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and the original. good stuff.(tags: usability typography)
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"He included a picture of a magazine held at reading distance in front of a monitor at browsing distance."(tags: usability typography)
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fun to explore. (Ma is near the sea of red hats, btw.) Is Clarence Thomas asleep, or just blinking? Hillary looks like she's muttering an aside to Bill. And a surprising number of black fedoras, at least up in the VIP zone.
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explaining it gives it away. suffice it to say: quite amusing.
links for 2009-01-21
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Interesting story from a buddy of the youngest Barbara Bush.
links for 2009-01-15
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"It's very cold tonight, so we played with bubbles. If you blow them upwards enough they have time to freeze on the way down." whoa.
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for Dylan, want to think about this a bit. (also possibly there's a solution that already exists out in the world)
links for 2009-01-14
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because I'm not going to bother signing up to comment on Dylan's piece: the biggest problems with this are all around "bring in a top [x]" where [x] probably wants a big freaking salary. the rest of the ideas are not super IMHO, but not god-awful either.
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"I think a lot of people dismissing the idea of a single-market, online-only news site forget that a city can be a niche just like a neighborhood or an industry." This may be the key bit, even tho he makes it in the comments rather than the main piece. Not a reader of Seattle papers, but curious where this all ends up going.
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I *think* somebody's trying to put up a site explaining the new bike commuting tax incentive thingy. (that passed with the bailout.) will have to give another look later.
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would this be something to use if we ever got around to an ENA history/archive project?
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"He has three bikes in Washington and five here, and he cycles in all weather, even in the unusual snow Portland has had recently." delightful! I'm also intrigued by his interest in federally subsidized flood insurance, esp after the last couple of winters. Includes obligatory bike-vs-car showdown reference
links for 2009-01-13
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"He has three bikes in Washington and five here, and he cycles in all weather, even in the unusual snow Portland has had recently." delightful! I'm also intrigued by his interest in federally subsidized flood insurance, esp after the last couple of winters. Includes obligatory bike-vs-car showdown reference
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Neat. As you might imagine, pretty heavy on hydroelectric around here, although still about a third coal.
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"I can imagine that it was first used in by servicemen during WW2, along the lines of “Some people think `Let's ask the officers'….â€. " heh. (search inspired by a recommendation of regexp in a CSV -> JSON problem.)
links for 2009-01-12
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"The Russians react to this a bit like the Americans might if the Midwest were to secede, begin speaking French, and demand boxcars full of quality merchandise at low, low prices." Maciej on the situation in eastern Europe, and life in Poland.(tags: politics)
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Shelley is looking for work.
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don't let me forget to do this next year. (I have a cranberry sauce recipe that I looooove, but I don't eat anywhere near all — or even most — of it.)
links for 2009-01-11
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was thinking of this yesterday: "In his nine years with the department, Dr. Jones has failed to complete even one uninterrupted semester of instruction." heh.
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I totally want to try this, but I have to pick a photo. 🙂(tags: photography)
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"We suggest it specifically interferes with the way sensory memories are laid down in the period after trauma" whoa. but does it increase the incidence of crazy tetris dreams? (which I had endlessly in college.)
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actually pretty damn reasonable. I'd like to think my dad (20 years Air Force) would be proud/pleased.
links for 2009-01-09
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pretty.(tags: architecture)
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"Imagine the class discussion about the theme of, say, "The Cask of Amontillado," and that one boy with a heavy metal T-shirt in the back finally joining the conversation with his interpretation: "Some motherfuckers just have it comin'."" heh. I fondly remember Ms Osborne reading that story on Halloween (?) in 7th grade; it was the start of my junior high Poe obsession IIRC. (none of that compare/contrast sh!t from her, thank goodness.) also, I once had a fling with someone who was a bit (!) of a Poe nut, which I found endearing. (mmm, good times.)
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this is what I worry about. 😉
links for 2009-01-08
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very clear & helpful. could've used some advanced tips for managing transition of a live site, but this overview was the best thing I found.(tags: drupal)
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heh.
links for 2009-01-06
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"There is evidence that designs with fewer edges are not only more aesthetically pleasing but also easier to use, when compared to designs with a greater number of edges" also, label above field, rather than next to.(tags: usability)
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I have Kat's old (ancient!) apple laptop, onto which I'd transferred all of the files from college: papers, letters (I assume), stories, poetry, etc. Would love to have that stuff, and to get rid of ye olde brick.
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huzzah! (THE thing I miss when I'm using the macbook. iPhoto doesn't especially agree with me.)
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"Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology." 3/24/2009, which I guess gives me 3 months to pick somebody. will you join?
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"If law isn’t the answer, vigilante teams of mad archivists are the answer." hells yes. (I've nearly lost my entire website twice now, and once had exactly one day to rescue all my files from a data center after my host went bankrupt & vanished off the face of the earth.) warning: green text on black bg.