2005-10-11:

All things zeppelin! The zeppelin library archive is fantastic.

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More advice to aspiring writers. Also Paperback Writer, a weblog.

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Some of these are actually spot-on: top ten signs you're a fundamentalist Christian

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Though this has been all over the internet the past couple weeks, maybe you haven't seen it: a fan-made trailer for the horror film The Shining re-made to make the movie look like a romantic comedy [via Joel]

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Missouri: State spies on drivers through cell phones [via Dave]

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2005-10-10:

This list of online writing resources will be handy if I ever get off my ass and write something for publication.

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The Complete Review merits further exploration: it features in-depth reviews of books, as well as a summary of reviews from other sites. For example: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

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An index of free online language courses (including Latin, of course)

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Hurricane Vince threatens Europe?

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Old Hollywood photos: "My grandfather worked in Hollywood between 1914 and 1932 as a still photographer." [via rivets]

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Words and pictures: graphic novels come of age

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Wow. What happened to 43Folders when I wasn't looking? The site's redesign is awful, filled with far far too many links and not enough content. I get tense just looking at it.

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For the Getting-Things-Done crowd: the Noguchi filing system

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Awesome reading for my foodie friends: the food timeline [via makinglight]

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David Lebovitz — all things chocolate (does he discuss Chantico?) [via AmyJo, of course]

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2005-10-09:

For the Toads, I've decided to go see Serenity without having seen the series on which it is based. The first few minutes of the film are (legally) available on-line.

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2005-10-07:

Google has introduced the beta of its new Google Reader, a newsfeeder reader. (The foldedspace feed is here.) If you haven't played with RSS, now's your chance. Also, if anyone wants a Google Mail account, let me know.

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2005-10-06:

Bush to Palestinian ministers: God told me to invade Iraq [via pre-karma]

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2005-10-05:

For the neatniks: 150 tips and tricks on cleaning

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I used to believe, the childhood beliefs web site

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2005-10-04:

noitulovE: The best television commercial ever?

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This is so unbelievable. Is military force the only thing our President knows? Bush considers using military against avian flu outbreak

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How to start your own nation — welcome to Rothtopia!

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Nicholas Cage is the biggest geek alive. He's just named his new son after Superman. (After Superman's Kryptonian name...)

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2005-10-03:

Now this is a niche weblog: the Cupcake Bakeshop [via AmyJo, of course]

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2005-10-02:

Classical music blogs: The Rest is Noise, PostClassic, Sequenza21 [via askme]

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2005-09-30:

Animal intelligence, part 175: Penguin vice: theft and prostitution among penguins

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Animal intelligence, part 174: Wild gorillas reveal their use of tools, including walking sticks [via Dave]

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I'm probably the only one in the world who cares, but I received e-mail confirmation this morning that Stephane Heuet is working on a fourth Proust graphic novel which will probably be release next year

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2005-09-29:

A few items of interest: Societies worse off when they 'have God on their side', Private company wants Mars colony, and — best of all, though probably false — Britney Spears to become forensic scientist

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Fantastic article on Terrence Malick and his films

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An index to creationist claims

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smart beer mat orders refills [via Dave, who has become my most frequent link-feeder]

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Adherents.com is "a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations". Famous Mennonites, anyone?

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I found a Sinead O'Connor lyrics archive, though it's not wholly accurate. They transcription for Troy (my favorite Sinead song) is poorly done, though Jackie looks good.

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Tuesday (04 Oct) brings a new long-awaited album for Kris (Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine) and a new long-awaited album for me (Sinead O'Connor's reggae-styled Throw Down Your Arms). The Fiona album is currently freely (and legally) available via streaming audio.

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For other Audiophiles out there: Audiobook actors relay the power of words

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2005-09-28:

Games games games (and more games)

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600 barrels of loot found on Robinson Crusoe Island — this story is short, but filled with all sorts of neat details [via kottke]

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National Storytelling Festival put on by the International Storytelling Center

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I suffer from photic sneeze reflex, and therefor will never be allowed to fly combat aircraft. Seriously.

