Archive for 2008
links for 2008-12-03
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super cute! not sure if my sony would fit, tho(tags: photography gifts)
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calculates gas cost for a trip, given a specific car. (it's 50% more for us to take the truck to LA vs the kia, for example!)
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"Meermeer, which is set to debut as an online service and Dreamweaver CS4 extension on Adobe Labs sometime next year, is a cross browser web site testing tool that will be delivered as a service." whoa.
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"So is there any hope to be found on the retirement front? Is there anything you can do to right your listing 401K ship and steer happily toward that blissful retirement horizon? Like so many others, I was curious." Seeing as how her interviewee is president of the "Profit Sharing/401k Council of America", he's pretty upbeat, but I think there's some reasonable points nonetheless. Interesting advice to think of your family health history as part of your retirement planning.
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pretty, altho I want to add the "mark all as read" button back in.
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might make that tonite. (we have extra sour cream.)
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like homemade hamburger helper. mmmm.
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"UPS is putting cyclists on the road across Oregon and southwest Washington to deliver holiday packages." Apparently they also have delivery bikes in Germany.
links for 2008-12-02
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whoa. grid-tacular.
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Reimaginings of the lovely WPA poster style.
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I don't quite know why, but I find this fascinating. (Me, I'd like to buried under a tree, with a stone bench for sitting on.)
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"A bicyclist who became irate at another bicyclist for saying he should get a light on his bike followed the man home, grabbed him by the head, twisted him to the ground and then kneed him in the ribs before pedaling away, police said." In Madison.
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"Three minutes into the movie, there was my photo." wacky story of a Flickr photo. I'm sort of tempted to Netflix the movie again just to see if I can spot it.
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"for the most part, parents only learned of bullying once it had escalated to unbearable levels" I started writing a note, and then it turned into a blog entry. yipes.
my poetry month in review
it’s a audience-participation post!
notes on bullying (personal)
in which the author remembers some pretty bad times.
links for 2008-12-01
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I've put both of the books on hold, something to plan for next spring I suppose. (Also, the tree-planting method sounds like the one Neighborwoods teaches.)
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"I note with amusement that this gave me a real-life yoga instructor playing a contortionist, and a real-life linguist playing a mime."
sounds way entertaining. will have to look into StoryCards. (via Dorothea, aka Chichi Alexander & the Flying Macedonians.)(tags: gaming) -
the Harvard angle in the linked Techdirt article is somewhat amusing.
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kinda like squidfingers.
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I'm still doing wordpress stuff (neighborhood assoc, christmas tree lane assoc, plus my own site); looks like some useful tidbits here.(tags: wordpress)
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"Beginning in January, my plan is to spend six months or so writing about trends and best practices in the field, both in the U.S. and abroad." sounds fascinating.(tags: journalism olyblog)
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interesting stuff, connecting the geeks & the reporters.
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found in a Seattle antique store.
Somebody’s Face in a Book
Not that I’m saying anything new or interesting, but I feel like I need to muse about this out here.
