Jeremy Cherfas

Remarkable: "High school students prefer vegetables seasoned with herbs and spices, rather than plain veggies". I wonder whether this counts as industry-funded research, coming up with a result that suits industry. http://news.psu.edu/story/508608/2018/03/06/research/spicing-it-high-school-students-may-prefer-seas...

And in case you’re wondering, that previous photo? Intrepid members of the Port of London police, testing new lifejackets. On the lookout for contraband bread, I suspect.

People of the interwebs: I know someone famous said something about a crank being a little thing that makes revolutions, but can I find it? Can I heck. If you know better -- and I know it was not Abe Lincoln -- please let me know.

Giving tyme-app.com a try. It has to be smoother than Toggl.

Jonathan LaCour has done some great work freeing himself from Facebook and Instagram, and his post is a good starting point for others who want to do the same. So far, I confess, I have not felt the need myself. There are no photographs in either of those silos that I don't have a copy of (actually, the original, not a copy) on my desktop computer. And any text I may have place on FB is also either a copy of something here or else completely insubstantial. Heck, I'm still bringing in old blog posts to my new system by hand, very slowly, and I haven't begun to bring in old posts from a previous incarnation of this stream. Maybe it is because I was an independent blogger long before either FB or IG saw the light of day, but I have never regarded those places as worthy of original material.

Eat your heart out @replyall. @NealGoldfarb does a yes-yes-no for the ages, and all on his own, more or less.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=37022

Kudos to @DICKS for doing the right thing. If I ever needed anything that they sell, that's where I'm going to buy it.

I will never understand the special hell in which the people who do not understand Word styles must live.