Unintended consequences: deposit return scheme leading to more litter
Unintended consequences: deposit return scheme leading to more litter
This summary is written at average reading age and whilst it does not form part of the judgment it must be reproduced with it.
Maybe because I’m used to legal language the “average reading age” summary strikes me as stilted and artificial, as if she were making a special effort to avoid the obvious or normal phrasing. Like a Martian postcard.
Hi @manton, I deleted templates authorslist.md
and layouts/authorslist/single.html
because they wouldn’t behave as I wanted. Instead, I made a new redirect from /authorslist to a static html page. But the old /authorslist still loads in priority to the redirect. Is there a way to get rid of it, pls?
Cecily Carver doesn’t want to use her Substack to do literary takedowns of buzzy contemporary novels by women, but in the case of Miranda July’s All Fours 📚she has made an exception.
An unusually wrongheaded post from Terence Eden: How to make Markdown footnotes start at zero. First, footnotes in HTML (and so in Markdown) are a kludge, and not a good way to annotate a page. And, whatever about indices starting at 0 in hackerdom, the first note should be first, i.e. numbered 1.
Nicholas Carr is on Substack now, with New Cartographies, and he’s closing down his old blog, Rough Type where he’s been posting only sporadically in recent years. And there’s a new book coming.
“ It is probably the most ill-advised legal action since Oscar Wilde put pen to writ.”
What, worse than Gillian Taylforth’s? (Or William Roache’s, for that matter?) No misconduct by Coleen Rooney’s lawyers
The latest from Talk about books is about the “Ode to a Nightingale” and the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Terrible beauty, unpalatable truth: Remarks on some of Keats’s odes 📖
Terrible beauty, unpalatable truth: Remarks on some of Keats’s odes
I’m already having second thoughts about automatically crossposting from Micro․blog to LinkedIn. I’m afraid it might make me more reticent about what I post to MB. I need to think some more about what to do about my LinkedIn profile.
TIL that the site of the former, much missed, AMT kiosk at Heuston is now occupied by a Caffè Nero Express. That’s a lot better than nothing and will have to do. Significant delays to Heuston trains following incident ☕️
Now that I’ve retired and don’t expect to be looking for work again, I’ve been thinking about how I use LinkedIn. For the past few years, I’ve been using it mainly to post links to my newsletter, Talk about books. To start with, I’m going to try automatic crossposting from Micro․blog
Today’s Talk about books post is about the short stories of Shirley Hazzard, particularly those from her first collection, Cliffs of Fall, and the ones that weren’t collected before the Collected Stories (2020)📖 Trying to keep the poetry separate
Trying to keep the poetry separate: Shirley Hazzard, Collected Stories
What was a dead judge doing in the courthouse anyway?
I want to make a kind of “author index” of the writers I’ve been writing about in my newsletter, Talk about books. I suppose the obvious way would be to create a Category for each author and use them as tags, but it seems unwieldy. I’d love to hear any better suggestions. Front matter … maybe?
I used to work beside Old Street roundabout from 1988 to 1991 inclusive, haven’t been back for at least 25 years. Amazed to think that the “jumbotron” is still there. What a mess ☹️ And yet it seems appropriate somehow. That’ll teach us to get ideas above our tube station.
While I was reading this fascinating Guardian “long read” on my phone, the page automatically reloaded twice, each time losing me my place. Do news sites not actually want people to read what they publish?
I’m shocked to read that drummer Martin France has died, aged 60. I know his work from the trio with John Taylor and Palle Danielsson. I had just been listening to their first album (Angel of the Presence) before I read about his death 🎶
My latest post in Talk about books is about two novels from the early 2010s dealing with rural Ireland in the wake of the economic crash a few years earlier: Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart and Belinda McKeon’s Solace 📖
Down the country: Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart; and Belinda McKeon, Solace
On a third reading of Caoilinn Hughes’s second novel 📖, I’m still confused as to what’s going on in the court case at the end. So is the first-person narrator: Further remarks about Caoilinn Hughes’s The Wild Laughter
I’m watching a YouTube video of an interview with automatically generated subtitles. In the space of a minute, it has rendered “dreaming” as “streaming” and “themes” as “teams”. So offputting and distracting. If people are going to bother with this crap, couldn’t they at least correct it?
My resistance to the idea that I’m going to have to read (and buy, though not necessarily in that order) Bridget Hourican’s bio of James Clarence Mangan 📖 has now almost completely crumbled.
Here’s an unusually informative story on Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM). Nice to have confirmation that others have similar experiences to mine, and that I’m not just imagining it. Sadie Dingfelder in The Guardian