a short booklist of hokey farm and gardening books

I love reading books that teach you to farm and garden by giving hilarious anecdotes.

Adams, John Festus, Backyard Poultry Raising, Random House, 1977
Madison, Michael, Blithe Tomato, Heydey Books, 2006
Warner, Charles Dudley, My Summer in a Garden, Houghton Mifflin, 1881.
Young, Rosamund, The Secret Life of Cows, Baskerville Press, 2003.

I wish I could learn other skills [...]

missed opportunities?

I was talking to C earlier this evening about the differences between CNN’s website, cnn.com, and the New York Times’ website, nytimes.com. Cnn.com, I explained, both are mostly text with some media, and the difference is that CNN is adding text to their media and the New York Times is adding media to their text.
Scant [...]

tinfoil hats and snake oil (or: if i was a librarian how would i search)

Recently I was looking at some of the searches that had brought visitors to ⌘f and noticed “if i was a librarian how would i search” was among them. this kind of clicked with something that’s been rattling around my head the last few days about a couple of personal search experiences I’ve had [...]