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ugly-ass website, but a good compilation of advice. (me, I like getting a hotel just a bit farther out to get more walking/biking time, but that’s just me.)(tags: sxsw webvisions)
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lovely.
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subsidized, even.
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If I can figure it out, this solves my GMaps https problem at work! Yay!
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or, save money on everything
links for 2008-04-08
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“there’s a reason we did away with debtors’ prisons: having millions of people enslaved to their debts is a bad thing for an economy”
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“Duct cleaning has never been shown to actually prevent health problems.” no kidding. I would be unsurprised, however, if our ducts aren’t properly sealed.
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“Hmmm. I wonder how that works?†Damn straight. True for anyone in this modern world who has to do anything with computers. (And, it occurs to me that I should put this to work with more mechanical stuff as well.)
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a particularly nice bit of photojournalism for OlyBlog. it would be way cool to have these spots (from all 3 surveys!) on an online map.
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I’m going to try the portable version.(tags: browsers)
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sweet vigilante justice. 😉
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“Theoretically, with the correct chocolate, you can even make Magic Shell vegan (the mind boggles at the discongruities in that statement).” OMG I ****love**** Magic Shell. (C finds it way too disturbing.)
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ah, the farmer’s market is open…..
links for 2008-04-06
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a clever idea; it’ll be interesting to see if it goes anywhere. (I’ll be looking at it myself in more depth later.)
links for 2008-04-05
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“the ability to use some of the body’s own building materials for oral repair would be a boon to dentists, who have been fixing cavities with metal fillings since the 1840s” boon to dentists? how ’bout boon to those of us w/dental anxiety?!
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my former assistant was of an age to be collecting Social Security, and damn web-savvy. (plus, yeah, stuff starts happening in the 30s. I have arthritis in both knees, TMJ, and creaky hands. I’ve worn glasses since I was 11, so that’s nothing new.)(tags: accessibility)
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“one new feature which was hinted at was the :silverlight selector, which will be used to replace text in selected elements with high-definition streaming video” (look at the date on the post b4 reading; I just ran across this today.)
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yes, yes I do. getting good candids is tough, because people immediately [run away from the camera][start mugging for the camera].(tags: photography)
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“surely, in its fullest and most extreme form, the phenomenon is now passing its peak” heh. or not. curiously, quite a few of these have persisted over the last 70+ years.
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where did the whole “filtering toxins” thing come from, anyway?
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“bollos de queso” sounds kinda tasty.
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I had no idea there was a standard for marking/announcing where bikes should go to trigger those sensors.(tags: bicycling urban_studies)
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(tags: food)
links for 2008-04-04
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what a lovely idea/memorial.(tags: accessibility nonprofit)
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in the short term, you can’t have willpower about 2 things at the same time, but in the long term, developing willpower in one area help develop overall willpower. so that’s good.
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read through to Dr. Crazy, too. good stuff on variations of authenticity. (btw, I often comment there under a pseudonym, partially because I tend to say stuff that I promised prior boss I wouldn’t blog about. I think.)
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also, Dover Books are (is?) your friend(s).
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“One of the fundamental challenges is to keep web content up-to-date, particularly in a decentralised authoring environment.” no kidding. I’ve had challenges here just as I did at Pierce, although in slightly different ways. Good article.(tags: intranet)
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open contest vs. internal design…..(tags: design)
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“congressional action is necessary to establish the appropriate balance between the needs of the national government in accumulating, processing, and disseminating information and the right of individual privacy” 1968 article in The Atlantic magazine.
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there are a few very blightly lots in the neighborhood, including the one with GINORMOUS ron paul sign. (really, people. enough already.) maybe some alternate ideas?
links for 2008-04-03
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“Saying it wrong on purpose” – from “the internets” (other variants: interwebs, intarweb, interwebtubes, etc., etc. lots of politico-mocking!) to “one fell swoop”
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tasty, tasty data.
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This is a little bit more like what I’d hoped Nick Finck’s SXSW session would be like: not just iphone, iphone, iphone, but the whole range of contexts. (But hey: why doesn’t mobile IE get any love?)
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“I went directly to the source and surveyed two of my friends. The result was less than optimal.” I don’t think it’s just a Gen-Y thing, either. It’s a very vague concept among most of the people I know, too.(tags: creditunion)
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I’m by no means a coldfusion gal, but this is good to know about.(tags: cms_research)
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“the plain, vanilla, fuddy-duddy, fixed-rate 30-year mortgage WAS the innovation that emerged to fix a broken system. And it came to us not from the banking sector, but from the federal government.”
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I adore pre-1950 logos; tiny little works of art. (similarly, the very first Apple logo.)
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OMG I totally want that. Need to get my team organized!(tags: bicycling)
links for 2008-04-02
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I like captioning, not just as a matter of principle, but because my hearing is not always what it should be…and sometimes I like watching vids late at night with the sound way down. (also: dig the intentionally garish design!)(tags: accessibility politics)
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“Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B.” nice. (this year’s Google April Fool’s joke.)
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terrifying beautiful pictures. the weather is broken all over.
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heh. reminds me of the notebook from high school, which I now tend to describe as a reaalllly slooooow myspace. 🙂(tags: funny blogosphere)
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“We’re also confiscating your geodesic dome and your nanotubes, for bein’ sassy.” Amusing, although a better question would’ve made it a better April Fool’s joke.(tags: funny)
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from Pat. definitely follow the link to Michelle’s post! (and the one to “Five White Men Talk about Social Media”)
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there are parts of our neighborhood that could benefit from this sort of thing.
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unsurprising, although with fun! charts!(tags: marketing blogosphere)
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interesting, and surprisingly inspiring.(tags: business productivity)
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Damn. I’m not entirely sure what it means, but it doesn’t look good. OTOH, clicking through, it looks like the big changes are unlikely to come anytime soon. ($DEITY willing, it won’t matter because ClinBama will be pres.)(tags: creditunion politics)
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An experiment in online fiction. The first one I liked quite a bit, the 2nd one was entirely incoherent, and the 3rd was somewhat obvious. (Choose Your Own Adventure, anyone?) Curious to see what’s coming next, tho.
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🙂
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going to email this to Elizabeth….(tags: accessibility)