Category: Snapping links

• The Chocolate Milk Diet | Eat This, Not That
  for C. (actually, makes a lot of sense. plus having a bit of sweet is better than totally abstaining, IME.)
• Fusion | drupal.org
• 27 Best Looking Free Drupal 6 Themes
• WordPress › Blog » WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”
  neat! I’m trying it out on a new project.
• Op-Ed Columnist – Dad Will Really Like This – NYTimes.com
  "What man wouldn’t pass up a necktie for the chance to be associated with an educated, supermacho giant rat?" I always forget Father’s Day (for obvious reasons) but if you have a dad handy, check this out.
• dear yellow pages: – Hooked on Interwebs…
  🙂
• Oil spill: Here’s what you can do to help – Boing Boing
  reduce your driving by 9% (4.6 miles/day) — lots of killjoys in the comments, alas.

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• Scott Andrew – DIY acoustic pop superhero! – Facebook perplexes me…
  "People who looked at me cross-eyed ten years ago when I tried to explain to them what a “blog” was are now busy “liking” stuff and posting on walls." indeed.
• Wireless Oligopoly Is Smother of Invention | Epicenter | Wired.com
  nice mention of the carterphone case, too.
• Support Ref. 52 — Washington Environmental Council
  "Ref. 52 will put people to work repairing schools across the state — on projects like replacing the roof on an elementary school. At the same time, the school will undertake energy-efficiency projects"
• Geoff Teehan’s eminent domain
  "Before we go any farther, isn’t that house adorable? Keep your reaction in mind, because I’ll shortly be asking you to honour it." fascinating story…cute house, too. I hope it doesn’t get torn down!

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• altadenablog: Reporter’s notebook: why we’re staying
  "being part of Poach in the end didn’t appeal to us, because of you, our readers" neat!
• He Was Tortured, But He Can’t Sue | The New York Review of Books
  "In twenty-five years as a civil rights and human rights lawyer, I have never handled a case of more egregious abuse." incredibly sad and infuriating.
• Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
  heh
• The 3 Most Common Uses of Irony – The Oatmeal
  ie, sarcasm, dramatic irony (we know Juliet isn’t dead!), and reversal. variations of reversal is what (some) people get all worked up about.

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• Sunday Brunch: Brown Sugar Breakfast Cakelets | Serious Eats : Recipes
  mmmm, sugar for breakfast. 🙂
• bulk.resource.org
  building codes. all of them.
• Washington’s I.T. Guy | The American Prospect
  "Malamud has taken it upon himself to see that all public information — from court decisions to financial disclosures to Army training tapes — is actually, well, public." (reminds me a lot of C, actually.)
• Accidental Hedonist – Texas Chili
  sort of the exact opposite of the chili I like to make, but I might have to try it anyhow.
• Degrees of Speed – Jamie P. Merisotis and Stan Jones
  advocating for technical colleges, basically.
• Northwest Sunday Parkways
  if the weather’s nice, that could be a fun thing to do.
• Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale – Subcide
  duuuuuude. that’s some freaking crazy CSS work.
• Online ads can get too close for comfort says new study
  "If targeting works and visible ads work, you’d think visible, targeted ads would work even better – but they didn’t." the "uncanny valley" of advertising?
• Should You Boycott BP? | Mother Jones
  "What matters is whether, in 20 years, people still get the heebie-jeebies when they think about BP." also: use less oil overall, obvs.
• Perceived Software Complexity » Matt Legend Gemmell
  "The graph […] shows the developer’s perception of how complex his current piece of software is, whilst he’s developing it."

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• lis.dom » girl meets copyright
• Agustine’s Beer & Tequila Carnitas | Eating Well
  wonder if this could be adapted to slow cooker….
• Linear Gradients
• I ♥ BLUR – Once again, I got distracted… | simurai
  whoa. crazy CSS3 effects. (Chrome/Safari only)
• Chambers Lake Basin developments – Google Maps
• Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit Update – June 2010 | groups.drupal.org
  will be there if I can get travel funding….

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• jquerycurvycorners – Project Hosting on Google Code
  (rounded corners for IE)
• JQuery Corner Demo
  rounded corners (for IE, really)
• Public Transportation Takes Us There
  gas savings calculator — looks like I save abt $600 by biking/busing. (astonishingly, I was probably saving $2k-3k a year taking the vanpool to Pierce.)
• family//bike//words: Xtracycle Transport
  best way to put Xtracycle on a car roof rack w/out a special tray.
• Op-Ed Columnist – The Rise of the Richies – NYTimes.com
  "We have been entertaining ourselves with theories about how this election year is going to be all about voter anger. [etc] But, really, it’s going to be about money. Gobs of cash falling on campaigns like tar balls on a beach." ::sigh::
• Firefox 4: CSS3 calc() ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
  awesome.
• The Female Factor – In Sweden, the Men Can Have It All – NYTimes.com
  "laws reserving at least two months of the generously paid, 13-month parental leave exclusively for fathers […] have set off profound social change" fascinating…also, jealous!
• Spanish Flan Recipe – Allrecipes.com
• Kitchen Exhibitionist
  dessert that’s just chocolate and WATER.
• Simple Chocolate Mousse | Serious Eats : Recipes

