Our very own last rose of summer
The irony of someone on Shitstack telling ...
The irony of someone on Shitstack telling us that the real internet is somewhere other than “TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, or Twitter” is not lost on me.
ETN 288: Adverse Those Lancet UPF papers, the ...
ETN 288: Adverse
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn’t often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean’s coumarin is one exception.
Ave Maria, seen on a fence in the local park. Behind the fence is a monument to war dead. I don’t really get it.
A jumpers-for-goalposts post about the origins of ...
A jumpers-for-goalposts post about the origins of WordPress that contains this gem
“Then the little blogging tool did what software does best: it quietly turned into something much bigger.”
Which is what is wrong with so many little software tools. They can’t leave well enough alone. And I get it, but sheesh.
At the opening of a friend’s show, and her painting of a crow spoke to me.
Top albums for the week ending 20 ...
Top albums for the week ending 20 November from last.fm
- Miss Perfumado Cesária Évora 14
- Clarinet Piano: Selected Works, Vol.1 8
- Didn’t It Rain 6
The three-thousand-year journey of colchicine
Fascinating story of the unintended (?) consequences of drug regulation, though disappointed obviously to see no mention of my own pioneering work. :)