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good tips here to pore over and make sure all is well.
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hey, that’s exactly what I need to work on “media diet”!
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links from the local library!
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most critially, info about JVM stuff. good link down in the comments, too.
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the meal-planning forms might be most useful.(tags: productivity reference)
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just a note on rhetorical devices; in LeGuin’s excellent book on writing, she mentions “somehow” as a word to never use, because it’s a weasel word, like writing in the passive tense. something to think about….(tags: politics)
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this is the 10-minute version of Brian Fling’s WebVisions talk, IMHO. good stuff.
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“But the rust wasn’t bold enough. She decided to substituted [?!] it with a Pepto-Bismol pink.” — this house is a few blocks away from us, on my usual route downtown. I’ve been watching the work since she bought the house. It’s very cool.
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“The biggest flaw in our democracy is, as I say, the enormous tolerance for intellectual dishonesty.” — combination book review and really depressing essay.
links for 2006-11-07
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okay, that was insanely easy.
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could contain some useful information for my custom viewbook idea.
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email to SMS. cost?(tags: sms)
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Elizabeth has some fun pictures of putting up the lights on Christmas Tree Lane, an Altadena landmark less than a block from the house.
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“unlike most other agencies of the state, we [public higher ed] have alternate revenue sources” — fascinating, if depressing, take on the financial state of our industry.
links for 2006-11-04
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lots of opinions on this topic. several years ago, I did very well on the Hacker’s Diet. right now, I’m just trying to avoid the excess sweets in the office.
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the house I grew up in is going to be a set in an upcoming episode. (Elizabeth thinks Friday after Thanksgiving.)
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Elizabeth took a bunch of photos of the house after the TV people had set up their stuff. Surprising (to me, anyway) how much of the incidental decor is ours.
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survey of audience members at AIGA-sponsored talked by Z.(tags: web_dev)
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something to do at the next brainstorming meeting. (I did something similar, several years ago, for card sorting.)(tags: photography productivity)
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fried rice techniques(tags: recipes)
links for 2006-11-03
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“a buzzing fluorescent light that you can’t turn off” — New Orleans journalist’s story of depression. via the inimitable dooce.(tags: depression katrina-rita)
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fun!
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this is fantastic! the site is along my daily commute, and I was kinda wondering what had happened to the cow pasture.
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Willamette’s blog policy. I just like the page title. 🙂(tags: academia blogosphere)
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University of Saskatchewan. Interesting that content is CC-licensed by default. I wonder how many people bother to change that….(tags: academia blogosphere)
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“The Greasemonkey Security Professional’s WebThinger” via C.
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“they really only have one community: the people who give a shit about their magazine” fascinating. I really enjoyed Derek’s talk at WebVisions, too. he’s one of those people, I think, who really loves the web.
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OMG. the whole thing, online. dig, especially, the lettering.
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(Karine needs shorter titles.) Good tips here. Student Outreach interns? …..(tags: academia blogosphere)
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“under your desk” …reminded me of a story. when I was at UWPC, the woman who had my job before me was somewhat notorious for once having taken a nap under her desk. somebody found her sound asleep that way.(tags: weird productivity)
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great idea for pre-seeding a wiki.
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would it count if I took a picture of my mailbox? I kinda wish I hadn’t voted already…it would’ve been fun to take a picture of the ballot laying out on the table in the front room.
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in progress.
links for 2006-11-02
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“Hundreds of PHP scripts, tutorials, and articles; One purple walrus”
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at this rate I’ll never get around to watching this, but at least now it’s out of my tabs.
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a clever idea to try in November’s newsletter!(tags: email-newsletter)
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UW interndisciplinary site: blogging & pedagogy(tags: academia blogosphere)
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some interesting mac software suggestions, including in the comments. since the last update, Cyberduck seems to be quite stable, btw.
links for 2006-11-01
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something for the carport this winter?
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“Today, I refuse to be coerced.” I will spare y’all my rant re: Girl Scout cookies today.
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very cool bit of halloween/simpsons weirdness. me, I never get my @ss in gear early enough to have a good costume.
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totally.
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ye gods. I don’t have the brainspace for this right now….
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kewl posters plus a quiz.
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“the iPod does not match the star quality of the Walkman in its heyday” — not mentioned: intricate playlists = mixtapes. see also my notes from the generational marketing session at NCMPR. (I spent most of the years 1987-94 with headphones over my ears
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I just like this line: “Companies that make and issue the cards argue that what looks shocking in the lab could not lead to widespread abuse in the real world” oh, no, never!
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(tags: mediahub)
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still haven’t gotten this working properly….
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on sharing email, etc. over multiple computers.(tags: it@home)
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(tags: business to-install)
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1 down, 6 to go….(tags: recipes)
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his recent photo series(es?) have been excellent, and something of a trip down memory lane.
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2004 BBC documentary — omg. must. watch. now.
links for 2006-10-31
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oh, wow. that is really easy. I might need to drop by radience today.
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I happen to have a bunch of tealights in which the candles got unusably melted….(tags: photography home)
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should I go?(tags: email-newsletter)
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basically: higher ISO.(tags: photography)
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“It’s Comic Book Guy deciding what will and won’t be legal on your own Web page.” — in which Joe rants most marvelously. I was surprised to hear that TBL was getting together a new HTML group. It didn’t seem very necessary. And that list of PDF tag
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good stuff on GUI, with some follow-up reading to do.
links for 2006-10-30
links for 2006-10-29
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“At a certain point, one might ask who is actually hoping to pull on that crimson sweatshirt.”
links for 2006-10-28
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“They say that dogs lick their own genitalia because they can. But I think it’s at least partially because they don’t have the Internet.”
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what’s the low-hanging fruit?
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whoa. lots and lots here.