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• DCKX: Directory of Curricular Knowledge in xkcd.com
  "DCKX indexes science topics in xkcd, so that you can use them to illustrate your syllabi, assignments, etc." I’m just sad that it doesn’t include the often awesome alt/title text.
• Op-Ed Contributor – The Climate Majority – NYTimes.com
  "huge majorities of Americans still believe the earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it"
• FREE GRAR ON THE INTERNET IS LIKE FREE SH*T IN AN OUTHOUSE « The Whelk – John Leavitt
  heh.
• Myths and Facts About An Income Tax in Washington State :: Olympia Newswire
• You Think You’re Paying Too Much In Taxes? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
  taxes in 2009 lowest rate since 1950. so STFU.
• Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench
• The interchange fee panel | Analysis & Opinion |
  (this is a good place to note that my blog reflects my personal opinions and not those of my employer.) "I asked him why CUNA was opposed to the Durbin amendment […] even though it explicitly excludes 99% of credit unions; he said that […] interchange fees are likely to come down […] and credit unions make lots of money from interchange fees." hrmph.
• New windows with JavaScript and the target attribute | 456 Berea Street
  "I guess that was a really long-winded way of saying that in most cases it’s better for your users if you use JavaScript to set the target attribute instead of using window.open()."
• Shareable: California’s P2P Carsharing Bill Passes Assembly 63-0
  "The State Assembly today approved first-in-the-nation legislation allowing Californians to share their personal cars in carsharing pools without risking the loss of their personal auto insurance coverage." how do we get this in WA?
• Autism, iPhone, MacBook, and Life | ATMac
  "In my pocket, every day, I have a voice for when I am unable to speak." fascinating.

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• GodlessGirl | When Should you use Comic Sans?
  hahahahaha.
• Aesthetic Apparatus: TOO SMALL TO FAIL
  want.
• The Infamous Brad – Yes We Can Put Americans Back to Work. We Probably Won’t, Though.
  "I don’t think you can come up with a single dollar of WPA spending that actually counts as wasted, not a single WPA "make-work" project so pointless and stupid that we didn’t get our money’s worth out of it" year & a half old, but worth reading. (fascinating to find out what the deal was with all those armories!)
• Suzanne Collins’s “The Hunger Games,” review : The New Yorker
  fascinating discussion of dystopian YA novels. (House of Stairs FREAKED ME OUT when I was a kid. Imagine Breakfast Club as a horror movie…by Sartre.)
• Thomas Kinkade firm seeks bankruptcy protection – Los Angeles Times
  "Kinkade’s word is as worthless as his artwork." hahahaha. also: "Hazlewood and Spinello sued […] alleging that he’d used his Christian faith as a tool to fraudulently induce them to invest"
• How to Make the Bike Wagon Canopy for Xtracycles
  whoa.

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• Experiments in Torture: Physicians group alleges US conducted illegal research on detainees – Boing Boing
  "We have provided credible evidence of a crime. When that threshhold is crossed, it then becomes the responsibility of the responsible authorities to thoroughly investigate the allegations."
• The Shallows : The Frontal Cortex
  "I was not entirely convinced by Carr’s arguments" – intriguing reading.
• A failure of economic and environmental regulation : The New Yorker
  "’the economy of esteem’ is crucial to making public service work" in this case talking about regulation and regulators, but I think true of any sort of public employees.

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• 10 Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS
• You’re (Probably) Wrong About Crime : NPR
  Actual stats show clear decline ever since the mid 90s, and it’s almost as low as the 50s & early 60s. BUT…70+% believe that crime is on the rise.
• America’s Five Greatest Foodie Presidents
  #1 is Jefferson, obvs, but there’s some other interesting bits. (Taft lost 80 lbs after leaving presidency. Huh.)
• The State of Drupal: Building the Future | PINGV Creative
  interesting look back at 6 years of drupal. also, reminded me that I went to a tiny drupalcon in 2005 – one day, one room. Dries spoke; 4.6 was the big thing. wow.
• Ten free usability testing tools | Econsultancy
• BBC News – Dynamo power to recharge handsets
  from Nokia…oh, and the Pedal & Power mentioned in the article appears to no longer be in production. 🙁
• Refrigeration Reformation : What should stay cold, colder, and coldest in your fridge – CHOW
  A lot of this I knew, but I did NOT know that cucumbers shouldn’t be kept in the fridge!
• CSS3 Best Practices
  excellent suggestions. (I’m going to add in the commenting on browser-specific extensions, for sure.)

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