“In a sense heat itself is a kind of garbage we’re dumping offshore while we dump the carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere.”
“To starve a whale is a crime against nature that staggers the imagination.”
Two perfect sentences from Rebecca Solnit’s latest newsletter.
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-starve-a-whale-letter-from-a-hot-planet/
Top Albums from last.fm on 27/09/26.
1, k.d. lang, Hymns of the 49th Parallel, (11);
2, Stéphane Grappelli, It Might As Well Be Swing, (11);
3, Warren Zevon, The Wind, (11);
4, Kabza De Small, Ziwangale, (10);
5, L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, Sona, (9);
Wondering how it is that 40% of visits to my website this past week seem to have come from the American Osteopathic College of Radiology, double the number from Google.
In Distance there is the sight of everything; here there is the presence of something.
My website is ever changing. I am
the age of the story.
nights lost in darkness.
@jon In case you have a moment, we were just in Padua where the trams run on a central single rail. Presumably the have balancing wheels on the sides. Are they unique? Is it considered a good design, or weird?
The twenty-first episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 21, I chat with Joel, the author of joelchrono.xyz about, among other things, writing about video games, weeknotes, homepage and website design, and more.
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
The round red ball of Chioggia radicchio, with its white ribs, is a mainstay of Italian salads. However, it is just one of a huge family of varieties in a range of colours from pale pink to dark magenta and green splashed with red. Now, thanks to more than a decade of work by Lane Selman and the Culinary Breeding Network, they are beginning to be recognised in the USA.
A new book tells that story.
The radiant red leaves, the yellow and brown leaves, the feeling of the cold in my hands and in my cheeks.
Leaf-coated pavements. The world, painted with colour.
Music plays. Air breathes. Momentum dances.
red, amber, green; leaves, lights.
