Category: Snapping links

• The net effect of the “high cost of higher ed” argument : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present
  "Strangely enough, none of these books suggest that the federal and state governments should once again subsidize higher education at the rate it did during the Cold War, nor do they advocate ripping out computer labs and IT departments, which are the two biggest reasons college costs more than it used to."
• Two Cities Two Wheels: Middle Ground
  "Anyway, I found it interesting to look up some actual facts regarding autos and bikes."

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• Web Album Generator: Free Photo Album Software
  I used to have a cute little windows script by pb of mefi fame, but this seems to work just as well. (needed to make something static.)
• A Tasty Recipe: Pecan Pie Muffins – Tasty Kitchen Blog
• Jon Carroll – SFGate
  "Unitarian Jihad will begin a series of terrorist-like actions. We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day." think I’ve read this before. still awesome.
• The Facebook Reckoning – Anil Dash
  In which he expands on the quote in the New Yorker article: "here’s even more nuance to my feelings about Facebook than merely remarking on the privilege of its CEO"
• Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg opens up : The New Yorker
  interesting personal story from the author at the end.
• Retiring Later Is Hard Road for Laborers – NYTimes.com
  "In all, the researchers found that 45 percent of older workers, or 8.5 million, held such difficult jobs. For janitors, nurses’ aides, plumbers, cashiers, waiters, cooks, carpenters, maintenance workers and others, raising the retirement age may mean squeezing more out of a declining body." (musing: should retirement age be based on years in the workforce?)
• The death of ‘right brain thinking’ « Mind Hacks
  "creative thinking does not appear to critically depend on any single mental process or brain region, and it is not especially associated with right brains [or a bunch of other stuff]" – meta-analysis of 70+ experiments.
• Revenge of the Introvert | Psychology Today
• HTML5 structure—div, section & article ❧ Oli.jp (@boblet)

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• A List Apart: Articles: The Look That Says Book
  wait…soft hyphens work in browsers now?! cool.

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• Hexographer Hex Map Software: Home
  free java app.
• Girl Develop IT Takes Off With Low-Cost, Women-Only Programming Classes
  via Robert A Hunter — may have response to this (and the as-usual sometimes appalling comments) later.
• Drupal best practice: Document your way to understanding | Lullabot
  I should go through the modules that are most important to the work site and try contributing some documentation.
• Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game
• Working on Open Review Drupal Module (CommentPress-style commenting) | Re-mediation Roomy-nation
  wonder where this went to?
• Annotate | drupal.org
• Sticky Notes | drupal.org
  I have this idea for a Drupal site with the d20 SRD, on which users could make their own annotations for mods.
• “d20 Lite” games – EN World: D&D / RPG News & Reviews

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• Buttermilk Substitute – How to Make Buttermilk
  because I never have cause to buy a big container of buttermilk.
• best birthday cake | smitten kitchen
  it was pretty good; I liked it better than C did. used the frosting recipe on the back of the hershey’s cocoa box instead of this one.

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• Op-Ed Contributor – How to End the Great Recession – NYTimes.com
  "Now we’re left to deal with the underlying problem that we’ve avoided for decades. Even if nearly everyone was employed, the vast middle class still wouldn’t have enough money to buy what the economy is capable of producing." and some really novel ideas for how to get out of this situation.

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• Dashboard | drupal.org
• Most popular recent tweets
  helpful for seeing which of your tweets have been favorited.
• Less Framework 2
  doesn’t make the columns for you, unless I’m reading wrong, but does do the math AND separates out the different screen sizes.
• How To: Install and Browser Test Your Site With Google Android Right on Your PC |
  this is for an old version of Android.
• Installing Google Android for Mobile Browser Testing on Mac OS X |
  Same instructions, basically, for Windows, although there’s one little step in another tutorial that may or may not matter.

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• An idle brain may be the self’s workshop – latimes.com
  and from the related story mentioned near the end: "But in those with depression, he adds, the network is not so easily suppressed. There is no escape from the self." indeed. I wonder & worry about ongoing feedback mechanisms.
• Plans solidify for brewhouse – Business – The Olympian – Olympia, Washington
  that’s really good to hear. also: when did the old post office in downtown Tacoma stop being a post office?! (sometimes I miss working around there.)

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• Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  🙁
• The influence of subtlety | groups.drupal.org
  Very thoughtful; how well-meaning people can inadvertently make things worse. Interesting suggestion in the comments: "Let’s come up with some new placeholder text :)"
• Op-Ed Contributor – Google’s Earth – NYTimes.com
  "We’re citizens, but without rights." An elegant expression of where we are now.
• Improve your writing in five easy steps – cogito ergo myerman
  turning "last year’s budget shortfall has currently created extenuating and unforeseen budgetary constraints, without which we would have clearly achieved the goals of our finance committee" (etc) into "our budgetary shortfall will keep us from meeting our financial goals" …or "Dude, our budget is hosed."

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• XEN 1.0 profile
  XFN, but for negative relationships: nemesis, evil-twin, rival, creep, etc. 🙂
• 10+ Resources For Free Professional WordPress Themes

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