Jeremy Cherfas

I’m pretty sure nothing much has changed in the intervening 28 years.

Thomas PM Barnett seems to be building a combination personal search engine and Zettelkasten called InfoSquirrel and plans to sell it as a service. I doubt I will ever be able to afford it, but it does look interesting and I certainly wish him well.

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I love this idea:

Oct 30 (the number 30 in the octal number base) is the same as Dec 24 (the number 24 in the decimal number base)

Thank you Björn Wärmedal

Yes: Wish I could be at IWC Dusseldorf in person, but remote will have to do.

@ChrisWiegman Strange you should say that. The protocols I use are alive and well, and they give me part of what I need from a community. I do feel good too, and that is part of the story, but to dismiss something you personally don’t care for or use seems uncalled for.

Intrigued by a new role-playing board game called Rulal Commerce, based on China’s demand for tea and what it is doing to Laos. Can’t find any explanation of the significance of the name, though. Does it, I wonder, mean anything?

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Always readable.

TIL1. You can buy broken bits of leftover pasta.2. It costs exactly the same as uniform, whole pasta.3. Why?

Step aside 75%, which achieved mythic status as the amount of genetic diversity lost since ~1903. The new not number is “almost 80%”, the proportion of studies in a global meta-analysis that found evidence of some genetic erosion. I hope that’s clear.

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Huge congratulations to Chris Otter, whose fascinating book Diet for a Large Planet has just won the AHA Bentley Prize in World History. We had a great chat about how the British created global food outsourcing and made it was it is today.

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Thought for the DayThe unspeakable depression of lighting the fires every morning with papers of a year ago, and getting glimpses of optimistic headlines as they go up in smoke.

[W]hile it’s feasible to wander around a smallholding with a trug looking for apples to feed two pigs, it probably isn’t feasible to wander around a largeholding with a trug looking for apples to feed two hundred or two thousand pigs. So there are diseconomies of large scale to the ecological efficiency of the farm’s unbidden bounty.That doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile

Very interesting long essay about what it is to be unseen, unheard and yet vital. But that professional podcast world? Awful.

15 years ago today I wrote enthusiastically about @Mann_Library @Cornell gathering up great graphics to share and inspire.

The old website remains at web.archive.org/web/20170… but where are the original submissions and what happened to the project?

On this day in 2009, I never thought I would be directing this post to @danielpunkass www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/the-…

Long may it continue.

Hey @marcoarment Overcast.fm still giving errors: ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed when I try file_get_contents(overcast_url)

Is this a relic of the big certificate fail a while ago? If not, I wonder what I can do about it.

@AgroBioDiverse You are a star! Manuel Elkin Patarroyo is the man.

“The chemically manufactured vaccine known as SPf66, invented by Patarroyo, had limited results with “only” 55 percent effectiveness. Even so, it was a breakthrough.”

I hope @thedailybeast follows up.