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2005-09-27:

For Joel: which it's the wikiPOBia — a collective attempt to annotate the written works of Patrick O'Brian

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World of Warcraft: the board game, for geeks everywhere this Christmas

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The future is now: Space elevator passes 1,000 foot mark

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Happy News — real news, but nothing negative

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The basic laws of human stupidity

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Should comic book characters age?

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This actually made me cry (hard): Martha the Pirate Cat has gone to be with the cats who have been before — "...when there's a nice shadow on the floor or if a cupboard door opens, I'm there..."

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10 x 10 [via jenn!]

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Reality manga — what if people actually looked like Japanese cartoons? [via bb]

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Classics in the history of psychology

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2005-09-26:

Cooking 101

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Interesting high-speed (slow motion) video clips) in WMV format, including the amazing jello cube drop

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2005-09-25:

AskMefi: Why do they bother to teach us cursive in school?

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2005-09-23:

What if life already existed on Saturn's moon, Titan? [via rw]

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Tumbleweed Tiny House Company [via Dave via NPR]

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One of my favorite parables: The Blind Man and the Elephant

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The 28-hour day — a six-day week means longer days

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National Geographic's 100 best outdoor adventure books

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2005-09-22:

Finding Lola — recovering a family pet in New Orleans [via frykitty, who finds all the best stuff]

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A fine entry at another Oregon weblog: The incident at Wolf Creek

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Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, is coming to Portland [via AmyJo, who may soon have her own weblog]

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Researchers snoop on keyboard sounds — computer eavesdropping yields a 96% accuracy rate [via Dave]

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Ha! Determined squirrels fill woman's car with nuts [via rw]

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2005-09-21:

Ball bounce, twenty levels of devlish fun [via mefi]

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Nick just brought me this URL saying "It's everything you like in life: Star Trek and Cats" — Ode to Spot

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Cognitive behavioral therapy (also)

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2005-09-20:

The ten secrets of a master networker describes what it takes to be what Malcolm Gladwell terms a "connector"

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Most awesomest music video ever: Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) by a group called Granddaddy — this video is made using an old Apple II+ computer from 1979

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AskMe: How can I wean myself of sugar?

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Map gallery of religion in the United States, including maps of Mennonites and Amish. I especially like the county-by-county breakdown of leading church bodies.

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From 1951: 125 ways to make money with your typewriter [via rw]

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A not-to-do list

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This is an example of the kind of awesomeness that's possible in a MMORPG: an unplanned plague has struck World of Warcraft and the game designers (the programmers) cannot find a cure

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Hypnotist runs out on the show leaving the guests still under

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Don't Buy Junk — the personalized product comparison site

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Typetester — compare fonts for the screen [also via rivets]

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Forty-one anomalies of water [via rivets]

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Writing sensible email messages

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Televangelist Jim Bakker once built a Christian theme park. It's gone to wrack and ruin, and somebody has taken photographs of it. [via bb]

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How to shuffle and cut a deck of cards one-handed

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AskMetafilter on non-exploitave pornography — this is a topic I've always wanted to write about at foldedspace, but never had the guts to do so

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Can this fruit be saved? The banana is on a crash course with extinction. [via mefi]

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2005-09-17:

Oregon's minimum wage: 1976-2002

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Awesome (true) cycling story: the man who rode to the moon and back (twice) [via mefi]

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2005-09-16:

Two games to check out: Mudcraft and Word Pads

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The baby name wizard NameVoyager

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I've been searching for a simple, easy-to-use book cataloging tool for a long time. Library Thing may be that tool. (It eve handles pre-ISBN books!)

