Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Stuff about the blog itself.
… to brag, we just have to.
Tim Bray, an internet seer, offered a definition of something he called a Power Web Site.
So, having nothing better to do over lunch, I took a little peek. And guess what? The Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog is a Power Web Site.
How gratifying.
As those of us in the northern hemisphere celebrate the imminent arrival of spring, and commiserate with our brethren and sistern in the south, and as those of us lolling around on or about the equator prepare to suck up another Tusker, baridi sana, The Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog wishes all of you a happy holiday, thanks you for your attention and contributions over the past year, and hopes to be back with more goodies on or around 5 January 2010, when we’ll be hoping to stick some agro into the International Year of Biodiversity.
Have fun.
Maybe we’ve stumbled on a rich new vein of agro-biodiversity fun. Jacob’s comment about the Austrian “Swiss” cow (see photo above) shows how easy it is for marketing types to be tripped up by the fine details of their craft. ((And what a shame it is that Brown Swiss cows are more or less uniform in colour.)) Nick Saltmarsh’s example of wheat mistaken for oats is another good one, even though I can’t share the photo because it is All Rights Reserved.
So how about it? We’re happy to become the central repository for all examples of inappropriate use of agricultural imagery. Send ’em in.
If you came here earlier and found we were down, our apologies. Something funny had happened in the night, and it should all be OK now. Please let us know if you encounter any problems.
You have spoken, and by a narrow margin, you wanted a few more full items on the home page. So be it, five instead of three. We’ll let that settle down before we reassess. Unless there’s something you really, really would like us to change.