The influence of subtlety | groups.drupal.org
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
"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
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
XFN, but for negative relationships: nemesis, evil-twin, rival, creep, etc. :)
funny  microformat 
yesterday
Who Are You Calling Dense? - NYTimes.com
"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
Remake Directions for CERTO Freezer Jam or Jelly recipe at Kraftfoods.com
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
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
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
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
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
Did Facebook Places Just Cut Facebook Page Growth By 50 Percent?
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
"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
"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
Hungover Owls
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 «
"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
"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
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
TLC Cooking "Cheese Blintzes"
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
Content Creation | Unsuck It
lovely deconstruction of crappy business-speak.
writing  marketing 
12 days ago
2004 'God Factor' Interview With Barack Obama > NewHeavenNewEarth
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
Adobe partners with Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web « The Typekit Blog
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
that first one looks really cute and easy to assemble.
adu  home 
16 days ago
Stephen Ramsay » Anthologize It
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
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
ok, what's the difference between this & HTML5 boilerplate?
html5  css  web_dev 
21 days ago
freezer jam video
made this last night w/blueberries. OMG TEH NOM.
food  sweet  fruit  crafty 
23 days ago
Rok Straps - Products
recommended on the rootsradicals (xtracycle) list.
xtracycle  bicycling  rain-riding 
23 days ago
Getting Vertical With CSS
vertically aligning text has always been a pain.
css 
23 days ago
Social Security: The myth of the Social Security system's financial shortfall - latimes.com
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
"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
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
"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
"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
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
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
or: 25 yrs ago they added an inventory control number to help avoid SSN fraud. ::sigh::
conspiracy  weird  politics  history 
28 days ago
Web Performant WordPress | daverupert.com
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
"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
"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
"“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
"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
wow. really? (impressed, btw, that they actually got the day of the week right.)
weird 
4 weeks ago
sergey_larenkov
photo compositions: modern & WWII, same location.
history  photography  arts 
4 weeks ago
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