fuck! almost forgot to wish everyone a happy Gazpacho Soup Day.
Eat This Newsletter 288: Adverse
Links to good writing on those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-288-adverse/ and while you're there, consider subscribing
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ETN 288: Adverse Those Lancet UPF papers, the ...
ETN 288: Adverse
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-288-adverse/
Ave Maria, seen on a fence in the local park. Behind the fence is a monument to war dead. I don’t really get it.
Jeremy Cherfas
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Ave Maria, seen on a fence in the local park. Behind the fence is a monument to war dead. I don’t really get it.
Machine knitting: neckli(n)e / show-and-tell!
This post is part of a series, as I play catch-up on KnitFactoryImpl's knitalong of a set in sleeve crew neck sweater for channel members.
After completing the front panel, only one major on-the-machine task remains for this sweater, and that's the neckline.
This is easy to ...
Map of the internet
Reply to Help me map the internet! by Tiffany
Also posted to Indienews, maybe more people will draw maps before the end of November.
I saw Sara submit something for this! I think it's a cool prompt and since I'm done with my huge project (for now) I can finally draw stuff for fun again without feeling bad and thinking "I should be creating something else". So I also made it kinda silly.
Here's my map:
Read more on the site…
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A jumpers-for-goalposts post about the origins of ...
A jumpers-for-goalposts post about the origins of WordPress that contains this gem
“Then the little blogging tool did what software does best: it quietly turned into something much bigger.”
Which what is wrong with so many little software tools. They can’t leave well enough alone. And I get it, but sheesh.
Snowy morning
On the cusp of the snowy doorstep, I felt a child-like excitement. I wanted to run outside and embrace the snow — the first proper snow, as we would say here, in at least a year. This is the kind of snow that will lie on the ground., I thought. The snow flakes were thick, lea...
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It’s too nice an afternoon to spend indoors finishing up tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, but someone has to examine a case in which US food safety regulation is more stringent than the EU’s.
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Machine knitting: front panel / looking forward
This post is part of a series, as I play catch-up on KnitFactoryImpl's knitalong of a set in sleeve crew neck sweater for channel members.
At the dawn of the final day of the knitalong, I was determined to finish the machine-knit portions of the build. That means making the ...
Icebreakers
This evening I hosted an online event about writing and writing on the web. “Writing” is a broad topic, so I wanted a way to help get the discussion going. A few weeks ago, I tried an ice breaker question in an event which went well, so I decided I’d try one again this evenin...
Bookmarks
My copy of Stephen King’s On Writing has been sitting on the shelf for a while. Why I stopped reading the book is one of those things lost to time. But about two weeks ago, I went to my bookshelves and picked out the two books that I had started but not finished yet. I could ...
At the opening of a friend’s show, and her painting of a crow spoke to me.
Jeremy Cherfas
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At the opening of a friend’s show, and her painting of a crow spoke to me.
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Top albums for the week ending 20 ...
Top albums for the week ending 20 November from last.fm
1. Miss Perfumado Cesária Évora 14
2. Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol.1 8
3. Didn’t It Rain 6
Signal Alerts from Uptime-Kuma
Uptime-Kuma, a self-hosted internet monitor, will now send alerts to me using Signal. This is roughly how I did it, more as an aide-memoire for my future self, but perhaps it can help you.
The first thing is to install the Signal REST API and send a test message, as per the...
Machine knitting: back panel / backlog
This post is part of a series, as I play catch-up on KnitFactoryImpl's knitalong of a set in sleeve crew neck sweater for channel members.
In the first installment of this series, I made some sleeves, putting me well on time for the knitalong. Since then, however, I spe...