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Jeremy Cherfas

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Are two spaces better than one? | Butterick’s Practical Typography

As ever, you can always answer a question in a headline with "No!" But the bigger point is this:

[A]r­gu­ing pas­sion­ately about dumb top­ics is the web’s rai­son d’être. 

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Privacy notes from the latest Overcast

All interesting, useful and considerate. I expect nothing less. I suppose the only fly in the ointment is this gem:

Podcasting has thrived, grown, and made tons of money for tons of people

I'm not really seeing that.

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"Who We Are: #8 India"

The Aryan-Invasion-Theory sure looks to be basically correct. As for the archaeologists saying that there’s not enough evidence of devastation, Reich points out that they can’t really detect the fall of the western Roman Empire, which hardly means it didn’t happen. War and migration are well-known important factors in written history – why not in prehistory? Because many contemporary archaeologist and historians think that wishing can make it so. They should be paid accordingly.

PESOS from https://www.reading.am/p/4XXy/https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/who-we-are-8-india/.

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‘Consider flour as flavour’: Bakers turn to whole grains to give their baked goods a boost

“Folks in the 60s and 70s didn’t know how to work with whole grains, and were getting super gritty and dense baked goods,” says Kaufmann. For many in the counterculture, eating these brick-like baked goods was an anti-authority act unto itself. “You were committed to the idealism behind baking whole wheat bread, even if that meant retraining your palate to enjoy it.”

Refusing my mother's wholewheat quiche was the anti-authority act here.

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The business model of the Internet is surveillance contd.

The moral is, in a way, obvious: it’s a confirmation of Bruce Schneier’s original observation that “surveillance is the business model of the Internet”. Being a pedant, I would have said “of the Web”, but since many people can’t distinguish between the two, we’ll leave Bruce’s formulation stand.

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“Who We Are: #3 Neanderthals | West Hunter

Gratuitous, but fun:

Ernst Mayr, a prominent figure in biology had opined that hybridization was an unimportant factor in evolution, as far as I can tell for no particular reason at all. For equally mysterious reasons, people paid attention to him.

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From a thread on Hackernews

I  have a sneaking suspicion that if tomorrow Apple or Google just subscribed everyone to 99% Invisible and waited, FM radio would be dead in a year.

 

Sweet thought, but unlikely. 

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IndieWeb generation 4 and hosted domains | Manton Reece

Owning your content isn’t about portable software. It’s about portable URLs and data. It’s about domain names.

Cannot say this often enough.

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Crazy Walls

Thanks to Adactio for the link.

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Chris Aldrich on Twitter: "@jgkoomey @judell This is the general idea behind the #indieweb movement: https://t.co/NG6ELqxCHC For the price of registering your own domain and some hosting, you can run your own website and still interact with other websites in an open and distributed manner."

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Underscores, Optimization & Arms Races

This is the question that underscores all the subsequent ones:

[S]hould we be trying to appease Google?

Also, I hope I'm not the only one to be grateful that the article is from Anil Dash.

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Airlines and Airports – The Brooks Review

This one is really interesting, and had never occurred to me. Not that I have much choice when changing continents.

PROPERLY BREAKING UP A FLIGHT JOURNEY

Simple rule, I’ve learned the hard way: 2 equal length legs of a journey are far better than one long leg and one short one. If the entire world is conspiring against you, and you cannot get a non-stop flight, pick the one with the most equal durations of flying times and try to get a 2 hour layover. That’s enough to pee, stretch, eat, and not stress if your incoming flight is delayed. Also: it’s always better to fly in and out of larger airports as there’s far better food options.

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The 9 rules of design research

Duncan says:

(Researchers themselves are sometimes the most reluctant to undertake user research before spending serious amounts of money on ineffective websites.)

Strange, isn't it.

(The 9 rules themselves are at Medium and, I hope, somewhere else too. Because you never know.)

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Hot Pod: Anchor 3.0, The Sauce, On Preservation

The principle puzzle of podcasting lies in the fact that because it has an extremely low barrier to entry, it has an extremely high barrier to scale.

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The Dark Art of Stealing from Self-Checkouts

I've never done this myself, honest, but I can understand that it is tempting for a whole reason. And I like both ends of the spectrum of justification:

The authors further proposed that retailers bore some blame for the problem. In their zeal to cut labor costs, the study said, supermarkets could be seen as having created “a crime-generating environment” that promotes profit “above social responsibility.”

... and ...

“Anyone who pays for more than half of their stuff in self checkout is a total moron,” reads one of the more militant comments in a Reddit discussion on the subject. “There is NO MORAL ISSUE with stealing from a store that forces you to use self checkout, period. THEY ARE CHARGING YOU TO WORK AT THEIR STORE.”