Category: Snapping links

• Street Giant » Leroy Stick – the man behind @BPGlobalPR
  "The point of this story is that if someone is terrorizing your neighborhood, sometimes it’s alright to grab a stick and take a swing."
• Way Up on North Lake | The Best | Hometown Pasadena |
  A great ode to the main drag of my hometown. A lot of familiar names from my childhood & adolescence are still there!
• Cooks.com – Recipe – Honey Wheat Bread
• Download Lexcycle Stanza | Lexcycle
• Copy Vs. Design: Which Is Most Important To Conversion?
  a "scientific" test would have four versions, combining the different designs & copy, but in any case some interesting info here.
• Aluminet Shade Cloth, Greenhouse Shade Cloth
• Mosquito Netting Curtains For a DIY Screen Porch Enclosure
• Mosquito Curtains: Beating the Mosquitos in Style | Apartment Therapy DC
• Mosquito Netting Sold By The Yard
• DIY Screen Panels

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• Like an oyster hiding a pearl, the simple shingled…
  plywood palace! (sorry for the injoke.)
• The Laboratorium: The Internet Is a Semicommons
  "a mixture of property theory and Internet history; I argue that the conventional split between “private property” and “free for common use” on the Internet is overblown; both private and common need each other online" intriguing.
• Wil Wheaton/John Scalzi Fan Fiction Contest to Benefit the Lupus Alliance of America « Whatever
  "To begin, behold this exquisite illustration" no, really, you must see this picture.
• How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit
  "On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution."
• 30 Beautiful and Relaxing Bathroom Design Ideas
  um, more like truly ridiculous? these are mostly begging to be mocked by the Unhappy Hipsters blog.
• Whole Health Source: Full-fat Dairy for Cardiovascular Health
  "People who ate the most full-fat dairy had a 69% lower risk of cardiovascular death than those who ate the least." huh.
• slacktivist: Sex & Money, part 1
  on usury in the modern world.

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• How To Build A New Feature | Open Atrium Community
  I don’t quite understand.
• The Gulf Of Mexico Before The Oil Spill – Decline of the Empire
  "Is this brief presentation meant to detract from the awfulness of the oil spill? Not at all. I merely wish to point out that the oil spill is a case of piling on."
• Cloud Zoom
  one of those hover over the image to see a close-up things. in jquery.
• Daring Fireball: Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
  Ah, that’s what that is. (I find it EXCEPTIONALLY annoying when I’m posting to pinboard, oddly enough.)

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• How Your Community Could Get $1 Billion to Test EV Technology | Fast Company
  can haz EV funding?
• The Google Pac-Man Time Suck: Best Marketing Ploy Ever? | The Atlantic Wire
  "a few days after the media flurry, a pair of diligent thinkers have raised doubts about RescueTime’s findings"
• Do spices really only keep for six months? – Francis Lam – Salon.com
  it’s a lot like coffee, actually: a lot of the flavor is in volatile oil, so unground they keep for a while, but grinding loses flavor pretty quickly.
• howlawsmadeWIRTH2.jpg (JPEG Image, 2450×1207 pixels) – Scaled (49%)
  fascinating infographic — way more than "I’m just a bill"!

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• How to Reboot Your Sleep Cycle and Get the Rest You Deserve
  good reminder of the basics, but this is intriguing: "Creep your bedtime forward by 15 minutes every few days until you start waking up on your own in the morning."
• Darryl Cunningham Investigates: The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
  "A fifteen page (cartoon) story about the MMR vaccination controversy"
• Free parking wins – South Sound – The Olympian – Olympia, Washington
  "The Olympia City Council voted 4-3 Tuesday night to defeat a plan to start charging $1 an hour at 49 new parking pay stations downtown June 1." ugh. idiots. (for one thing, the meters are already in!) IMHO, the person to target to reverse this is Karen Rogers. Roe, Strub & Ottavelli unlikely to change their minds. IIRC, Roe ran on a "free parking" platform.

