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"The situation is both very complicated and very simple." A really really lucid explanation. Read the follow-up about probability math, too.
links for 2008-09-25
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the high(low?)lights: the only 2 VPs with anywhere near as LITTLE experience: Agnew (!) & Chester A. Arthur. I quibble with his Pres. mortality stats, would normalize for improved medical conditions. (the deaths of Harrison, Taylor, Garfield & McKinley seem likely to be survivable w/modern medicine.) but that's beside the point. via mkelley.
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ie, Livejournal circa 1890. 🙂
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HAWESOME quasi-l33t-speak from Roger Ebert.
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has already cost the school more than $5mil. ouch. plus: "I don't have any idea whether we do the debate" at a later date. "(We) probably wouldn't do it."
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looks like they'd be nice beach shoes. (I'm not much for flip-flops either.) and only about $20 for tevas!(tags: clothes)
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"I know for sure my great grandparents would never have made it through this – Instead of being here writing this, I, like they were, would probably be a peasant farmer somewhere in Eastern Europe." no kidding. (IIRC, Ra's g-pa was illegal back in the 50s?)
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"Dr. Rubio does not entirely dismiss the suicide theory, but yesterday she declined to say whether she believes it rests more solidly on other evidence besides the note." so maybe not so deliberate of a suicide, but definitely death by her own hand nonetheless.
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"What has never been revealed is that L.M. Montgomery took her own life at the age of 67 through a drug overdose." apparently after decades of severe depression. oddly enough, the Anne books were one of the things that got me thru the dark times after dad died, up into junior high. (I should send this to Thao.) via alykat.
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"The high priests of unbridled laissez faire need to go take a long vacation now while reasonable people find a sensible middle course. Because you, Wall Street, and you, absolute capitalists, you could dish it out but you couldn't take it."
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if you applied for a loan anytime between 1986 & 2007 (!) then you're eligible for free credit monitoring. (and maybe a tiny bit of cash.)(tags: finance)
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"Locale allows you to create Situations, which specify Conditions under which your Settings should change." killer feature! (would be VERY useful at work, especially.)
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very clear & concise!(tags: politics)
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"Critique-Safe Environments"(tags: usability)
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I think I've mentioned that I tossed 99.9% of the contents of my SXSW swag. (The bag, OTOH, goes with me to work EVERY day. I put all my stuff in the bag, put the bag into a pannier. I love it.)
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fun little effect(tags: photoshoppery)
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$179 with 2-year contract. not sure about how the data plan part works. (we've been with tmobile for 6+ years.)
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I keep losing track of this one; great photos as desktop background images.
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what the title says. 🙂
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"By 2007, an increasingly large number of mornings would find me staring, dead-eyed, at del.icio.us or Digg or reddit, feeling queasy as I wondered what possible role, how ever small, my stupid blog might have had in helping inspire 1,000 hucksters to try their hand at half-assing a living from pretending to help strangers — while providing their quarry an unapologetically infinite source of pointless procrastination in the bargain." also, continue on to part 2, in which there is (apparently) rebirth.
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"In the process of convincing one of these [financial] firms to send me the requisite paperwork, a customer service rep challenged me to answer a custom security question that I had set up when I opened the account (close to 10 years ago now). This is a *good* thing, in theory." indeed.
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"I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you." heh.
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"She's just a cyclist. Riding her bike to work." about this time of year, after all summer riding, it's kinda like that. I get up, throw on some clothes, and get on my bike, without thinking about it a whole hell of a lot.(tags: bicycling philosophizing)
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"Also, if the Singularity ever does arrive, I expect it to be plagued by frequent outages and terrible customer service."(tags: science)
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"The reality is that conservatives have been quite actively using the power of the government to shape market outcomes in ways that redistribute income upward. However, conservatives have been clever enough to not own up to their role in this process, pretending all along that everything is just the natural working of the market. And, progressives have been foolish enough to go along with this view." entire book online. interesting thought experiments!
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that looks a lot like a couple of the tests in Big Brain Academy.(tags: science psychology)
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"Talk like a modern pirate day" and that is all I have to say about that.(tags: funny blogosphere)
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gorgeous butterfly photos from Shelley
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I link this only to say that I drink my morning tea out of a ceramic cup that I got at the *2000* Northwest Bookfest. (I also own a (Air Force square dancing group!) mug that my father got in Germany sometime in the 1960s, which I sometimes use on the weekends.)
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so freaking cute!
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"The problem with anything that relies on network externalities is that stubborn non-adopters can drag down its value for everyone else." the general recommendation of the commenters is to just switch to the new mode, luddites be damned.(tags: intranet)
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"I was reminded of how cripplingly, dully, horrible depression is, how unromantic, how difficult" indeed. sometimes a bit like having yr worst enemy whispering in yr ear all the time.
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oh, these sound both easy & yummy, and I've been wanting to make cinnamon rolls for ages.
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sounds yummy. I like quiche.
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omg. Dr. Bronner quote generator! (via AskMe)
links for 2008-08-14
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"Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights since 2004, heard the shots just before he was grabbed and forced to walk down the stairs backward in his boxer shorts and socks into the waiting bloodbath. His mother-in-law was handcuffed on the bloody kitchen floor next to the body of one of their dogs." good god. (I hope C doesn't see this; anything about animals being hurt sends him into a bit of a frenzy.)
