links for 2006-10-29
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“At a certain point, one might ask who is actually hoping to pull on that crimson sweatshirt.”
links for 2006-10-28
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“They say that dogs lick their own genitalia because they can. But I think it’s at least partially because they don’t have the Internet.”
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what’s the low-hanging fruit?
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whoa. lots and lots here.
links for 2006-10-27
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“Turns out no one can spell ‘colleague’. Who knew?”(tags: microformat to-install)
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excellent! and fits what I’m listening to in this presentation, too!
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now free online for us cheap bastards.
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nerd jewelry. pretty.(tags: jewelry)
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“I’m always happy when the Chronicle takes a break from its all-Harvard-all-the-time default mode and notices the single largest sector of higher education in America.” the dean rips into it.(tags: academia)
links for 2006-10-25
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put this on the mac. (what a brilliant idea!)
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now I can do my will.
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true story: when I worked at the Children’s Museum, we all took a paycut at one point. everybody but me went to the boss and negotiated part or all of their cut back. I didn’t find out until years later, when L made an offhand comment about it. ::sigh:
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I was just thinking about tetris the other day….(tags: mda)
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image search can find public domain stuff!(tags: photography design)
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I was on the Seattle PHP list for a while, and it seemed overwhelming male to me.
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facinating. I’ll need to find some of these. (sinuses must stay moist this winter!)
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looks kinda cool….(tags: home)
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“How our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts — in five easy steps” — ::shudder::(tags: politics)
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“I.B.M. plans to enforce it’s patents on giggles and rainbows in the 2nd quarter of next year.” — best quote I’ve seen/heard on the topic.
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a couple of nice snowflake fonts(tags: design)
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one of the few nerd culture things that E.R. & I can enjoy in a similar way.
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“I kinda like to look at the ranch” heh. this may, in fact, be the only thing I have in common with Bush.
links for 2006-10-24
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precisely.(tags: writing depression)
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very tasty, and reheats well too.(tags: recipes)
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whoa! mapping everything about everywhere. (politics, crime, cost of living, commute time, unemployment, etc., etc.)
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“I know people act like this place is hip, but how can it be?” — (a) I am vaguely reminded of the dear departed Temple of the Bean, for which I was insufficiently hip for a very long time and (b) this is why I like the eminently yuppified, but not starbu
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tangentially related: what if I started with her in the woods at night, instead of the morning before?(tags: writing)
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#13 was part of my regular walk to class the last two years of college. has it really been so long?
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kitchen tools
links for 2006-10-21
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“What are you talking about? I don’t want to plant seeds or hear about the weather, of all things. I want to be a farmer.†heh.
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planetarium for the computer. wow!
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on extending the museum experience. definitely confirmed by my personal experience at the CMT, and I guess it’s true of anything: you work somewhere for a while and you get to know things at a different level of depth. (Elizabeth: read this now!)
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“An Internet service cannot be considered truly successful until it has attracted spammers.” heh.
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fascinating. as always, visuals on maps make things more clear.
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keep an eye out for this.
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“it is time […] to go beyond fragmentary leaks unaccompanied by documents” — Daniel Ellsberg begs for someone in gov’t to leak before the next war starts, not wait until after.
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not that I really understand this, but I’m going to give it a try anyway.
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lecture by RFK Jr., taped by TVW.
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My long ranty comment is 6th one in. Ah, if only I COULD get plans for our lovely 1974 HUD house…..
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all IE7 stuff. do this on Monday!
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cool and weird. very bruce-stirling-esque.
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beautiful.
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ye gods. although I wonder if this would help me track down that weird problem with a tab on the home page.
links for 2006-10-20
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home renovation co-ops. our neighbor has a gardening coop with a couple of her friends, but we don’t seem to have the kind of relationship where I could be part. OTOH, maybe I could do something of my own?
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so very artsy-craftsy.
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“where homes are relatively cheap, the cost of living is affordable and the local economy is going strong” — including Oly! (And Austin, interestingly.) Apparently our big drawback is the rain. Ya think?
links for 2006-10-19
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hm. might be something to add to the ENA site, replacing the one that’s there now. or at least to add to my list of services to play with.
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what an absolutely perfect logo.(tags: depression design)
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July through October being the sweet spot, of course, and March the nadir.
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“Plus-size women’s raingear? Almost non-existent.” …so much so that this entry comes up in a google search for “plus size women’s cycling rain pants” — no such thing, apparently. and the rainy season arrived today. 🙁
links for 2006-10-18
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good ideas here.
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verrrrry interesting. now all 3 of us have hit the blogosphere one way or another. (boo on RT for not providing individual feeds!)(tags: personal blogosphere)
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this looks like the most friendly article.
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“and I cry at inopportune moments:/the sight of a snowglobe” — Edith found this in some vanity googling. I need to grab copies of all the old suite 9 stuff while it’s still online!
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fascinating….