Category: Snapping links

• What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs
  "a great man’s reputation can withstand a full accounting"
• Broken Promises: Following Your Dreams, and the 99 percent
  "in the end it’s a “follow your dreams” speech, and as such is quite a contrast to another Internet event of the moment" – on the Steve Jobs graduation speech everybody’s posting.
• Mayor McGinn » Update on Occupy Seattle
  brilliant, really.

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• GNS Theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "GNS Theory holds that participants in role-playing games reinforce each other’s behaviour towards ends which can be divided into three categories: Gamist, Narrativist and Simulationist." rings true for me.

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• Berroco® Fashion Yarns for Knitting and Crochet
  includes free patterns. look like they mostly do funky yarns.
• Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Searching For Mark Pilgrim
  Drama! (Or something. Who the hell knows.) FWIW, Dive Into Accessibility was one of my favorite resources when it first came out.
• The Moneyball of Campaign Advertising (Part 1) – NYTimes.com
  "much of what goes into modern campaign advertising may be futile" – Let’s try SCIENCE!

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• Edwin, Speech-to-Speech – Android Market
  read about on MeFi.

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• Green Tomato Majjige Huli or Kai/Kayi Huli Recipe: Green Tomatoes in Coconut-Yogurt Gravy – Monsoon Spice
  may do this with green tomatoes in my garden
• Why Facebook Is Becoming the Media World’s Black Hole | Commentary and analysis from Simon Dumenco – Advertising Age
  "The truth about social-media sites is that they’ve never been particularly great environments for advertising. People immerse themselves in social media because they want to socialize."
• Occupy Wall Street: FAQ | The Nation
• Shopping for a Web Developer is like Shopping for an Auto Mechanic | Metal Toad Media
  A useful metaphor, honestly, both for the shopper and the developer.
• Sutor, ne ultra crepidam « self-evident
  "While (CA) state policymakers have spent considerable time debating spending issues, I think it would be difficult to argue that financial trouble catches officials off guard." response to recent VF article by Michael Lewis.
• Cruel America | The Nation
  "It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut." also: cheering the death penalty.
• 5 questions to ask when deciding whether to use Drupal or WordPress | Poynter.
  "The question of WordPress versus Drupal isn’t Coke/Pepsi, boxers/briefs, Red Sox/Yankees. It’s about understanding the needs of your organization." YES.

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• Regulatory uncertainty: A phony explanation for our jobs problem | Economic Policy Institute
  "what the heavily politicized trade associations in Washington are saying does not correspond to the real challenges facing both large and small businesses, even as they themselves perceive them."
• PolitiFact | Pundits fare poorly on the Truth-O-Meter
  I’m seriously tempted to spend $2 on their app.

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• Tip: Show the last git commit in the site footer | Lullabot
• A Farewell to CSS3 Gradients » HTML & CSS, Layout » Design Festival
  great stuff! including link to free super-easy SVG editor.

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• Three Questions You Shouldn’t Ask During User Research
  better to know what people have done and see what they’re doing, then to ask them what they might do, what they want, or why they did something.
• Nick Farina – Git Is Simpler Than You Think
  I think I finally sorta kinda understand! (turtles all the way down.)
• Lifehacker Pack for Android: Our List of the Best Android Apps
  for 2011. some interesting things here.
• Op-Ed: Stop Feeding Facebook, It’s Time for Moderation
  I’ll be honest: I’m not sure why regulation couldn’t be a part of the answer to this problem.
• a facebook privacy experiment
  I would guess it’s from sites that include FB buttons & whatnot.

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• Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
  sent to instapaper, hopefully will remember to read: looks promising.
• Rebrickable – Find a Set to Build
  tell them what sets you have, they tell you what sets you can build. (including some AFoL sets, if I understand it correctly.)
• Knitty: Sidewinder – Fall 2008
  cute skirt!
• It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short
  bleak, but I can’t argue with the conclusions.

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• Really Easy Wristers Knitting Pattern | Red Heart
  I can use these at work!
• Heartwarming Knit Scarf Knitting Pattern | Red Heart
• Knitted Bliss: Modification Monday: Gray Swan Dress
  whoa. I mean, whoa.
• Xobni Brings "Smartr" Social Intelligence Apps to Gmail & Android
  giving these a try. not sure if the Gmail widget is going to take up too much screen space.
• Minimally Invasive » Yep, More Chicken
  rosemary, mushrooms, potatoes. I need to get another rosemary plant.

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