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2005-09-15:

Funny stuff — Hurricane Katrina in Magic cards [via nikchick]

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Dolphin rescue: eight dolphins that were swept out of their oceanarium by Hurricane Katrina have been rediscovered hundreds of yards out at sea [via airbag]

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An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, one of my favorite scifi authors

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It's biodiesel! Inventor fuels car with dead cats

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How to disappear in America without a trace [via kottke]

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2005-09-14:

The first half of this video is hilarious (up until the cat's "secret"): Cat News [via frykitty]

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The intelligence of scrub jays — the birds exhibit planning, memory, and cunning [via mefi]

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Incoming signals: a weblog

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How to win at carnival games [via bb]

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2005-09-12:

We had to kill our patients — euthanasia in the wake of Katrina

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For the daring among us: how to make ball lightning in your microwave oven [via making light]

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From AskMe: What words do people use that consistently make you cringe and wonder if they understand what they are saying? (see also: What tips do you have for better spelling of everyday words, and which ones peeve you the most?)

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The ten stupidest Utopias [via waxy]

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Bad science in the press [via waxy]

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For my fellow Bearcats: the Willamette Collegian is available on-line

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2005-09-09:

A fantastic (and blessedly nonpartisan) photo essay on New Orleans before, during, and after Katrina from a resident. No posturing. No grandstanding. No politicizing. Just photos. [via mefi]

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2005-09-08:

This is frickin' awesome! Dictionaraoke, the singing dictionary — this site features parodies of popular songs using karaoke-style backing music with vocals provided by audio pronunciation samples from online dictionaries. Examples: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody or The Police's Every Breath You Take or Tori Amos' Me and a Gun (this last is sacrilige, I know). [via frykitty]

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2005-09-07:

Another d70 focus chart from kottke

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Apple releases iTunes 5 and replaces the iPod mini with the iPod nano

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Ten reasons to eat local food [via kottke]

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Miscellaneous Katrina stuff: Jon Stewart and The Daily Show on the inadequate response, The Onion: God outdoes terrorists yet again, Hurricane Katrina: our experiences (from members of an EMS convention stranded in the French Quarter). Also a Katrina timeline and another Katrina response timeline [the last is via schmuck, I hate to admit]

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How to make a superhero movie that doesn't suck — I don't think the author goes far enough

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The nerd, geek, or dork test — I am a "modern, cool nerd". I am 78% nerd, 52% geek, 43% dork. (Though according to the bottom of the results page, I am 82% nerdier, 71% geekier, and 74% dorkier than my peers.) [via kdlb]

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The early days of the Muppet comic strip [via scrubbles]

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2005-09-06:

Stacy catches the Harry Potter bug. Eight years late.

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Gilligan has gone to the desert island in the sky

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I've had conversations about this in the past: gender gap persists between lesbians and gay men [via scrubbles]

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Whoa! This is very useful. The OneLook reverse dictionary is more than just that — I love the "related words" lookup feature. Very cool.

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2005-09-05:

This Movable Type style generator is pretty keen

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2005-09-04:

It's been a long time since I posted an animal intelligence link: clever whale uses fish to catch seagulls [via bragg]

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2005-09-03:

This Metafilter thread has some amazing links. Simply amazing. Check out the Matrix shatters before the eyes of the nation (locally hosted 5mb WMV file) and the rebellion of the talking heads (which articulates what I noticed the other night — the reporters, even on Fox News, aren't regurgitating the government spin)

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Snopes debunks the Katrina/racism photo captions I posted earlier in the week

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I'm going to make Jenn's beef brisket this weekend, but am having trouble because her recipe calls for brisket but names tritiploin in parantheses. Tiff says this is the same as shoulder roast. I'm confused. I've found beef cuts and how to understand them and retail beef terms, but I'm still confused. Can anyone help?

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2005-09-02:

The politics of weather, a thoughtful weblog post on Katrina and its aftermath

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The dirt cheap guide to Portland [via laen]

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Tricking out iTunes — "plugins and hacks to max out your music"

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2005-09-01:

Amazing hurricane Katrina photos

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Satellite imagery of New Orleans [via Dave]

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43folders has a fascinating entry on Benjamin Franklin and his drive for perfection

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What's it like to be a pretty girl? [via mefi]

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2005-08-31:

Why you should not eat at the Olive Garden (aside from the fact that their food sucks) [via jeff and rich]

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Crashed cars of Kuwait — "With a 120kph (75mph) highway speed limit, an 80kph (50mph) urban speed limit, a lot of expensive high performance cars, next to no law enforcement, driving in Kuwait can be a little exciting." [via mefi]

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This is all over the web and with good reason: racism in Katrina reporting

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Hey, you got something to eat? (by a goat)

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2005-08-30:

Video: Elvis, the robocat

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Mary Janes Farm — simple solutions for everyday organic, featuring a magazine that looks interesting (also, a recent Oregonian article) [via AmyJo]

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Testing the accuracy of SLR camera focusing system [the handiest kottke link ever!]

