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Too many herbs!
I am overwhelmed with herbs from our weekly farm box. I currently have more fresh dill, cilantro, and lemon balm than I know what to do with. Oh, and several bunches of scallions. Suggestions for recipes that use a ton of these in one go? Vegetarian preferred but not required, don't eat beef, not crazy about spicy stuff.
Help me find cool, weird, rare edible herbs for my garden
I have installed a new herb garden in my US Midwestern yard this year and I am looking for suggestions on interesting perennial edible herbs to add to it beyond the obvious culinary classics (rosemary, sage, thyme, etc.). What should I grow?
I don't think this is the way it's supposed to go
As he began observing and talking to the inmates, he realised that he had it all wrong. The teenagers joked and played around with each other, as millions around the world at that age do, and Oshagan found their demeanours instantly relatable. from Fragile, intimate portraits of California’s imprisoned youth [Huck]
The Struggle to Contain, and Eat, the Invasive Deer Taking over Hawaii
Invasive species are well known to be a threat to the native ecosystem (usgs.gov pdf titled Wild Sheep and Deer in Hawai`i—a Threat to Fragile Ecosystems). Axis deer are particularly damaging, running rampant on Maui. They were introduced to the Big Island in 2009 and it took 5 years of government sponsored effort to successfully eradicate them. One of those involved in that project, Jack Muise (long interview on the podcast The Drive with the story of his life and how he got started) has started a business humanely hunting axis deer for commercial resale. The Struggle to Contain, and Eat, the Invasive Deer Taking over Hawaii. Axis deer were first brought to the islands in the 1860s. Now they number in the tens of thousands. (Modern Farmer). How Hawaii Became the Source of a Rare and Tasty Breed of Venison (By Evan Bleier for Inside Hook) "Harvested at night across 250,000 acres from 50 to 75 yards away using surveillance drones, UTVs and long-range rifles equipped with infrared scopes, Maui Nui’s deer are killed under the watchful eyes of a USDA inspector in a manner that is designed to make the deer unaware they are being hunted."
Dog-centered readings or perspectives on pet loss/grief?
We lost a beloved, much-too-young dog under traumatic circumstances last week, and we are having trouble processing the loss. A friend pointed me to this Blair Braverman piece, which I found helpful, and I'm looking for similar ways of thinking about our relationships with our dogs.
“Charlie is the kind of guy where you just really want to believe him”
Wickwire recalls instances where other climbers lied about their ascents and were quickly banished. “No one would climb with them or believe what they said,” he points out. But when it came to stories about Barrett’s violence against women, people were too willing to look the other way—even after Barrett was arrested and a detailed indictment from a federal investigation was posted online. “There is a dissonance between how climbers think of themselves and what they actually do,” says Kimbrough Moore, a longtime climber, a guidebook author, and a philosophy professor at San Francisco State University. “In my experience, the climbing community has been hostile to women who have come out saying they were assaulted.” As for Barrett, Moore says: “I have never heard of anyone doing more to harm the climbing community than Charlie. He has used his status as an elite climber to hurt people for a very long time.” from How Did This Climber Get Away with So Much for So Long? [Outside; ungated] [CW: rape, sexual violence, violence to animals, stalking, harassment, enabling]
Free tax filing, now and forever. (Actual taxes still not free)
The IRS announces that "Direct File will be a permanent, free tax filing option."
Despite years of lobbying from the likes of Intuit and H&R Block, the IRS ran a successful pilot program of its Direct File program with 12 states. Today, they announced that the program will be permanent and invited all states to participate.
Remain Otterly Ungovernable
Last summer, the California coast had an unusual threat for surfers in the form of Otter 841, who had a passion for stealing surfboards while evading the authorities. With the start of the 2024 season, Otter 841 is back, and just as ready to cause havok as she was last year.
Paleolithic Pareidolia
"The influence of pareidolia has often been anecdotally observed in examples of Upper Palaeolithic cave art, where topographic features of cave walls were incorporated into images. As part of a wider investigation into the visual psychology of the earliest known art, we explored three hypotheses relating to pareidolia in cases of Late Upper Palaeolithic art in Las Monedas and La Pasiega Caves (Cantabria, Spain)." [SLPDF] Pareidolia previously, back in '03.
🌈🐕ciao
窓からは柔らかな光が射し込み、Kabosu, the beloved Shiba-Inu behind the globally popular Doge meme, has passed away peacefully at home today at the age of 18.
