Category: Snapping links

• Ken’s Award Winning Fudge
• How to Migrate Your Entire Google Account to a New One
  might move everything from my regular Google account to one of my Google Apps for yr domain accounts.

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• Plantronics Voyager Pro UC Is a Headset That Knows When You’re Using It
• Why the Obama tax deal with Republicans is insane | Corrente
  Interesting one-two punch. First, evidence is in that higher taxes create more growth; second, a theory as to why that is so: low taxes encourage profit-taking & financial speculation, high taxes encourage investment in business assets.
• Invaders from Mars – Charlie’s Diary
  corporations as alien invaders. yep.
• Bike Shop: 1912 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive
  (and record players!)
• The Burger Lab: How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries | A Hamburger Today
  is this something I would need a deep fryer to understand? 😉 (MeFi inside joke.)
• Excerpts From CRS Analysis Of Publication Of Classified Information – Kathy Gill’s posterous
  "[W]e are aware of no case in which a publisher of information obtained through unauthorized disclosure by a government employee has been prosecuted for publishing it." there. that’s all there is to say.

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• Adactio: Journal—One web
  "Most of the time, creating a separate mobile website is simply a cop-out." YES. THIS.
• 10 Winter Dinners from the Slow Cooker Recipe Roundup | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn
  VERY interested in the coconut & green curry pork; enchiladas also look tempting, but more of a weekend afternoon thing.
• Breakfast in a Crock-Pot | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn
• James Burke: Connections | Watch Free Documentary Online
  On YouTube. All of it.
• It’s "Its" | MetaTalk
  linked for, no lie, animal crackers recipe. (tho I think it requires a food processor.)

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• Finding the missing personal blog – markpasc
  reading & rereading this, thinking about the itch that I have not been able to scratch in almost a decade, and wondering what that would look like exactly.
• Information overload, the early years – The Boston Globe
  "if we look closely, we can find a striking parallel to our own time: what Western Europe experienced in the wake of Gutenberg’s invention of printing"
• Sheldon® Comic Strip: Fantasy Football vs D&D
  hahahahahaha!
• Weeks later, no one had heard from the family;…
  🙂

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• Leaked Cable #r?a?p?e?: An Open Rant Against the Perpetuation of Rape Myths | Vancouver Media Co-op
  "You know, it IS POSSIBLE that Julian Assange DID sexually assault a woman in Sweden AND that the charges are trumped up in a way and dealt with in a certain way because of his work with WikiLeaks." – more on consent, rumors and icky people.
• Some thoughts on “sex by surprise” — Feministe
  "I’m not particularly interested in debating What Assange Did or Whether Assange Is A Rapist" – instead, some thoughts about consent, etc.
• Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America | Threat Level | Wired.com
  "The greatest threat we face right now from Wikileaks is not the information it has spilled and may spill in the future, but the reactionary response to it that’s building in the United States that promises to repudiate the rule of law and our free speech traditions, if left unchecked."
• The Weakest Link: What Wikileaks Has Taught Us About the Open Internet
  "Despite the arguments that Amazon, PayPal, and others make about the illegality of the leaked documents, it’s not clear that Wikileaks has broken any law."
• The Language Construction Kit
• So, Why is WikiLeaks a Good Thing Again?
  little news tidbits, things that would not have happened/been widely known w/out Wikileaks.

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• Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky
  interesting stuff.
• Cornmeal Cranberry Cookies Recipe at Epicurious.com
  "needs about 1/2 cup less flour & less cranberries (bit too dry & chewy). Very yummy, tho’!" sez Librienne.
• CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Module (aka Flex Box) introduction and demos/test cases – Robert’s talk
  well, that looks handy. (IE? No, of course not.)
• Usability Testing: Usability testing is broken: Rethinking user research for social interaction design
  interesting to me that she uses the example of a retirement planning site. I’ve thought about the same thing with online banking. (and IIRC, the last time I did usability testing, I had a couple come in together, because that’s how they used the site.)
• The History of CSS Resets
  A nice recap of the different strains of thought back in the day. (I still use the Eric Meyer reset, not sure which version.)

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• Black is beautiful | Ask MetaFilter
  reseasoning cast iron "What kind of oil/fat is going to give me the hardest, strongest, blackest finish, and what temperature is going to get me there?" LOTS of opinions

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• Understanding Drupal | Drupalize.Me
• Accordion Pagination: A Faster, Smoother Way to Paginate – UX Movement
  fascinating.
• Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners’ wishes) – Charlie’s Diary
  interesting analysis. (and easier to read than the "read this now" linked in the post, honestly.)

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• A Waste of Money and Time – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com
  I <3 Bruce Schneier.
• 8 Recent Updates for Facebook Business Pages | Social Media Today
  they finally fixed my biggest annoyance. (not being able to remove the first admin) and the spam filter is working pretty well for my employer’s page, which is nice.

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• Zen and the Art of Stash Diving – Crochet Me
  pretty scarf. seems like a good reason to learn crochet. (either that or buy one from Aden?)
• White, male startup companies get funding for being white and male. | Geek Feminism Blog
  "In other industries—and if uttered by someone without a university education—people would call it “sexism”, “racism”, and “ageism”, but not in the technology venture-capital industry" — also, amused by the "Remington Steele" suggestion in the comments.
• Make Photoshop Faster: 2 little tips to help speed up the tool web designers love to hate.
  2nd tip doesn’t matter for CS4 on Windows, at least. will be curious to see if the 1st one helps.
• The Great Typekit Table – Sleepover
  fonts that may be suitable for long blocks of text.
• How to use @font-face to avoid faux-italic and bold browser styles | Metal Toad Media
  I’m working on something that could use this, and it doesn’t work right on this computer. review later.
• Sticky Notes with CSS3 : accidental hacker
  pretty, although I’m not thrilled by the empty div used to create the "tape" effect.

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