Author: Snapping Links

"This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction."

ton o' stuff here

2 things I liked a LOT about Plurk: threads and granular permissions.

"to find the best sites for new clean energy projects and transmission lines, so that America can harness renewable power while doing the least damage to the Western environment. […] Working with Google Earth, NRDC has developed this interactive resource" a Google Earth layer indicating sensitive areas in the west.

"What I need to own as far as temperament is concerned is that I have a very strong and yes, angry reaction to bad, inefficient, dysfunctional systems and processes, especially when the other actors in the system seem to be blind to their badness." this.

I totally need to do this.

"Research has shown that experts make predictions at a rate worse than chance. This site exists in order to hold people and media outlets accountable for pretending to see into an unpredictable future."

I don't know why this is so damn hard!

need to remember to do this.

pretty, and really simple.

"By using an internal technology dubbed Face Observation Opera Language, we are able to recognize pre-determined facial expressions and match them to commands on the Opera browser." nice.

tying the other 2 april fool's jokes together….

goodness.

am always looking for things that will help me be more organized!

In the eastside. Hard to tell from the article what the actual code violations were. Might have to wander over & see it for myself, too.

a bunch of anti arguments grouped together. might be useful.

if I can get some space cleared out on the carport (and honestly, maybe find a new bike stand) I'd like to do this SOON.

some thoughtful discussion. for some reason, it reminds me of a theme in the part of my book that I haven't been able to write, something about culpability and one's place in the system.

"only one thing can subdue poetry…."

"an unsettling development: Banks are quietly declining to take possession of properties at the end of the foreclosure process, most often because the cost of the ordeal — from legal fees to maintenance — exceeds the diminishing value of the real estate." WTF? Additional mortgage craziness.

awesome.

"The Seattle Times examined all banks whose parent companies are publicly traded and all banks that have received money through the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program (indicated with an asterisk next to the bank name), and then added a geographically diverse mix of other significant institutions."

"adds animated drag 'n' drop, snap-to-grid, and show/hide-contents functionality to any group of elements" fun!

"Now, a lot of modern websites have dropped the sitemap page, instead they place the sitemap in the footer area. I’m going to review 20 websites (from big corporation to small portfolio sites) who organized their footer cleverly to enhance usability." What was that ALA article about big footers?

crazy! (they almost look like micro-versions of "hub" pages.) something to test, perhaps?

"If you want to, you can take the $230 transit benefit AND $230 in parking. But for cyclists, you can either have $20 for biking or up to $430 for using transit and driving (sigh)." This whole thing is absurdly confusing.

"In its depth and suddenness, the U.S. economic and financial crisis is shockingly reminiscent of moments we have recently seen in emerging markets (and only in emerging markets): South Korea (1997), Malaysia (1998), Russia and Argentina (time and again)." anxiety-inducing.

uses tubs for tomato container gardening. we might even have a few extra tubs laying around!

I totally want to do this. (I have a HUGE postcard collection from college.)

I have some hopes for this, too. (reading Pro Drupal Development is helping me think about some different ways of handling stuff that's been driving me nuts.)

looks moderately insane, but also possibly useful.

basically, how solitary confinement (in all its forms) destroys the human psyche.

"like hulu for academics" I think is what lifehacker called it. neat!

I *just* tossed one of these bottles in the recycling maybe 2 weeks ago. (and, oddly, I think C has that model phone.)

might give this a test drive.

for Gus, among others.

"The logic seems to be along these lines: 1. These things look bad. 2. Icelanders are good. 3. Therefore these things can’t be true. […] Unfortunately most of the points Mr. Moody picks up on as not true, are in fact true." and then, hey, back the other way. journalism at its best? or at least it's interesting to me to see the back and forth, weaving towards some sort of truth. (And yeah, Moody didn't so much as touch the central issues around over-education, machismo, and hubris.)

"The conservatorship of these corporate credit unions does not have an operational impact to BECU because BECU does not utilize either US Central Federal Credit Union or Western Corporate Federal Credit Union for any member related activities." Nice & simple. (But with a link to a PDF? Srsly?)

"If you didn’t know any better, you’d think we were a sitcom waiting to happen. […] Unfortunately, none of this is exactly true. If you want to get the story right, the article’s more colorful details deserve a reality check." d'oh!

serious inside baseball, but good reading.

more of a tactical take from the CU side.

CNN tells folks to chill (TF) out.

I like this description: "companies that provide critical banking services to the credit union industry"

saving a bunch of articles about the corporate CU conservatorship thing.

A little bit "get off my lawn" but some reasonable points nonetheless. (Winer is a goof, Johnson is hand-wavey about the money, and Shirky shrugs about WTF is actually gonna happen. Which, oddly, may be the more important contribution to the debate, esp the references re: early years of printing.)

slides & stuff. it was a good presentation