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"most bicycle advocates say cycling deaths are sharply up" ORLY? I had not heard that at all. also, yay (not): Seattle Critical Mass incident hits the friggin Economist.
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"Debunking libertarian ideas is like proving the moon isn’t made of cheese, so I won’t waste valuable time here in this essay doing that." A beauteous rant. (for Elizabeth, via Shelley)(tags: politics philosophizing)
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"the studies used to “prove†the prevalence of online sexual solicitation actually show that sexual solicitation mostly exists between teenagers rather than adult predators" one is somehow unsurprised.
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my gut reaction is that this is where a lot of the "webmasters" that Dylan & I want to talk about are living. I need to read this again 2 or 3 times and see if I can use some of these ideas. also, I'm having that same issue in re: industry-specific events/training. (also, I love the term "cargo-cult sysadmin")
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shameless self-promotion: vote for my presentation! (with Dylan Wilbanks) Dylan promises kid's book readings, which is new to me. 🙂 (I kid. we did in fact chat about that part.)
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heh. also, classy to link to the fail whale artist's work.(tags: blogosphere funny)
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mega-cute.(tags: lego)
links for 2008-08-05 [delicious.com]
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"The problem is that city planners have mixed bikes and cars together in ways that offer little certainty about how each should operate, and lots of chances for conflict."
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"As a society, you can flip someone off very easily," Adams said. "But we have no hand signal that says 'I'm sorry.' " (from the Newsweek article.)
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"Many of these problems are with volunteer software in general, not Free Software in particular. […however…] it’s in Free Software that we see volunteer software’s usability problems most often." cultural issues, mostly.(tags: usability opensource)
links for 2008-07-31
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Derek is the granddaddy of online community. Or something. But good suggestions. Might post to Olyblog as well….
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Continuing good stuff. Read the links, including “This is Not a Comment.”
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Edmunds on some common gas-saving tips. Best advice: drive chill, turn it off when waiting a long time. (Patience continues to be a virtue. News at 11.)
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this is what gives the green security icon in FF3.
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C was asking abt this CSA today, and I had to Google forward from an old Chow blog post. So here’s the actual website.
links for 2008-07-30
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Hey, look: it’s the ALA survey! Go take it already. (I do appreciate their efforts to get a better picture of the profession as a whole.)
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McDonald’s “ice cream” is one of my favorite treats, in all honesty.
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I’m not necessarily much for Dell, but this is tres cute. (bamboo sleeve, which makes it mid-century modern! adds $130.)
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that’s what I’ve been saying for years.
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“In this promotion from Arizona State Credit Union, college students can get a free cheeseburger with a new checking account.” SRSLY. almost 2 awesome 4 words.
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“a plugin […] that will warn you if you’re about to publish a post that lacks an excerpt” huzzah! (first, to upgrade WP….)
links for 2008-07-29
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“I’m completely pro-bike but nobody wins in these idiotic, testosterone-fueled attacks on cars.” amen. OTOH, I would LOVE to see a Ciclovia-style event where a chunk of town is closed off to cars for a few hours or more.
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Dylan’s take.
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an eyewitness account.
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“While Mark still believes this incident was sparked by hostility from cyclists, he does seem genuinely remorseful about what happened and is disappointed that cyclists are being charged for the incident.”
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“Way back when, she invented the term “Open Source— I did not know that the term was coined by a woman. huh. interesting ideas here about approaching the problem of closed-source in govt
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tempting. I wish I had time.
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reminds me of going to member night at the LA Co. Natural History Museum when I was a kid.
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thank you. exactly.
links for 2008-07-27
links for 2008-07-26
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via C.
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“On my new “sport utility bicycle” I can cart groceries, take my kids shopping, haul a barbecue grill and make a margarita.” I’m planning on converting the Townie with one of these.(tags: bicycling)
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might do something with this one of these days.(tags: mobileweb)
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OTOH, “536 cases of computer intrusion” in Q2 2007. (compare with check fraud, for example) but definitely some good points to review!
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“Becky Lee declined when a friend asked her — and five other attendants — to have their breasts enhanced.” Also, asking yr MIL to get Botox? Tacky. Again, glad to have opted out of the bride culture-industry.
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awesomeness. I like the MS natural keyboard, but hate hate hate the numpad.
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cool! old photos, plus Google Earth overlay screenshots. (Also, people have been getting pissy about views around here since at least the 1920s.)
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as might be imagined, Opera & Firefox users are most up to date, while IE users are way behind. OTOH, I don’t know that people trust an update to IE not to break something else on their computer.
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this could be useful… (specifically, the list of Email/Web to SMS gateways)(tags: mobileweb)
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heh.(tags: blogosphere funny)
links for 2008-07-25
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Interesting points, tho I have not played with Gears at all. (Except to get GDocs set up for offline access so I could write while in transit.)
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wacky! (a couple of comments in, there’s a link for modifying for easier storage, adult height.)
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duuuuude. not cool.(tags: weird)
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“You might kill me but you will never kill this shirt.” sometimes this sort of textual analysis is kinda fun. 🙂
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“So unless you are having a heart attack and can jump the line, your emergency—though it may still be serious—may wait for so long that you give up and go home.” this has happened to us twice in the last year.
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pretty!
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clever concept, not sure if I’ll use it, but maybe….
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(tags: photoshoppery photography)
links for 2008-07-24
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“It’s a helluva thing, a trial by jury. It was a radical notion 200 years ago, and it’s still a radical notion today.” I served on a jury once too, years ago in Tacoma. (Child abuse, and guilty. Lots of horrid people in that kid’s life.)
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“ROSEMARY-SCENTED CHICKEN BREASTS WITH CARAMELIZED ORANGE SAUCE” I am drooling.
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“The greenest building is one that is already built.” I’ve been impressed by how UW-Tacoma has been doing this: at least one of their converted-warehouse buildings is LEED silver.(tags: urban_studies eco)
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“If users aren’t notified that they are being taken to another site — [for example] online bill-paying — then it is hard to determine if the new site is trustworthy, because the […] certificate carries a different company’s name.” a pervasive proble(tags: security creditunion)
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an automated way to get colors out of an image to use for a palette. fun!
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like a fantasy landscape. I can’t believe that’s a photo!
links for 2008-07-23
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(tags: recipes)
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“sliced cherry tomatoes tossed with artichoke hearts and little balls of fresh mozzarella” that sounds especially nummy.(tags: recipes)
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$45 is a crazy price, but I like the concept(tags: house)
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“We also just love repeating the words ‘speed suit.'” 🙂 interview with one of the creators of The Venture Brothers.
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I had forgotten about this! hey, now that I work at a financial institution, maybe I should look at it again. (OTOH, our new banking nav seems quite similar, complete with “You can also…”)
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“the cost of the application is $295.00” you are f’ing kidding me.(tags: misc_tech)
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Tales of Coding: W3C recently posts updated docs on relationship between usability and accessibility“cover specific examples of matching mobile web usability issues with accessibility issues” awesome!