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How to set up a podcasting studio [via airbag]

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Making Light has two good entries on damage from Hurricane Katrina: the first includes a link to about half an hour of video footage, and the second links to interesting articles about the aftermath

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2005-08-29:

Cool! Parasite [via cat]

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Cats in sinks

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Could you pass 8th grade math? — I got 10/10 [via kottke, who missed one]

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This is just wrong: House of Cosbys [via waxy]

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Dig to the other side — a small google maps app to determine the antipode of your location [via robotwisdom]

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Jane Smiley reads all of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" — I haven't picked it up for a year; I miss it [via bookslut — the first-ever bookslut flotch, actually]

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Stuff from a TV preacher, a Flickr photoset [via rivets]

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The Mongolian cow sour yogurt super girl contest

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mp3s of 100 Saturday morning cartoon theme songs — which is your favorite? [via robotwisdom]

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Build your own sitcom, featuring a PDF board game [via robotwisdom]

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Hilarious ongoing series of weblog posts: if I ran the comics industry, feautring such absolute gems as Marvel Comics Presents Wolverine vs. Soren Kierkegaard

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2005-08-28:

Flickr: cat stairway

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Take a hike: things you need to know when you take your digital camera for a walk in the woods

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2005-08-26:

A local foodblog: An exploration of Portland food and drink

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Heh. Breeder Bingo, which comes via this fine AskMe question: "I'm a 40-ish woman, intelligent, fun, interesting, married, a home owner, have a lot in common with women I meet. You like me when you meet me. Why do you turn off when you learn I have no children?"

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Crouching Tiger's Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh to be reunited in Memoirs of a Geisha coming 09 Dec 2005 (trailer)

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The right to bear cameras is under attack — time to download The Photographer's Rights again. [via bb]

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This is the kind of stuff my grandmother raised me on: Apes, Lies, and Mrs. Henn — "If YOU believe in evolution instead of Jesus, you'll end up in hell."

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2005-08-24:

Photo Mechanic, another piece of photography software

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How not to make me ex-gay

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The big scary list of Pat Robertson quotations — maybe somebody should assassinate him [via makinglight]

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2005-08-23:

This is cool: Google Maps pedometer [via Susan]

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2005-08-20:

I'm considering a photography course at either Oregon College of Art and Craft or Pacific Northwest College of Art

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extramsg.com — culinary blog and Portland food guide

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Willamette Week's best of Portland 2005

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Growing Gardens: planting seeds for good food, healthy people, and strong communities in Portland

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Goodwill, the thrift store, also has an on-line bookshop: Goodwill Books, and a Hillsboro storefront at 2920 SW 234th!

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2005-08-19:

Editing your digital images without the mystery

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How to put the sky in a room

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My week in the psych ward, Unlocked, and On that open road in front of me [via kottke]

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iView MediaPro is a an iPhoto replacement (iPhoto sucks)

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Beautiful tributes to Stanislaw Lem: the star diaries (also here and here) [via mefi]

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2005-08-18:

Fascinating Scientific American article: Mindful of Symbols — "On the way to learning that one thing can represent another, young children often conflate the real item and its symbol. These errors show how difficult it is to start thinking symbolically." [via mefi]

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Awesome Flickr tag browser

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HA! the Hasselhoffian recursion [via fotw]

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TextMate, yet another text editor for the Mac

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From the archives: a home-built marble machine — "I hadn't actually planned on building a second marble machine, but I had an idea for building a better marble elevating device, plus I had enough time on my hand to actually build a machine using this principle."

