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Blogrolls & Searchi.webthings hubMarch 21, 2023
Today’s daily links are back where they belong: the dailywebthing linkport dailywebthing daily pointers For now anyway, Amen!
Personalkottke.orgMarch 21, 2023
Essential Japanese Cinema: A Journey Through 50 of Japan's Beautiful, Often Bizarre Films.This year in Serious Eats' Starch Madness bracket, rice dishes from around the world go grain-to-grain. Some personal…
PersonalHam ‘N EggsMarch 21, 2023
This morning I woke up and I went on Twitter to read the news for the day. There is,of course, the rumor of this Tuesday, that the former president would…
Homesteading & NatureThe Re-Farmer – Sometimes, you need to go back, to go forward.March 21, 2023
Yesterday was the first day of spring. Check out our spring garden! 😄😄😄 It’s going to be a while before we can start building the trellis tunnels (we will be…
Economics & FinanceMarginal REVOLUTIONMarch 21, 2023
1. Is the human brain just a matter of scale? For a while now, I’ve thought that whales might be smarter than we are. And how do sperm whales talk…
Film & EntertainmentBen OliverMarch 21, 2023
When a giant metal hand is found, a team of scientists race to find the other pieces of the body around the globe and unlock its secrets. Neuvel tells the…
PersonalbeetleypeteMarch 21, 2023
A selection I found online. Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh. 1850s. Lake Como, Italy. 1870. A lady sleeping in a train, 1880. The Shambles, York. 1890. A British official in India, with…
Music & AudioLess Than 1,000 FollowersMarch 21, 2023
In a world that's pretty keen on moving backwards whenever it gets the chance, Penelope Pettigrew brings a new focus on celebrating the Bi+ community and your authentic self. Embrace…
Homesteading & NatureBedlam Farm JournalMarch 21, 2023
Over time, I’ve greatly admired the geese who fly over our farm in significant numbers in the late Fall and early Spring. Nothing stops them or slows them down. They…
PhotographyJosh WithersMarch 21, 2023
📷 Tiny {people} (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @jasonmcfadden) It was Luna’s turn to decide what we had for breakfast. Her choice? La Esquina, the cafe…
PersonalScripting newsMarch 21, 2023
What if there were a social network for two people. So the messages wouldn't be mixed up with everything in a chat app or an email client. If the point…
PhotographyGraham’s IslandMarch 21, 2023
I saw this Myna at Punaluʻu Black Sand Beach Park. It was standing just as you see, before moving to do a bit of preening. Then it resumed this position.…
Research & ScienceThe Splintered MindMarch 21, 2023
I've been writing a lot recently about what Mara Garza and I, since 2015, have been calling the Design Policy of the Excluded Middle: Don't create AI systems of disputable…
Poets & Writers & BooksWhateverMarch 21, 2023
Philip K. Dick once asked if android’s dreamed of electric sheep; author Blair Austin wonders about the dreaming habits of another entity entirely in the Big Idea for his first…
Art & ArtistsFull Moon Fiber Art — My Art, My LifeMarch 21, 2023
That snowman keeps giving. This morning I took this picture through a hole where his arm once was. Portals and windows liminal spaces that can take you someplace else. That’s…
PhotographyIsland in the NetMarch 21, 2023
Last summer, a mystery person sent me a box filled with rolls of expired 35mm film.
CulturePluralistic: Daily links from Cory DoctorowMarch 21, 2023
Today's links Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing: Finally, the non-tech sector can hire technical workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003,…
Travelsmikes thoughtsMarch 21, 2023
Well for whatever reason, sitting over a delicious home cooked dinner of white fish from Tonle Sap Lake and potatoes and carrots sautéed over coal, we looked at the temperatures…
TechnologyBen WerdmüllerMarch 21, 2023
“William Faulkner wrote two failed novels (his words) before he famously gave up writing for other people and began to write just for himself. The books he wrote after that…
Poets & Writers & BooksThe Morning PorchMarch 21, 2023
A cloud-free morning, the sun through the trees just bright enough to fool my body into feeling warm. A mourning dove’s song sounds reassuring: There. There. There.
Research & ScienceStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceMarch 21, 2023
1. Background: Comparing a graph of data to hypothetical replications under permutation Last year, we had a post, I’m skeptical of that claim that “Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases…
Poets & Writers & BooksPutah CreekMarch 21, 2023
I planted some seeds I found and a forest grew, filled with strange birds of many colors. I sprouted feathers and built a nest deep in that forest. I gave…
Research & ScienceOvercoming BiasMarch 21, 2023
In 2011, law prof Leo Katz published an interesting book, Why The Law is Perverse. Katz first lists many ways that the law is perverse, especially rulings that reject win-win…
PersonalTeacher TomMarch 21, 2023
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Recently, one of our toilets stopped flushing: the chain that connects the tank lever to the flapper had broken. I cycled to the hardware store and…
Poets & Writers & BooksThe New Leaf JournalMarch 21, 2023
Making the case for a feed reader + read-it-later solution as an online reading alternative to social media and services like Google and Apple News.
