What I saw on the web on 2025.2.24

[reblogarythm]

1. What is Tom Bombadil?
   by Steuard Jensen
   http://tolkien.slimy.com/essays/Bombadil.html
   several theories considered, critiqued
   via memory, as someone was asking
   
   
2. ‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city
   by Èlia Borràs
   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/we-water-rest-water-the-green-belt-of-vegetable-plots-cooling-a-city?ref=fixthenews.com
   some good news around Ouaga
   via Ada Palmer's mastodon
   
   
3. raga Kambhoji
   by pandit Uday Bhawalkar
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_inOyx1FUk
   haven't actually listened yet, but need to, and thus bookmarking
   via FB
   
   
4. The Element That Terrifies Chemists – Fluorine
   by Advanced Tinkering
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzIH6raTxyE
   if you weren't scared of fluorine before, now you can be!
   via youtube recommends
   
   
5. I don’t want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time....
   by curoopeez
   https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/776409067631558656
   yup to all the points here
   via rss
   
   
6. Tesla Owner Running Out of Room For Bumper Stickers Explaining Tesla Ownership
   by the Needling
   https://theneedling.com/2025/02/14/tesla-owner-running-out-of-room-for-bumper-stickers-explaining-tesla-ownership/
   what a sad problem
   via discord