[Soft light streamed through the window]
窓の外では鳥たちが歌う美しい朝に、
[Outside, birds were singing on a beautiful morning]
私に撫でられながら眠るようにそっと逝きました。
[As I petted her, she passed away gently, as if falling asleep]
長い間かぼちゃんを愛して下さったみなさま、本当にありがとうございました。
[To everyone who has loved Kabo-chan for a long time, thank you very much]
かぼちゃんは世界一幸せな犬だったと思います。そして私は世界一幸せな飼い主でした。
[I believe Kabo-chan was the happiest dog in the world, and I was the happiest owner]
Another layer of mediation to an already loopy transmission
Though LSD was sometimes passed around in the 1960s on actual blotting paper, sheets of perforated (‘perfed’) and printed LSD paper do not come to dominate the acid trade until the late 1970s, reaching a long golden age in the 1980s and ’90s. As such, the rise of blotter mirrors, mediates and challenges the mythopoetic story of LSD’s spiritual decline. For even as LSD lost the millennialist charge of the 1960s, it continued to foster spiritual discovery, social critique, tribal bonds and aesthetic enrichment. During the blotter age, the quality of the molecule also improved significantly, its white sculptured crystals sometimes reaching and maybe surpassing the purity levels of yore. Many of the people who produced and sold this material remained idealists, or at least pragmatic idealists, with a taste for beautiful craft and an outlaw humour reflected in the design of many blotters, which sometimes poked fun at the scene and ironically riffed on the fact that the paper sacraments also served as ‘commercial tokens’. from Acid media [Aeon; ungated]
It becomes apparent there were at least three versions of the dough
Let’s go back to December 1942, to the corner of Wabash and Ohio, to a small abandoned basement tavern that was also once a pizzeria named the Pelican Tap. The new tenants living directly above the abandoned tavern are a recently married couple with their newborn daughter. The 39-year-old father is the painter and restaurateur Richard Riccardo, owner of the famous Riccardo’s Studio Restaurant on Rush Street. from The Secret History of the Original Deep-Dish Crust [Chicago]
World Pilot Gig Championships 2024
The Cornish Pilot Gig is a coxed 6-oar, clinker built rowing boat, originally built to take pilots out to sailing ships to pilot them into harbour.
Since the first pilot to get to a ship got the job, speed became essential to anyone who wanted to get paid, requiring strong arms, stamina and innovations in boat design. While this trade is long gone, most Cornish harbours continue to support a gig club who race competitively, purely for fun and glory.
Archaeologists reveal reconstructed face of 75,000yo Neanderthal woman
Archaeologists reveal reconstructed face of 75,000yo Neanderthal woman.
The Neanderthal woman's skull was discovered in 2018 in a cave in the Zagros Mountains of northern Iraq.
We Sent Ralph Nader Some of Our Favorite Pens. He Dismissed Them All.
Ralph Nader is loyal to one pen: the Papermate Flair. But Nader claims that the pens are drying out quicker then they used to. He reached out to Wirecutter (a NYT property) and they investigated.
Archive.is link: https://archive.is/54jtw
‘read and censure ... but buy it first ... whatever you do, buy.’
A Series of Headaches
is a video from the London Review of Books following printer Nick Hand as he prints a page from the magazine using methods as close as he can get to those used to print the First Folio of Shakespeare plays. The page selected is an old LRB article about the First Folio by Michael Dobson [archive link]. The video is made in conjunction with Folio400, a website with lots of information about the First Folio, as well as a series of articles on it.
Kiwi takes a nap in Far North woman's chicken coop
Kiwi takes a nap in Far North woman's chicken coop (New Zealand/Aotearoa).
Iowa vs LSU rematch for Final Four
Iowa faced off against LSU again to decide which team would make it to the Final Four this year and it was everything that people were hoping for!
She wanted to give it back to Dave and make him squirm a little bit
The mere notion of Madonna going on any talk show was rare. She didn’t need the publicity. The relentless tabloids took care of that for her. Nor did she have anything to promote. Someone of her magnitude would seldom go on without a reason. But on March 31st, 1994, she did it anyway. She went on David Letterman’s Late Show for her first visit with the host in 6 years. Everybody would be tuning in no matter what. But what we got was something so bizarre that we cannot help but marvel that it was ever really a thing 30 years later. from An Oral History of Madonna’s Infamous 1994 David Letterman Appearance [Latenighter]
Large old trees are vital for Australian birds
Large old trees are vital for Australian birds. Their long branches and hollows can’t be replaced by saplings.
