Archive for the 'Snapping links' Category
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.
links for 2008-11-15
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awesome silliness. (also, exceptionally weird viral marketing, I think.) via mkelley.