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• Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy – The Boston Globe
  "Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay."
• The Journalist’s Toolbox: Public Records Archives
• Left out in the cold: How tech innovation favors the rich – Computerworld
  "It is no surprise then that much of the gadgetry and Web services leaping from the minds of talented young innovators are geared toward young, well-educated, affluent white kids — people just like them"
• Make A Page Curl In Photoshop

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• The Golden Hour Calculator / Sunrise and Sunset information for photographers
  well, if we get sun again…
• Fake. You Are Not Dead, A Guide To Modern Living.
  trippy stuff. (this is the guy who posted to AskMe about the Russian girls.)
• Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts
  I’m going to be musing over this for a bit, I think.
• The Atlantic :: Business :: The Net Worth of the U.S. Presidents: Washington to Obama
  richest: Teddy Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Jefferson, and Washington — by far the most wealthy president! (Not counting Kennedy, family fortune over $1 billion, but none of it his personal wealth.)
• how metafilter saved two russian women from potential human trafficking the woman behind the rescue speaks out – The Human Condition Blog – Newsweek.com
  "members of the MetaFilter community have been offering everything from translation services to hugs and beer, and have accompanied the women on sightseeing tours and social calls" fucking awesome.
• MetaFilter Saved My Pals From Sex Traffickers
  Ask MetaFilter is the most amazing thing ever. "Hi, I’m from the internet and I’m here to help." (not in the article, but someone quipped about that in the MeTa thread.) Also, most appropriate username ever: internet fraud detective squad, station number 9
• WordPress Ecommerce
• Bike Forth » Blog Archive » Bike Wagon Takes Form
  "My first efforts have been to develop a passenger-only canopy for Xtracycles." It looks like a tiny Conestoga wagon. 🙂
• Marian the Cybrarian – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  A lovely essay. "In my experience, librarians almost always pass the beer test: They are among the most likeable people you’ll find at any college."
• Timberland Regional Library Catalog Search for Goodreads for Greasemonkey
  Updated for the new catalog!

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• Rights Granted Under Copyright Law (BitLaw)
  in re discussion of whether "public performance" includes showing a movie to a bunch of friends at home. (short answer: no.)

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• WordPress › Google Groups Widget « WordPress Plugins
• Urban Rancher Shed
  cute little microbuilding
• Using Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals: Idealware’s New Report | Gregory Heller | CivicActions
  planning to read this, potentially interesting stuff.
• Facebook Appears To Back Down On Landing Tab Limitations
  I guess that’s nice, although I stand by my earlier statement.
• Just Libertarianism? | Talking Points Memo
  "Political philosophy can never be free of history." This is a key point in any conversation about libertarianism.
• Facebook Limits Landing Tabs To “Authenticated Pages”
  "This is a massive blow to smaller companies (or individuals) looking to build their presence through Facebook Pages." GET YOUR OWN WEBSITE, THEN. (I know, there’s all kinds of comebacks to that, but whatever.)

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• Rambling Rose: Query Class Handouts
• Central Cascades Geotourism Project
  interesting interstate project, plus really pretty site.
• Google Admits to WiFi Snooping
  "Would Google have admitted the privacy breach if it weren’t for the DPA audit?" why regulation matters.
• Idle Words 03.2003
  crepes! I can’t believe I’ve never bookmarked this – I have it printed in my recipe binder. (scroll past the school lunches post and the "des charteux" version.) It scales down well, too. 2/3 recipe is good for 2 people, 1/3 for a little dessert/snack just for me.
• Dave Raggett’s Blog » Beyond Facebook, a world of opportunity
  Interesting musing, not unlike what I wrote recently. "avoid unwanted leakage across different social groups" aka managing when-worlds-collide moments.
• Eric’s Archived Thoughts: The Web Stack
  I like the third comment’s "front-end web stack" as a description as well.
• DeepwaterRig.jpg (JPEG Image, 1650×3804 pixels)
  scary.
• Sea Launch Home Page
  btw, MOST LUDICROUS TERMS EVAR.

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