Archive for April 2008
links for 2008-04-24
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Seattle ranks high in avarice, envy, and lust. (Avarice & envy seem like flip sides of the same issue.)
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some very pretty examples here.(tags: design inspiration)
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“I found myself saying, all too frequently, “Oh my god, there she goes again.” About my own writing, which is a sad state to be in.” - journals are like that. every so often I dig into my box o’ notebooks…re-reading 8th grade? THAT is exhausting.
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“Your Eternal Webpage” — personal data after death — because of the aforementioned box ‘o notebooks, I have thought about this, although I haven’t solidified those thoughts.
links for 2008-04-23
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a wonderfully thoughtful (and at the same time bitchy, in a good way) musing about “rockstar-ness.” specific to librarianship, but with wider application.
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that looks cool. will have to check in more detail later.
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“Eng 220, “Literature of the Ninja Experience” (“As my target’s skull fragmented into so many shards, I thought again about my mother…”)” OMG. also, I should send this to J.
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I threw in a couple of my own ideas in a comment.(tags: blogosphere writing)
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“The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was enough to sink your heart.” - from Michael Pollan. I had much the same reaction. And maybe if spring comes, I’l
links for 2008-04-22
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sharepoint. ::shudder::(tags: accessibility intranet)
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cheap baked good, not too bad for you. definitely something to try.
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“He called his approach “MindWar” — using network TV and radio to “strengthen our national will to victory.”” !!!!!!!
links for 2008-04-19
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I once almost destroyed the children’s museum of tacoma’s member database through an inappropriate application of “replace all” with ampersands.
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want to watch
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heh. I’ve noticed something similar w/re: library holds after an author goes on The Daily Show.(tags: writing popculture)
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ooh, this looks fun. I like charts!
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(tags: mediahub)
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“If you can get passed the disgusting crusty layer of meme, there are a bunch of super-valuable bug reports and feature requests in there.” - from the comments.
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via mike kelley
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(tags: marketing)
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watch this on monday.
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interesting connection to the open access movement, too.
links for 2008-04-18
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this worked quite nicely. (I could’ve used an animated gif, but that seemed wrong somehow.)(tags: javascripty reference)
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“This script is meant to show and hide form fields based on user actions” - aha! been looking for this or its equivalent for a while now.(tags: javascripty reference)
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a fluffy little article. ah, someday I wouldn’t mind going back to playing Sims. (About the time I started this blog, I was in the depths of my Sims 1 addiction.)
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reason #4792 why I skipped the caucuses. (I voted for Edwards in our (entirely worthless) primary.)
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lovely. I have thought of myself as a craftsperson in re: web for a long time now.(tags: web_dev philosophizing)
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“Many of these people abandon dreams of entrepreneurship altogether because they need jobs that come with a health plan and they cannot find a way to self-insure.” - gah.
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“What every freelancer should know” - I dabble just enough to have to fill out Schedule C. Oddly enough, it doesn’t bother me all that much. I have a “gift” for forms. ::shrug::
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awesome!
links for 2008-04-17
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working on some Earth Day stuff….
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“Vista and Office 2007 on today’s state-of-the-art hardware delivers throughput that’s still only 22 percent slower than Windows XP and Office 2003 on the previous generation of state-of-the-art hardware.” — *only* 22% slower. how meager. via the other(tags: misc_tech)
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wow. what a jerk. (I like my bikram-style yoga class a lot. but still. ugh.)
