Russ Sharek @RussSharek@mastodon.art

Interesting.

"Part Wikipedia-style crowd-sourced database and part meticulous bibliography, The Sifter is a catalogue of more than a thousand years of European and U.S. cookbooks, from the medieval Latin De Re Culinaria, published in 800, to the The Romance of Candy, a 1938 treatise on British sweets."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-find-historic-cookbooks

The Sifter: [ https://thesifter.org/ ]

#History #Cooking #Food #CookBooks

Today, I was trying to find (using commercial search engines) information about a topic. Maybe 9 out of 10 or more "relevant" results was about purchasing items related to the topic. Not ads placed in the result page, no, the actual results.

I remember how, when I was younger, I used to marvel at all the information out there on the web. How it was like a giant library.

I scarcely recognize the place now. If you want to search information about a topic you don't go into a mall. But that's what it feels like I'm forced to do.

I remember going to the library and pulling out drawers of index cards to locate the relevant non-fiction shelves with good content on topics I wanted to learn about. Imagine if those index cards had been mixed with cards with advertisements on them. Increasingly diluting the content with junk. That is the web of today.

Things have changed. #NewDo

To make a Dadaist poem:

Take a newspaper.
Take a pair of scissors.
Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
Shake it gently.
Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
Copy conscientiously.
The poem will be like you.
And here are you a writer, with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.

Tonight on #CircusInPlace

"What *ARE* the physics involved in throwing a pie with a trebuchet?"

@Avalon @RussSharek

To print is to crush

print (n.)
c. 1300, "impression, mark" (as by a stamp or seal), from Old French preinte "impression," noun use of fem. past participle of preindre "to press, crush," altered from prembre, from Latin premere "to press, hold fast, cover, crowd, compress" (from PIE root *per- (4) "to strike"). The Old French word also was borrowed into Middle Dutch (prente, Dutch prent) and other Germanic languages.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/print

Verb tense from the noun.

#OccasionalEtymology

Playing around with #Keyoxide, managed to list my mastodon account on my page. Which is pretty cool. https://keyoxide.org/hkp/avalonw@posteo.net

Read the link above, it's worth it. Promise. Here it is again, just in case:
https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

Finally got a chance to set up some at home studio space, that both gets to stay up all the time, and is respectful of the shared space in my house. Excited to be able to work on some larger art again.
#acrylicpainting #artist #paintings

The Zero Terminal 3: A Pop-Out Keyboard Linux Computer in Your Pocket

The mobile phone revolution has delivered us attractively packaged and convenient computing in our pockets, but without the easy hackability we like in our community. Meanwhile the ad… https://hackaday.com/2020/08/10/the-zero-terminal-3-a-pop-out-keyboard-linux-computer-in-your-pocket/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1292784297053741057

Just added a silly video on my #peertube acount, with shenanigans from our #CircusInPlace vidcall. (more to come tonight at 8pm UTC -5)
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/40bd1e1a-945b-46df-a63b-6d291be66bca

August 10th is Zero_Cool day!