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From the archives: my homebrew pipe organ

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The rudiments of wisdom, a cartoon encyclopedia

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Teach your toddlers the alphabet for geniuses

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Maya's micronomicon is insanely amazing [via waxy]

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From the archives: Eric Harshbarger's LEGO portfolio

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2005-08-17:

Taken [via frykitty]

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Evangelical scientists refute gravity with new 'intelligent falling' theory

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2005-08-15:

Sabino suggested I join him and Trina in Run Like Hell!

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Handy lists to maintain

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Cool: O'Reilly books freely available on the web, including the ever-helpful web design library

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Poet

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2005-08-14:

Two organizations found in Portland Monthly's "best of the city" issue: Newspace Center for Photography and the Independent Publishing Resource Center

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2005-08-12:

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Nikonians, a site for Nikon users (featuring the first banner-ad I've ever clicked)

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NEAT! Dust devils on Mars

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Key ingredients: America by food

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Eurostar by Ye-Ye (great music video) [via robotwisdom]

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For the Ayn Rand fan in your life: johngaltgifts.com [via fotw]

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Great weblog entry: I miss Republicans

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The Bacon Show: one bacon recipe per day, every day, forever [via airbag]

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Michael Rawdon's web journal (he eschews the term weblog) has been around for eight years now; I've been reading it for seven

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2005-08-11:

sniff Goodbye to Kitty [via frykitty]

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An awesome flash game, so simple and yet oh-so-difficult (and addictive!): Spaceworms

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An interesting exploration of phallic signifiers in advertising [via rivets]

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How to write a novel in 100 days or less [via fotw]

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2005-08-10:

The angry bluebird and the story behind the photo

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Because freedom isn't free: America Supports You Freedom Walk 9/11/2005 — this is more than a little over-the-top, don't you think? (official press release) [via mefi]

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Alan's FauxDaddy — "This is the true story of how Go Daddy and Domains by Proxy revealed my confidential information to the world."

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Awesome (but kind of gross): praying mantis catches/eats hummingbird (with photos) [via robotwisdom]

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Lifehacker has a round-up of techniques to help you quit smoking

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This makes me want to cry: Gay Child Quiz — Is my child becoming homosexual? [ via mefi]

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PB's watermelon update could be my own (I have high hopes that our single watermelon will be edible — I've never harvested an edible watermelon)

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From the archives: The Online Film Critics Society's top 100 overlooked films of the 1990s

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2005-08-09:

Sinead O'Connor goes reggae — Sinead is my "soul artist" — I lover her music, but what will this be like? I just wish she'd focus more on her vocals. Her voice is awesome.

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Again, probably of interest only to me: Live Champions League football results — Everton (my favorite team) begin play at about noon (related: Premiership club-by-club guide)

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Photography gallery: 'Hiroshima' by Hiromi Tsuchida [via bb]

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A bevy of Time Magazine entertainment articles: ten songs for late summer, Terry Gilliam's flying circus, five top anime movies on DVD, you don't know Jack (about radio stations like Portland's new CharlieFM, or whatever it's called), and 2046: a face odyssey, about the summer film I'm most looking forward to seeing

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Google it, you moron — or, as I (more politely) put it: "Google is your friend"

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Incomplete, but fun: the campus squirrel listings [via fotw]

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Fantasy fashion league — the fashionista’s answer to fantasy football! [via kottke]

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Craziness: Doom on the iPod [via waxy]

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Underwater battle: giant octopus vs. shark — place your bets! [via vbb]

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Brits to get RFID-chipped license plates [via Dave (aka Mr. Paranoid)]

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2005-08-08:

Digital black and white — yet another "how-to" for producing black-and-white digital images

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2005-08-05:

Northwest Vipassana Center [via Paul and Susan]

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2005-08-04:

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News that only J.D. cares about: Everton sign Phil Neville!

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Lifehut — answers to life's problems

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2005-08-02:

Excalibur: the bike of POWER — this is not a pocket bike...

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200 amazing secrets! [via mefi]

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Flickr Explore, featuring interestingness

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Stop the presses! After more than two decades of single-button mouseness, Apple finally catches a clue: Mighty Mouse

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What are some good books about birds?

