The influence of subtlety | groups.drupal.org
19 hours ago
Very thoughtful; how well-meaning people can inadvertently make things worse. Interesting suggestion in the comments: "Let's come up with some new placeholder text :)"
drupal gender 19 hours ago
Op-Ed Contributor - Google’s Earth - NYTimes.com
19 hours ago
"We’re citizens, but without rights." An elegant expression of where we are now.
google society privacy psychology 19 hours ago
Improve your writing in five easy steps - cogito ergo myerman
19 hours ago
turning "last year's budget shortfall has currently created extenuating and unforeseen budgetary constraints, without which we would have clearly achieved the goals of our finance committee" (etc) into "our budgetary shortfall will keep us from meeting our financial goals" ...or "Dude, our budget is hosed."
writing marketing 19 hours ago
XEN 1.0 profile
yesterday
XFN, but for negative relationships: nemesis, evil-twin, rival, creep, etc. :)
funny microformat yesterday
Birthday Cake with Hot Pink Butter Icing Recipe : Ina Garten : Food Network
2 days ago
shd I make this for C? ;)
recipes dessert baking sweet gifts 2 days ago
Who Are You Calling Dense? - NYTimes.com
2 days ago
"Trantor [capital city of Galactic Empire in the Foundation series] would have a population density of about 600 per square mile; New Jersey has more than 1100 people per square mile."
writing urban_studies 2 days ago
Vo company files for bankruptcy - Business - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington
2 days ago
yipes...although strangely, I'm not at all surprised.
local olympia urban_studies 2 days ago
Remake Directions for CERTO Freezer Jam or Jelly recipe at Kraftfoods.com
3 days ago
going to try this for my peach freezer jam, which didn't set quite right. (otherwise: syrup for ice cream & pancakes!)
recipes fruit sweet 3 days ago
Hello, Alice - Welcome to Wonderland
6 days ago
this made me laugh probably more than is appropriate.
funny tv 6 days ago
U.S. Officer In Afghanistan Mows Down PowerPoint Rangers | Danger Room | Wired.com
6 days ago
not really so much about the *PowerPoint* as it is about the inanity of military bureaucracy.
misc_tech war politics 6 days ago
Sexism and Mountains out of Molehills | groups.drupal.org
7 days ago
from the comments: "a stern, "tch, Dries, seriously?" was exactly the correct response to his joke" - the "mountain of a molehill" then being jerks freaking out about that (reasonable!) response.
gender drupal 7 days ago
History of Seattle Webgrrls/Digital Eve
7 days ago
Kathy Gill is looking for history around this group. (Was it really 10 yrs ago that I was co-events something or other?)
local seattle history gender web_dev personal 7 days ago
The new Campaign Monitor office - Blog - Campaign Monitor
8 days ago
I want to work someplace like this.
productivity 8 days ago
Did Facebook Places Just Cut Facebook Page Growth By 50 Percent?
8 days ago
by tweaking how things appear in user feeds, apparently. jerks.
facebook marketing 8 days ago
Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware | Electronic Frontier Foundation
8 days ago
"Apple's patent provides for a device to investigate a user's identity, ostensibly to determine if and when that user is "unauthorized," or, in other words, stolen" using biometric info. CREEPY.
privacy mac 8 days ago
Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping. - Laughing Meme
9 days ago
"With Flickr you can get out, via the API, every single piece of information you put into the system." (including comments & notes, which I've worried about) as one of the commenters says, this makes me feel more comfortable using flickr.
web_dev privacy personal facebook photography 9 days ago
Nice & Clean Sliding Login Panel built with jQuery « Web-kreation
9 days ago
used this as a starting point for a design tweak
drupal css jquery javascripty web_dev 9 days ago
Hungover Owls
9 days ago
this is how I felt Saturday. (and no, I was not hungover. goddamn sinuses.)
funny personal 9 days ago
Dan Ariely » Blog Archive Back to School #1 «
9 days ago
"Even Skinner had a trick to counterbalance daily distractions" email = skinner box (and I've tried a variant of that trick, too. it helps a lot.)
psychology blogosphere productivity misc_tech 9 days ago
I need a substitute for "the zest of one lemon"!? - Yahoo! Answers
10 days ago
"One lemon yields approximately 1 tablespoon of zest. For each teaspoon of lemon zest called for, you substitute 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract, so for the zest of one lemon, substitute 1 1/2 teaspoons of lemon extract."
reference recipes fruit 10 days ago
Blueberry Bread Recipe - MyRecipes.com
10 days ago
pretty good, although the bottom was a hair overcooked. also, substituted 1/2 tsp lemon extract for the zest.
baking dessert breakfast sweet fruit bread 10 days ago
Pacific NW | For brunch, a cheese-filled blintz is bliss | Seattle Times Newspaper
12 days ago
intrigued by the recipe in this one, but didn't want to use eggs.
recipes breakfast sweet cheese dessert 12 days ago
TLC Cooking "Cheese Blintzes"
12 days ago
not too bad (just used the filling recipe, already have a crepe recipe I like), didn't refry with filling.
sweet recipes breakfast dessert cheese 12 days ago
Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com
12 days ago
wow. some visual inspiration for an idea, too.
