Author: Snapping Links

The more I use the newer versions of WordPress, the more I wish for something similar in Drupal. I'm liking the RootCandy theme thus far, although the Administration Dashboard module looks interesting. Will need to check back when there's an actual release.

"'No one complains when Julia Roberts pulls down $25 million per movie or A-Rod has a $300 million guarantee.'" Actually, some people do. (The sports thing, in particular, gets under my skin.) What I really want to say in response to this has a lot more f-bombs than is really appropriate for the internets.

"Alkaline tests your website designs across 17 different Windows browsers right from your Mac desktop in seconds." trippy.

"Among all those "details" that fail to catch the designer's attention, I have a few ones that I usually try to deal with right away when I start a project, one of them being the whole set of "notifications" you can see displayed through Drupal" pretty!

to read on monday.

specifically for text fields in forms. I need this for something

interesting analysis. I was entirely offline last weekend, so I pretty much came in at the waaaay tail end.

"The Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs, but with an important twist: it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card to come up for review."

"Use your voice, email, instant messaging, or text messaging. No other memory tool makes it as easy to capture, retrieve, and share ideas and things you need to do—anywhere, anytime." tempting.

"The city foots the bill for the installation, but homeowners retain ownership and pay the city back over 20 years via an annual property assessment." I would do this in a HEARTBEAT. and actually, if you compare solar to other utilities, rather than to other home improvements, it makes a lot of sense.

to read on monday.

specifically for text fields in forms. I need this for something

interesting analysis. I was entirely offline last weekend, so I pretty much came in at the waaaay tail end.

"The Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs, but with an important twist: it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card to come up for review."

"Use your voice, email, instant messaging, or text messaging. No other memory tool makes it as easy to capture, retrieve, and share ideas and things you need to do—anywhere, anytime." tempting.

"The city foots the bill for the installation, but homeowners retain ownership and pay the city back over 20 years via an annual property assessment." I would do this in a HEARTBEAT. and actually, if you compare solar to other utilities, rather than to other home improvements, it makes a lot of sense.

"the discourse about city biking is dominated by cycling zealots who don’t have the desire, or the skill, to attract people who don’t see themselves as cyclists, just as people who ride a bike to work" also, there's lots of bikes out there that are close to the Dutch style. (for instance, my much loved Townie.)

hey, we need to do some of these things!

fascinating bit of financial history, involving EM Forster's great-uncle & the Bank of England.

Sounds good. Have put on hold at library, although I'm person #41 at the moment.

ha! I think mine could be Elamine Garmisch-Partenkirchen, although I'd have to look back at my journals from '93 to be sure. (I just picked one of the smallish towns along what I remember of the route whose name rang a bell.)

fascinating.

"Eventually, it dawned on me that conveying complex ideas in simple terms is actually a skill—one that I was proud to finally master." Also, an argument in favor of the em-dash (vs the semi-colon, mostly). Via dylan.

"We rode from our door to MAX light rail, took it to the end of the line west, continued through farmland and forest 22 miles to Stub Stewart State Park, stayed there in comfortable cabins, and back the next day." sounds like fun!

"Each cat has a small RFID tag on the collar. When a cat is in the close proximity of the door, a small RFID reader reads the tag and if the cat is authorized, a servo will unlock the cat door. The RFID reader and the servo controller are connected to an old laptop. The software on the laptop is written in Delphi and for each "cat door event" is sending a Twitter message" I think the twitter bit is optional. in our neighborhood, something like this could be REALLY handy

"#2. If space and time have inverted within your body, skip to step 10."

Dylan describes it as "Stupid-easy and NOM-able." and it looks like you end up with just enough wine afterwards to have a little drink.

"McNinch told Salon that the pressure to misdiagnose came from the former head of Fort Carson's Department of Behavioral Health. That colonel, an Army psychiatrist, is now at Fort Lewis in Washington state." ugh.

"When given a choice between giving a handshake or a hug to an old friend, and introducing yourself to a stranger, it’s human nature to greet a friend first, because that’s much easier." some interesting thoughts about social interaction in re: meeting people who you know online. I tend to agree.

"The purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization." beautiful & inspiring.

"A number of very interesting books have been released over the past year or two which debate how the Internet is reshaping our culture and the economy. I’ve reviewed a couple of them here but I have been waiting to compile a sort of mega-book review once I found a sensible way to conceptually group them together. I’m not going to have time to cover each of them here in the detail they deserve, but I think I have at least found a sensible way to categorize them." One thing that I've been appreciating about Zittrain's book is that he seems to bridge the optimism/pessimism gap.

fascinating.

"So to say We don’t have time to do X really means X is not important enough for me to use my time on it ." Which caused me to be embarrassed enough about not having done something that I went off & did it.

"Looks like the under 35s have the worst record of any age group for service to community. Sure, it’s only one measure of altruism, but I have to wonder if Gen Y is as adept as “self-mythologizing” as the notoriously narcissistic Baby Boomers." Ha!