An unprecedented archaeology experiment is putting historical shipboard food and drink to the test.
Links
👓 The ship’s biscuit | Royal Museums Greenwich
The ship’s biscuit was an important part of the sailor's sea diet before the introduction of canned foods.
🔖 Write the Docs Portland 2018 | YouTube
Empathy-driven developer documentation
All the @WriteTheDocs sessions are online now! 🎥🎉 Full playlist in program order, including lightning talks! ⏩ https://t.co/VGwio5R7xC #writethedocs
— Aaron Parecki (@aaronpk) May 9, 2018
👓 Why Mueller Has to Expose Trump’s Crooked Business Empire | Daily Intelligencer | New York Magazine
If Trump is laundering money, and he probably is, the Russians know about it. So do Michael Cohen’s gangster friends.
In this article, Chait indicates what is only incredibly obliquely implied in that Washington Post article: Trump is likely laundering money for Russian concerns for he can’t honestly have the native cash flow from honest dealings to be spending the way he has. This is a much more stark take on this recent financial reporting.
👓 Theory: Playboy Model Who Got $1.6 Million Had Affair With Trump, Not Broidy | Daily Intelligencer | New York Magazine
Michael Cohen arranged a $1.6 million payout to a model allegedly impregnated by GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy. But was Broidy covering for Trump?
It’s well reasoned and incredibly well laid out. Having read it, I can’t help but think that the logic is solid and the probabilities are far more in favor of the theory than they are of the previously reported stories holding water.
I literally can’t wait to see how this plays out…
🔖 Notes on the future of the WithKnown Commercial Product
(1.0 is coming soon, but yes, I wouldn’t blame you for coming to this entirely correct conclusion. Returning to life.)
— Ben Werdmuller (@benwerd) May 8, 2018
There’s about to be a lot of deleted code. Convoy and commercial elements are going away. But the open source project will be properly revived.
— Ben Werdmuller (@benwerd) May 8, 2018
👓 Save Barnes & Noble! | New York Times
It’s in trouble. And Washington’s flawed antitrust policy is a big reason.
👓 One space between each sentence, they said. Science just proved them wrong. | Washington Post
“Professionals and amateurs in a variety of fields have passionately argued for either one or two spaces following this punctuation mark,” they wrote in a paper published last week in the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
They cite dozens of theories and previous research, arguing for one space or two. A 2005 study that found two spaces reduced lateral interference in the eye and helped reading. A 2015 study that found the opposite. A 1998 experiment that suggested it didn't matter.
“However,” they wrote, “to date, there has been no direct empirical evidence in support of these claims, nor in favor of the one-space convention.”
I’ll circle back to read the full journal article shortly.1
References
👓 Privacy | David Shanske
I admit to a certain amount of frustration on the subject of privacy lately. It seems, in all aspects of my life, both personal and professional, the new data privacy regulations that the EU rolls out May 25th are a theme in every discussion.
❤️ darenw tweet A time lapse for every hit of Ichiro’s MLB career
I got a ton of requests for this.... A time lapse for every hit of Ichiro's @mlb career. pic.twitter.com/w8uhzlSnp0
— Daren Willman (@darenw) May 6, 2018
👓 MailChimp RSS to Email Newsletter – A Complete Guide | WPism
A Complete Guide to set up email Newsletter using MailChimp RSS to Email feature. Learn how to use MailChimp RSS Campaign to send an automated Newsletter.
Hopefully tomorrow we’ll have a weekly newsletter up and running.
👓 Daniel Goldsmith’s reply to Sebastian Greger
Sebastian, first of all, thank you for your detailed write up on this issue. I think much of your roadmap is worthwhile, and of great interest.
I cannot, however, say that I am convinced by your contentions regarding the effect of GDPR and indieweb sites. In particular, I think your definitions are excessively broad, and you elide much information from both the Regulation itself and the Recitals.
I think I fall somewhere in the middle of the two and see some of the moral and ethical pieces which are more important from a people perspective. I’m not as concerned about the law portion of it for a large variety of reasons. It’s most interesting to me to see the divide between how those in the EU and particularly Germany view the issue and those in the United States which may be looking at regulations in the coming years, particularly after the recent Facebook debacle.
As I think of these, I’m reminded about some of the cultural differences between Europe and the United States which Jeff Jarvis has expounded upon over the past several years. Europeans are generally more leery of corporations and trust government a bit more while in America it’s the opposite.
👓 The Web We Need to Give Students | BRIGHT Magazine
“Giving students their own digital domain is a radical act. It gives them the ability to work on the Web and with the Web.”
In this article, she touches on some reasons why it’s important for students to have their own domain, but many of these ideas and arguments also work well for almost anyone. It’s interesting to see how similar the philosophy she describes here dovetails with that of the IndieWeb.
👓 How to manage older blog posts | Diverse Tech Geek
I take a look at some tips, plus an infographic, on how to handle older blog posts, as part of regular blog maintenance duties.
👓 Neanderthals produced symbolic art, research suggests | Cosmos Magazine
Grooves on an ancient piece of flint might have been made intentionally to encode information. Andrew Masterson reports.
h/t to @CosmosMagazine
Grooves on an ancient piece of flint might have been made by Neanderthals to intentionally to encode information. https://t.co/DkXzFjbegA
— Cosmos Magazine (@CosmosMagazine) May 4, 2018
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