Two things to say about WP-Footnotes: (1) I love this plug-in. Truth be told, I probably abuse it. The right answer would be to develop a better writing style and use the footnotes only where they’re really needed. The easy answer is: fuck that, I love my footnotes. (2) Could we have the “opening” and […]
How To Choose A Safe Reusable Water Bottle. via The Good Human (via LifeHacker): flagging partly to show to A.; irritating that they (like so many others) have jumped onto the anti-BPA bandwagon w/o consideration for how tenuous those findings are — not to be naïve about it but still… Inside MobileMe: Web 3 and […]
1. we have adventures, 2. Happy Fun Hat, 3. capturing the view, 4. more proof; all pictures… Mosaic created with fd’s Flickr Toys. Original mosaic image on Flickr.
Coming off the heels of Season Three, the fourth season of The X-Files is a bit of a strange animal. Whereas Season Three took a lot of chances with the narrative and let itself unpredictably intersperse humor throughout, Season Four seemed a return to the the otherwise dark and heavy subject matter that was more […]
I get the feeling that I should really be titling this post “The Trials and Tribulations of Automating My Linkdumps”. But now that I’ve set the tone… For those unfamiliar with Del.icio.us 1, it’s a social bookmarking app (and a Yahoo! property) that allows you to keep your bookmarks all online, in one place, and […]
After reading The Algebraist, I was going to swear off Iain M. Banks for the rest of ’08. But, Ginnie recommended it so highly that I felt it was worth bumping up the list. On the GoodReads.com scale, Look to Windward gets: ★★★ 1 For those nit-picking over the rating: it was close to 4-stars […]
Our phony economy by Jonathan Rowe (Harper’s Magazine): “Not all Americans confronted with these expenditures regard them as “consumption choices” that propel them further up a happy mountain of more.” Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare via /. Maperture plug-in via TUAW: Google Maps + Aperture = geo-tagging plug-in Seeds of Change […]
Eight Ways to Cut Your Homeowners Insurance Costs via Fix My Personal Finance Oddlands Magazine via John :: (we’re really on a discovery roll there, ain’t we?) First All-Drone USAF Air Wing at Slashdot Jeffrey Ford’s “The Drowned Life” via Ecstatic Days :: yet another short fiction anthology for the “to read” list… The Big […]
Conditional-CSS Shared World’s — author Jeff VanderMeer at Brightcove (via B²) The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away By Cory Doctorow, posted at Tor.com (via B²) War or Car? via John: for the price of the Iraq War, we could have covered VT and NH in gold leaf! Brainwashed by a […]
Fun and games… Out of town family visitors and then a trial run hike up Mt. Philo. Original photo at Flickr.