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not too bad. not quite what I was expecting, but still good.
links for 2009-03-08
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"when my response to trying something new and scary went from “why should I?†to “why not?†— my life got about 100,000 times better than it was before." need to remember that myself, often.
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nice press. via dylan.
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via FB, of all things. (I think it was Manya who recommended it to Kermit. Yipes, names that go back to jr high.)
links for 2009-03-06
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recipes!
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can haz now plz?
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Pretty cool looking, better than last years. (I loved the weird banana/battery design from '06, pity the bag itself wasn't more sturdy.)(tags: sxsw)
links for 2009-03-05
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I believe one of our very most epic D&D battles took place in a locale astonishingly similar to this one. 🙂
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"In ReykjavÃk, where men are men, and the women seem to have completely given up on them, the author follows the peculiarly Icelandic logic behind the meltdown."
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Fascinating (if also depressing) illustration of pay disparity in different fields. Women physicians & surgeons make 40% of men in that profession?! Only in 3 fields do women make more than men, and just barely more: special ed teachers, postal clerks, and data entry keyers.
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"Carrington JAM is a completely stripped down theme skeleton, including just essential WordPress theme template tags and the Carrington file structure. It hardly includes any XHTML markup and no CSS at all." That looks like my new go-to theme, even more so than Sandbox.
links for 2009-03-03
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"literary estates are a frightening mixture of avarice, petty tyranny, and cluelessness"
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"Honda’s president has said he wants to hold below $20,000 for the base model"
links for 2009-03-02
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"So, the library initiative didn't pass. That means 2.5 million dollars have to be cut from the budget." Planning on going to the one on Monday. Might post to the ENA site too.
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oh, and you can look up exercises by equipment! so I can find everything that uses dumbbells or a stability ball. (since that's what I have)
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Want to try this for ENA, Friends of the Library, Xmas Tree Lane.
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"Moodlerooms, a SaaS provider of Moodle, just launched an application built on the Moodle platform that lets school admins bring Moodle and Google Apps together with a single sign-in." neat! I don't have an Moodle experience, but anything that gets a leg up on Blackboard is good by me. 🙂
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omg this is teh HAWESOME. I esp dig the adjustment tabs and option to see sample pages in dark & light.
links for 2009-02-27
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amazing infographics. (via wesabe)(tags: finance creditunion)
links for 2009-02-25
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2nd mention of FotoFlexer. Might have to take a look. (I've used Picnik a number of times. Pretty nice.)
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ye gods I want a netbook. patience, grasshopper.(tags: misc_tech)
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"Credit unions were in no way a contributor to the current financial problem" well, that's nice to hear.
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cute little single-serving site
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"Whatever the perceived drawbacks of the old cartons, shown below, they were successful in at least one critical respect: they handily solve the problem of creating clear visual differentiations among over a dozen very similar products." not to mention that they're operating in a space with lots and lots of similar options. that new design: the distinctiveness, it does not haz it.
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"When LEGO employees get a business card like this, they even try to match the look of the minifig (gender, hair, glasses) to the person." awesome!(tags: lego)
links for 2009-02-24
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nice gathering of all the different usability "stuff"
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yes, all that.
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"Furthermore, I will never again say that CSS sucks rather than admitting my own discomfort with a different problem space." a curious little rant.(tags: css)
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but these guys got it working, so I guess that's something.
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feeling a little discouraged.
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alternative to sifr, using canvas/vml.
links for 2009-02-23
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funding for web design meetups, events, etc.!
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"we've also developed a module for Drupal that does this, by modifying the global redirect module" (not an official release.)
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"Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL."
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An interesting idea.
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from link from Greg on my blog.
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"The Fool's Errand is a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson. It is a meta-puzzle game with storytelling, visual puzzles and a cryptic treasure map." A high school friend had this on her computer, I've been trying to remember the name since about 1992. (thanks, K!)
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"the questions are all united by having received helpful answers, usually written in complete sentences" 🙂 lovely little writeup of AskMeFi. I've had good experiences with it, including help deciding on a hair style.(tags: blogosphere)
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"what I am shocked to discover is that the “higher†levels of the credit union system are not run with this type of transparency" NCUA letter of understanding with the corporate CUs, CUNA survey re:TARP. (apologies for the acronymage.)