Olle

https://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/en/ressourcen/abkuerzungen/cappelli-online?characters=amas&category=&transcription=&language=

Adding the search engine, too.

https://centerfordigitalhumanities.github.io/cappelli/index.mini.html

You know, those abbreviations in manuscripts, medieval stuff? Here is a resource for decoding!

Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem, making it the tenth country to reach this important milestone. HAT is the second neglected tropical disease (NTD) to be eliminated in Kenya: the country was certified free of Guinea worm disease in 2018.

https://www.who.int/news/item/08-08-2025-kenya-achieves-elimination-of-human-african-trypanosomiasis-or-sleeping-sickness

Eliminating an illness! Way to go.

@raganwald Ah, ownership of a Rietveld chair is not in my future, this was a 1920s exemplar in the museum collection.

But you are onto something with building a classic. I've looked into Enzo Mari, autoprogrettazzione, "self-projects". Perhaps the next mountain is already in view.

@raganwald Ah, sunny Malmö in Sweden.

I've now inhaled most of the Hamburg museum called MK&G, where Verner Panton's plastic orange bar interior is set up to be looked at. Stendahl'd-out, we slowly made it to the train station.

I took a million pictures. One day, I'll sort through them.

It […]

A 1925 Rietveld armrest chair. And a smiling guy in a sports coat.

@raganwald allo good to see you

«Our project [#openstreetmap] is constantly under a threat from technical people, who see it as a database, or a fixed structure, or an API to work with – and not as a community of people with specific knowledge who make the map as a by-product of understanding the world.»

So we'll put by […]

https://reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a-do-or-die-moment-for-the-scientific-enterprise/

Fraud in science journals, a rot at the core. This is like bad, OK.

The dirt ("stratigraphical unit") that the statue lies in tells us when it was deposited and under what circumstances. It may be a layer of rubble with a flat compacted top surface, laid out to landscape the site for a new use. Or it may be the sediments of a sacred spring. Or the disordered […]

Did you know that the exact contents of the dirt a marble statue is found in is more important to most archaeologists -- who are after all not sculpture specialists -- than the statue itself? That dirt is what differentiates an archaeological find with a context from a rootless art object […]

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/golden-3

#smbc

Mvh läsare av tidskriften Ale, Historisk Tidskrift För Skåne, Holland & Blekinge.

Husgavel – Wikipedia

Vill du verka svårt arkitektonisk? Säg inte husgavel, nej, GAVELRÖSTE är bra nog för dig.

https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husgavel

Tyvärr mina händer är bakbundna
(jag band dom själv)

R.L. Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, was unaware of shipworm in the Atlantic. In "The Merry Men" he speculates whether a ship might still be sitting intact on the seafloor after 300 years.

#books #archaeology

@renatolond Simpler times

Hem - Historiskan Historiskan är en Malmöbaserad historietidning vars syfte är att lyfta fram historiens många fascinerande kvinnor och kvinnoöden.

Jag tycker att du ska ge en prenumeration på Historiskan åt nån i släkten. Du vet säkert vem som bäst behöver det.

https://historiskan.se/

#malmö

We are modernizing the user interface

Pray we do not modernize it further

Slovenia expects an explanation regarding the actions of Austrian authorities at the Peršman Museum | GOV.SI The Government of the Republic of Slovenia is greatly concerned about the incident that took place yesterday, on 27 July 2025, at the Peršman Museum, one of the most important memorial sites for Carinthian Slovenians. As the scene of one of the most horrific crimes of the Nazi regime against the Slovenian population in Carinthia, any intervention in this place is particularly sensitive.

https://www.gov.si/en/news/2025-07-28-slovenia-expects-an-explanation-regarding-the-actions-of-austrian-authorities-at-the-persman-museum/

I'm sharing distressing government news from Slovenia. About Austria.

Män i kjol – fackets sista stridsåtgärd i hettan Andreas Nyman: Det blev en del skämt om skottar och något enstaka ”madame”

Swedish transport unions have advocated for shorts in uniforms during hot weather, but the option keeps disappearing with new contractors.

An effective tactic has been for male employees to wear skirts instead, which has led to the reinstatement of shorts thrice: in 2002, 2013, and now again.

Pair of Roundback Armchairs: Lohan Type | Cleveland Museum of Art In history, China moved from an original floor culture to high chairs and tables, developing a unique tradition of craftsmanship. Although still relatively unexplored, the manufacturing and styles of furniture differ by region. These horseshoe-back armchairs were made in Jiangsu province. Their simplicity and minimalist elegance are characteristic of Suzhou-style furniture and aesthetics. The backs of the chairs are made of seven pieces of wood, joined and secured with an inserted wooden pin, a mortar-tenon technique that appeared in its earliest form in Neolitihic fragments of the Hemudu culture.

Strong Danish mid-century vibe in this Chinese piece.

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1955.40

Upper Paneling from a Sacristy Armoire | Cleveland Museum of Art The imagery on the inset panels is the result of a technique known as intarsia, the skilled inlaying of woods of different colors to create a type of mosaic, popular during the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy for the decoration of paneling and furniture for studies, small rooms, and church sacristies. This large set of five intarsia panels comes from an unknown Florentine church. In its original setting the panels rested upon a row of similarly decorated cupboards (a sacristy armoire) which were used for the storage of liturgical vestments and books. This panel would have therefore been seen at eye level. The central panel depicts the Resurrection of Christ. The two outside panels depict the emblem of Lorenzo de Medici-three plumes encircled by a jeweled ring above a scrolling ribbon containing the Latin word SEMPER (Always). Lorenzo de Medici (1449-92) was the ruler of Florence when this sacristy armoire was constructed and was the likely patron. It seems to be the work of Giuliano da Maiano, an architect and intarsia-maker also responsible for the intarsia in the sacristy of Florence Cathedral.

Renaissance woodworking was something.

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.526

Zoom in on the inlaid lettering, the two-tone banding, the inlay on the panels.

#renaissance #woodworking

Malmö stad ordered a report on "planting trees in the city, effect on perceived outdoor temp".

TL;DR: 10C difference in how the body experiences it.

The full report is available for your reading pleasure […]

@carl "tågtidtabellens optimism" <3

a tab in my browser is this Socrates presentation https://draptik.github.io/2025-07-socrates-de-modern-linux-cli-tools/ some nice CLI tools there that I might install (fancier ctrl-r for history search was neat)

#Foxes. Gaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th century. BnF, Français 616, fol. 34v. #medieval #MedievalArt

#Foxes. Gaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th century. BnF, Français 616, fol. 34v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Just today, major oil giants like Shell, Aker BP, and Enbridge quietly walked away from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the advisory group tasked with setting credible corporate climate standards. Why?

Because actually meeting net-zero targets would mean doing the unthinkable […]

Skröna att skratta med Erik Anderssons nya roman är en komisk och absurd skrattfest som på största allvar stöter och blöter konflikten mellan städer och landsbygd. I berättelsens centrum står Ina Ljung, nyutexaminerad journalist på lokaltidningen Varas värn.

I see that Malmö poet Pär Thörn was the reviewer of that book that I liked, back in 2008; https://www.gp.se/kultur/skrona-att-skratta-med.237464f2-7907-4cf8-8681-1d185bae3a7e