Category: Snapping links

• Mule Design Studio’s Blog: An Open Letter to Our Industry
  "I think you [conference organizers] are lazy and irresponsible." indeed.
• New Voices: New Voices Invests in Nine Community News Projects
  including Olympia Newswire, which I had not heard about. not really "community" news, more legislative news.
• Oregon Trip Panoramas
  amazing shots.
• Bike to Work Day
  curiously enough, I’m not working on Bike to Work Day. (but I’ll probably go get some goodies anyway.)
• Mount St. Helens, 30 years ago – The Big Picture – Boston.com
  astounding photos.
• 30 years after Mount St. Helens blew, the volcano reveals its secrets | OregonLive.com
  fascinating stuff. (I have a chunk of pumice at home that we found in the Cowlitz River a couple of years ago.)
• A Generation Gap Over Immigration – NYTimes.com
  "baby boomers and older Americans […] came of age in one of the most homogenous moments in the country’s history" that part I did not realize.
• Profile Watch
  display of actual results is helpful, although I like the scoring on the other one.
• Privacy Check
  gives you a score, but doesn’t make it easy to see exactly what information is public or not. (raw data? not helpful.)
• PlantFiles Pictures: palmbob picture (Euphorbia (Euphorbia desmondii))
  Aha! This is the plant on my desk at work that I’ve had since approx 1999. (Former boss gave it to me because she was having trouble keeping it alive.)

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• Tattler (app)
  "Tattler (app) is an open source topic monitoring tool for today’s Web." (another Drupal install profile, I think)
• The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
  "Changes in default profile settings over time"
• The Rise and Fall of the G.D.P. – NYTimes.com
  fascinating stuff, and not simple to figure out what to do, either!
• OpenPublish – Open-Source Online News Publishing
  shiny Drupal profile for creating news sites.
• 50 Best Color Sites for Designers
• Giant Plumes of Oil Found Under Gulf of Mexico – NYTimes.com
  BP Guy: "We’re not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It’s not relevant to the response effort, and it might even detract from the response effort." WTF?
• Doubt Is Cast on Many Reports of Food Allergies – NYTimes.com
  "for now, Dr. Fenton said, doctors should not use either the skin-prick test or the antibody test as the sole reason for thinking their patients have a food allergy" also, food intolerance != allergy.
• Lovely Bicycle!: ‘So My Husband Wants Me to Get a Bike…’
  "Please, don’t be that couple." amusing, and I think I’ve seen that too.

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• apophenia » Blog Archive » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
  this 1000 times. (I need to delve into my blog archives to see if I’ve written anything about what it means to write about private things in public.)

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• Facebook, environmental disaster, and the unending war
  "I don’t really have time to get into all of that though. I have Facebook privacy crap to talk about." for me, it’s that I feel only an immense flailing about with those (more important!) things. 🙁
• How to Quit Facebook Without Actually Quitting Facebook – Facebook – Lifehacker
  I imagine I will be doing this soon.
• Google hiring 300 workers to pinpoint bugs in Google Maps
  neat! (in Kirkland)
• Thrifty 404 | drupal.org
  lightweight version of Search 404
• A Rare Meeting of Planets and Spaceships – NASA Science
  in this area, 5/15 at about 9:30.

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• "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity"
  "Privacy and publicity are living things, a stew of complexity that’s at the crux of humanity." fascinating stuff.
• Washington, Oregon & Hawaii – Electric Cars, Trucks, Bikes and Scooters – MC Electric Vehicles
• My Favorite Privacy Quotes – A Top Ten Countdown | Librarian by Day
• In Deep Water: Can we afford to spill any oil?
  fascinating visualization.
• How To Send Text Messages With PHP
  and Google Voice.
• Web Site Migration Handbook | CMS Migrations | Large Site Redesigns
• Fluid Grid System

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• goblin cartoons » Blog Archive » Facing Down Facebook
  "I don’t want a one-stop-shop for all things internet." Josh says it better than I probably would…so there may or may not be a big rambly post about the FB.
• Crocsâ„¢ Ginger | Crocs, Inc.
  actually cute.
• Facebook Protest
  I think I’m going to go for June 6 as the day I deactivate. (I haven’t yet 100% made up my mind to delete.)
• The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand « The Jason Calacanis Weblog
  "Anyone who trusts Facebook to do the right thing for the industry,
  their customers or their application partners simply needs to look at
  their history." That sums it up, basically. (And I think Calacanis is kind of a jerk.)
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks – Ree Drummond
  baked french toast. O.M.G.
• The cloud and the future of the Fourth Amendment
  "The "reasonable expectation of privacy" test actually has two requirements. First, the person must have had a subjectively reasonable expectation that the item was private. Second, that item must also be something that society in general is willing to objectively recognize as reasonably private."
• join diaspora
  "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network"
• How to Delete Your Facebook Account – O’Reilly Answers
  (then u play yahtzee vs a giant tron-like representation of yourself. or something.)
• Facebook to Add Location This Month, Integrate Brands Later – Advertising Age – Digital
  "Marketers Line Up to Try New Updates That Allow Users to Share Their Whereabouts"
• What your donors (and would-be donors) wish you knew | In the Library with the Lead Pipe
  a nice recap of basics of fundraising. (damn, it’s been a LONG time since I was involved with that stuff.)

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• Simple Workbench
  very stylish, actually.
• stock.xchng – Gelly Cartoon balloon 2 (stock photo by flaivoloka)
• Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com
  have been daydreaming about a non profit FB (please steal that idea if you can make it work, btw), but a "loose confederation" sounds nice too.
• It’s Time to Tax the Wall Street Casino – Roger Martin – Harvard Business Review
  I’m wondering if there’s any connection with the rise in ACTUAL casinos?
• Blogging Your Personal History | BlogHer
  A million times yes.
• Adobe Ideas App Lets You Sketch & Share With Ease
  but only on iPod/iPad. boo!
• PARC Foundation Projects – Olympia, WA
  "Lion’s Park Shelter: This includes the utility connections and construction of the restroom building near the playground area. Estimated Cost: $100,000"

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• TOKYO Citizen Bike 16" 6-speed Folding Bike with Ultra-Portable Frame
  cute and inexpensive. would love to have one for trips. (sort of the exact opposite of the Xtracycle.)
• Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis – NYTimes.com
  "I wish I could inflect those paired pop-sociological clichés with the requisite irony, but my air-quote fingers are afflicted with incipient arthritis." (*guy* midlife crisis, btw.)
• Booking a Flight the Frugal Way – Frugal Traveler Blog – NYTimes.com
• altadenablog: The League of Bicycling Gentlemen (and Ladies!)
  interesting – a bicycling group entirely focused on electoral politics. (ala League of Women Voters)
• Workplace sexism: Glass ceilings are supported by glass walls | Career Management | TechRepublic.com
• Sir Ian – Lord of the beggars | Adelaide Now
• The Tea Party Jacobins | The New York Review of Books
  "The new Jacobins have two classic American traits that have grown much more pronounced in recent decades: blanket distrust of institutions and an astonishing—and unwarranted—confidence in the self."

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• Stem Chart
  head exploding…now.

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• Box Shadows
• Snickery Squares : Brown Eyed Baker

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