I spied this corner bakery the other day with the clever yet not immediate (to my mind at least) tag line of “Brotagonist,” meaning like with
a protagonist, bread is the focal-point of this little Brotzeit (afternoon snack) narrative. The anti-hero or underdog in me did not go for the obvious pun, however, and I wondered why a bakery would want to antigonise its customers, perhaps with the villainy of gluten.
Monday 11 May 2015
brototyp, archetype
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐, food and drink, language
Friday 8 May 2015
pay-wall or fantastic voyage
Via Kottle comes a bitter pill to swallow with an clearinghouse company who hopes to ratchet up security and verifiability by persuading clients to ingest a tablet that serves as one’s user and password as more and more vulnerabilities are revealed with traditional methods and zealous use of biometrics have led to many compromises.
It seems unlikely that injectables and ingestables might become the new universal identifier in short order, but it is a slippery slope and there’s been incredible progress and voluntary adoption in the form of wearables, cashless cachets and passkeys, even absent any mandate. It seems convenience is a better driver than compulsion and laziness makes us myopic in the long term. What do you think? Would this be something you’d be willing to test?
peacemaker or colt forty-five
The intrepid explorers at Atlas Obscura present a really thorough and intriguing outline of a place called Coltsville, a utopian compound that really encapsulates the sort of nineteenth century industrialist sense of fatherly beneficence that’s in strong contrast to labour laws and the product, fire-arms, that funded the creation of this ideal factory town.
Thursday 7 May 2015
the irreconcilables or action-at-a-distance
a penny saved is twopence dear
I learnt of a gem of non-canonical, being that it’s not part of his main body of writing—like Poor Richard’s Almanack of proverbs and other achievements, both genuine and attributed, wisdom discovered in the correspondence of statesman Benjamin Franklin, writing to a friend from his diplomatic post in Paris. In his golden years, Franklin recalled a fundamental episode from his early youth. The story Franklin tells and the aphorism it lends itself to—paying too much for one’s whistle (in reference to an impulse-buy that ended up bringing more post-shopping regret than pleasure)—is as memorable and astute as any. One can read the letter in its entirety here with Franklin’s inventory of poor souls whose vanities have cost them dearly. I do suppose, too, it is easier to recognise such folly of others rather than to confront it in ourselves.
catagories: ๐ซ๐ท, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, ๐, philosophy
five-by-five
autochrome: beautiful gallery of some of the earliest colour photography
fungus among us: newly discovered poisonous humanoid mushrooms
g-money: roots of the Masonic/Illuminati conspiracy theories
may the fourth be with you: fun miniature parade on the streets of New Orleans for Star Wars Day
lol: Time magazine once featured as its cover-story how cats were the next big thing
catagories: ๐, antiques, environment, holidays and observances, networking and blogging
barnevernet
Though the comparison is surely disparaging, like the taint that clings to the Autobahnen, Volkswagen and Hugo Boss by dint of association, but the dispositioning of the Norwegian child welfare agency makes me think of the Nazi-era policy and programme called Lebensborn, the fount of life.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ณ๐ด, ๐, foreign policy, transportation