FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more
* Real-time APIs - utilize long polling to get feeds in real-time, including search!
* Flexible sharing options - Direct message users. Share to multiple feeds.
* File attachments - Attach images, pdfs, spreadsheets, etc.
* OAuth support - Register your application now.
* Simplified response format - Your application doesn’t need to know the difference between users and groups, how “friend of friend” works, or deal with hidden entries until you want to. We provide the HTML for representing entries so you don’t have to construct it. Authenticated responses include a list of possible commands on every feed, entry, and comment so you don’t have to do the detective work.
JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun’
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by JRR Tolkien was published earlier this week. The 500-stanza poem which has never before seen the light of day was loosely based on a collection of Norse myths. These were named Elder Edda and were preserved in a 13th-century manuscript which he had cherished.
Agriculture enlightened: a modern Japanese sage brings “do-nothing farming”
The principles of Fukuoka-style natural farming are no tilling(cultivation), no fertilizers, no pesticides, and no weeding -practically a ”do-nothing method of natural farming.” What he does do is manipulate habitat to favor the crops he wants to grow. He works within the laws of ecology to tilt the ecosystem in favor of the plants he wants. Then his crops virtually invade and grow like weeds.
What makes his work truly unique, however, is that to Fukuoka, farming is a spiritual path.“Natural farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”