I’m going to switch my feeds over to summaries for the next week, just to see if that makes a difference in the amount of spamming and content skimming I get. An awful lot of WordPress blogs have been scraped recently, including mine, and this was suggested as a solution.
We shall see. Let me know if it looks like !@#@$ on your RSS feed. I’m not too keen on it myself.
In other news: my tomatoes continue to be freakish. This is one of the heirloom varieties I grew (Costolouto). Taste good, but extremely untidy. They set fruit at such a huge rate, you get mutant globs of tomato like this one. Not very useful. Well, probably heavy enough they would be useful for lobbing at politicians during the primary season.
(Also, check out my cute little kitchen timer!)
BTW, Hanna at This Garden is Illegal has a tomato tasting page, where she’s been tracking different varieties for several years. The most recent variety reviewed was the Persimmon, which sounds pretty darn yummy.
Here’s my other big experiment: adding social bookmark sites to the bottom of each post. I am SUCH a Technorati whore 
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I’m not up on your horticulture history, so I don’t know all the backstory, but seriously, is that some kind of recombinant DNA tomato? Are you a tomato growing ninja that can fruit vines at such an awesome rate they fuse like that? That’s amazing. I’ve long since given up on keeping a plant alive myself, let alone coaxing a plant to produce something edible. I once purchased a fern that the sellers claimed to be unkillable and the only conclusion I can come to is that it up and committed suicide.
Whoa, that is a mutant tomato. There is a word for that, when they fuse and I can’t remember what the word for it is. Still looks freakish. Good for tomato sauce maybe?
Full posts in RSS are way better. Some of us are way too lazy to click through from the summaries.
There’s been some studies done into why humans are good at spotting ‘fake’ people in computer games (by which I mean brilliantly rendered 3D images of people) and it seems to come down to an evolved skill for spotting unhealthy people when looking for mates (by which I mean a bunk up, not a friend). This skill is still with us and out brains are always scanning for things that somehow look… wrong. When we spot such a ‘wrong’ thing, our poor wee minds are flooded with a sense of unease.
It is this sense of deep, deep unease that would stop me eating that bloody tomato. In fact, it is only with the tightest grip possible on my centre of self-control that I would be able to stop myself driving a stake through its heart and burning the bugger.
I need a cup of tea now - me nerves are shot!
HB
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I’ll second JP’s comment - I much prefer full-post content because I can read those feeds offline or on a slow connection.
Can you show me how to do the social bookmarks in WordPress? THAT would be impressive.
It’s a pain Ed. You have to do it manually.
Digg is the only one that’s automatic for WordPress, and it’s not really that automatic. (there are 3 steps for each post).
You can actually copy/paste that and look at the code, and you’ll immediately figure it out.
Oh what a tomato! Funny thing is….. I’d eat it too. Chop it up in pieces, cook with it or make sauce with it. I’m sure it’s okay.
I’m the kind that gets excited when I find twin or triplet bananas encased in one skin, or 2 yolks in one egg. Some people find those freaky. I get excited a think I’ll have twins if I eat them, which I’d like…
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