Author: Snapping Links

reasonably decent basic advice

(tags: depression)

census data. fascinating, but a little hard to read, and an outline of the Zip code area would be helpful.

(tags: gis local ena urban_studies)

nice. we’ve had much the same experience. and I think they’re darn cute.

(tags: wifi)

pretty. I’d sort of like to try this on the kitchen window, eventually.

(tags: home crafty)

“For an introvert, it’s a feature, not a bug.” heh. kindall cracks me up. it’s definitely a regional thing. (read the linked article at the top, btw.) it’s been insanely difficult to make friends in Oly, most of the people I know are C’s childhood buddies

(tags: local seattle olympia psychology depression society personal)

oh, hey, that would be useful.

(tags: academia web_dev society gender)

“a little like upgrading the blood for everyone in a small city” — enterprise software makes baby jeebus cry. (don’t get me started about intranets, college registration or online banking.)

(tags: web_dev creditunion academia design funny intranet)

fascinating and mind-boggling. how laws die, why they get ignored. (And not the little laws, either.)

(tags: history politics society)

ah, the radicals.

(tags: intranet)

this is actually a nice way to think about getting the temperature of a place.

(tags: personal psychology productivity)

there’s a long story of why I ended up here.

(tags: php cms_research)

I can’t resist anything called “the revenge” — see: my love of chinese action movies. And this time I actually put some cash into it. Had to do it right away or I’d never get back to it. Too hard to overcome my cheap bastard tendencies.

(tags: accessibility)

can’t watch this at work. grrrr, filtering.

(tags: marketing webvideo to-watch)

Dia de los Muertos – Nov. 4, noon – 5pm at Tacoma Art Museum. My former roommate Myke has a piece there!

(tags: tacoma arts personal local)

hmmmm, like a public Middle Sunday. kewl.

(tags: local olympia to-do)

fun with dryer repair!

(tags: home laundry)

dryer disassembly, this time with text.

(tags: home laundry)

I was really hoping this was going to fix my GMap woes, but no.

(tags: web_dev)

for D & R, not that R has much of a choice. 🙁 The exercise in the middle of the article looks particularly useful regardless. good luck, folks!

(tags: jobs personal)

very cool. I’ve thought about similar things myself, but never gotten off my duff to do anything about it!

(tags: web_dev javascripty accessibility)

Interesting stuff. might use for the CTLA project, so they can do galleries easily.

(tags: photography design xmas-tree-lane)

“I mean that Los Angeles is the confrontation with the void. It is the void.” beautiful and lyrical, but what he captures is the thing that always gave me the heebie-jeebies about LA, even when I was a kid. So much am I not ever moving back.

(tags: californication personal urban_studies)

oh hey, here’s one I haven’t seen before

(tags: wordpress php)

amen. I had missed all this depressing sh*t. (although that reminds me of something i need to do.)

(tags: accessibility)

tab cleanup…I do want to read this eventually.

(tags: php)

more to do.

(tags: accessibility webvideo)

I had to take it off of our site because it was loading so slowly. maybe I’ll give it another try with the new script.

(tags: google marketing)

will have to give this a try.

(tags: mda gis)

I love playing pool. OTOH, music is something that I’m not very good at, but am conflicted about my badness.

(tags: psychology arts)

I have been procrastinating on getting a biteguard, which I need to deal with a steadily worsening case of TMJ, partially because even w/insurance it’s going to be a serious chunk of change.

(tags: science society health)

oddly pretty. gorgeous music. strangely comforting, if a little eerie.

(tags: politics arts)

I should probably print this out & post it somewhere I can see it. Nothing unusual or surprising here, just a good compilation.

(tags: depression)

A raffle? That’s pretty cool.

(tags: creditunion)

This is what we’ve got. I had a little too much fun writing this, which is why it’s too long. But the important stuff is at the top. And I LOVE Nikki McClure’s poster.

(tags: creditunion)

“If we give the Pentagon a giant space laser, why do we have to send troops at all?” “because we haven’t found any giant space sharks yet…” heh. a little wigged abt military running something like this.

(tags: weird eco science war)

I can’t stop being angry about this stuff. (I was very lucky. My sojourn in that status only lasted a year and a half.) Nice twist in this article: tips for the uninsured in NYC.

(tags: health politics)

OMG. Have wanted to go for ages, and we were just talking about this the other day. Definitely want to go soon.

(tags: seattle local to-do)

we’ve been talking about doing something like this for…oh…years.

(tags: misc_tech it@home)

hm. all I can say is that I wish Kat would write online, professional resume be damned, because I just love the way she writes and I want to share it with everyone I know.

(tags: writing society blogosphere)

additional silliness from Kermit. good for a giggle.

(tags: weird funny web_dev photoshoppery)

Neat! My wish list: an address entry box, which I don’t know if that’s any good outside the US, but sure would make it faster to use. (Oh, hey, he just changed the starting point from UK to North America & Europe all at once.)

(tags: google gis reference)

“Only WinZip 10 or 11, however, can extract files from the resulting archive” — meager. ran into this at work.

(tags: misc_tech weird)

oh, hey. that really is useful. (missing an argument? says where function was declared AND where function was called.)

(tags: php)

very nicely done. I love diagrams!

(tags: science web_dev)

comes with a nice glossary, too.

(tags: usability)

fun & useful!

(tags: css web_dev design)

yeah, everybody & their cousin is posting this. (this article via Zeldman, btw) I have some amorphous thought that I would like to expand on, but haven’t got it ready yet.

(tags: eco politics)

I don’t need this very often, but when I need it, I really need it.

(tags: email-newsletter reference)

also, OpenOffice, IIRC. (also: Srneebny?!)

(tags: opensource society misc_tech politics)

okay, so seriously, I want to know how to do this. gross, but ::shrug:: it seems like a good idea.

(tags: weird eco garden)

via Shelley. Of course, now I know how to make my *own* shiny buttons and reflective text! 🙂

(tags: reference design)

OMG so freaking crazy. But cool, kinda.

(tags: gaming arts weird)

“In the past year, we at smashLAB have examined the experience we afford our clients.” — a candid examination of how designers can be better to/with their clients. Definitely something to learn from.

(tags: design web_dev psychology)

This looks very cool, but I don’t have all the right bits at work to make it go, alas. Might try later on my own site.

(tags: php design)

Clever. I miss getting Tom’s subscription to The Economist. (When he moved to PDX, it took a while for the address to change from the UWPC, where I was working then.)

(tags: marketing)

from the comments: “how about an application that simulates to the color blind what the normal-sighted see?” interesting idea. (my last assistant was/is color-blind.)

(tags: accessibility)

aha!

(tags: design photoshoppery illustrator)

I remember a study about picky eaters & depressed moms a couple of years ago. And some people do not give up the pickiness. (If you ever want a rant, ask me abt my sis.)

(tags: food psychology science personal)

for Votio. I have a very interesting project idea brewing.

(tags: wordpress)

another on the same idea.

(tags: wordpress)

highlight cell/row/column. nifty idea.

(tags: javascripty)

ice to the Arctic, coals to Newcastle, etc. Weirdly enough, went to Mexican rest. for lunch and ended up talking about variety of authentic. (Highlights: Vuelva a la Vida in Tacoma, Taco Cabana in Austin) via aly.

(tags: food weird society)

like a slo-mo fragmented sci-fi novel, by O’Reilly editor Simon St. Laurent. via Shelley.

(tags: writing eco urban_studies weird)

from the other Elaine. I really should get a crock pot (again — we sold one at a yard sale before we moved down here).

(tags: recipes meat)