeline issue 030
The clever distinctions Craig makes between "walk" and "hike" are subtle and important.
Here we go again, with New York City set to ban foie gras. https://newfoodeconomy.org/new-york-city-foie-gras-ban-gavage/
Nothing has changed that I can see, since I spoke to Michaela DeSoucey a few years ago. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/foie-gras/
If you want to understand webmentions in WordPress, might this be a good starting point for you? https://boffosocko.com/2017/12/15/threaded-replies-with-webmentions-in-wordpress/
The Grassroots Growth of Mechanical Keyboard Culture
Uh-oh. Keyboard envy ...
Maybe it's just me, @kewgardens, but I would have expected an article about interesting lettuces with lots of photos to at least tell me the names of the varieties pictured. https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/lettuce-season-kew-kitchen-garden