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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.
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)
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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.
links for 2008-11-26
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I have to put in $20 to buy a $5 geegaw? dammit. but that is exactly what I need for a work project, and I know it'll take me more time than that to recreate it. ::sigh::(tags: flash)
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for me, 18 miles is a long f'ing ride no matter what time of year, but it does tempt me nonetheless. and maybe by then I'll finally have my rainpants? 😉
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I totally want to get some of the "Shepherds" Xmas cards. (apparently they outsell all other holiday cards 5:1!) also, I know a few people who would appreciate the Chanukah card.
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this was actually really easy & kinda fun.(tags: photoshoppery web_dev)
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beautiful photos of Jefferson's bible editing project. I read about it in a book I read over the summer about the founding fathers & religion, which gave me a new appreciation of the complexity of their thought & the religious environment of the Revolutionary Era.
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I tried this a few years ago; the soup I made turned out pretty lousy, but I think that was mostly a poor choice of noodles. (whole wheat. bleh.) Might give it another shot. Comments have some good notes about safer cooling methods.
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The color contrast issues (part 2) were entirely new to me. (Elizabeth, do you find this to be so?) Most of the recommendations in part 3 are pretty straightforward good-readability stuff, IMHO.
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Funny: quick little snippets for arguing either side of the current political debates. Oh so very glad not to be doing the holidays w/Mom's extended family! Also, I'm amused by the 3 options for "Bush Is the Worst President of My Lifetime" — I'm on the cusp of "Dude, heard of Nixon?" and "Yeah, definitely; more pie?"
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IIRC, the first time I ever drank it was Zima, on a college orchestra trip to Portland in '93. (Which is weird: the article says Zima came out in '94, but I would *swear* that was what somebody bought on that trip, which would've had to have been in '93. Anyway.)
links for 2008-11-25
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ye gods. srsly?
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I will probably make a huge fancy dinner…for 2. But I kinda like it that way.
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neat idea, oh plus I'm liking the tracking features for my reps. pretty cool.
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salt rub. I think I still have enough time to actually do this one, and I find it rather tempting. need to pick up some salt today, I think.
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brining. the idea kinda wigged C out, although I hear good things about the results.
links for 2008-11-24
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variants on the glass half-full/half-empty POV.(tags: funny)
links for 2008-11-20
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for Olympia. Just a handful of crimes reported in the last few months, which is nice to know.
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fun (?!) comparison dates. it occurred to me the other day, watching the 1st season of 90210 on Netflix, that (a) now they've got this remake of 90210 and (b) when the original started, there was an updated "Leave It to Beaver" briefly on TV. (disney channel? I don't remember now.) also, saw a kid on the bus last year in a Ramones t-shirt, chuckled internally, then remembered my own fondness for the Doors when I was his age. (my mother, btw, has always loved big band music, which is a bit before her time, and Elvis, but not the Beatles.)
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actually, it reminds me of a house in Portland where one of my college roommates lives before he moved to Tacoma. the room he slept in had a ceiling weirdly like that (only less drastically, and with with colors). wow, that brings back some strange, strange times!
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owners manuals for the machines at work (1150, 3850)
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"And above all, a depression circa 2009 might be a less visible and more isolating experience. With the diminishing price of televisions and the proliferation of channels, it's getting easier and easier to kill time alone, and free time is one thing a 21st-century depression would create in abundance." it reads like an actual psychological depression: hiding out, hunkering down. ::sigh::
links for 2008-11-19
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Pierce College started in an old grocery store; the old movie theater in Lacey is now a mega-church, and the downtown Safeway is being torn down for a new city hall. (I like the Peddler's Mall concept.)
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early color photos from George Eastman House. some interesting potential for story inspiration?
links for 2008-11-18
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the latest from Joe Clark, arguing for govt regulation of online video captioning. as I said on twitter, I was just b*tching to C about this w/Netflix instant play. in the US, one hopes that this may come to the fore at the intersection of boomers & itunes/hulu/netflix. (the AARP might be a better group to look to than any deaf advocacy org!) also: "Self-regulation works about as well in captioning as it does in high finance. The difference is there’s less money involved." cracks me up.
links for 2008-11-17
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trippy, but could be fun. (for example: towns in Italy, Azerbijan; a "micropolitan statistical area" in Kentucky, and an early 90s video game. hm.)
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oh hey, now avail for Windows & Mac. (last time I looked, it was Linux only.) yay!
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Fascinating. (Palin sounds even nuttier than ever.)(tags: politics)
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the quality of the film makes these almost painterly — beautiful even?(tags: photography history)
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"Since 2003, this for-profit firm based in Orange County—home to busted subprime behemoths such as Ameriquest—has issued $220 million worth of mortgages in the Golden State's subprime killing fields. More than 90 percent of its home loans have gone to first-time buyers, about half of whom are minorities. Out of 770 single-family loans it has made, how many foreclosures have there been? "As far as we know," says Bystry, "seven." Last year Clearinghouse reported a $1.4 million pretax profit." institutions in the article include some credit unions.(tags: creditunion finance)
links for 2008-11-16
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this has been a bookmark on my phone labeled "Bacon" for like a year. but since I can't really read the screen on my phone anymore, I'm finally putting it here.