Cyberflanerie: Blogs Noted Edition

Mexican urban legend: John Kachuba on La Pascualita

Almost as gruesome: Andrew Wylie Interview in the New Republic

Via the ever-fabulous Swiss-Miss: Tiny Town Is Inventing Bus Stops

Brigid Amos has a lovely new blog, Nebraska Notion
PS My favorite place in Nebraska, Carhenge

Seth Roberts' final paper, "How Little We Know"

Karen Casey Fitzjerrel's From the Back Roads

Introvert to Extrovert on Patricia Dubrava's blog, Holding the Light


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Seth Roberts

Seth Roberts, maestro of the quantified self, professor, author, and blogger, died suddenly this past weekend. I never met him in person, but his work-- and his blog, especially-- were a magnificent inspiration to me, and to so many others. Mark Frauenfelder, founder of Boing Boing and editor of Cool Tools, posted a video of Seth Roberts talking about some of his key insights here.

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Donna Schwenk's Cultured Food Life

Screenshot from Donna Schwenk's video
featured on her home page
www.culturedfoodlife.com

How to culture vegetables? How to make Kefir? An excellent, very informative website with an on-line store and a free ebook and more is Donna Schwenk's Cultured Food Life. I found her 17 minute video (on her home page) well worth watching. I can say that Kefir and yoghurt has done the same for me and the book she mentions, Nourishing Traditions, is one I keep handy.

P.S. More about probiotics over at Seth Roberts' blog.

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Cyberflanerie: Digital Economics Edition

Enter Airbnb and a little far West Texas town starts turning into... read Rachel Monroe on housing trends in Marfa, TX

Robotenomics-- excellent new blog

Seth Roberts says Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin

(more bitocoiniana here)

Amazing prices for organic crops (Gene Logsdon, the Contrary Farmer)

(He's the author of the hilarious and profoundly insightful Holy Sh*t!)

How to Borrow Ebooks from your (USA) Local Public Library

Oh! It was this easy.

Free Getty Images (Bloggers Take Note!)

Hat tip to the Publicity Hound

Moneyless World

More anon.

Previous Cyberflanerie highlights: Sound & Noise; Bajacaliforniana; Camelmania; Selections from Gregory Gibson's Bookman's Log 

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Cyberflanerie: Cleverly Icelandic & More Random Clevernesses Edition

Cleverly Icelandic: Besti Flokkurin, mayoral campaign song video. Via Seth Roberts, on We Need Only One Santa. (More from this ray of shiva guy, I mean Seth Roberts, here and here and here and here.)

Totally clever! Watch about 1:30 minutes in: How to remove a ring from a swollen finger.

For Mexico City newbies: my amigo David Lida gives the thumbs up to Taste of Polanco.

Mr Money Mustache on Hater's Gonna Hate (But Not Mate) and How to Start a Blog. Mr Money Mustache also advises us that Safety is an Expensive Illusion.

Umbra's vertical book display.

For those low on wax: Benjamin Shine's rekindle candle.

For those low on windows: Adam Frank's Reveal.

Passive solar water heater.

Get Human.

More anon.

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Cyberflanerie: Butterphilia Edition

Weston Price Foundation on Why Butter is Better

Food Renegade on Why Butter is a Heath Food

Butterworld

My favorite pudding recipe which, of course, includes butter.

The Guardian on butter

Seth Roberts weighs in:

Arithmetic and Butter

Acquired Butterphilia

Butter and Heart Attacks in Sweden

One of these days my book, Metaphysical Odyssey Into the Mexican Revolution, really will be out in paperback. Still fiddling with the cover and the maps. It's been a long day. Now for some butter.

COMMENTS (If you're a margarine person, don't bother.)