Dave Winer: I'm re-thinking RSS now
RSS forces “blogging into the title-description-body model of journalism. But blog posts are more free-form, they don’t all fit into that structure,” Dave says.
One major reason I’m taking a break from WordPress now and trying micro.blog full time is that micro.blog is more graceful in how it handles untitled posts. For most blog posts, I dislike titles intensely. It’s a big deal for me.
Somewhere in the mid-2000s, there evolved a consensus opinion that blog posts needed to be at least a few hundred words long, with a title. Blog posts needed to be carefully composed and ideally with at least one image, according to this school of thought.
This is dead wrong. Blogging can be those things, but it should be freeform. Just write what you want, for however long you want, organized or disorganized, with or without an image. A blog post can be a single sentence, casually tossed off while waiting at the grocery cashier. Or it can be a long article, composed and revised carefully over several days.
A four-year-old answers job interview questions.
The advice about writing is spot on.
“911—what’s your emergency?” “Hi, I . . . uh . . . I work from home." [Colin Nissan/The New Yorker]
I never watch “meerkat videos.”
The British “full breakfast” is dying: The fry-up may be toast – but, much to my own surprise, I don’t really care [Tony Naylor/The Guardian]
When my wife and I first visited Britain in 1994, even then people told us “full breakfast” was mainly for old people and tourists.
Brawny Disneyland guest removes park’s sword in the stone/Boing Boing
I guess he’s the king of Disneyland then?
This statement could be read as Dave Winer disavowing blogging and RSS. Which would be extraordinary.
I expect I’m misunderstanding him.
TSA issues apology to Native American woman who had braids pulled by agent
The federal Transportation Security Administration has apologized to a Native American woman who said an agent at Minneapolis-St Paul international airport “pulled her braids” and said “giddy up!” when she took a flight from there this week.
“The agent said she needed to pat down my braids,” tweeted Tara Houska, an indigenous rights advocate and attorney. “She pulled them behind my shoulders, laughed and said ‘giddyup!’ as she snapped my braids like reins. My hair is part of my spirit. I am a Native woman. I am angry, humiliated. Your ‘fun’ hurt.”
Houska, who is Ojibwe, added: “When I informed the middle-aged blonde woman who had casually used her authority to dehumanize and disrespect me, she said, ‘Well it was just in fun, I’m sorry. Your hair is lovely.’
“That is NOT an apology and it is NOT OK.”
TSA issues apology to Native American woman who had braids pulled by agent The Guardian
National Archives edited Women’s March picture to be less critical of Trump Vox
The National Archives' justification here – golly! they just wanted to avoid controversy and political partisanship! – is bullshit.
More pizza, fewer vegetables: Trump administration further undercuts Obama school-lunch rules The Washington Post
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken another whack at former first lady Michelle Obama’s signature achievement: Establishing stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches. And on her birthday.
On Friday, USDA Deputy Under Secretary Brandon Lipps proposed new rules for the Food and Nutrition Service that would allow schools to cut the amount of vegetables and fruits required at lunch and breakfasts while giving them license to sell more pizza, burgers and fries to students.
Potato lobbyists applauded the decision.
Man hijacks Portland airport monitor to play video games, until PDX officials declare ‘game over’ oregonlive.com
Operations supervisors approached the gamer, [Port of Portland spokesperson Kama Simonds] said, “and very kindly asked this person to unplug and cease using the monitors at the airport.”
According to Simonds, the man asked “very politely” if he could finish his game. Sadly for him, the answer was no.
Thanks, @macgenie!
Larry David: The Incredibly Happy Life of TV’s Favorite Grouch
Brett Martin:
It is almost reflexive—for reasons of temperament and ethnicity—to describe David as “neurotic.” Sitting there with him in what I had already begun to think of as Larry World, I start to believe maybe this is exactly wrong. It occurs to me that Larry David may be the most self-actualized person I have ever met.
Delightful profile. And I’m not even a fan of the show.
That moment when you’re sitting on the couch and you tilt your head back to get the last few drops of your delicious breakfast shake, but you forgot you had your glasses on top of your head and you feel them slip off and hear them hit the carpet behind the couch.
On the other hand, the dog’s reaction was most gratifying when I moved the couch while she was sitting on it.
I am enjoying Jack Ryan enough to watch one episode a night, but not enough for two.
I’m glad Jim found a new career; he seemed unhappy at Dunder Mifflin.
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Seems like Jean is really into wieners
1940’s Visking Skinless Wiener Ad
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