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interesting ideas, although I will give this line a hearty f*** you: "Women, on the whole, do not need an "outside" job, and the large-scale employment of women in offices or factories would be considered a sign of serious economic failure." (granted, the essay was originally written in 1966. but still.)
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hurting my brain.
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"Our present crime prevention and punishment system is divided among 50 states with different rules and thousands of private crime insurance companies. And when you look at the mercenaries hired by the crime insurance companies, they come in all shapes and sizes — commandos, samurai, Vikings, centurions and ninjas." heh. nice bit o' satire.
links for 2009-06-29
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"“close enough to free†multiplied by seventy-five billion is still a very large number" indeed.
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This says pretty much everything I wanted to say.
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I want to do this! – combines two of my favorite hobbies.
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
author: Sonja Lyubomirsky
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 2009/06/25
date added: 2009/06/29
shelves: non-fiction, psychology, science, self-help, wishlist
review:
Fantastic book on positive psychology. In the vein of my favorite self-help type books, a good mix of science and hands-on. The thing I found most clever and useful was the quiz to determine which types of happiness-building activities would be the best fit. I wasn’t super-surprised by the outcomes for me (savoring life, increasing flow experiences, building optimism, practicing gratitude), but it did help me narrow down what to look like and what to try. I think it could be easy to be overwhelmed otherwise. Already I’ve found it to help my day to day enjoyment of life, even without working on the specific exercises/activities.
links for 2009-06-25
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"Imagine if automakers got together and started measuring the gas mileage of new cars with a cool test of their own making—one in which the cars were rolling downhill with their engines idling." yipes. not surprising, tho.
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very cute
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this one helped me get the format to send the data correctly.
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this was my starting point for getting ahold of what I needed to do with Advanced Processing. (sending form data into another script)
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Sounds like a solid book for a web generalist
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will have to look at this in detail at some point. weird but true: I drew a similar (tho not so complex!) map of friendships/relationships when I was in college, at a point where I was crushy on the tv cartoon wolverine. (there's a LOT more to that story, obvs, but not for the internets.)
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Financial education site from Verity CU. love it. (totally jealous, btw.)
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Miso font. "a heavy duty typeface for the construction industry" very slim & crisp. via mahalie.
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very clever, and cheap!
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very good press for credit unions.
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"When was the last time a public figure got caught in a love affair? It's always bimbo eruptions and high-priced hookers." I had a similar reaction — I haven't seen the press conference, but I have read an article with an email excerpt.
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zimmer frame = walker (I had to look it up)
links for 2009-06-24
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these look good!
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whoa! (among other things, I found the record of filing our marriage license.)
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going to give this a try. it's a little fussy, but I like that sort of thing.
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of course, he's still talking about an actual UX person, rather than a situation like mine, where my UX-ness is part of all my "other duties as assigned"!
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neat!
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from the outlook PM: “The reason for this lies in the benefit Outlook users gain by having Word as their e-mail authoring tool; rich tools like SmartArt, automatic styles and templates, and other benefits found in Word 2007 and 2010 enable Outlook users to write professional looking and visually stunning messages.†great. so we have to put up with crap html-rendering to make sure that people can use bright pink comic sans and backgrounds of dancing penguins. thanks, guys.
links for 2009-06-23
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Someday I would like to go. (Went to Mt Graham b4 it was built, one of the 1st times I ever saw snow on the ground.) Grandpa, who loved astronomy, never got to see the telescope(s) in operation.
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"An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you’re grown, and die before your youngest has left home." in my family I think the transition point was my grandparents.
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only 1 of the artist designs is to my taste, but I love the general idea, esp the card pocket. this could be my new wallet! (in the future)
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neat! (via mathowie's photos of MeFi logo etched on his laptop) y'know, mom used to know how to build a laser….
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"a thriving genre of popular fiction, usually labeled "urban fantasy," in which young female protagonists get to battle monsters and demons while working through the conundrums of early adulthood" sounds like fun
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the short answer: no.
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been getting a yen to redesign my site, maybe something more photorealistic. not that I have time, but here's the inspiration.
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"No, I woke up early this morning—rather painfully early, in fact—and knew what I wanted to give myself: this post, in which I hang up the keyboard on old CavLec for good. Not a spangly gift, or an easy one to wrap, but what price peace of mind?" wow. Dorothea is part of the first group of bloggers that I read and interacted with. (ugh, awkward sentence!) I find myself sadder than expected, but can understand the sentiment. She's been out there on the front of her field for a while now, saying the unpopular and quite loudly at that. Gotta be tiring. Hope to see her elsewhere on the internets.
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a lovely poem
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"Cool Feet were designed as compact and removable supports that temporarily fix to the bottom of your laptop with suction cups." totally want these.
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going to try this soon…
Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
author: Laurie Helgoe
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2009/06/20
date added: 2009/06/23
shelves: non-fiction, psychology, self-help
review:
Kinda on the cheesy self-help side, and I didn’t finish because it had to go back to the library. On the other hand, I got some useful tips for attending to my introverted self. (When I take those Myers-Briggs tests, I pretty much always score all the way over on the I side.) Mainly, how not to apologize and how to pay attention to my energy levels.
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
author: Paula Uruburu
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2008
rating: 2
read at: 2009/06/20
date added: 2009/06/23
shelves: biography, history, non-fiction
review:
As a few other reviewers have said, I really wanted to like this book. The story on its own is incredibly compelling, and for me was worth putting up with the author’s somewhat gaudy style. I’m of two minds about the style — it’s often cloying, but at the same time, it feels right to the period. It is, after all, a quintessential late Victorian era melodrama from start (almost) to finish. Honestly, I think it’d make a great movie in the hands of the right director.
Also, the photographs were stunning: Evelyn Nesbit was an amazingly beautiful young woman.
links for 2009-06-22
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"The American Public Transportation Association has named Intercity Transit the best transit system in the nation for its size." very cool.
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homemade cheesy-poofs?! awesome.
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our local transit is really only just recovering from the blow of the original Eyman initiative, 10+ (?) years ago, and service out to the rural parts of the county is almost certainly never coming back. hate to see this happening all over now!
links for 2009-06-18
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as in chickens! very cute.