Category: Snapping links

funny-sounding articles from PubMed.

work starting on 1st roundabout, at intersection w/Log Cabin Rd. I don't go that far down on Blvd very often; I'm much more interested in seeing the ones at Morse Merryman & 22nd.

"a larger question here is whether people who cannot manage to merge at low speed into a counter-clockwise circle and, yes, perhaps even change lanes in that circle, before finding the correct exit should actually be holding licenses that enable them to operate heavy machinery in the first place" nice diss. (I love roundabouts.)

$28. this is the cooler that xtracycle sells with their logo…for $39! score. 🙂

this is mom's retirement fund. she's just a couple of years away from retirement. I'm incredibly nervous.

Baldur's new blog, which is good so far, and some interesting musing on use of different media in writing.

great idea, if only I could get it to *work*!

recreating the Apollo 11 mission in realtime. warning: autoplay audio.

beautiful pics. makes me feel surprisingly melancholy. (humans have not been on the moon in my lifetime.)

not sure how this compares to the same thing in Oly (a project for OlyBlog or Everyday Olympia, perhaps?), but it makes me think that I should start loading up my bike at the Safeway on the way home.

I don't have quite that intensity of feeling (nor did I have quite so god-awful an experience), but, well, yeah.

this part is particularly cool: "Contact information for the elected officials who represent you is listed at the bottom of your personalized page."

ie, either way it's freaking complicated.

have at least 1 site I need to do this to.

"SolarNetOne is a turnkey Internet hotspot—power, computers, and satellite uplink—you can install virtually anywhere, for less than the cost of a subcompact car." diagram makes my head hurt, but fascinating.

"I noticed a lot of people on twitter are thanking me personally, but I'd rather thank the people that got MetaFilter to where it is today."

just awesomely silly meme-mashing.

"while there is no credible evidence to support such views, and the sheer unlikelihood of being able to pull off such an immense plot and keep it secret for four decades staggers the imagination, the deniers continue to amass accusations to this day" includes guy that Buzz Aldrin punched in the face.

yay metafilter!

a little bit of different info on the same idea

then this to get all that stuff into a block.

$args is then an array, $args[0] is the first item. can be used for switching content in header/footer based on argument. yay!

"Since the days of Un Chien Andalou and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, filmmakers have reached beyond meaning. But with this summer's biggest, loudest movie, Michael Bay takes us all the way inside Caligari's cabinet. And once you enter, you can never emerge again." awesome, awesome review. I might actually get this movie when it comes to Netflix. 😉

"darwin1 […] I'm on a boat! check out thz crazy turtles, yoooo" heh.

"Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered that cats use a "soliciting purr" to overpower their owners and garner attention and food." Oh goodness, I know that sound. Not all of our cats use it, though.

"They are currently in the preproduction design/testing phase of aptly named Heavy Duty Freeradical." super burly.

this event was f'ning awesome.

a lovely, lovely article about the MeFi.

"Nope, it’s not a coincidence that Secretary Reed shares his name with Reed Island, that tiny piece of land located in Lower Columbia River – it’s where his family settled more than 120 years ago!" crazy.

actually, some pretty good ideas here.

neat!

it looks like there's a lot of fun crafty projects here.

honestly, I'm just linking for this line: "Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster." awesome.

"Looking for higher rates and lower fees? Switch to a small bank or credit union."

pretty!

not sure if I'm going to need this.

I was thinking this was a super-cool new thing, but it looks like it just connects to the same QuestionPoint service as on the TRL site.

"Which brings me to the reason why I use XHTML: The validator enforces my preferred coding standards for HTML – lowercase elements, quoted attributes and closed elements. That’s it. Not much really. I know it’s marketing XHTML rather than technical XHTML. I don’t care. Or rather I do care, I just make a conscious pragmatic decision based on a small personal advantage. I’m both pedantic and like having a tool chain which enforces that, XHTML suits my style." this sums up my thoughts in a nutshell. via @fakebaldur, who quotes the same para in his blog. consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds or whatever, but it sure does help with coding.