Hvala for the honey cake, Pauline
Pauline’s Cookbook is a wonderful blog maintained by Tonya Shuster. As she describes it, it’s a “memoir of sorts about my grandmother’s life, woven around the gift of a handmade…
In praise of record cards
I was on the point of throwing away two boxes of record cards (or index cards) that, if I’m honest, I have rarely used. One of them I have had…
Dancing to words
Interesting blog by Eleanor Turney in the Guardian about dancing to words, and what makes it work or not work. It’s a topic that interests me a lot, ever since,…
Zotero book on its way
Just as I was wondering when there would be such a thing, here’s the news: Jason Puckett, blogger over at Librarian X (tagline: with great power comes great bibliography) is…
Francophone music criticism online
Francophone Music Criticism is an online collection of just that, from the period 1789-1914. Lots of stuff very well organized and all searchable and browsable. Because of the period and…
RIP the Loudness War – apparently
Interesting article from Mix, proclaiming the end of the loudness war, Mastering engineers often aim to make songs sound louder because louder equals ‘better’ when you’re fighting for listeners. Radio…