Category: Snapping links

• olga nunes – we love xkcd
  OMG HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS SOONER?!
• Stainless Steel Sharpie
  whoa. (refillable)
• How Three News Outlets Handled the WikiLeaks Dump : CJR
• Welcome to Greene & Greene Virtual Archives
  hooboy. lots to look at here!
• Stubbornella » Blog Archive » Woman in technology
  "I believe CS and Web Development currently select for certain masculine qualities that are largely unrelated to someone’s prowess as a coder." indeed. dude, it’s typing, not coal mining.
• Pasadena Pawn Shop Owners Fixing Up Mixed-Use Greene & Greene : Preservation : Curbed LA
  WTF? That’s a Green & Greene?

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• Build a GMap macro | Vince Smith

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• More of the Rich Run as Populist Outsiders – NYTimes.com
  "a growing crowd of über-rich candidates, comfortable in boardrooms and country clubs, spending a fortune to remake themselves into populist insurgents"
• Internal Organs | The Owl Bear
  cute t-shirt!
• Getting Off Oil: Forget Hybrids And Solar Panels, We Need Active, Exciting and Vibrant Cities : TreeHugger
  using this as a reference in a blog post I’m working on.
• Electing2Blog: Why We Do This
  "there are times when the blog is the best way to get complex treatment of an issue out to the public"

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• kat knits: Erich’s arms
  I want to learn how to knit specifically to make these!
• The City’s Bike Master Plan Needs an Update | PubliCola – Seattle’s News Elixir
• Interior Living Unit
  "The unit folds (closed) and unfolds (open) to reveal different functions when needed: a wardrobe, bed, kitchen, and bathroom." I want one…put it in the carport?
• Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass – life – 22 July 2010 – New Scientist
  "Once you are in a situation where the expected healthy lifetime is short whatever you do, then there is less incentive to look after yourself." – and why reducing economic inequality is more important than education programs, etc.

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• Photos and Public Security – Photography and Homeland Security – Popular Mechanics
  "Trying to block photography in public places is not only heavy-handed and wrong but, thanks to technology, basically useless."

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• Free HTML 5 WordPress Theme | Digging into WordPress
  could be a useful starting point. (also tempted to mod the Starkers theme for html5.)
• Cross-browser CSS box-shadows – Opera Developer Community
  been using something like this, although I’ve had some TERRIBLE experiences with the box’s content vanishing. 🙁
• A List Apart: Articles: Prefix or Posthack
  on CSS browser-based prefixes. having lived through the same thing, I’ll take having to restate a declaration a few times over all the other options.
• A Fourth of July lesson in the value of editors « Writing For Digital
  "Thomas Jefferson had a venerable editorial committee: John Adams and Benjamin Franklin" yay for editing!
• OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software
• What Dan Kildee wants America to learn from the sorry tale of Flint, Mich. – By Gordon Young – Slate Magazine
  consolidating, mostly.
• Nursing Home for Your Backyard in a Medical Care Cottage
  another tiny-house concept. basically, the "mother-in-law cottage" taken to the next level with health care services.
• Scripting News: A mosque at Ground Zero
  it’s been ages since I’ve read any Dave Winer, but this strikes a chord with me.

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• Top Secret America | washingtonpost.com
  Fascinating & depressing. The modern update to Bomb Power.
• The Agnostic Cartographer – John Gravois
  "How Google’s open-ended maps are embroiling the company in some of the world’s touchiest geopolitical disputes."
• How Microbes Defend and Define Us – NYTimes.com
  fascinating stuff.

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• How To Create A Registration Form (and other forms) In WordPress Using cformsII
• Even Reagan Wasn’t a Reagan Republican – Newsweek
  well, take out the deficit hypocrisy, and yeah, it does look like the right has gone further and further that way since the 60s. (Also see: Overton Window)
• Disabling Facebook Connect on Non-Facebook Websites | dhcollier.com
  nice, esp if you already have AdBlock installed and don’t want to figure out HOST files and whatnot.
• Droid X actually self-destructs if you try to mod it
  For reals. "once I pay money for the item, it’s mine, and disabling my device because you don’t like what I’m doing with it falls under the category of sabotage"

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• The Top 30 Free Google Android Apps 2010
  intrigued by: Astrid, doubleTwist & PageOnce
• Google Quietly Testing Multiple Account Log-Ins
  that would be damn handy.
• Eschaton – True Story
  "Now, I’m not quick to assume bad faith or nefarious motive, but I’m pretty damn sure some pig in the service department thinks it’s ok to try to rip off women."
• Microsoft Launches Outlook Facebook Integration [Exclusive]
  ye gods and little fishes.

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• What’s the difference between hit "F5" and "Ctrl + F5" in browser? – Stack Overflow
• The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
  relieved to know that I’m not the only one who found the "unknown unknowns" line meaningful. (used it in a preso once.)
• Table of Contents | drupal.org
  intriguing idea. no plans to use anytime soon.
• The Wrong Stuff
  fascinating interviews about being wrong, making mistakes, etc. especially good one with guy overseeing reduction of medical mistakes at VA hospital…who also was almost on the Challenger.
• Lego: Patching up a wall near you
  OMG.
• Reports of blogging’s death have been greatly exaggerated | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  I think Dylan wrote essentially this a while ago. 🙂
• Beat the Heat! Trip to Ocean Shores : Rebels By Bus
  other cost: 7 hours for a 3 hour visit. I have a new rule about travel to visit times: the visit should at least equal the amount of travel. So this would be worthwhile if I were staying overnight, but not for a day trip.
• Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications… – …ifindkarma…
  curiously enough, I would like Google to stick to "panda" — "lobster traps" are why I am so damn wary about Facebook.
• On World Population Day, take note: population isn’t the problem | Grist
  population growth is slowing, mostly from urbanization & the decline of childhood diseases.
• The Big Business of Conservation: Green Organizations Sell Out
  "Every movement for change needs a reformist wing. But if we exceed the safe amount of warming gases […] we will have runaway warming. After that, any cuts we introduce will be useless. You can’t jump halfway across a chasm: You still fall to your death. It is all or disaster."

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