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(tags: arts to-install)
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“Also, the left sidebar needs to be seven pixels shorter.” – ha! and also: so very true.
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this sounds very much like what I’ve heard of in the library world.
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(tags: photography reference)
links for 2006-09-30
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“The Problem With Web Calendars On Campus” — no kidding. project by a group of master’s students, at the 0.03 stage. I like VTCalendar, but I want need to keep an eye on this, too.
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fascinating article about Adrian Frutiger.
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C has the tmobile motorola phone, and likes it reasonably well. (he’s picky.) my phone, otoh, is one of the most complicated things available. I like it, but once in a while I miss my old clunky sony-ericsson….
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wow!
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looks both pretty & useful.
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something to think about.
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not that I ever really have time to, but it’s a nice idea.(tags: intranet)
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I totally want to do something like this. Maybe have Amy & Don join me?
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stuff to follow up on.
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“our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts” – there’s a ton out there on this, and all of it makes me feel sad & sickened.(tags: politics depression)
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from our digital design program. also airs on cable tv in Pierce County.
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“the platforms will be cashing on my data” — that’s what was nagging at me during WebVisions 2005. we make the cool stuff, they make the money (roughly put). plus, follow the link to O’Reilly’s post.
links for 2006-09-29
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I wonder if this is the problem that Paula’s having.
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legit?
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heh.
links for 2006-09-28
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for my sweetie.
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there’s somebody I want to send this to, but I’m a little wary of being a pest, since I’ve been talking his ear off about this stuff for 5 years.
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clever & simple.(tags: php)
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at a glance!(tags: microformat reference)
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“Us teenage poets depress easily.” — as usual, Bruce Sterling hits a note both painful and funny.
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big weird thoughts, mixed with Ruby on Rails cheerleading (I think)
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however: “the loss of neurogenesis is not sufficient to induce the illness”(tags: depression science)
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sweet! can you connect it to a power generator?
links for 2006-09-27
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“All good sermons come in three points.” Hmmmm. That makes two fairly well-known minister/standardistas, plus my assistant (the former chaplain). Interesting.
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relatively local, but ouch: $800?! 3-4x more than WebVisions or SXSW? and I’d still need to stay in a hotel. Alas, not likely.
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looking for headphones….
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is this at *my* Radio Shack?
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which I find shockingly cool.(tags: mac)
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“Email is addictive because it is a variable-interval reinforcement schedule”– pavlovtastic! alas, I don’t see anything in the suggestions that looks like a meaningful way to reduce the problem.
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actually pretty useful. (F12 and Ctrl+/ work to activate it.)
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startlingly clever. I might have to play around with that!
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OMG. I got it working with both our site search AND search for the directory!
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“My computer is broken now too. I sent the thing to Apple.” — the tshirt slogan, expanded
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“hast thou ever seen a Croatian Shirt as pleasing to thy eyes?” — I’m vaguely embarrassed to admit that we got the catalog for these patterns, and I always wanted Mom to make me one of these shirts. 😛
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“I will fluidly surf the entropy” — worth reading for that line alone. 🙂 seriously, this is a kickass essay. a point which I don’t see mentioned often enough: the Critic is actually useful once in a while!
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“Because all those standardized tests have just worked _great_ in the public schools so far.” — almost spit my tea onto the monitor. also: amen, brother.
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damn.(tags: politics)
links for 2006-09-26
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wondering about having db guy set up a DSN….
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not sure I totally grok this, but it might be worth coming back to.(tags: javascripty to-read)
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need to get the spinach & lettuce out this week, while the weather’s nice.
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read this later.
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I don’t remember if I picked this one, but it sounds fascinating. (I may have figured out a way to go, btw.)(tags: javascripty sxsw)
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by way of Dorothea. if I had any interest at all in relocating, I’d apply for that web designer gig. ::drool:: but they’d have to pry me out of my house with a crowbar.
links for 2006-09-25
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hm.
links for 2006-09-24
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nummy. it must be fall, then. maybe tomorrow I’ll ride down to the market & buy some apples….(tags: recipes)
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getting all my bookmarks set for today’s game….
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etc.
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take a look at this…later
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Turn Or Rebuke Undead (reminder: feat of Improved Unturning allows turning 1 level higher)
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like Flor, but with linoleum tile! (or something similar)
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“Despite the odd timbre of the word _moist_, it is entirely apropos in describing Olympia”
links for 2006-09-23
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“Hiding in my husks the best/secrets, all the precious poems in narrow/passages” — what a great poem!(tags: writing)
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kewl. more stuff to make my mda more useful!
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no need for it right now, but you never know.(tags: php)
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“it makes more sense to look at the processing and handling of pre-packaged greens in general” — from the guy who used to own the company at the center of the current contretemps.
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“One thing has become clear during this controversy: Very few people, including so-called experts, understand the difference between manure and compost.” oh, and if you haven’t, go read The Omnivore’s Dilemma. (but not while in the grocery store, which I
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“When cows were switched from a grain diet to hay for only five days, [E. coli] O157 declined 1,000-fold.”
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“Stoplight will automatically quit a program when the last window is closed.” aha! (C has ranted about this at length.)
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heh.
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although it’s still pretty easy to do this directly in Word, this is useful for existing pages.
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some of the entrances/exits on the north end of the trail are pretty awful, even for a non-disabled cyclist on a (relatively) normal bike.
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“One nasty morning Comrade Stalin discovered that his favorite pipe was missing.” — sad and scary.
links for 2006-09-22
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highly recommended; a very simple-looking (but durable!) garden tool.
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“Unlike almost any other industry, in higher ed we have a substantial number of customers who are happier if the product is shoddy, or not delivered at all.*” — his writing is always top-notch, but this one is fascinating. good comments, too.
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“The appeal of such a mode of discourse to any vice-blighted age is understandable […]” — warning: ends on an intensely depressing note.
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‘I’m “Ready for Some Stories‒ — kinda femme, but no less useful for that.(tags: blogosphere)
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hm. (intranet thing)
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“you will be familiar with Jukka’s irascible style (rather reminiscent of my own, in fact)” — heh. it actually sounds fascinating, although probably not $54 worth of fascinating.
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“And to make matters worse, our ever-wise government has told us to eat no fresh spinach at all.” — no permalink, alas. but he’s entirely right. hie ye to the farmer’s market!