Joementum Comes To A Halt
Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has died at 82 from complications from a fall.
Recycling ceramic waste into new ceramics
IKEA's recently introduced SILVERSIDA line of blue-speckled white ceramic dinnerware are made with ~60% post-firing ceramic waste. Broken pottery is ground up into powder then mixed with a portion of raw clay and water and used to make these new pieces.
Still vast, no longer trunkless
Massive Missing Head of Ancient Ramesses II Statue Uncovered.
"Egyptian and American researchers recently uncovered the top half of an ancient statue depicting the pharaoh Ramesses II, completing a puzzle that has remained unsolved since 1930, when German archaeologist Günther Roeder initially uncovered the bottom half."
"I told them there was some sort of mistake."
When Azeez Sulaiman arrived in Qatar, he thought he was going to play football.
Instead, he ended up forced to work in construction, in dangerous conditions and for meager wages. But a new calling emerged from these trying circumstances: advocating for the rights and safety of his fellow workers. Writer Anthony del Col and graphic designer/graphic novelist Deena Mohamed help to tell Sulaiman's story.
A matter concerning a square and a circle
Snif & Snüf (five minutes), a cartoon about two friends who find a couple of mysterious shapes, by Michael Ruocco, an animator who's worked on New Looney Tunes, the Cuphead Show and Bojack Horseman.
Scone With the Wind
Our new kitchen, for design reasons, has one ‘cupboard’ door that just covers some wall. I want to cover the wall with fake bookends so that when you open the door it looks like a shelf of cook books, but I want joke titles that are puns on classic literature, eg ‘Loaf of Pi’ or ‘Bun day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’. Ideas, please!
At least Ru told us her plan, which was also her mistake
RuPaul is building a bunker, and Kate Middleton has gone missing. One of these things is definitely confirmed. RuPaul is taking things to a place of societal collapse. He said so while promoting his forthcoming memoir “The House of Hidden Meanings.” He’s fortifying his compound in Wyoming for him and his hot rancher husband with morally ambiguous wealth to ride out the civil war he believes is imminent.
The Colorblind Campaign to Undo Civil Rights Progress
Colorblindness was the goal, color-consciousness the remedy.
Nikole Hannah-Jones (previously) examines the historic and present-day use of colorblindness to oppose Black progress. (SLNYT)
Please help find a real "Rosie the Riveter"
There's longer article with pictures and a video here
The Collings Foundation is restoring a P-47 Thunderbolt, and inside the fuselage they found a handwritten note. It's signed by either "Sue Tharp” or “Sue Thorp," who was working on the production line of Republic Aircraft in Evansville, IN in late 1944. Can anyone help find her?
Tiny endangered turtle twins hatch from same egg in 1-in-3000 event
Tiny endangered turtle twins hatch from same egg in 1-in-3000 event amid efforts to save the species. When scientists discovered seven baby Bell's turtles in a batch of six incubated eggs in the NSW Northern Tablelands recently, they were initially stumped.
Dexter Romweber, no longer here but the sound lives on.
Dexter Romweber, singer-guitarist of influential rockabilly band Flat Duo Jets, died on Sunday. He was 57.
They don't make 'em like Dex anymore. Godspeed, pal.
Blue Beat Baby: The Untold Story of Brigitte
Who was the woman who inspired ska's ubiquitous Beat Girl logo?
Joanna Wallace found a picture of the woman who inspired Hunt Emerson's iconic logo, and it led her to start digging into the history and career of Brigitte Bond.
How Google is killing independent sites like ours
Private equity firms are utilizing public trust in long-standing publications to sell every product under the sun. In a bid to replace falling ad revenue, publishing houses are selling their publications for parts to media groups that are quick to establish affiliate marketing deals. They’re buying magazines we love, closing their print operations, turning them into digital-only, laying off the actual journalists who made us trust in their content in the first place, and hiring third-party companies to run the affiliate arm of their sites. While this happens, investment firms and ‘innovative digital media companies’ are selling you bad products. These Digital Goliaths shouldn’t be able to use product recommendations as their personal piggy bank, simply flying through Google updates off the back of ‘the right signals,’ an old domain, or the echo of a reputable brand that is no longer.Indie air purifier review site HouseFresh does a deep dive into the incestuous world of top-ranking Google product search results.
