Jeremy Cherfas

@mer_matthews I’m not competent to judge everything you have said, but I do know that it certainly does not cost $25 a month to have a site that makes use of IndieWeb principles and building blocks. Do you have specific examples in mind?

Eat This Newsletter 171 is out, with Canadian chickens, proletarian food systems, sweetness and dark, and a tribute to NI Vavilov. All connected, even if somewhat tenuously. Read it at buttondown.email/jeremyche…

Relaxing with a peppermint tea and some Lester Young, having put tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter to bed, or whatever one does in this digital age.

John Naughton’s online diary contains a good piece on Wikipedia.Me: “So you’ve found a glaring error on a subject you know about?”Critic: “Yes. Elementary mistake”.Me: “So why haven’t you corrected it?”Critic: Flustered (sometimes), irritated (often), defensive (much too busy)But there’s another aspect to this, which is the wiki-zealots, who are all-too-ready to block the Critic who does have expertise on a topic precisely because they are not members of the Wikitribe.Eventually, those people give up and keep their expertise to themselves, doing Wikipedia and the world a disservice.. Well, Wikipedia is doing itself a disservice, but let’s not quibble.

TFW you forget to Start a Workout when you start a workout – and you feel somehow you‘ve cheated yourself even tough, of course, you haven‘t.

We saw The French Dispatch this afternoon and it was a total delight, if you are into that kind of thing. Want to watch it again immediately as there were so many visual treats that went flying by. Probably not for everyone, but for me a solid 5/5.

This morning, I had occasion to revisit this post from 2005. Never mind about Google Base, I’m still tickled by Paul Ford’s account of his encounter with Business 2.0. Never mind about Business 2.0 too.

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Why butter chicken, why not tomato chicken? @KanjiSuch explains:

If I had to guess, it would be that butter makes it sound fancier and nicer than just saying tomato chicken, because tomatoes are in many other chicken dishes, too.

From the transcript, now available.