Unfortunately Google was a good one to resurface from this day in 2006, and of course the original inspiration is still up. I played again, and the results were not nearly as interesting or varied as they were all those years ago.
Thanks for the introduction to wikiloc.
Might just be me, but Apple’s launchctl seems badly broken, at least for new services. Followed https://www.navidrome.org/docs/installation/macos/ to the letter, and it just doesn’t work. The exactly same command directly from the terminal works perfectly. Cannot figure it out, but it seems I am not alone.
New episode: Quinoa’s Rise and Fall
Between 2007 and 2014 farmers on the altiplano of Peru saw their income from quinoa increase by almost 900%. The boom was followed even more quickly by a bust.
https://eatthispodcast.com/quinoa
It is good to share some of the downs as well as the ups or even the plain level-going. I sometimes censor myself from sharing all the joy because I don't want to give the impression that everything is always perfect, but it darn near is, for which I am grateful.
Most people know that Jewish dietary laws forbid pork. A new book asks why the pig — rather than any of the other animals banned by the Hebrew bible — should have become so inextricably bound up with Jewish identity.
https://eatthispodcast.com/pigs
Just wow! https://www.c82.net/natural-colors/
The Natural System of Colours: Recreating Moses Harris’ color wheels from the eighteenth century.
h/t https://anhvn.com/posts/2025/weeknotes-29/
Eat This Newsletter, for your delectation.
- 16,000 calories per calorie: isn’t that rather inefficient?
- NuFood: ready for water lentils?
- Marmalade, membrillo: what’s the difference?
And more, at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-265-past-and-future/
I think my problem with Douthat and this essay is that I just don't find myself attracted to systems of belief, any systems of belief. To be a part of life, yes, but no more than a part, and a part with no special talents beyond self-destruction -- which is easier maybe if life eternal beckons.
Latest episode: Food facts are not the answer to fear of foods
Charlotte Biltekoff, author of Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge, on how industrial food and real food talk past one another.
https://eatthispodcast.com/real-food