Author: Snapping Links

if I'm understanding this correctly, it's a friendly name for an RDFa vocabulary. friendly names are good.

"an interesting graphic that tells the story of the culprits behind our budget deficit" I find the 2nd graphic easier to understand, if totally f'ing depressing.

"When Angela @webchick Byron started writing a talk about women in open source for Open Web Vancouver 2009, she found the topic silly. […] Instead, she would focus on recruiting people to projects. […] Then she looked for data to support her theory. Except, she was in for a wee surprise."

Reprint of an article from 2005 about 3 men who lived thru bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"None of these posts mention that you can also register a real domain name that you can own, instead of just having another URL on Facebook." (also, looking at the sidebar, looks like Anil's blog will be 10 years old next month!)

"There really is a way to look at copyright that is not a form of apologia for dying “content” industries, like the music business and Hollywood studios. This new way also has very little to do with “free culture,” Creative Commons, and the teachings of gurus like Lessig and Michael Geist." I'm sort of curious to get Joe's take (enough to throw in $5, even).

neat! (we have two of these at home) totally want to try it, totally don't have time right now.

"This resource aims to help those making decisions about their use of freely available 'Web 2.0' interactive and collaborate e-learning tools."

my take: does the blanket primary/top 2 primary lash together the left & right sides (literally!) of the state into something more moderate? an interesting thought.

beautiful early 20th century posters from the Boston Public Library. (aka: most beautiful library I have ever been in.)

(kitten not actually welsh)

it is actually pretty straightforward…unless you're trying to match it up with a relatively oddball bike. C & I have been puttering away (with a varying amount of expletives) at getting the whole tongue/fap thing set correctly over the last few weeks. looks like we're either going to dremel off the fender tab or use the extra-long fap with the bolt at a bit of an angle. ugh. it still looks cool, in any case.

"As my 77-year old father (who also drove the car) said: "This is the car of the future!"" so jealous.

groundbreaking for this project is on Saturday! (selfishly, I hope the construction work won't disrupt riding to my doc's.)

::sigh::

for garden walk wrap-up post. recommended by Tim.

C found this. don't care too much abt the payment part, but the water usage & trash days parts might be cool.

"Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have now carefully analysed which organic gases are emitted from plants. They made the surprising discovery that plants release methane, a greenhouse gas – and this goes against all previous assumptions." trippy! (from C, by way of a discussion last nite abt whether cows or termites produce more methane. cows "win."

very cool-looking. will have to do something similar for the gang.

came in handy today.

some research to do. (honestly, I hate washing the car, although I like how it looks when I'm done.)

lovely.

"Smart social media empowers conversations beyond the message. It embraces human nature and the strange mesh-like conversations that occur between us and our collective interests."

"Its hardware design is completely open — everything from schematics to Gerber files will be available on a marvell's website — and ARM ports of several popular Linux distributions are already running, and included." I think C showed me this a bit ago as well, this link via Simon St Laurent.

we are, but I suck at it. (shd probly recruit someone else to help.)

some interesting notes here, including medicinal uses!

already a few good things to track down!

the linked "Confessions of an Introverted Traveler" essay is delightful, too.

yay!

The last link prompted me to go look for info about my great-uncle, because I remember mom saying something about him having been head of anesthesiology at UCLA. and no kidding, not just head, but founder, and major contributor to the field. neat!

Interesting history w/Dr. Bonica. I used to live just a few block from TG.