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2005-08-01:

PB and Alan share their gardens, too.

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The kittays can JUMP! — ninja cats [via frykitty]

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2005-07-31:

The Christian Paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong. What it means to be Christian in America. An excerpt of a magazine article. (via Paul J.)

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2005-07-30:

Fun flash game: Stackopolis [via waxy]

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2005-07-29:

The amazing Chinese art of watermelon carving [via 2blowhards]

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2005-07-28:

Classical music recommendations

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Politics and the English Language, a 1946 essay by George Orwell about how politicians use language to obfuscate war

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How to stand your ground and survive a confrontation

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What's that bug? [via mefi]

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"The Database of Intentions is simply this: The aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result." [via robotwisdom]

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It's Catching — new David Sedaris piece

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2005-07-27:

solipsistic.org — a strange and beautiful little web site [via mefi]

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A tribute to Mopsey: one great little cat [via askme]

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Very funny: My racist aunt and the United States according to my racist aunt [via kottke]

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Current photos of the kids from the 1971 version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory [via bb]

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To master the art of solving crimes, cops study VermeerVermeer is one of my favorite artists [via robotwisdom]

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2005-07-26:

The truth about the octopus, including the urban octopus, octopus jokes, and how to tell an octopus from a dolphin [via FotW]

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Overheard in the office, a list of crazy things heard in offices around the country [via FotW]

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The "I've been hiking for several days" AICN roundup: Battlestar on DVD, Doctor Who news, and HP & Goblet of Fire photos

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Forgotten pictures of populare people features decade(s)-old photographs of current celebrities (e.g. David Hasselhoff) [via 2blowhards]

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A new book coming in September — In Praise of Slowness — explores the "slow movement", an attempt to integrate technology with "inner slowness"

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Are you driven to distraction by technology? I am. [via 43f]

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How to learn from your mistakes [via lifehacker]

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Fat Man Walking — a 350# man is walking from San Diego to New York to lose weight and chronicling the trip on his web site [via lifehacker]

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2005-07-24:

This is good: The Perry Bible Fellowship, "a comic strip just for you" — subtle and perverse this humor is (this strip has nothing to do with the Bible)

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Hilarious types of stories my mother tells

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2005-07-22:

Awesome! While my ukelele gently weeps (the guy has a web site)

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Installing a new habit and breaking an old one — if only I could apply these principles [via 43f]

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The unofficial Apple weblog [via 43f]

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Taking stalking to all new levels: combining Hot or Not with GoogleMaps [via Northwest Noise]

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sigh Is Harry Potter gay? — this is as dumb as it comes [via mefi]

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2005-07-21:

North Coast Café, a weblog about nature (and stuff)

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Shakespeare in original pronunciation (audio sample here) [via mefi]

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Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy debunks bad astronomy in popular culture

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The 50 films you should see by the age of 14 — one of my faves, Spirited Away, is number one!

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2005 Eisner Awards recognize the best in the field of comic books

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2005-07-20:

New York Times iconic imagery slideshow (registration required?) [via kottke]

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The Candy Man — why children love Roald Dahl's stories, but many adults don't [via waxy]

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2005-07-19:

Father kills toddler over gay fears — Okay, homophobes, which is worse: a gay son or a dead son? I'm almost afraid to hear your answers... [via mefi]

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Hilarious video: Harlan McCraney

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The cook's thesaurus and the medicinal value of whole foods [via rivets]

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For Lisa: Grammar IQ Challenge [via rivets]

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For Jeff: Death Star subwoofer [via /.]

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How to convert a photograph to a vector drawing using Photoshop

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2005-07-18:

Practical joke: Crashing Harry Potter video, a drive-by spoiler at a midnight Harry Potter line [via waxy]

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Fourth annual Lebowski Fest this weekend in Kentucky. If, like me, you cannot attend, then at least watch the film once in memory of Donny.

