It's nice of Jim Nielsen to suggest that blogging is like composting, but I'm not sure I fully agree that my current failure-to-ship of a rotten banana is worth writing about, except of course that I am now writing about it, tangentially.

Therefore, there is no statistically significant relationship, no causal effect, between water composition and bagel quality in any zip code in New York City.

Some people may find this uncompromising conclusion much to their liking. Others will doubtless damn it as lies, possibly damned lies,...

In another cracking display of the impact of the UN’s International Years of Waste, May 30 will henceforth celebrate International Potato Day. It has been a while since the International Year of the Potato in 2008, but good things come to those who wait.

The Day “will allow us to draw attent...

I love the idea of having an algorithm decide where I should go on an outing. The problem with geohashing is that “my” graticule is quite large and almost three-quarters water. Neighbouring graticules are often too far away. So despite my best intentions, I have not actually been on very many expeditions. That is why I was very interested when Christof said he was considering building an alternative version that would work on what I think one might call decigraticules and centigraticules or, more simply, what Christof calls walkable and bikeable. The result is a brilliant website that offers you much more accessible options every day.

Today, I put it to use for the first time.

I was intrigued to see that Remy Sharp had converted his “No More 404” script into a service, and promptly asked if I could use it. Remy obliged, and I just installed it which means, I hope, even fewer broken links on this site.