Author: Snapping Links

for reference.

(tags: business web_dev)

“the next time a client requests changes that make your work less beautiful, less usable, or less smart, remember that greater people than you have lost bigger battles over far more important matters”

(tags: politics history writing web_dev)

something to do with my spiffy new trail shoes.

(tags: exercise)

“I feel obliged, as a responsible Sinologist, to take counteraction”

(tags: business writing weird society)

Hockney is the embodiment of a certain spectrum of LA, IMHO.

(tags: arts californication)

(tags: web_dev)

“Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development.”

(tags: opensource misc_tech gis nonprofit urban_studies society)

do this on the home computers

(tags: it@home)

“I just don’t know how to deal with this sort of antagonism towards any sort of change; even change that will improve things.” no comment.

(tags: academia web_dev intranet depression)

I’d always taken as fact the common wisdom about Grant, namely that the only thing he’d ever been a success at was being a general. Maybe not….

(tags: history politics)

Tim Bray posts great raccoon photos. We’ve had some living in the World’s Tallest Crabapple Tree (TM) these last few years, and they seem to coexist pretty well with our posse of cats….

(tags: photography garden personal)

do this on the ena site, too.

(tags: wordpress ena to-do)

good to know.

(tags: science)

INTROVERTS and BIG BUSINESS

(tags: work academia personal depression)

(tags: webvideo to-watch nonprofit)

all sorts of fun wacky stuff on the web

(tags: weird funny webvideo checkback)

useful points

(tags: standards web_dev)

thinking about this….

(tags: personal local olympia politics)

use flash to tell javascript if there’s a screen reader being used. what a squirrelly idea.

(tags: accessibility javascripty)

how curious. like ms passport, but google.

(tags: google web_dev)

giant himalayan lily, can grow up to 12 ft tall! C sez: “get one!”

(tags: garden to-buy)

‘I value user feedback even when the user is “wrong.”’

(tags: usability)

a discussion zone.

(tags: microformat academia checkback)

do this.

(tags: blogosphere to-do metablog personal)

either that, or get measure map working again.

(tags: wordpress metablog to-do)

“they do not get along with members of the Baby Boom, currently those roughly 30 to 45 [47-62, as of 2006]…. [I]f the possibility exists of separating the two groups, it is not a bad idea.”

(tags: personal society)

as if being critiqued on flickr, etc. cracks me up.

(tags: funny photography blogosphere)

I’m mostly a butter gal myself, but this might be useful to know.

(tags: recipes personal)

“nothing in my paper warrants asking Moses to discard any of the ten commandments” 🙂

(tags: web_dev science funny)

“despair might be caused by the loss of the brain’s essential plasticity” — this article is full of “holy sh!t” moments. read it now!

(tags: depression science)

(tags: javascripty to-read)

…we even have surveyor’s stakes already!

(tags: garden to-do to-buy)

“Oh, didn’t I tell you? Meg has purchased a cow.” heh. I have this book on hold at the library.

(tags: food science politics writing funny)

goddamn it. that was today and tomorrow, and I can’t go tomorrow. 🙁

(tags: drupal local academia)

“Only someone with an obsessive-compulsive disorder would log in to a registrar every few days just to be sure one of their domains wasn’t about to expire.” — the mighty Z has the same problem I do.

(tags: web_dev weird metablog personal)

“The school district’s latest levy had failed, so they had to cut a couple hundred thousand dollars from the budget.” why aren’t we doing that?!

(tags: openoffice misc_tech academia)

free pdf-book

(tags: google to-read weird)

“widespread reports of U.S. boys being in crisis are greatly overstated” — an issue of no small controversy around here….

(tags: academia gender)

how obnoxious/depressing is *that*?

(tags: local lakewood)

ppk on JS: a sort of sequel to dom scripting

(tags: javascripty to-read)

some of these are really dumb, but a few look cool.

(tags: design photography)

includes a recipe for roast chicken along with musings on the nature of American food.

(tags: recipes eco)

all linux goodness. I am thinking…thinking…thinking….

(tags: opensource it@home misc_tech)

in short: polyester is the lesser of multiple evils

(tags: eco home to-buy)

A fascinating conversation…”But it’s not people in uniform who are seizing power. It’s militarized civilians”

(tags: politics conspiracy)

okay, okay, okay, I’m gonna go to the OlyBlog get-together….

(tags: society local olympia depression)

what makes this cheap is the use of materials from the dump!

(tags: home eco)

paving-like surface for growing grass through. plastic!

(tags: home garden eco)

via glenda the good. almost made me cry.

(tags: arts society eco)

‘No more drive-through windows because we’re tired of smartalecks asking for “a side of fries.”’ — the Nose on pharmacists. (sometimes you have to find a way to laugh.)

(tags: local tacoma olympia politics gender)

if they can grow them in east vancouver, why not here?

(tags: garden)

altho, for me, that pink wedge is more like: worrying over whether to go with a fixed or flexi-width design. 🙂

(tags: browsers web_dev funny css javascripty)

do this later.

(tags: to-do weird society)

WTF?

(tags: weird)

a fascinating dialog.

(tags: society recipes)

similar things apply to the use of wysiwyg apps for web design.

(tags: funny web_dev misc_tech)

hey, I have a deckplans.com flier at home!

(tags: home to-do garden)