Monthly Archives: September 2008

links for 2008-09-30

Furious Seasons: That Tricky Time Of Year, Or Depression Hacks
things to remember as the light fades down here in the north. (also, I think it's time to go for a walk.)
(tags: depression psychology reference)

Ted Ullyot: Facebook hires Alberto Gonzales's former chief of staff
!!!!! (for Kermit, mostly.)
(tags: blogosphere politics)

RGE - Is Purchasing $700 billion of Toxic [...]

links for 2008-09-29

Build a Bed - a set on Flickr
jessamyn's silver bed. I wonder if I can reverse engineer these photogs into an actual plan?
(tags: furniture)

Banking: Why Choose a Credit Union Over a Bank
nice article from Lifehacker. (am thinking about setting up a separate link-blog for all-CU/finance, all the time.)
(tags: finance creditunion)

links for 2008-09-27

Making Grape Juice | Simply Recipes
the grapevine along the fence is Concord Grapes, as it turns out. this could be kinda fun, although I don't think we'll get much juice out of it.
(tags: recipes drinks beverages garden)

Treading lightly: How to gauge my carbon footprint? | csmonitor.com
(tags: to-do eco)

ESPN - Cindy McCain takes the wheel in [...]

links for 2008-09-26

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #950 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"we're in ur bank/bailing it out" "is that WaMew?" heh.
(tags: finance funny)

links for 2008-09-25

Good Math, Bad Math : Economic Disasters and Stupid Evil People
"The situation is both very complicated and very simple." A really really lucid explanation. Read the follow-up about probability math, too.
(tags: finance science politics)

links for 2008-09-25

Palin's experience in just 12 minutes
the high(low?)lights: the only 2 VPs with anywhere near as LITTLE experience: Agnew (!) & Chester A. Arthur. I quibble with his Pres. mortality stats, would normalize for improved medical conditions. (the deaths of Harrison, Taylor, Garfield & McKinley seem likely to be survivable w/modern medicine.) but that's beside the [...]