Jeremy Cherfas

Where’s the romance in milking 300 sheep by hand, twice a day? www.eatthispodcast.com/good-indu…

#Quinoa “is like the erotic sci-fi murals found in Saddam Hussein’s palaces—pretentious and tasteless” Uh-huh www.economist.com/news/lead…

Google’s algorithm is lying to you about onions – not that you’ld ever trust Google to clarify a recipe gizmodo.com/googles-a…

The numbers may be dodgy, and so is the “Italian” olive oil. How’s a poor shopper to know? www.italianinsider.it

Distributed verification – another gentle shove back towards Chrome.

Teehee. Updating old blog posts, found this gem. So resonant: The Inaugural Menu: one word, VILE « Chez Pim chezpim.com/uncategor…

From the abstract:

Examines critically the origins and basis of ‘knowledge management’, its components and its development as a field of consultancy practice. Problems in the distinction between ‘knowledge’ and ‘information’ are explored, as well as Polanyi’s concept of ‘tacit knowing’. The concept is examined in the journal literature, the Web sites of consultancy companies, and in the presentation of business schools. The conclusion is reached that ‘knowledge management’ is an umbrella term for a variety of organizational activities, none of which are concerned with the management of knowledge. Those activities that are not concerned with the management of information are concerned with the management of work practices, in the expectation that changes in such areas as communication practice will enable information sharing.

Going through some very old blog posts, glad to discover this page is still alive.

Obese vs normal may be more different than poor vs rich in response to food prices www.eatthispodcast.com/fat-taxes…

Now that we are starting to expand greater into generation 2, we need to improve the documentation of the various IndieWeb components to focus less on code and protocols, and more on the end goals.

Amen to that.

An English Sheep Farmer’s View of Rural America

“We have all become such suckers for a bargain that we take the low prices of our foodstuffs for granted and are somehow unable to connect these bargain-basement prices to our children’s inability to find meaningful work at a decently paid job.”

@AgroBioDiverse Guilty as charged.

I wonder whether I can use the Recipe plugin for @withknown to markup a recipe for #indieweb and then copy the HTML to my own site?

“Every 10 percent price increase in unhealthy foods and drinks was associated with a trend toward lower BMI (per 10 percent price increase: -0.06 kg/m2), this did not achieve statistical significance”

So, why report it?

@thatmags In addition to endangered condors, lead ammo poisons hunters too. www.eatthispodcast.com/lead-pois…

AoBBlog asks the crucial questions: “what to call scientific binomials”. Seems like they’ve come down in favour of “scientific name” rather than “Latin name”. I’m fine with that, as long as people at least try to provide that name, rather than so-called “common” names. I’ve ranted about that before, and doubtless will again. All we have to do now is to teach the world that scientific names are strong proper names

I guess hiring a card designer wasn’t in the budget this year.

Simple and straightforward explanation of how the design of the card inside the envelope makes all the difference.

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We still need to ask whether poor people may be choosing calories because they are hungry. @cjsnowdon

I looked briefly at 60dB when it was announced, and came to much the same conclusion, that while it is an interesting idea and may end up being a sort of personalised stream of short-form audio, it didn’t seem to address discovery in the long tail. I’ve enough long-form to be getting on with, that’s for sure, and that’s what I, personally, would like more of.

Setting (some of) my marginalia free #indieweb www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/sett…