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surprisingly thoughtful — even deep — responses.(tags: religion)
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::sigh:: I wish.(tags: bicycling)
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“I have gone back to Pound’s Cantos to find out if I was correct in so thoroughly getting over my initial enthusiasm” — me, I never had any enthusiasm, only irritation & disdain.(tags: writing)
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go MeFi! slimy nonprofit people make me absolutely crazy. (don’t get me started….)(tags: nonprofit blogosphere)
links for 2007-12-30
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that sounds pretty reasonable.(tags: kitchen)
links for 2007-12-29
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Oddly enough, I’m partial to the tool built into MSWord. I spent a lot of time with it last year (?) rewriting stuff at Pierce.
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I *think* this is the one that will do what I want, but I’m not entirely sure. My calendar situation is really annoying right now.
links for 2007-12-28
links for 2007-12-27
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“this new feature has actually RUINED CHRISTMAS for my family” — ouch. although not terribly surprising. that’s why I wouldn’t think of sharing. (although, yes, I do use del.icio.us, but there I KNOW what I’m saving is for the whole world.)
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very clear! (sometimes I miss getting Tom’s subscription to the economist.)
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“After looking at all of the research, I couldn’t find a single reason to keep my crisper.” no kidding. I’m thinking about moving yogurt cups into one and wacky little condiments (or butter?) into the other.
links for 2007-12-25
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interesting, although not very surprising. but: “ALT tag”?! never mind that it’s the wrong terminology, the real problem is that their “solution” cuts screen-reader folks out of the ability to use online banking at all. has nobody thought about that?
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“I believe that every single person on the planet would benefit from talk therapy” — also, the last paragraph rawks.
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useful SLR-buying tips, I think. (click thru to Sifry’s recommendations.)
links for 2007-12-22
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my grandmother was born in New York in 1911. it’s strange for me to think of her as one of these little tykes.
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“I kidnapped Jon Stewart to do analysis for me.” heh.
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“How can we use the increasingly radio-saturated landscape for creative or functional purposes?†— extra-trippy.
links for 2007-12-20
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hmmmm. I’m pretty sure the Kia gets paid off in 2009. we’ll probably put up with it for a while, but I wouldn’t mind a little looking around….(tags: car)
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“I fear that a new wave of browser wars would lead to an ascendancy of Robespierres and, inevetiably, Napoleons.” — I dig the comparison to the French Revolution.
links for 2007-12-19
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sort of via meri williams.
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“We find no support for the claim that Net Promoter is the single most reliable indicator of a company’s ability to grow.” — need to remember this for a likely future conversation.(tags: marketing)
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“The Richter Scales guys are not evil, they were just lazy.” — I also like what Shelley had to say about the kerfuffle. (linked in the comments) OTOH, IMO I wouldn’t read any of the comments sections, things just get noisy to no good end.
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“I wish The Web Standards Project would either disband or get meaningfully busy.” — from Z, down in the comments. whoa. IMHO, the problem with web standards now remains education of developers outside of the standards community. but that’s a rant for ano(tags: standards)
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going to play around with this.
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“an “extended” info window that allows much more customization than the standard info window” — that could be useful.
links for 2007-12-15
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“POLI 30 – Political Inquiry * Professor Thad Kousser” — the very, very, very few people who have known me since jr high will be amused at how much I like his teaching style. the first couple of podcasts have a good explanation of correlation vs. causati
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for Elizabeth. 🙂
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hm. I think he’s talking about autism/aspbergers writ large. scary.