Category: Snapping links

• Twitter using Drupal | Dries Buytaert
  "Starting today, Twitter’s developer community lives and breathes on Drupal!"
• How to reuse silica gel packets | MNN – Mother Nature Network
  basically, anywhere that’s prone to dampness.

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• What to Eat? | MetaFilter
  In which i ask what to do with sardines or anchovies.
• The Primal Home: Primal Dinner for Under $4 Bucks!- Meaty Chipotle Chili
  looks crazily easy.
• Two-factor Authentication Made Easy: Phone Call, SMS, Mobile App, Token · Duo Security
  fascinating.

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• The Washington Monthly – The Magazine – The Case for Not-Quite-So-High-Speed Rail
  "Europe’s high-speed trains, like the German Intercity-Express, get all the attention, but we should aspire first to match its conventional rail service, which is faster than ours" – and MORE RELIABLE. I would seriously look at taking the train to PDX or BC if I trusted that they would be on time, and run frequently enough to make sense.
• Founding Falter
  on political history, comparison of systems, and where we are now. (not mentioned as a factor of our system surviving so long: pre-Civil War, fed gov’t didn’t do much anyhow; pre-New Deal/WWII, Congress was generally the stronger branch.)

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• FitText – A plugin for inflating web type
  clever!

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• IT’S BEEN 22 YEARS SINCE WILD THING WALTZED INTO OUR – 07.04.11 – SI Vault
  "To commemorate the movie, SI reassembled the most memorable Indians team since the days of Bob Feller for a look back at the making of Major League." a favorite movie of the whole family’s when I was in high school.
• how to stop drowning in your notes & make them useful instead | Let’s Radiate
  sort of a GTD for conferences, books, etc. I should do this.

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• Watermark: Summer Solstice Sitka 1993
  Lovely little poem.
• icelandic fishing policy

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• Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions
• SparkleShare – Sharing work made easy
  want to keep an eye on this. (no windows version yet.)
• That’s enough, Robert Hoekman | Shall Make You Odd
  "Why should anyone timid or afraid they’ll be publicly humiliated as an impostor speak in a world where Hoekman lurks?" this. I have a lot to say about Dylan’s post (obvs) but can’t (yet?!) put it together coherently.
• What Does This Mean to Me, Laura? » Stop checking in
  "I want you [librarians] to stop checking into your own library on Foursquare." valid comment for anyone working at a public location.

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• Hamburger. – ground beef hamburger | Ask MetaFilter

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• The Washington Monthly – The Magazine – 20,000 Leagues Under the State
  "public policies designed in a manner that channels resources to citizens indirectly, through subsidies for private activities, rather than directly through payments or services from government" – on tax expenditures (mortgage deduction, EITC, 529 accounts, etc)
• Tom Morris – When did the tech community become such a big conduit for bullshit?
• Atop TV Sets, Cable Boxes and DVRs Drain Power – NYTimes.com
  “I don’t want to use the word ‘lazy,’ but they have had different priorities, and saving energy is not one of them.” LAZY. In other news, cable companies still suck.

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• Simple Password Meter | jQuery Plugins
  works just right!
• SimpleGrid
• Demo: Pure CSS social media icons (experimental) – Nicolas Gallagher
• 12 Tips for Using Your Android Phone – NYTimes.com
  some of this I knew, but definitely not most.
• To Keep Off Pounds: Pass The Nuts, Hold The Chips : Shots – Health Blog : NPR
  "The worst of the bad food news can be summed up in one word: potatoes." nooooooooo!
• Kind of Screwed – Waxy.org
  "Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses." the whole story.
• Amahi Home Server – Making Home Networking Simple
  would love to try this!
• My Life As an Undocumented Immigrant – NYTimes.com
  heartbreaking, really.

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