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Interesting points, tho I have not played with Gears at all. (Except to get GDocs set up for offline access so I could write while in transit.)
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wacky! (a couple of comments in, there’s a link for modifying for easier storage, adult height.)
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duuuuude. not cool.(tags: weird)
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“You might kill me but you will never kill this shirt.” sometimes this sort of textual analysis is kinda fun. 🙂
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“So unless you are having a heart attack and can jump the line, your emergency—though it may still be serious—may wait for so long that you give up and go home.” this has happened to us twice in the last year.
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pretty!
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clever concept, not sure if I’ll use it, but maybe….
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(tags: photoshoppery photography)
links for 2008-07-24
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“It’s a helluva thing, a trial by jury. It was a radical notion 200 years ago, and it’s still a radical notion today.” I served on a jury once too, years ago in Tacoma. (Child abuse, and guilty. Lots of horrid people in that kid’s life.)
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“ROSEMARY-SCENTED CHICKEN BREASTS WITH CARAMELIZED ORANGE SAUCE” I am drooling.
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“The greenest building is one that is already built.” I’ve been impressed by how UW-Tacoma has been doing this: at least one of their converted-warehouse buildings is LEED silver.(tags: urban_studies eco)
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“If users aren’t notified that they are being taken to another site — [for example] online bill-paying — then it is hard to determine if the new site is trustworthy, because the […] certificate carries a different company’s name.” a pervasive proble(tags: security creditunion)
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an automated way to get colors out of an image to use for a palette. fun!
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like a fantasy landscape. I can’t believe that’s a photo!
links for 2008-07-23
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(tags: recipes)
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“sliced cherry tomatoes tossed with artichoke hearts and little balls of fresh mozzarella” that sounds especially nummy.(tags: recipes)
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$45 is a crazy price, but I like the concept(tags: house)
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“We also just love repeating the words ‘speed suit.'” 🙂 interview with one of the creators of The Venture Brothers.
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I had forgotten about this! hey, now that I work at a financial institution, maybe I should look at it again. (OTOH, our new banking nav seems quite similar, complete with “You can also…”)
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“the cost of the application is $295.00” you are f’ing kidding me.(tags: misc_tech)
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Tales of Coding: W3C recently posts updated docs on relationship between usability and accessibility“cover specific examples of matching mobile web usability issues with accessibility issues” awesome!
links for 2008-07-22
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a clever idea.(tags: wordpress)
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mappy goodness. (C worked on the 2000 census doing “non-response follow-up” — crazy stuff.)
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sometimes it’s just better to go for the shorter/simpler word.
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As a former English major, all I can say is “AWESOME!”
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“colspan: Use “colSpan”” — you’re freaking kidding me.
links for 2008-07-18
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a fine bit of bad sign absurdity
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using the same somewhat creepy techniques used to pimp Febreeze & bottled water to save lives.
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“I believe it can bring usability testing the masses and will be the go-to application for basic usability testing.” assuming that the masses have macs. grumble grumble. it does look REALLY useful, tho.
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oh holy moses that’s depressing.
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useful little videos plus recipes that use the techniques.
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looks like a nice looking flash video player. might be a good alternative to the built-in version.(tags: flash)
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this is probably TMI, but every deodorant/antiperspirant I’ve ever tried gives me a rash, with the exception of the Jason aloe vera. (it may be hereditary; when I was a teen, mom said that grandpa D had the same problem.)
links for 2008-07-17
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FANTASTIC letter to a patron complaining about a kid’s book about a gay marriage.
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cute! (and reasonably priced, too. basic model started at under $1k!) via jessamyn.
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cool!
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““If you got somewhere to be, you’ve got to fly,†one conductor tells me early enough in my trip to set the tone for what’s to come.” sigh. I wish constantly that amtrak would cease to FAIL. (altho, mom’s train home was 1 hr early!)
links for 2008-07-16
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“‘It’s too bad there’s an ‘us vs. them’ dynamic,’ [Portland PD Officer] Pickett said.” definitely a face-palm moment. (drunk cyclist blows stoplight, gets chided by bike advocate in car, then things got ugly.)
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At the college, we were actually forbidden from using stock peeps after (IIRC) a dean’s daughter asked to get introduced to the “student” she saw on a bus ad.
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via the other Elaine. Pink noise in particular is way better than the sound of the stupid (huge! old!) printer 10 feet from my desk. Surprisingly calming.
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now I’ve got that song stuck in my head, altho possibly to the wrong melody. (think: “just don’t look at the monsters” to the tune of “let’s all go to the lobby”)
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includes one of the more thoughtful comment sections of any recent ALA article.(tags: productivity business)
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via kottke
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“we can’t exactly set up a reservation somewhere where the supply of gallium and hafnium can quietly replenish itself” ok, THAT is wiggy.
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via an Ask MeFi question, of all things. I was NUTS about Twin Peaks in high school. (I think I still have my copy of Laura Palmer’s diary.)
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::drooling:: (my favorite hard cider is made right here in Oly, tho.)
links for 2008-07-15
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“But it’s hard to ignore what you hear when everybody you know is saying it. These are good people, smart people, so can they really all be wrong?” Srsly? WTF?
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damn clever. no use for it right now, but maybe one of these days.
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O. M. G. duuuuude. $10 handlebar mount for camera. awesome!
links for 2008-07-14
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notes & photos abt my various gardening experiments.
links for 2008-07-13
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huh. might have to track down a copy.(tags: photography to-read)