Category: Snapping links

teh hawesome. yes, the red-shirt phenomenon is true. best situation for survival of a red-shirt? Kirk gets it on w/hawt alien, but no fighting!

(tags: funny weird science tv)

note the disdain for the “American-style” fridge. 🙂

(tags: funny food kitchen)

Pierce has a “homeland security center of excellence.” (snark: pushy & self-important)

(tags: academia politics)

someday….

(tags: photography)

“Few of the archaeologists who authored the plan have made their identities public, fearing being branded traitors by their own people, losing their jobs, or even being killed” — thinking that the whole idea of holy places is deeply fscked up.

(tags: war politics science history)

omg so very cute. makes me want to get back to jewelry-making

(tags: jewelry reference to-do)

randomly, this contains some good tips on buying knives. (geek guy likes to cook, apparently.)

(tags: gifts kitchen)

totally want this book.

(tags: jewelry to-buy gifts)

I’m not entirely sure why, but it cracks me up that pretty much every comment says “[n] does that.” Apparently, “last generation” is better than now on the iPhone. 😛 (And yes, our craptacular ancient vmail system at Pierce did forwarding too.)

(tags: funny misc_tech)

weird and awesome.

(tags: funny weird arts)

“This is like, ‘Boy boils egg.’ He did something that any 9-year-old could do.” — no kidding. includes link to that map. also, love the Sherlock reference in the comments, and note the “if this were a black or Latino kid on welfare, would anyone have not

(tags: psychology kids society security)

lord amighty, I need one of these. (via dori)

(tags: funny writing clothes)

follow to the site…even more graphics available there!

(tags: design reference)

I ::heart:: tiny computers. (via vanessa tan)

(tags: misc_tech)

Vanessa’s take. “In terms of performance, I felt it ran like a normal-sized laptop PC, though I’ll leave it to the serious reviewers to do their performance tests.”

(tags: misc_tech blogosphere)

(need to check on external vendor….)

(tags: email-newsletter to-do)

as I said on my friend Joe’s blog, sleep deprivation is one of the scourges of western civilization.

(tags: health psychology productivity)

don’t get me started about ants. getting Terro (or just some Borax, I think we have powdered sugar) NOW!!!!

(tags: ants reference home)

“the paranoia of Nixon, the ethics of Harding and the good sense of Herbert Hoover” (click thru to the HNN article for that line) sigh. sigh. sh!t.

(tags: history politics depression)

I watched/listened to the “Time Management” lecture twice today. Practical and yet moving.

(tags: productivity reference health webvideo to-watch)

ugly-ass website, but a good compilation of advice. (me, I like getting a hotel just a bit farther out to get more walking/biking time, but that’s just me.)

(tags: sxsw webvisions)

lovely.

(tags: writing arts)

subsidized, even.

(tags: garden eco to-buy)

If I can figure it out, this solves my GMaps https problem at work! Yay!

(tags: gis google to-read)

or, save money on everything

(tags: to-read reference home)

“there’s a reason we did away with debtors’ prisons: having millions of people enslaved to their debts is a bad thing for an economy”

(tags: politics society money)

“Duct cleaning has never been shown to actually prevent health problems.” no kidding. I would be unsurprised, however, if our ducts aren’t properly sealed.

(tags: furnace home)

“Hmmm. I wonder how that works?” Damn straight. True for anyone in this modern world who has to do anything with computers. (And, it occurs to me that I should put this to work with more mechanical stuff as well.)

(tags: misc_tech academia)

a particularly nice bit of photojournalism for OlyBlog. it would be way cool to have these spots (from all 3 surveys!) on an online map.

(tags: local olympia eco photography history gis)

I’m going to try the portable version.

(tags: browsers)

sweet vigilante justice. 😉

(tags: society web_dev misc_tech weird funny)

“Theoretically, with the correct chocolate, you can even make Magic Shell vegan (the mind boggles at the discongruities in that statement).” OMG I ****love**** Magic Shell. (C finds it way too disturbing.)