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item #8974 for Elaine's ampersand obsession. 🙂(tags: typography web_dev)
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the '09s are out…must start saving $$$.(tags: bicycling)
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hmmmm.
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basics of blended veggie soup. (also, the actual definition of bisque. long story.)
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good advice for the non-family-having urbanite. to be honest, I think this is how I prefer to roll, although I find the closest grocery store to be way expensive.
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free version nags every 5 mins, but is otherwise pretty useful.
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someday I will (seriously) learn how to sew, and I love bamboo fabric.
links for 2008-08-08 [delicious.com]
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"most bicycle advocates say cycling deaths are sharply up" ORLY? I had not heard that at all. also, yay (not): Seattle Critical Mass incident hits the friggin Economist.
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"Debunking libertarian ideas is like proving the moon isn’t made of cheese, so I won’t waste valuable time here in this essay doing that." A beauteous rant. (for Elizabeth, via Shelley)(tags: politics philosophizing)
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"the studies used to “prove” the prevalence of online sexual solicitation actually show that sexual solicitation mostly exists between teenagers rather than adult predators" one is somehow unsurprised.
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my gut reaction is that this is where a lot of the "webmasters" that Dylan & I want to talk about are living. I need to read this again 2 or 3 times and see if I can use some of these ideas. also, I'm having that same issue in re: industry-specific events/training. (also, I love the term "cargo-cult sysadmin")
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shameless self-promotion: vote for my presentation! (with Dylan Wilbanks) Dylan promises kid's book readings, which is new to me. 🙂 (I kid. we did in fact chat about that part.)
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heh. also, classy to link to the fail whale artist's work.(tags: blogosphere funny)
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mega-cute.(tags: lego)
links for 2008-08-05 [delicious.com]
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"The problem is that city planners have mixed bikes and cars together in ways that offer little certainty about how each should operate, and lots of chances for conflict."
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"As a society, you can flip someone off very easily," Adams said. "But we have no hand signal that says 'I'm sorry.' " (from the Newsweek article.)
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"Many of these problems are with volunteer software in general, not Free Software in particular. […however…] it’s in Free Software that we see volunteer software’s usability problems most often." cultural issues, mostly.(tags: usability opensource)
links for 2008-07-31
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Derek is the granddaddy of online community. Or something. But good suggestions. Might post to Olyblog as well….
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Continuing good stuff. Read the links, including “This is Not a Comment.”
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Edmunds on some common gas-saving tips. Best advice: drive chill, turn it off when waiting a long time. (Patience continues to be a virtue. News at 11.)
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this is what gives the green security icon in FF3.
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C was asking abt this CSA today, and I had to Google forward from an old Chow blog post. So here’s the actual website.
links for 2008-07-30
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Hey, look: it’s the ALA survey! Go take it already. (I do appreciate their efforts to get a better picture of the profession as a whole.)
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McDonald’s “ice cream” is one of my favorite treats, in all honesty.
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I’m not necessarily much for Dell, but this is tres cute. (bamboo sleeve, which makes it mid-century modern! adds $130.)
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that’s what I’ve been saying for years.
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“In this promotion from Arizona State Credit Union, college students can get a free cheeseburger with a new checking account.” SRSLY. almost 2 awesome 4 words.
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“a plugin […] that will warn you if you’re about to publish a post that lacks an excerpt” huzzah! (first, to upgrade WP….)
links for 2008-07-29
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“I’m completely pro-bike but nobody wins in these idiotic, testosterone-fueled attacks on cars.” amen. OTOH, I would LOVE to see a Ciclovia-style event where a chunk of town is closed off to cars for a few hours or more.
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Dylan’s take.
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an eyewitness account.
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“While Mark still believes this incident was sparked by hostility from cyclists, he does seem genuinely remorseful about what happened and is disappointed that cyclists are being charged for the incident.”
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“Way back when, she invented the term “Open Source”” I did not know that the term was coined by a woman. huh. interesting ideas here about approaching the problem of closed-source in govt
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tempting. I wish I had time.
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reminds me of going to member night at the LA Co. Natural History Museum when I was a kid.
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thank you. exactly.
links for 2008-07-27
links for 2008-07-26
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via C.
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“On my new “sport utility bicycle” I can cart groceries, take my kids shopping, haul a barbecue grill and make a margarita.” I’m planning on converting the Townie with one of these.(tags: bicycling)
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might do something with this one of these days.(tags: mobileweb)
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OTOH, “536 cases of computer intrusion” in Q2 2007. (compare with check fraud, for example) but definitely some good points to review!
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“Becky Lee declined when a friend asked her — and five other attendants — to have their breasts enhanced.” Also, asking yr MIL to get Botox? Tacky. Again, glad to have opted out of the bride culture-industry.
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awesomeness. I like the MS natural keyboard, but hate hate hate the numpad.
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cool! old photos, plus Google Earth overlay screenshots. (Also, people have been getting pissy about views around here since at least the 1920s.)
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as might be imagined, Opera & Firefox users are most up to date, while IE users are way behind. OTOH, I don’t know that people trust an update to IE not to break something else on their computer.
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this could be useful… (specifically, the list of Email/Web to SMS gateways)(tags: mobileweb)
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heh.(tags: blogosphere funny)