Category: Snapping links

• Blog U.: The Great Disconnect: Scholars Without Libraries – Library Babel Fish – Inside Higher Ed
  "I’m happy that scientists are noticing, but what seems like a sudden crisis is more easily likened to the Thirty Years’ War, and it has been pretty bleak here in the trenches for a long, long time."
• October 10th, A most auspicious day
  take a picture! (hey, maybe by then I’ll have a new phone w/camera.)
• Web snooping is a dangerous move – CNN.com
  "It’s bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state."
• Seeing the Forest: How Tax Brackets Work — $250,001 Will Pay Five Cents More Tax
  "people just do not understand how tax brackets work" well, until recently that would include me, so I can’t be too harsh.
• The Pool Room – I’m confused. Why would you (a blind user) want to…
  grrrrr.
• The Answer Sheet – What ‘Superman’ got wrong, point by point
  if you don’t have time to read Diane Ravitch’s latest book, take a few moments to read this.
• Reviser | drupal.org
  "inline wysiwyg editor" – no beta (or dev!) release yet.
• TARP Is Gone – But May Soon Be Back « The Baseline Scenario
  "Supporting banks by injecting capital is best practice for preventing financial and economic collapse around the world." BUT it wasn’t implemented with best practices during TARP.
• The Big Lie About Private vs. Public Innovation | NewAmerica.net
  "The next time someone tells you that the private sector is the engine of innovation in the US economy, laugh in their face" – indeed.

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• rc3.org – Victims of economic restructuring are people too
  "It wasn’t strategic thinking that led me to choose software development, it was the realization that I didn’t really like interviewing people."
• VoiceBox Community Install Profile – Initial Release Available For Download | drupal.org
  intriguing. (also, I really need to figure out Features.)

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• Norco Performance Bikes: 2008 Norco LRT 1
  just for reference, I think this model is the front half of my xtracycle.

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• Zoe Keating
  cello!
• New passive house doesn’t require conventional heat – Seattle News – MyNorthwest.com
  C heard about this on the radio, and allegedly the outer shell thing is something can be retrofitted onto an existing house!
• The Usable Library
  neat stuff. (found via a metatalk thread about servers and such, of all things.)
• Go House Go!
  "how to build a tiny house on wheels"
• A Blueprint For Socially Augmented Events: The Seven Stages Recap | Helping improve your annual meetings, conferences & education
  crummy formatting, but potentially useful.
• ThinkGeek :: Giant Foam Polyhedral Dice
  what, no d6? how will I roll up my character?!
• Yale Alumni Magazine: To an Aesthete Dying Young
  "It is heartbreaking to give words to your pain only to find that pain unaffected by articulation."
• Scientists find area responsible for emotion in dead fish « Mind Hacks
  this is the article I mentioned in my review of Delusions of Gender, and yes, it was @fakebaldur who linked to it. quite a while ago, apparently.
• Web Teacher › Guest Post: Dear Google, Stop Making Me Look Like a Fool
  "As long as the client is willing to pay for polluting the Internet (and for your search results), it works." ouch.
• Leaving .net
  this, I think, is why I haven’t bothered getting into .Net, tho I’m sure it would make easier to find state jobs.

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• Google LatLong: Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search
  just got this working! cool!
• Mashable Meetup: Olympia, WA | Sep 30 – Meetup
  going to try to be there.
• Dante’s Blueberry Bread: It’s a winner! | King Arthur Flour – King Arthur Flour – Baking Banter
  ::drool:: also, wondering if blueberries are still available at the farmer’s market.
• Man behind monuments on I-5 dies – South Sound – The Olympian – Olympia, Washington
  crazy art tripper. still not sure I understand what the deal is, tho.
• No heating necessary – Environment – The Olympian – Olympia, Washington
  passive-heating house being build in NE neighborhood. fascinating.
• copperbadge: THE .DOC FILE OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK
  "I have heard the servers singing, each to each." honestly? I like this better than the original. 🙂
• Obama can learn from ‘Godfather’ – POLITICO.com Print View
  helps me get the metaphors that I finally saw (most of) The Godfather during my recent vacation.
• I give you the ability to do this because I trust you | MetaTalk
  linked purely for this: "no ordinary person can compete with the shrewd cruelty of a bunch of programmers convinced that they are right and their opponents are retarded apes" which sums up the problem with the hacker culture as described in the Hackers book.

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• 90 Minute, No-Soak Beans
• The Poverty Nation Washington Built | The Nation
  "Today’s poverty is the accumulated toll of two forces that have advanced in tandem for decades: The corporate fleecing of family wealth and the bipartisan destruction of a refuge to which those shorn families can turn."
• Roberta Williams – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  from Hackers. Near as I can tell, there would not have *been* a Sierra On-Line if not for her interest in storytelling.
• Jude Milhon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  quote from Hackers: "She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power. She summed up her feelings with the epithet ‘the boys and their toys’"
• Margaret Hamilton (scientist) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  from Hackers. noticed that she was born the same year as my dad. "Before her developmental contributions, the on board flight software needed to land on the moon did not exist."

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• Bicygnal Indicators
  turn lights!
• Craftzine.com blog : Turn Signal Bike Jackets
• A harvest of flavors and textures: soft, warm pita; crunchy chopped salad | King Arthur Flour – King Arthur Flour – Baking Banter
• Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Northwest Monsoon
  "Olympia has accumulated 4.1 inches of rain in just the past 4 days and 5.3 inches over the past 31 days. September normal at Olympia is 2.0 inches for the entire month." yipes.
• WordPress › Membership lite « WordPress Plugins
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• PayPal « Support — WordPress.com

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• Health care relief for Washington state’s self-employed — Nine to Thrive | NWjobs
  "one-person businesses will be able to qualify for group health insurance coverage, with no health screening required"
• 100+ Free High Quality Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers | Icons | instantShift
• How to Podcast for Free (on Archive.org) – SKETCHEE IDEAS: A Creativity Blog – Design & Illustration – SKETCHEE.COM
• xkcd: Inside Joke
  check out the hover text too (as usual) – as I tweeted, that’s one reason for my hate on Ezra Pound. All the obscure references, the inside jokeyness, etc., etc.: if I need footnotes to understand (much less enjoy!) your poem, then ur doin it rong. (actually, I think I said "u suck" but much the same sentiment.)

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• Diaspora Developer Release
  interesting, looks like it’s actually going somewhere. (is it RoR?)
• You Can Stop the Social Media Hype «
  "As long as we continue to buy into the hype of new technologies and look to communications tools and platforms to save us, we’re doomed." dooooomed! 😉 also, the internet is made of people. seriously, though? this article is a good reminder to chill out.
• WSOD with PHP versions 4.x, 5.0, & 5.1 when the Date_PHP4 module is enabled. | drupal.org
  grumble grumble grumble.
• GoDaddy SSL Certificates and Cannot Verify Identity on Mac/Safari « Boxed Ice Blog
  not my specific issue, but pretty sure something in that neck of the woods.
• Safari can’t verify the identity of the website | Hello System Admin | Where system admins share technical article and tips | Create free Blog | Updates on domains, web hosting, servers and more
  the answer kinda makes my head asplode. not sure what to do from here.

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• Feeling the Pain of Rejection? Try Taking a Tylenol: Scientific American
  how bizarre. admittedly, early research, but fascinating idea.
• 25 Popular Color Scheme and Palette Generators | cssJuice
• CSS Drive: Image to Colors Palette Generator

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