You can wag your tail / But I ain't gonna feed you no more
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters.
Author Lynée Denise on the book's genesis: I saw this video of one of her performances from 1970 and I was like who the hell is this? Who is this woman commanding the room, commanding the band with all this dignity, all this ruthless inner peace?
Thornton is sometimes overlooked in music history, but her rendition of "Hound Dog" came first, and was a smash hit to boot. More happily “Ball and Chain” became one of Janis Joplin’s signature songs with Big Mama’s blessing, after Joplin encountered Thornton singing it in a Divisadero St club in San Francisco. Dubbed "Big Mama" for her size, Thornton had raised herself out of poverty, turning professional singer at the age of fourteen in 1940. [Previously on MeFi]
Thornton is sometimes overlooked in music history, but her rendition of "Hound Dog" came first, and was a smash hit to boot. More happily “Ball and Chain” became one of Janis Joplin’s signature songs with Big Mama’s blessing, after Joplin encountered Thornton singing it in a Divisadero St club in San Francisco. Dubbed "Big Mama" for her size, Thornton had raised herself out of poverty, turning professional singer at the age of fourteen in 1940. [Previously on MeFi]
Burrowed out in ancient times by the slithering of a giant worm
Many an ancient road is a sunken road. They are formed by the passage of people, animals, and vehicles over time. Things of beauty, they are found hither and yon, including in Middle Earth. They should be considered as critical sites of the Anthropocene, signature human impacts on the land that are important, perhaps vital, and still not wholly understood. Also known as holloways, they have inspired literary and artistic reflection, conjuring images of fantastic landscapes. Note that, per Wikipedia, a holloway is not the same thing as a tree tunnel, an excavated road, or a gully.
A cat named Fraggle Rock
First 2 weeks of bringing home Fraggle Rock from the shelter,
Week 3,
and commencing Week 4:
daily illustrations by an artist on Tumblr. More on their Fraggle Rock tag (the cat not the show)
Where is this movie/photoshoot set?
I've become mildly obsessed with what I think is a Chinese location for photoshoots, movies, and music videos that makes it look "American" and I want to know more about it but I can't figure out the exact name or location.
The ancestor of banksias came from North Africa
Banksias are iconic Australian plants, but their ancestors actually came from North Africa. "Our research, published in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, shows that the ancestors of banksias actually migrated here from North Africa.
From early fossil pollen studies, we already knew that the protea family (Proteaceae), which includes banksias, grevilleas, waratahs and macadamias in Australia, originated in northwest Africa 130 million years ago.
Our task was to track their migration to Australia, where they became the unique symbols of the Australian bush that we admire today."
His Decision to Go Remote Called for a $180,000 Library Remodel
An Austin-based hedge funder went big on a calm, relaxing space
Santostefano chose Primavera marble for the countertops for their gorgeous veins of blue and orange. 'It reminded me of blue cheese,' she says. // Price: $11,000
That's no moon
Millennia-old mystery about insects and light at night gets a new explanation
"At night in the Costa Rican cloud forest, Yash Sondhi and a small team of international scientists switched on a light and waited. Soon, insects big and small descended out of the darkness. Moths with spots like unblinking eyes on each wing. Shiny armored beetles. Flies. Once, even a praying mantis. Each did the same hypnotic, dizzying dance around the bulb as if attached to it with invisible string."
Do Like This
Favorite Dance Moves.
Ed People gets people to show their favorite dance moves from all around the world.
I didn't expect to be here. I'm small time.
Dorothy Gambrell of Cat and Girl (which has been running for almost 25 years now... pre·vi·ous·ly) has a new comic reflecting "on being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem de Kooning."
One of Australia's rarest reptiles found in regional WA
One of Australia's rarest reptiles found in regional Western Australia years after relocation program. An endangered western swamp tortoise was found on a dirt track near Northcliffe.
A River Runs To It
These entrancing maps capture where the world’s rivers go.
When Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs looked online for a map of the world’s rivers based on their ocean destination, he found nothing on a global scale with high resolution. “It’s like, how does this thing not exist? So, I just instantly put it on my to-do list."
Movie: Killers of the Flower Moon
Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover.