Icastic – visualizing time via information aesthetics (tags: visualization design art todo) Bernie’s Better Beginner’s Guide to Photography (tags: camera photography tutorial essay todo) Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who Are The Greenest (States) Of All via TreeHugger: VT at #1! (tags: Vermont environment energy) TUAW Guide: Getting Ready for Leopard via TUAW: their recommended […]
Stephen King´s Top 7 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer via Positivity Blog (via LifeHacker) (tags: writing lifehacks)
10 Ways To Improve Your Financial Situation In Just 15 Minutes via zen habits (tags: lifehacks money personal todo)
We sit in the basement in my parents’ old Tulip Drive house. We’re just inside the laundry room door, sitting on the concrete floor. The washer and dryer are running. We hear noises from above. What could they be? Our neighbor comes downstairs with a friend. A smell trails them. What is that? She shows […]
Slate Magazine: American lawbreaking: How laws die. (by Tim Wu) via B^2: “And sometimes the law as written is a symbol of some behavior to which we may aspire, which nevertheless remains wholly out of touch with reality. Whatever the reason, when politics fails, institutional tolerance of lawbreaking takes over.” (tags: art history law politics […]
Sniped from the del.icio.us home page: “Breakfast” is a photo series by Jon Huck. Pretty damned interesting, too. While I wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s a particularly novel approach or subject matter, it is extremely well-executed. I’m captivated. Also: for all the diversity he represents here with respect to the food choices, let’s not kid […]
Geek to Live: Ten Must-Have Bookmarklets via Lifehacker: bookmarklets FTW (tags: lifehacks) Profiles: Stealing Life: Reporting & Essays via The New Yorker (via The Wrangle) — got about three paragraphs in before realizing I better wait until I’ve cruised through the end of season 4… (Ms. Loff thinks season 3 but already I see spoilers) […]
Sunday night. Weird weekend. Sadly, took down most of the garden yesterday. Turned over the soil, etc. Going to need to pull the carrots and beets on Thursday whether they’re ready or not. Same with the last couple butternuts. Going to be sad. Then (this morning) dropped a bunch of cookbook reviews into GoodReads over […]
Improve Your Photos in 60 Seconds via LifeHcker (tags: photography tutorial essay todo)
the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks via DF: “hilarious” (tags: blog humor text weird language) Eating Healthy and Organic on $7 a Day via MSN Health & Fitness (via lifehack.org) (tags: food health essay) Three effective ways to anger people in meetings via TechRepublic.com (via lifehack.org) (tags: work productivity management leadership)