Category: Snapping links

Dylan cracking me up with his riff on OKC, too. (I always thought it was HAWESOME when LA became a city with NO football teams, btw.)

(tags: local seattle funny)

“The idea is that if you monitor your body in your daily life over time you’ll have more than just a snapshot of your health, you’ll have baselines and long-term trends.” exactly.

(tags: misc_tech science health)

that actually sounds like a lot of fun. (includes massage & yoga!)

(tags: bicycling to-do)

not useful for anything right now, but looks cool. (also, it amuses me that delicious is suggesting the tag “pie”.)

(tags: php)

drool.

(tags: dessert fruit recipes)

“I venture to say you wouldn’t buy a five pack of beer to save twelve ounces in your panniers to make the ride home faster.”

(tags: bicycling)

the FAIL whale has taken on a life of its own, really.

(tags: blogosphere arts weird)

“So the Mrs. [dooce] decides to do a giveaway. In an hour, there have been over 1,200 comments. The server just barely started to sweat.” daaaamn.

(tags: drupal)

“At this point, the scientific evidence is in, it’s overwhelming, and it’s indisputable. The current generation of DRE voting systems have a wide variety of dangerous security flaws.” sigh.

(tags: security politics)

it’s like a picture-book, super-cute. “I guess they hadn’t seen that many 3-year-olds sobbing, “Local…I want the local.””

(tags: arts urban_studies)

what I really want is to learn how to sew. alas, that will probably wait a while. (among other things, I don’t own a sewing machine.)

(tags: crafty to-do)

friggin awesome. will do that this weekend, I think.

(tags: home to-do)

I’d be tempted to buy a pair from her etsy shop….

(tags: clothes crafty)

“The researchers, noted, however, that the math gap wasn’t consistent between countries. […] The general pattern of these differences suggested to the authors that the performance differences correlated with the status of women.”

(tags: gender psychology science society)

“I believe that most people want to do the right thing but they aren’t sure they know how, don’t have the time to find out, and fear the costs.” interesting stream of consciousness re: accessibility. (I was on the edge of that twitter conversation. mmmm,

(tags: accessibility)

It always makes me sad to say that humans have not been on the moon in my lifetime. Also, Moses Lake as a substitute for the moon! heh.

(tags: photography science space)

exactly. and MeFi has been cool with this for [n] years! 🙂

(tags: web_dev usability)

mmmmmm……

(tags: dessert recipes)

“IT HAS WORKED! YOU’VE GIVEN EVERYTHING AWAY! I KNOW WHAT THE OPTIMAL POLICY IS!” not sure on the economics, but nice spoof of Princess Bride.

(tags: funny society money)

long but interesting.

(tags: cats reference)

“Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-collar worker per year, and then directing one third of the proceeds to curing AIDS and malaria. That, effectively, is what Bill Gates has done.” huh.

(tags: society nonprofit misc_tech)

Dave Ross is funny to listen to. (C does a great impression of him, and an even better one of the other daytime guy on KIRO, Dori M.)

(tags: funny local windows)

feminist home/un-schooling.

(tags: kids gender academia)

I just like the name. 🙂

(tags: drinks beverages recipes)

extra-wonky, including plenty o’ graphs. (via alykat)

(tags: politics science)

do this? (plus, it’d be fun to associate it with an Oly web design meetup. OTOH, $5000 to be an official live venue? srsly?)

(tags: checkback web_dev)

this is like that LED tanktop in Craft magazine, but actually something useful.

(tags: bicycling clothes to-do)

I totally want to do this. (find old photo & recreate) In particular, somewhere I have a cute pic of me, C & Kat at Pt Defiance from the first summer C & I were dating, 11 yrs ago.

(tags: personal photography history to-do)

C introduced me to Brussels sprouts. (There are several veggies I came to later in life, including spinach, fresh green peas, and kale.)

(tags: recipes veggies)

“Old Bruce stepped over to the hole, and picked up the stick, and he had to be amazed again – because it wasn’t a stick, it was a sword, and its hilt was formed to the crab’s claw!” impressively weird tiny short story.

(tags: funny security writing)

“The main branch sits basically across the street from the river, so we got hit really hard. The water on the first floor was about five feet deep.” – whoa. they only thought they’d get a ft, so whole adult coll. is GONE. (via jessamyn)

(tags: library eco)

I’m definitely going to want to explore this.

(tags: javascripty to-do to-read)

Mom took the train on her visit up here last month. (not because of airline prices; with her big accident only a year ago, she just couldn’t sit still on a plane that long.) Freakishly, her train home was EARLY.

(tags: eco society politics)

this is the kind of neighborhood association that I do NOT want to be part of. ugh. also: bleh.

(tags: ena society)

I would totally go, assuming I have any chance of going to SxSW 09

(tags: sxsw writing blogosphere)

you are f-ing kidding me. I need to go find out if Baird is planning to vote for this crap. (via diveintomark)

(tags: politics security)

“Congressman Baird Joins Bipartisan Coalition” oh, duuuuuude. WTF? so. not. happy. isn’t somebody challenging him this year?

(tags: politics local security)