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"Last month, an e-mail list I'm on erupted into a debate about whose responsibly it is to name a dollar amount first during the job interview process: the applicant's or the employer's." I'm on that list too, and it damn near erupted into a flame war. Michelle strikes a nice balance.
links for 2008-10-16
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Ok, so if I get reimbursed for my bus day passes, then I can't get a bike benefit. What about months where I don't ride the bus, but do bike? Hm. (Also, $240 pays for about a quarter of a Ute.)
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I also read a while back a fascinating account of vote fraud of various sorts over the history of the US. crazy, crazy stuff. I've only ever voted in person ONCE, btw, in 1996 in a church basement in Tacoma. (was a CA voter all thru college, so absentee, then went permanent absentee after the '96 election.)
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another view on the G1. I do worry about the usability of the keyboard with those buttons on the right. would definitely want to go play with at the store.
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looks like a good upgrade to my MDA, but probably not for a while.
links for 2008-10-15
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"When Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson testified before the Senate banking committee last month about Paulson's proposed bailout bill, a demonstrator in the audience held up an 8.5-by-11 piece of paper with one word scrawled on it in block letters: "FAIL."" all about how FAIL can haz WIN.
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I don't usually say jack-all about scoble, but since Eliz has been job-hunting & looking at admin asst jobs (and since that's what I did for several years), this entirely boggled me. and not in a good way. video = lawsuit waiting 2 happen. salary offered is entry level or below for seattle or sf. pay an editor to check your resume for entry level admin jobs?! penalized for using hotmail?! apply for the career, but don't be overqualified? oy.
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huge freaking "memo" on food & politics.
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"Can you understand it better if I show it to you like this?" Yes, yes I can. (Improved readability through lists!) Plus, (a) I think I read this story or something very like in Wired several years ago, and (b) damn right it helps to have someone taking care of you while you do creative stuff. (sigh)
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"Based on more than 600,000 questionnaires and published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, the study maps regional clusters of personality traits, then overlays state-by-state data on crime, health and economic development in search of correlations." fun with maps & personality testing! (I like the term "stress belt". May I also suggest "lonely corner" for the Pac NW?)
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as noted in 1973 (!!!!!!), Tricia Nixon & Grace Slick are in the same demographic group. not useful. demographic marketing FAIL.
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do want 3rd one down.
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super-duper basics. am very tempted to post to intranet.
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the long version is quite interesting.
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"The following case study shows that lotcat literacy is a situated social practice." 🙂
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"Bugs are probably not quite what you think. Imagine you've designed a car and built it, but someone designed the wrong size tires for it. If the car were software, maybe this would cause the car to not start, or you wouldn't be able to steer it, or maybe the car would explode. Or maybe everything would go fine until the driver tuned to NPR and then the gas tank would spring a leak." heh. a ramble on the nature of software creation.
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"Such questions could keep a librarian up at night, staring at the wall, petting his or her sleek gray cat Otlet" indeed. on some broader questions raised by the Zotero lawsuit in re: the semantic web. (he works for Harper's Magazine, which has 158 YEARS of articles online.)
links for 2008-10-14
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windows only? can't tell. via the other Elaine(tags: gaming)
links for 2008-10-13
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I know the feeling. (also, kitty kinda looks like pica!)
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hawesome, and full of cautionary tales.
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"told workers Friday that operations would cease and cookies would no longer be made as of Monday" noooooooooo! no more pink & white frosted animal cookies?!?!?!
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"I Hate to Play the I-Just-Watched-My-Mother-Die Card—But, Um, I Just Watched My Mother Die" Dan Savage's mom & I-1000.
links for 2008-10-09
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including landscaping plans!
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I'm thinking about taking a picture of our kitchen.
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I would loooove to do this to our pantry closet.
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1999-era design, but some interesting stuff anyway.
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a little schadenfreudealicious, but still. this one includes quotes from the Trib and the Seattle Times.(tags: creditunion finance)
links for 2008-10-08
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"The Community Reinvestment Act applies to depository banks. But many of the institutions that spurred the massive growth of the subprime market weren't regulated banks. […] These institutions worked hand in glove with Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, entities to which the CRA likewise didn't apply. […] Second, many of the biggest flameouts in real estate have had nothing to do with subprime lending. […] Third, lending money to poor people and minorities isn't inherently risky. There's plenty of evidence that in fact it's not that risky at all. […] On the other hand, lending money recklessly to obscenely rich white guys, such as Richard Fuld of Lehman Bros. or Jimmy Cayne of Bear Stearns, can be really risky." and so on and so forth.
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"Recently a friend told the story of his 80-year-old father submitting a check for payment at Washington Mutual. "The bank bounced the check," he said."(tags: creditunion finance)
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Oooof.
links for 2008-10-07
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just linking for this talking point: "In fact, as economist Janet Yellen has pointed out, banks that are subject to the CRA made subprime loans at a dramatically lower rate than independent mortgage companies, which are not covered by the CRA."
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"While former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was testifying before the House Oversight Committee Oct. 6, CNBC reported he had been punched in the face at the Lehman Brothers gym after it was announced the firm was going bankrupt." niiiiice.
links for 2008-10-06
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I TOTALLY want to do this with our little gang.
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"There’s a defining moment in your career when you choose to trust someone beside yourself."
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o hey, and it even says "Pyrex" so I can make this w/out needing to buy anything new!
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again, just close your eyes & hang on.
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"If you're in your 30s and 40s, hang tough." There we are, hangin' tough.(tags: finance)
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review of George Soros's book.
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a story told in charts. yipes!(tags: finance)
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lovely quotes.(tags: finance creditunion)
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to read tomorrow
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a tiny cake.
links for 2008-10-04
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was very tasty.
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trip to Vienna when I was 14, almost 15. lots of memories, in about a zillion parts. thanks, Kermit. 🙂