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End of the world? Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, a stage musical based on the music of The Smiths, recently opened in London [via bb]

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Rules of card games: Cuarenta

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2005-07-16:

Missing the point: 10,600 google matches for 'Willy Wonka' 'Johnny Depp' 'Michael Jackson' together. sigh

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2005-07-14:

Grumblebee continues our discussion of quality and art with some interesting thoughts

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2005-07-13:

Why I bought a typewriter on eBay

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A 1969 interview with Frank Herbert, author of Dune [via mefi]

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How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material more easily [via kottke]

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Nicole keeps feeding me animal intelligence links (for which I am grateful): parrot understands concept of zero !!!

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For Dave: a rant about literary fiction — "I believe most literary fiction ... is duller than commercial fiction and harder to read." [via bookslut]

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Another weblogger being tested for sleep apnea recounts her experience with the CPAP machine

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2005-07-12:

A testament to ten cats

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daughters are...Angels With Attitude, a creepy photo contest with children made to look like dolls [via the entire web, it seems]

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Pile high, sell cheap, and pay well — why Costco is the 'white knight' of the Big Box industry [via kazablog]

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2005-07-11:

Official Portland bicycle resources, including current and future projects, info on bicycle parking, and bicycle maps (including a fantastic city-wide map)

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For my Kris: The Price is Right minigames wikipedia article [via waxy]

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Where I spent most of my (virtual) morning: the fascinating bikes-on-sidewalks AskMe thread — in conclusion, don't ride your bike on the sidewalk (and don't let your kids do it, either)

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Processing a digital photo [via lifehacker]

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Why do you work so hard? — an excellent article in the same vein as my Get Rich Slowly! research [via scrubbles]

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For Joel and Aimee: the International Hedgehog Association [via frykitty]

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Language of prairie dogs includes word for humans [via nikchick]

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2005-07-10:

Subject of a possible future weblog entry: The Wire and Arrested Development — too smart to make it?

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The classic computer magazine archive

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2005-07-09:

What to include in a basic science fiction library. I have a modest (~500 volume) scifi library that's been on hold for several years; I think it's time I started adding to it.

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Gallery of the absurdRenee Zellweger's extreme sour lemon candy made me laugh out loud [via mefi]

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Apropos of Something remixes comics with often hilarious results (similar to the photoshopped Spider-Man comics I shared before) [via rivets]

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Sabadabada, a webpage devoted to Brazilian bossa nova, balanco, and samba records of the 1960s (includes mp3s and cover art) [via dominey]

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2005-07-08:

Psychedelic Christian radio mp3s from 1967 [via waxy]

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Ten reasons why you should eat organic food

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Is this a repeat? Free online photography course

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2005-07-07:

Mike has a new hat that I quite like, so he pointed me to the web site: Tilley Endurables

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Best photos from National Geographic [via jwalk]

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2005-07-06:

Supermemo, a language learning tool [via AskMe]

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PETV: People For the Ethical Treatment of Vegetables

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Pictures I like for a variety of reasons — the one with the cat in the dog bed and the dog in the cat bed is funny

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Obituaries of the future — a sample: June 5, 2019 Bush – George W. (72), the 43rd president of the United States, was struck down “in action” early yesterday morning from injuries sustained during a failed one-man invasion of Mexico. [via presurfer]

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A synopsis of all the drinking that occurred on the TV show Bewitched [via presurfer]

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2005-07-04:

The ridiculously thorough guide to making your own pizzayum!

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Fun and frustrating stick-figure movie quiz — how well can you do? [via mefi]

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2005-07-03:

AskMe: What are your favorite This American Life episodes?

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Things to do when you're bored

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Quiz: Are you a science fiction scholar? Apparently, I am. Does that surprise anyone?

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I'd really like to be asleep, but our neighborhood is firework crazy again this year. They've been going over for over an hour and there's no end in sight! This means more links for you. (10:20pm July 3rd)

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Will the madness never stop? Leia's metal bikini — an entire fansite devoted to this skimpy outfit

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Reincarnation? Parents think six-year-old boy is reincarnated World War II pilot [via robot wisdom]

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2005-07-02:

Here's a comic book weblog I've been reading for months but havne't linked to: Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin

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The first step on the the road to supsended animation: zombie dogs [via Dave]