Month: January 2013

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Ever Eat Horse?

Horse

Probably not since the meat is not available for human consumption in the US.  Turns out that isn’t true.  This Forbes article implies it was made legal in 2011.  Regardless, I doubt you have eaten it.  I’ve never knowingly tried it.  It is legal to eat in the UK too.  And you may have unknowingly eaten it.  Tesco–a supermarket chain here–has found some of their premade hamburger patties may have contained apx 29% horse meat.  Wow.  To be fair, it also affects Iceland and other shops because it was an issue with a supplier.

We’ll see how this shakes out.

Image from Moyan_Brenn_be_back_on_Jan_20th via flickr

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Ideas — blogs, linking, and keeping information

tombstone shadows

Right.  When I redid my blog, I found TONS of dead links.  So many, I’m still weeding them out.  Some of them, I’ve been able to update; however, other’s I haven’t.  I’m looking for ideas on how I can preserve that content into the future yet respect the copyright of the authors.  So far, the best idea I have is to have 2 links per link:  1 would point to the live content while the other would point to an archive I would keep myself.  I’ve thought about screenshots…but then you can’t search text.  I’ve thought about using wget, etc… to mirror the text of their page, but that doesn’t really respect their copyright.  I’ve also thought about simply making a text file with the text in it and linking to that.  But….

I can’t be the only person who has thought about this.  I’ve tried searching Google but haven’t found anything.  Do you, my readers, have any ideas on how I can keep a copy of pages I link to for posterity?

Image from rick payette via flickr