photography history gaming 12 days ago
Content Creation | Unsuck It
12 days ago
lovely deconstruction of crappy business-speak.
writing marketing 12 days ago
2004 'God Factor' Interview With Barack Obama > NewHeavenNewEarth
13 days ago
interesting interview with then State Senator Obama about religion. I can respect someone who grew up in a mixed religious environment, and synthesized that into his own thing.
religion politics 13 days ago
Craptacular: stories of poop in the library! | Christina's LIS Rant
14 days ago
Includes a story from C!
weird library personal 14 days ago
Adobe partners with Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web « The Typekit Blog
16 days ago
cool! (I really want to come up with something that I could use Voluta Script for.)
typography css javascripty web_dev design 16 days ago
Three Tiny Houses without Borders
16 days ago
that first one looks really cute and easy to assemble.
adu home 16 days ago
A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal | Electronic Frontier Foundation
20 days ago
This is the first thing I read that helped me actually understand the proposal.
google politics misc_tech mobileweb 20 days ago
Stephen Ramsay » Anthologize It
20 days ago
actually, Anthologize sounds like an interesting way to assemble my favorite musings, personal history stories, whatever, into their own collection. will be taking a look.
personal writing wordpress modules 20 days ago
Levi's new jeans throw women some curves | All The Rage | Los Angeles Times
20 days ago
if this actually works as advertising, I will almost certainly buy a pair. "fit in the hips and thighs, but gap in the back" would describe pretty much every pair of jeans I've owned in my adult life, and more so since I got my weight down.
clothes to-buy checkback 20 days ago
HTML5 Reset
21 days ago
ok, what's the difference between this & HTML5 boilerplate?
html5 css web_dev 21 days ago
freezer jam video
23 days ago
made this last night w/blueberries. OMG TEH NOM.
food sweet fruit crafty 23 days ago
Rok Straps - Products
23 days ago
recommended on the rootsradicals (xtracycle) list.
xtracycle bicycling rain-riding 23 days ago
Social Security: The myth of the Social Security system's financial shortfall - latimes.com
23 days ago
so...about the time I retire, Social Security might need to raise or eliminate the payroll tax ceiling? that's it?! stop freaking out, people.
politics finance history 23 days ago
JavaScriptMVC
23 days ago
"JavaScriptMVC is an open-source framework containing the best ideas in enterprise JavaScript development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration."
jquery javascripty web_dev php 23 days ago
On jQuery & Large Applications - rmurphey
23 days ago
intriguing. at this point, I've only used jQuery for the small-scale stuff.
jquery javascripty philosophizing web_dev 23 days ago
Web accessibility for cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties - Opera Developer Community
23 days ago
"You may think that a lot of the points made in this article are nothing more than common sense, and you would be absolutely right! The good news is that the best strategy for creating a site accessible to those with cognitive or learning difficulties is to provide clear and straight forward content in an easy to use interface with few distractions."
accessibility usability writing web_dev 23 days ago
Op-Ed Columnist - America Goes Dark - NYTimes.com
23 days ago
"our political class is showing its priorities: given the choice between asking the richest 2 percent or so of Americans to go back to paying the tax rates they paid during the Clinton-era boom, or allowing the nation’s foundations to crumble — literally in the case of roads, figuratively in the case of education — they’re choosing the latter"
politics 23 days ago
Dejobbing society
26 days ago
side note: I haven't thought about Beguines in ages. (I took medieval women's lit in college. Yes, really. Fascinating stuff, as it happens.)
history finance society gender 26 days ago
Redesign Your University Website According to xkcd | .eduGuru
26 days ago
I would pay cash money to see some school do something like this.
academia web_dev 26 days ago
The Secret Code That Controls Your Destiny | Mother Jones
28 days ago
or: 25 yrs ago they added an inventory control number to help avoid SSN fraud. ::sigh::
conspiracy weird politics history 28 days ago
Is Project Vigilant A Hoax? | Techdirt
29 days ago
that would be the best option, honestly.
politics security privacy 29 days ago
Web Performant WordPress | daverupert.com
29 days ago
actually, good stuff on improving speed for any kind of site.
wordpress web_dev 29 days ago
The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment | The New York Review of Books
29 days ago
"For several decades, the Jewish establishment has asked American Jews to check their liberalism at Zionism’s door, and now, to their horror, they are finding that many young Jews have checked their Zionism instead."
religion history politics war 29 days ago
Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
29 days ago
"private industries' willingness to do the snooping work on American citizens which the Government cannot do" ugh.
privacy politics 29 days ago
My challenge to you: only speak like a human at work - Telegraph
29 days ago
"“We apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused.” Would you say that to your daughter when you were late picking her up from football practice?"
psychology business marketing 29 days ago
Here be dragons
29 days ago
"In the end, my age and gender were no handicap. As Agatha Christie's Miss Marple knows, people will say almost anything to an old lady they assume to be stupid." appalling stuff, really.
war politics 29 days ago
D’oh! We Almost Spaced on Lisa Simpson’s Wedding Date! - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
4 weeks ago
wow. really? (impressed, btw, that they actually got the day of the week right.)
weird 4 weeks ago
sergey_larenkov
4 weeks ago
photo compositions: modern & WWII, same location.
history photography arts 4 weeks ago
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