Research & ScienceWest Coast Stat ViewsMarch 21, 2023
You can't really root for either, but it's still fun to sit back and enjoy the spectacle.2022 was a remarkably bad year for conventional wisdom pretty much across the board…
Research & ScienceLanguage LogMarch 21, 2023
Responding to "Transcriptional Chinese animal imagery for English daily greetings" (3/13/23), Mary Erbaugh, using Yale Cantonese romanization, writes: ———— I've never seen it done with animal names, though probably easier…
Poets & Writers & BooksKristin Berkey-AbbottMarch 21, 2023
I have been keeping an eye on the progress of the cherry blossoms. For as long as my family lived in Northern Virginia and Maryland, I've never been here when…
Photography75CentralPhotographyMarch 21, 2023
Detail of one of the rocky spires at Colorado’s Garden of the Gods.…
PersonalThe Written AddictionMarch 21, 2023
It’s amazing to me. Technology is growing so fast. Or maybe this all growing too fast, no?Cell phones are the new thing to have. It’s true, there’s a line between…
PersonalThe Honest CourtesanMarch 21, 2023
I was planning to take down the shutters sometime between yesterday and Easter, depending on the weather. But on Saturday it was so nice and warm I just decided to…
PersonalCIMPLEMarch 21, 2023
Ted Lasso – Season 3 Official Trailer – Apple TV+
TechnologyFuturelawyerMarch 21, 2023
Whose dead? Who's dead? Bring out your dead. Related StoriesChatGPT-4 Knows Who I Am.What, Me Retire? What Am I? A Dog?#WhyIAmASolo - I Don't Live Deep Inside A Corporate Sandwich.
CultureCultrfaceMarch 21, 2023
Ever wonder how people get up close shots of tiny objects and surroundings? They use a probe lens! Tiago Catarino used a Laowa probe lens to film the inside of…
Poets & Writers & BooksRen Powell | Poet, EssayistMarch 21, 2023
I have been listening to radio theater the past few days. It’s a medium that I haven’t much experience with. I wrote a short radio play in verse years ago…
Music & AudioDisquietMarch 21, 2023
This Junto Profile is part of a new series of short Q&As that provide some background on various individuals who participate regularly in the online Disquiet Junto music community. What’s…
PersonalRubenerdMarch 21, 2023
Before I started writing this, the buffer in this text editor was empty. I wonder what it could have held? By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-03-21.
TechnologyPixel EnvyMarch 21, 2023
Josh Hill: During a Europe trip in May 2022, I uploaded over 6,000 photos and hundreds of videos to the cloud. Upon editing and deleting some of the photos, I…
Digital GardensTracy Durnell – Learning and Thinking in PublicMarch 21, 2023
Admired the colors on a shot by Maique and he told me it was a Kodachrome filter 👀 Gradient map – with complementary colors Curves – I rarely use…
TravelsAlong the RayMarch 21, 2023
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PersonalJonathan Wrote ThisMarch 21, 2023
While sitting at the dinner table this evening our youngest daughter came up with best excuse I’ve ever heard for why she couldn’t help her sisters with something: “I’ve got…
PersonalOm Malik – On my OmMarch 21, 2023
A general rule of thumb that has helped me maintain perspective is that, given enough time, you are either proven to be an idiot or a genius. A corollary to…
PersonalXi’an’s OgMarch 20, 2023
Hey, JAGS users and would-be users, be warned that registration is now open for the annual JAGS workshop on probabilistic modelling for cognitive science. The tenth instalment of this workshop…
HistorySamuel Pepys: Diary, Letters, Family Tree, Maps, Encyclopedia, Discussion and moreMarch 20, 2023
This morning I rose early and went to my house to put things in a little order against my going, which I conceive will be to-morrow (the weather still very…
TechnologyInterdependent ThoughtsMarch 20, 2023
It was a busy but fun week. I’m writing this in Malta where I am spending most of the next working week. Last week I Participated on the first day…
Poets & Writers & BooksA Working LibraryMarch 20, 2023
Jenny Odell “This book is my panoramic assault on nihilism,” writes Jenny Odell in the introduction to Saving Time. That assault consists of a wide-ranging meditation on many aspects of…
Poets & Writers & BooksmnmlscholarMarch 20, 2023
I’m a firm believer that a searchable analog database requires color. Two colors, to be precise. And a threaded keyword system so I can search notes by topic. All in…
PersonalOceanic WildernessMarch 20, 2023
We returned from our west Texas adventures for Spring Break to much greener pastures here. Yes, there were some plants blooming in the Davis Mountains but as we lowered in…
TechnologyJim Nielsen’s BlogMarch 20, 2023
I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party. The purist in me loves the idea because it makes CSS more internally consistent with its design to be a language-agnostic…