Atlas Obscura: Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together - And then let them snoop on each other, BY NATASHA FROST. Fascinating early telephone history from the 19th century via a viral tilthat post on Tumblr.
xkcd 806 "Tech Support" (please note alt text's "go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it") via![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
vass.
Buzzfeed advice columnist roundtable from Jan 8 by Rachel Wilkerson Miller featuring Ask a Manager, Dear Prudence, Captain Awkward, Care and Feeding, Dr Nerdlove and Ask a Clean Person. They discuss favorite & weirdest letters and other phenomena of the trade. I lost several hours opening all the links. Also cried laughing. Via![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
agonyaunt.
Tumblr taught me of the existence of the Cayuga duck, a popular ornamental domesticated duck variety from New York state in the US, which are entirely black with iridescent green like the head of the male mallard. Apparently superior examples also lay an array of monochrome eggs varying from black to pale gray with the seasons. Then Wikipedia taught me (or well, Wax) that this is a 'breed' or variety of duck merely, not a species, and that species-wise all domesticated ducks are 'basically mallards' (says Wax). I am curious about ducks now.
Surprisingly fun and engaging YouTube vid, Cheese Expert Guesses More Cheap vs Expensive Cheeses from Epicurious's "Price Points" where cheese expert Liz Thorpe guesses which of a pair of cheeses is more expensive, explaining her reasoning and providing little 'what to look for' lists for different types of cheese. From last summer.
xkcd 806 "Tech Support" (please note alt text's "go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it") via
vass.Buzzfeed advice columnist roundtable from Jan 8 by Rachel Wilkerson Miller featuring Ask a Manager, Dear Prudence, Captain Awkward, Care and Feeding, Dr Nerdlove and Ask a Clean Person. They discuss favorite & weirdest letters and other phenomena of the trade. I lost several hours opening all the links. Also cried laughing. Via
agonyaunt.Tumblr taught me of the existence of the Cayuga duck, a popular ornamental domesticated duck variety from New York state in the US, which are entirely black with iridescent green like the head of the male mallard. Apparently superior examples also lay an array of monochrome eggs varying from black to pale gray with the seasons. Then Wikipedia taught me (or well, Wax) that this is a 'breed' or variety of duck merely, not a species, and that species-wise all domesticated ducks are 'basically mallards' (says Wax). I am curious about ducks now.
Surprisingly fun and engaging YouTube vid, Cheese Expert Guesses More Cheap vs Expensive Cheeses from Epicurious's "Price Points" where cheese expert Liz Thorpe guesses which of a pair of cheeses is more expensive, explaining her reasoning and providing little 'what to look for' lists for different types of cheese. From last summer.
