Category: Snapping links

• multiple values in views | drupal.org
  ow.
• Daily Kos: State of the Nation
  A woman I worked with years and years ago helped me think it through the same way, although I hadn’t thought about that in a LONG time. I have the unease about weapons that you’d expect from someone with a pacifist tendency who also grew up in an urban area.
• Blueberry-Lemon Galette – Fine Cooking Recipes, Techniques and Tips
  drool. I love blueberry season!
• CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE
  OMG. Why wasn’t this around say, two weeks ago?! (been fighting with box-shadow, mostly.)
• www: the origin of the <blink> tag
  "We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be." one too many drinks, or not yet enough drinks? hard to say.
• The Fox Cycle: From bogus right-wing attack to mainstream news | Media Matters for America
  it would be really nice if step 4 changed to "fox is making a big deal out of [x], and it’s not true! Find out why at 11." ::sigh::
• Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can’t recommend the iPhone 4
  "Our findings call into question the recent claim by Apple that the iPhone 4’s signal-strength issues were largely an optical illusion caused by faulty software" — also, apparently likely to be a more significant issue for lefties.
• Is Google App Inventor A Gateway Drug Or A Doomsday Device For Android?
  interesting take, comparisons to early WYSIWYG are probably well-founded, both in good and bad aspects.

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• Corrosion Rust Preventative, Wax & Resin-Based Rust Inhibitor LPS 3
  came up on the rootsradicals (xtracycle) email list, for protecting frame etc.

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• Yodlee MoneyCenter – Login
• Pennyminder

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• Moneydance® 2010
  not online, but looks interesting.
• ZombieFit
  "Fitness to Survive the Apocalypse"
• Thrive
• Inzolo
• InOutCash.com
• ClearCheckbook.com
• Buxfer: Free online personal finance software for budgeting and money management
• moneyStrands
• Psychotherapy for All: An Experiment – New York Times
  "He hoped to prove that Western concepts of mental illness did not apply in the developing world. Instead, he came to the opposite conclusion, that the ailments were in fact just as common and just as treatable as in the West."
• The Life And Music Of Samuel Barber : NPR
  includes recordings of adagio, dover beach. when I was 14 I was in a youth orchestra that went to the vienna youth & music festival. we played adagio at vienna town hall. listening to it, I can close my eyes and see that night again.

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• #TinyDeclaration: A Slate Twitter contest for the Fourth of July. – – Slate Magazine
  intriguing. nothing like getting to the core of an idea.
• Drupal Voices 123: Benjamin Doherty on the Semantic Views module | Lullabot
  intriguing. fewer templates?
• No sew fitted T-shirt, so kNotty!
• OpenVBX: the Web-based, Open Source Phone System for Business
  fascinating. (alternative to Skype?) also, a one-click install on Dreamhost, which is how I found out about it.
• Black Bean Quesadillas | Eating Well
  this isn’t much of a recipe, honestly, but it’s a good reminder of a tasty food.

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• The Skeptical Librarian: A note on mediocrity.
  "In some small way, I can reach out and help lift up the person who truly has the talent and drive to achieve something great." personally, I love it when I can connect 2 people who might click in some way.
• slacktivist: Rendering unto Krugman
  "So let me oversimplify things a bit more." indeed. getting back to the moral underpinnings of society. so to speak.
• » Text of the CALICON10 plenary talk b-screeds
  about law libraries & tech, but broadly applicable, I think.
• 10 Awful Truths About Book Publishing | Out:think
• Economics: Economists behaving foolishly | The Economist
  "the essay errs, as many similar criticisms err, in missing the breadth and richness of the economics blogosphere"
• Forcing Bars To Provide Parking Is Not A Good Idea — Sightline Daily – Northwest News that Matters
  indeed. (parking minimums lead to the visual HORROR that is the shopping center near my office. acres of almost always empty concrete.)
• Endless war, a recipe for four-star arrogance
  also: Team America? Really? They use that nickname w/out any sense of irony? O the humanity.
• Op-Ed Columnist – The Third Depression – NYTimes.com
  "governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending"

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• Including jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way) | Digging into WordPress

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• Aliens & Airships » Blog Archive » Proudly leaving the lit closet
  "if you don’t want to read my stories because you have some issues with gay characters, then I feel sorry for you" yay Aden!
• cat ladder
• Vandals tip over, deface menorah at Jewish center – South Sound – The Olympian – Olympia, Washington
  so sad/infuriating.

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• Crock Pot Pulled Pork | Brooklyn Farmhouse
  sounds good. (cola? really? kewl.)
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names: MicroISV on a Shoestring
  awesome. related assumption: there is exactly one way to represent the names in a household with two adults.

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• CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer – Smashing Magazine
  new project which is basically done…except for this. :\
• Modernizr
• Op-Ed Columnist – When Greatness Slips Away – NYTimes.com
  "We’ve blown so many enormous opportunities over the past several years." ::sigh::
• Myths and Fallacies of “Personally Identifiable Information” « 33 Bits of Entropy
  "On the other hand, in laws and regulations aimed at protecting consumer privacy, the intent is to compel data trustees who want to share or sell data to scrub “PII” in a way that prevents the possibility of re-identification. […] this is essentially impossible to do in a foolproof way without losing the utility of the data. "
• Editorial – A Bruise on the First Amendment – NYTimes.com
  "Even peaceful assistance to a terror group can further terrorism, the chief justice wrote, in part by lending them legitimacy and allowing them to pretend to be negotiating while plotting violence." ugh.
• My Father and Alan Greenspan | TPMCafe
  "When I was a small boy at the start of the 1950s, my father gave me my first economics lesson. ‘Bobby,’ he said with obvious concern, ‘you and your children and your children’s children will be repaying the national debt created by Franklin D. Roosevelt.’" Wrong!
• UPS takes left turns out of deliveries
  I hate left turns. (both bike AND car) Now I have justification for avoiding them. 🙂

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