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I believe one of our very most epic D&D battles took place in a locale astonishingly similar to this one. 🙂
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"In ReykjavÃk, where men are men, and the women seem to have completely given up on them, the author follows the peculiarly Icelandic logic behind the meltdown."
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Fascinating (if also depressing) illustration of pay disparity in different fields. Women physicians & surgeons make 40% of men in that profession?! Only in 3 fields do women make more than men, and just barely more: special ed teachers, postal clerks, and data entry keyers.
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"Carrington JAM is a completely stripped down theme skeleton, including just essential WordPress theme template tags and the Carrington file structure. It hardly includes any XHTML markup and no CSS at all." That looks like my new go-to theme, even more so than Sandbox.
links for 2009-03-03
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"literary estates are a frightening mixture of avarice, petty tyranny, and cluelessness"
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"Honda’s president has said he wants to hold below $20,000 for the base model"
links for 2009-03-02
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"So, the library initiative didn't pass. That means 2.5 million dollars have to be cut from the budget." Planning on going to the one on Monday. Might post to the ENA site too.
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oh, and you can look up exercises by equipment! so I can find everything that uses dumbbells or a stability ball. (since that's what I have)
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Want to try this for ENA, Friends of the Library, Xmas Tree Lane.
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"Moodlerooms, a SaaS provider of Moodle, just launched an application built on the Moodle platform that lets school admins bring Moodle and Google Apps together with a single sign-in." neat! I don't have an Moodle experience, but anything that gets a leg up on Blackboard is good by me. 🙂
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omg this is teh HAWESOME. I esp dig the adjustment tabs and option to see sample pages in dark & light.
links for 2009-02-27
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amazing infographics. (via wesabe)(tags: finance creditunion)
links for 2009-02-25
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2nd mention of FotoFlexer. Might have to take a look. (I've used Picnik a number of times. Pretty nice.)
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ye gods I want a netbook. patience, grasshopper.(tags: misc_tech)
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"Credit unions were in no way a contributor to the current financial problem" well, that's nice to hear.
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cute little single-serving site
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"Whatever the perceived drawbacks of the old cartons, shown below, they were successful in at least one critical respect: they handily solve the problem of creating clear visual differentiations among over a dozen very similar products." not to mention that they're operating in a space with lots and lots of similar options. that new design: the distinctiveness, it does not haz it.
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"When LEGO employees get a business card like this, they even try to match the look of the minifig (gender, hair, glasses) to the person." awesome!(tags: lego)
links for 2009-02-24
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nice gathering of all the different usability "stuff"
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yes, all that.
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"Furthermore, I will never again say that CSS sucks rather than admitting my own discomfort with a different problem space." a curious little rant.(tags: css)
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but these guys got it working, so I guess that's something.
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feeling a little discouraged.
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alternative to sifr, using canvas/vml.
links for 2009-02-23
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funding for web design meetups, events, etc.!
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"we've also developed a module for Drupal that does this, by modifying the global redirect module" (not an official release.)
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"Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL."
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An interesting idea.
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from link from Greg on my blog.
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"The Fool's Errand is a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson. It is a meta-puzzle game with storytelling, visual puzzles and a cryptic treasure map." A high school friend had this on her computer, I've been trying to remember the name since about 1992. (thanks, K!)
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"the questions are all united by having received helpful answers, usually written in complete sentences" 🙂 lovely little writeup of AskMeFi. I've had good experiences with it, including help deciding on a hair style.(tags: blogosphere)
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"what I am shocked to discover is that the “higher†levels of the credit union system are not run with this type of transparency" NCUA letter of understanding with the corporate CUs, CUNA survey re:TARP. (apologies for the acronymage.)
links for 2009-02-21
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from drewish
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as discovered by Steve at the Q&A session. uses javascript, I think.
links for 2009-02-20
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"At some level, though, failure avoidance is a horrible way to learn (not to mention a horrible way to live). It rewards the wrong traits, and inhibits some pretty important ones." this is my basic psychological issue. also: "It took a couple of years to get past both the thrill of unaccustomed respect and the nagging sense of being an impostor." I'm still working on this. :\
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pretty obscure in some ways, and yet fascinating.
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I'm going to need this at some point.
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"Hulu just announced that they will be blocking Boxee users from accessing Hulu content via Boxee." well, that's a bummer. I've been thinking about setting up Boxee, partially to get Hulu content.(tags: misc_tech)
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creepy. (a) "a buddy posted a link to photos […] on his Facebook page and flatly refused to distribute them any other way" (b) "His ultimate goal is less poetic – and perhaps more ambitious: to turn Facebook into the planet's standardized communication (and marketing) platform, as ubiquitous and intuitive as the telephone but far more interactive, multidimensional – and indispensable." (c) "Imagine if an advertiser had the ability to eavesdrop on every phone conversation you've ever had." here's to hoping it goes the way of AOL.
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think I'm going to do this, although probly mostly with older bike photos.
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"I just realized that just because in every previous year I’ve run an excited photo of the spring’s first crocuses, that’s not a reason not to run an excited photo of this spring’s first crocus." extra-pretty this year, love the focus/lack-of-focus.(tags: garden photography)
links for 2009-02-19
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"My cat, Simba, agrees instead of me. As he is not a legal entity, I don't really know how kitty's agreements would stand up in court, but I like to think he would be responsible for any breaches of contract, assuming the agreement is even enforceable." Teh hawesome.
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Good grief. The whole process seems fundamentally broken to me. (9th year grad student? If I'd gone directly from UPS to that, I'd've been finishing up in 2005. In 2005, I was starting my 5th year as web manager at Pierce, and we'd owned our house for 3 years.)