Beyond Farmers Markets: Why Local Food Belongs on Grocery Shelves Kathleen Merrigan (deputy secretary of the USDA), writing at The Atlandtic: When the farmer, the packer, the wholesaler, and the retailer all prosper in the same region, it creates opportunity for home-grown jobs, draws more people into agriculture, and fosters relationships between the people who […]
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Researchers discover how to conduct first test of ‘untestable’ string theory via Slashdot—which says However, it will be very important to theoreticians because it will demonstrate whether or not string theory works, even if its application is in an unexpected and unrelated area of physics.' In other words, string theory may finally have shed its […]
The Big Idea John Joseph Adams at John Scalzi's blog ("Whatever") re: his new anthology, Federations. WANT. (tagged: scifi literature wishlist ) The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals at Ecstatic Days : …this bite-sized bestiary is the deciding vote on which fantastical creatures are kosher. Embarking on an undomesticated romp from A to Z, the […]
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction via B² (tagged: design literature scifi art typography illustration ) Here & There via Warren Ellis — "a horizonless projection in Manhattan" (awesome) (tagged: design visualization art map ) Classic Illustrators by Name via the w00t blog — a Flickr collection of scans of classic "Golden Age of Advertising" […]
Who’s Listening To Your Shared iTunes Music? via Hackszine.com (via LifeHacker): perfect for those late-night shutdown routines to delay the actual shutdown until after all the connections have been closed… (tags: Terminal OSX iTunes hack lsof todo)
iPodDisk via command-tab: an application that allows iPod browsing more/less from the Finder as well as copy the tracks back down off the iPod. (tags: iPod iTunes music software Mac OSX tools) Map of the Internet via xkcd (via /.): “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language” – – in this edition: a map […]
devnevyn: linkd — make cross-application links to VoodooPad What does “linkd” offer that the linkback framework does not? (tags: VoodooPad hack linkback linkd todo) microformats (tags: microformats dev framework language publishing tagging xml web) Apparently, less IS more via My Boring Ass Life (via Daring Fireball): Kevin Smith’s Celebrity playlist for iTunes (the one that […]
Dear iTunes crew: Enough with the meta data already… Skip Count? Last Skipped? Jeez… I thought *I* was obsessive about this stuff but then along came these and I just… I just don’t know what to say. On the other hand: Thanks for getting “Album Artist” in there. That solved a lot of problems. (While […]
The Sampo Method (Last Played is in the last 7 days, Date Added is in the last 2 weeks, Genre does not contain “Mix”; Limit to 10 items selected by most often played.) TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me” Midlake “Roscoe” Built To Spill “Goin’ Against Your Mind” Built To Spill “Mess With Time” […]