Month: June 2010

• jquerycurvycorners – Project Hosting on Google Code
  (rounded corners for IE)
• JQuery Corner Demo
  rounded corners (for IE, really)
• Public Transportation Takes Us There
  gas savings calculator — looks like I save abt $600 by biking/busing. (astonishingly, I was probably saving $2k-3k a year taking the vanpool to Pierce.)
• family//bike//words: Xtracycle Transport
  best way to put Xtracycle on a car roof rack w/out a special tray.
• Op-Ed Columnist – The Rise of the Richies – NYTimes.com
  "We have been entertaining ourselves with theories about how this election year is going to be all about voter anger. [etc] But, really, it’s going to be about money. Gobs of cash falling on campaigns like tar balls on a beach." ::sigh::
• Firefox 4: CSS3 calc() ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
  awesome.
• The Female Factor – In Sweden, the Men Can Have It All – NYTimes.com
  "laws reserving at least two months of the generously paid, 13-month parental leave exclusively for fathers […] have set off profound social change" fascinating…also, jealous!
• Spanish Flan Recipe – Allrecipes.com
• Kitchen Exhibitionist
  dessert that’s just chocolate and WATER.
• Simple Chocolate Mousse | Serious Eats : Recipes

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• DCKX: Directory of Curricular Knowledge in xkcd.com
  "DCKX indexes science topics in xkcd, so that you can use them to illustrate your syllabi, assignments, etc." I’m just sad that it doesn’t include the often awesome alt/title text.
• Op-Ed Contributor – The Climate Majority – NYTimes.com
  "huge majorities of Americans still believe the earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it"
• FREE GRAR ON THE INTERNET IS LIKE FREE SH*T IN AN OUTHOUSE « The Whelk – John Leavitt
  heh.
• Myths and Facts About An Income Tax in Washington State :: Olympia Newswire
• You Think You’re Paying Too Much In Taxes? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
  taxes in 2009 lowest rate since 1950. so STFU.
• Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench
• The interchange fee panel | Analysis & Opinion |
  (this is a good place to note that my blog reflects my personal opinions and not those of my employer.) "I asked him why CUNA was opposed to the Durbin amendment […] even though it explicitly excludes 99% of credit unions; he said that […] interchange fees are likely to come down […] and credit unions make lots of money from interchange fees." hrmph.
• New windows with JavaScript and the target attribute | 456 Berea Street
  "I guess that was a really long-winded way of saying that in most cases it’s better for your users if you use JavaScript to set the target attribute instead of using window.open()."
• Shareable: California’s P2P Carsharing Bill Passes Assembly 63-0
  "The State Assembly today approved first-in-the-nation legislation allowing Californians to share their personal cars in carsharing pools without risking the loss of their personal auto insurance coverage." how do we get this in WA?
• Autism, iPhone, MacBook, and Life | ATMac
  "In my pocket, every day, I have a voice for when I am unable to speak." fascinating.

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• GodlessGirl | When Should you use Comic Sans?
  hahahahaha.
• Aesthetic Apparatus: TOO SMALL TO FAIL
  want.
• The Infamous Brad – Yes We Can Put Americans Back to Work. We Probably Won’t, Though.
  "I don’t think you can come up with a single dollar of WPA spending that actually counts as wasted, not a single WPA "make-work" project so pointless and stupid that we didn’t get our money’s worth out of it" year & a half old, but worth reading. (fascinating to find out what the deal was with all those armories!)
• Suzanne Collins’s “The Hunger Games,” review : The New Yorker
  fascinating discussion of dystopian YA novels. (House of Stairs FREAKED ME OUT when I was a kid. Imagine Breakfast Club as a horror movie…by Sartre.)
• Thomas Kinkade firm seeks bankruptcy protection – Los Angeles Times
  "Kinkade’s word is as worthless as his artwork." hahahaha. also: "Hazlewood and Spinello sued […] alleging that he’d used his Christian faith as a tool to fraudulently induce them to invest"
• How to Make the Bike Wagon Canopy for Xtracycles
  whoa.

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• Experiments in Torture: Physicians group alleges US conducted illegal research on detainees – Boing Boing
  "We have provided credible evidence of a crime. When that threshhold is crossed, it then becomes the responsibility of the responsible authorities to thoroughly investigate the allegations."
• The Shallows : The Frontal Cortex
  "I was not entirely convinced by Carr’s arguments" – intriguing reading.
• A failure of economic and environmental regulation : The New Yorker
  "’the economy of esteem’ is crucial to making public service work" in this case talking about regulation and regulators, but I think true of any sort of public employees.

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