Month: November 2011

• How Justin Bieber did not ruin Steampunk | Oakwright
  "I would like to address my fellow Steampunkers: Stop being dicks." Very heartfelt post, really.

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• Lost Type Co-op | Browse Fonts
• Just what it says on the tin. | MetaFilter
  now I really want to make pizza at home.
• HowStuffWorks "Someone told me that if there are 20 people in a room, there’s a 50/50 chance that two of them will have the same birthday. How can that be?"
  for future reference.

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• Curry Carrot Coconut Soup – Pure Hunger
• The Income Disparity of Women in the Creative Class – Jobs & Economy – The Atlantic Cities
  "Even when we control for hours worked and education in a regression analysis, creative class men out-earn creative class women by a sizable $23,700, or 49.2 percent."

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• Original Hover Effects with CSS3 | Codrops
  Gorgeous, wondering how it degrades, might have to play around with it some.
• CNN.com – Transcripts
  per a phone conversation with my sis: "Well, in our last hour, we spoke live with three people who were against the ban on same-sex marriage — Frances Nicholson and Cynthia Aler (ph), who were married last year in California, and their 18- year-old daughter, Mary-Kate Nicholson (ph)." Mrs. N was my very favorite teacher in HS, and I babysat Mary-Kate when she was a baby, along with her older brother. I had no idea then that she was gay, although I find myself unsurprised.
• Drawing/Sketching Apps for Android | Painting with Pencils
• Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? – >*
  indeed. it’s actually sort of annoying that the GReader Android apps are still pretty nice, because that’s where I do about 75% of my reading, and it’s hard to decide to switch from that.
• Status conscious? Check out this social media flowchart.
  "consult this handy graphic to help make those hard choices among Google+, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter" amusing, and yet, that’s basically the heuristic I use. (substitute restaurant for bar, and remove FB as an option.)

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• Summer Neckerchief w/shawl variation(Stitches in Time) : Knitty Winter 2011
  looks pretty, maybe a good way to get into increasing?
• knitty.com – Loosen up
  I think this is what I’ve been doing, unfortunately, although possibly not as badly as some!

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• The New Amex Biz Travel Site Thinks I’m An Idiot
  I’ve seen several software packages that do this; always annoying.
• Tilt
  for visualizing the DOM in 3D. awesome.
• Science-Based Medicine » “And one more thing” about Steve Jobs’ battle with cancer
  A thoughtful look at the information about the course of his cancer in the just-released bio.
• Hey, that tastes good!: Sausage, kale and potato soup
  Approximately the same recipe I’ve made a few times. Made with 4 cups of water, not 6, and added a splash of half & half at the end. (And the recipe says to cook the kale for 30 minutes…that should be the POTATOES.)
• Chocolate Peanut-Butter Chip Cookies

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