Deep text: a catastrophic threat to the bullshit economy?
Interesting (and scary) counter-trend thought, that deep text could make dull kinds of writing easier and better. I'd be out of a job.
h/t Chris Aldrich
Something Like a Scent — Ridgeline issue 009
Might be odd to bookmark a newsletter, but why not. And "little lexical tchotchkes from the past" -- even though it is in something Craig Mod quotes -- is too good to pass up.
"Tidying up is not joyful but another misuse of Eastern ideas"
I do still prefer folding my T-shirts the way Marie Kondo suggests.
PESOS from Reading.am.
The tragedy of Brexit: not enough Pringles
Keep calm and snack on.
22 Brilliant at The Basics - Nicholas Bate
3. Make your own coffee. It's cheaper, it's better and it's therapeutic.
4. Make your own bread. See 3, except it's not cheaper.
Depends how you measure cost, obviously
h/t Matthew Lang
Real bread week, eh? Or, as I like to call it, Bread Week. Every week. 3kg of 50% wholewheat out of the fridge and ready for action.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/beneath-the-ballpark/ Now to listen to Chavez Ravine again.
What counts? | The Enlightened Economist
Very interesting ideas on how classification systems affect the way we think, rather than vice versa.
"People can’t see what they take for granted until there is an alternative version not taking the same things for granted."
TIL: beets and bougainvillea are a lot more closely related than I ever imagined.
"After the perfect picture, what?"
PESOS from Reading.am.
Sorry about cluttering the timeline. Error diagnosed, normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
"a podcast inspired by an Instagram account, covering the dating lives, drunken escapades, and makeup lines of superstar digital citizens"
Er, no. I don't think so.
Cheri's Blog - One Weird Tip for Losing Belly Fat
Losing excess weight might be good for your health, but a side-effect is that it reveals all the insecurity and nastiness around you in the same way a blacklight reveals fluid stains at a crime scene.
Maybe because I am not a woman, I don't see this as much, but I do believe it is absolutely true.
Note to future self: to clean up single-use tags in Pinboard, go to “manage” under tags and then “used once”.
And good luck with keeping up.
2019-02-12
1 min read
“Amazingly, the link still works” 
Two amazing things
1) In a piece looking back over 1000 of his linkblog posts, Charles Arthur finds it remarkable that a link from 2010 still works.
2) The piece seems to be on Medium and nowhere else.
I reckon the two observatiuons are linked (haha). Which makes me wonder whether to even share this . Will it still work in 2028? Or would be better of owning his stuff somewhere else?
xkcd: Invisible Formatting
Ah, you try and tell the kids about reveal codes.
Manton Reece - Audio in email is not a podcast
So correct. I fear we may lose the meaning of podcast, just as we lost the meaning of blog post.Â
