I was thinking about a design for a web page yesterday that I wanted to build with a few illustrations. I remembered that there was a site with old-timey illustrations that were available in the public domain. I thought I have no idea how to find this website! Today,, I was both surprised and delighted that the search query “old timey illustrations” allowed me to find the site, which I now know is called Old Book Illustrations. It is amazing that I can type in a query like “old timey illustrations” into a web search engine and find the page for which I am looking. The speed with which I found the website for which I was looking – and how a search engine found the page with my description "old timey" – brought a smile to my face. Addendum: It looks like not all illustrations are public domain according to the Terms of Use, but this doesn't detract from the story :)
A slightly delayed post of last week’s bake. Four loaves of my Corn-ish bread; 25% Bramante maize and some olive oil in the mix.
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math professors are literally physically incapable of drawing curly brackets that don't look horribly deformed
If this is the kind of thing you enjoy, Enjoy!
I just added “Polaroid” to the list of film formats to my focal length equivalents site.
Made my day. How about yours?
Our very own last rose of summer
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And you can listen to my interview with John Mulcahy, should you so wish.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag/
https://mastodon.ie/@LiamGilmartin/115616302485568595
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The irony of someone on Shitstack telling us that the real internet is somewhere else is not lost on me.
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 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.