(tags: recipes dessert)

ah, the farmer’s market is open…..

(tags: recipes breakfast)

a clever idea; it’ll be interesting to see if it goes anywhere. (I’ll be looking at it myself in more depth later.)

(tags: society politics blogosphere to-read)

“the ability to use some of the body’s own building materials for oral repair would be a boon to dentists, who have been fixing cavities with metal fillings since the 1840s” boon to dentists? how ’bout boon to those of us w/dental anxiety?!

(tags: medicine science personal)

my former assistant was of an age to be collecting Social Security, and damn web-savvy. (plus, yeah, stuff starts happening in the 30s. I have arthritis in both knees, TMJ, and creaky hands. I’ve worn glasses since I was 11, so that’s nothing new.)

(tags: accessibility)

“one new feature which was hinted at was the :silverlight selector, which will be used to replace text in selected elements with high-definition streaming video” (look at the date on the post b4 reading; I just ran across this today.)

(tags: browsers funny css)

yes, yes I do. getting good candids is tough, because people immediately [run away from the camera][start mugging for the camera].

(tags: photography)

“surely, in its fullest and most extreme form, the phenomenon is now passing its peak” heh. or not. curiously, quite a few of these have persisted over the last 70+ years.

(tags: writing society history funny)

(tags: health science)

where did the whole “filtering toxins” thing come from, anyway?

(tags: health science society)

“bollos de queso” sounds kinda tasty.

(tags: recipes baking)

I had no idea there was a standard for marking/announcing where bikes should go to trigger those sensors.

(tags: bicycling urban_studies)

(tags: food)

(tags: garden reference)

what a lovely idea/memorial.

(tags: accessibility nonprofit)

in the short term, you can’t have willpower about 2 things at the same time, but in the long term, developing willpower in one area help develop overall willpower. so that’s good.

(tags: personal psychology exercise money)

read through to Dr. Crazy, too. good stuff on variations of authenticity. (btw, I often comment there under a pseudonym, partially because I tend to say stuff that I promised prior boss I wouldn’t blog about. I think.)

(tags: academia blogosphere writing psychology)

also, Dover Books are (is?) your friend(s).

(tags: design reference)

“One of the fundamental challenges is to keep web content up-to-date, particularly in a decentralised authoring environment.” no kidding. I’ve had challenges here just as I did at Pierce, although in slightly different ways. Good article.

(tags: intranet)

open contest vs. internal design…..

(tags: design)

“congressional action is necessary to establish the appropriate balance between the needs of the national government in accumulating, processing, and disseminating information and the right of individual privacy” 1968 article in The Atlantic magazine.

(tags: history politics security misc_tech)

there are a few very blightly lots in the neighborhood, including the one with GINORMOUS ron paul sign. (really, people. enough already.) maybe some alternate ideas?

(tags: garden ena)

“Saying it wrong on purpose” – from “the internets” (other variants: interwebs, intarweb, interwebtubes, etc., etc. lots of politico-mocking!) to “one fell swoop”

(tags: writing society funny)

tasty, tasty data.

(tags: misc_tech society reference)

This is a little bit more like what I’d hoped Nick Finck’s SXSW session would be like: not just iphone, iphone, iphone, but the whole range of contexts. (But hey: why doesn’t mobile IE get any love?)

(tags: mda web_dev css mobileweb)

“I went directly to the source and surveyed two of my friends. The result was less than optimal.” I don’t think it’s just a Gen-Y thing, either. It’s a very vague concept among most of the people I know, too.

(tags: creditunion)

I’m by no means a coldfusion gal, but this is good to know about.

(tags: cms_research)

“the plain, vanilla, fuddy-duddy, fixed-rate 30-year mortgage WAS the innovation that emerged to fix a broken system. And it came to us not from the banking sector, but from the federal government.”

(tags: creditunion politics society)

I adore pre-1950 logos; tiny little works of art. (similarly, the very first Apple logo.)

(tags: history misc_tech arts)

OMG I totally want that. Need to get my team organized!

(tags: bicycling)