Monthly Archives: April 2024

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  • Molly in the Spring

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    blood root

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    Friday Cat Blogging

    [tags]David Weinberger, Veneta, Elroy Hirsch, Everything is Miscellaneous, Roget, I Ching, Norman Mailer, Linksys, Swingline, Promaster XtraPower, The Modern Library[/tags]

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    No ma’am, just reaching for some change….

    I have two dogs and I was buying a large bag of Pal at Big W and standing in line at the check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. On impulse, I told her that no, I was starting The Pal Diet again although I probably shouldn’t because I’d ended [...]

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    Agri-bees-ness

    Bayer! Bayer AG is a massive German based chemicals and pharmaceuticals manufacturer. It has operations in most countries worldwide and had global sales for 2024 of nearly $30 billion.[1] Its operations are divided into four sectors: Health, Agriculture, Polymers (plastics, synthetic rubber) and Chemicals. It has recently acquired Aventis’ controversial cropscience business, making it a [...]

    Posted in Environment, Farm Almanac, Nature, Science | Comments closed

    Dirty beesness

    I’ve had my mouth engaged about this since last winter, but my mind is only starting to catch up. Bee mites have been a problem for years so when I heard about Colony Collapse Disorder I conflated the two issues. The Varroa mite has been troubling bee keepers since the eighties, but the current rash [...]

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    Glass Walls at BlogHer

    Ronni Bennett posted on the recent US Supreme Court decision that erodes progress that pro-choice advocates have made over the last forty years or so. She cross posted at BlogHer and two active and different discussion threads opened up on the topic. I felt welcome to comment at Ronni’s, but I don’t feel welcome at [...]

    Posted in Creative Arts, Journalism, People, Truth and Falsehood, Web Publishing | Comments closed

    Link Promotion…

    From Everything is Miscellaneous, (via a link out of Twitter)… Media Revenge, David Weinberger’s promotion of Dave Winer’s idea about an individually tailored digg-like system for the news. From J. Alva Scruggs, commenting here yesterday… (Freeconference via Jason Z., at Democracy in Action, whose comments re. RSS also appeal to me).

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