From the archives: Peer review is a scientific institution; here's its purpose.
The training wheels are off and in about 10 minutes of practice, we’re now able to ride by ourself! There’s still some work to be done on getting going in the first place and doing better at turning, but we’ve got the basics.
👓 Private IVF clinics urged to stop charging for expensive add-ons | Society | The Guardian
Fertility experts criticise use of optional extras that do not increase chance of pregnancy
👓 How bicycles have changed in the last 25 years | Ars Technica
Bikes may still look roughly the same, but looks can be deceiving.
👓 Douglas Rain: Actor who voiced Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey dies | BBC News
Canadian actor Douglas Rain voiced the chilling computer in the landmark sci-fi film.
👓 The cost of renting in the UK in seven charts | BBC News
The typical one-bed home in England costs £600 a month to rent, but this hides a big divide across the country.
👓 Stan Lee: Spider-Man, X-Men and Avengers creator dies aged 95 | the Guardian
Almost as famous as his Marvel superheroes, Lee was known for bringing complex emotional life to cartoon characters
👓 Archbishop apologises over handling of abuse claims against Tolkien son | the Guardian
Church paid settlement to avoid disclosing knowledge of indecency in 1968, hearing told
📺 "House of Cards" Chapter 52 | Netflix
Directed by Jakob Verbruggen. With Jayne Atkinson, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly. As the hostage situation continues, Claire secretly negotiates with an extremist leader. Frank confronts Hammerschmidt.
Reviewing a bit to catch the flow of the coming seasons. Somehow I missed the subsequent season, so now I’ve happily got two seasons to catch up on as the series winds to what I suspect will be an end.
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👓 Recap of An Introduction to Microformats | gRegorLove.com
gRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)I gave a talk on microformats Wednesday night at the San Diego PHP Meetup group. This was my first time giving a formal talk on the topic. I think it went pretty well and I got some good feedback. There was a lot of information and links covered (and some I forgot) so I decided to make a summary pos...
Wish I could have attended the presentation, but thanks for the recap and links to the resources.
📺 "The Romanoffs" The Royal We | Amazon
Directed by Matthew Weiner. With Corey Stoll, Kerry Bishé, Janet Montgomery, Noah Wyle. With their marriage in a rut, a couple finds their own temptations.
Weiner is good at creating uncomfortable moments here. It’s nice that it’s not completely predictable, but sometimes I’m not sure why I’ve bought into it.
📺 "The Romanoffs" The Violet Hour | Amazon
Directed by Matthew Weiner. With Aaron Eckhart, Marthe Keller, Louise Bourgoin, Inès Melab. Set in Paris, an ancestral home holds the key to a family's future.
A quirkily plotted little show to be sure. I’m curious to see how it’s structured in the long term given what I’ve heard about it.
👓 Does anyone else keep their own knowledge wiki? | Lobsters
I’ve been extending and improving my personal wiki for 1 year now and it has been one of the best things I’ve done. I found writing blog posts was too high friction and very often didn’t finish things because there is so much you can talk about in any given article. But a wiki is just a living document containing your notes and thoughts on things. I also use it as my public bookmark manager as I collect interesting to me links under each topic.
For my wiki, I render everything to the web first with GitBook. And I have a macro I run that automatically commits any changes I’ve made with Sublime Text on the mac and Ulysses on the phone so everything is super easy to edit and publish.
Does anyone else keep their own wiki here? Or you think a blog is enough for you?
I’ve been considering starting a personal wiki after reading The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral by Mike Caulfield a while back. His article has some great set up and philosophy about the wiki versus blog. I’ve been using my own website/blog as a commonplace book for quite a while now to collect everything from what I’m listening to to what I read and even what I’ve highlighted/annotated online. I’ve documented a lot of the pieces I use to create/customize it. (Not everything I write is public either.)
Ultimately, I think that either way, having a solid search functionality becomes important regardless of which direction one chooses.
👓 WordPress 5.0 needs a different timeline | Joost.blog
For the last few months, the WordPress developer community has been moving towards a release of WordPress 5.0. This is the highly anticipated release that will contain the new Gutenberg editing experience. It’s arguably one of the biggest leaps forward in WordPress’ editing experience and its de...