links for 2006-08-05
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The perfect names for your alternative and goth baby.
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A list of Old English, Old Norse, Frisian, and Gothic names.
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Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep.
RSS Feeds for Online Stores
Here’s one of my favorite applications for RSS feeds… Online stores that use them to present new products in their online catalogs. For huge stores this isn’t very practical, but for specialty stores, it can be a lot of fun, especially if the store also has wishlist capability, like Think Geek does.
Archie McPhee: http://www.mcphee.com/mcpheeproductfeed.xml
Think Geek: http://www.thinkgeek.com/thinkgeek.rss
Threadless T-Shirts: http://threadless.com/rss/weekly
(Website: http://threadless.com)
Mule Design: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheFeedStore
Oddica: http://www.oddica.com/catalog/rssfeed.xml
There are a couple of product review blogs that basically do the same type of thing, that I also keep in my shopping RSS reading list, like these:
Mighty Goods: http://www.mightygoods.com/atom.xml
Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/index.xml
Mad Professor: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MadProfessor
And then there are the online shops I WISH had a feed, but they don’t:
Knock Knock: http://www.knockknock.biz/
16 Sparrows: http://www.16sparrows.com/
Hats In the Belfry: http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/
And speaking of sites in general that really need to have RSS feeds —
IndianapolisMusic.net Events Calendar: http://www.indianapolismusic.net/events_day.php
Friday Cat and Dog Blogging
Spike helps assemble the Ikea laptop desk.
Huckleberry and Drusilla lounging around.
Stephanie’s Mom’s dog.
Little Monkey Steph and Stephanie.
Michelle’s new kitten
Spike at Grandpa Doug’s house
I grew up in a middle-class suburban home
I grew up in the suburbs, first in the town of Ankeny, Iowa, outside of Des Moines, then briefly in a suburb in Canton, Ohio, and then in a nice housing development in Noblesville, Indiana. I lived in the prototypical white, middle-class neighborhood, where we walked to school (back when that was safe) and played in the street and sold pencils door-to-door for a kids club or band camp.
But I LOVE pork rinds. Is that wrong? Well, I don’t want to be right.
Also, last night at book club, we helped my friend Jen brainstorm names for her baby. For privacy’s sake, I’m not going to blog the kid’s last name, but suffice it to say that it’s three syllables and sort of Polish/eastern European, containing both a W and Z. You get the idea. Whatever she ends up naming him (I’m sure it will be a great name) we decided that his “book club name” will be “Yosemite Peregrine ____________” I can’t wait to hear what Jen’s husband has to say about that idea.
If you’re naming your baby or pet, here are some places to look for cool names:
The Social Security Adminstration’s List of Popular Baby Names
A list going back to the 1880s of what the most used baby names for any year are. You can search against the database or just see lists of the top names from each decade. Pretty cool.
Name that Goth!
The original, definitive list of Goth baby names.
Freakonomics — Baby Names
The Freakonomics guys do a great statistical analysis of how baby names spread and become popular, then fade out. If you’re searching for something unique and interesting, but not too wacky, for your kid, reading the baby names chapter of their book is a good idea. The link above is to a short Slate article on that chapter of the book.
And I realized this morning, I have a stripper/drag queen name, an alias, a mob name, and even a spell check name, but I don’t have a book club name of my own. So what should my book club name be? It should probably be vaguely literary and slightly snobbish…
More Gay Games Chicago Photos
Click on the photo to see the full set of pictures.
Gay Games Figure Skating Day 1
Gay Games Figure Skating Day 2
Scenes from Chicago 2006
links for 2006-08-02
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Hate mail sent to the guys who run the Flying Spaghetti Monster website. Proof that schools need to teach critical thinking skills. And grammar. And some spelling, too.
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VintageBus.Com is your final stop in your search for split-window VW buses on the web. These pages are devoted exclusively to Volkswagen buses built from 1949 to 1967,
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Upon examining the inner workings of one of the most popular paperless touch screen voting machines used in public elections in the United States, it has been determined that with the flip of a single switch inside, the machine can behave in a completely
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Disaster planning and emergency preparedness from American Scientists, to fill in the gaping holes in our government’s plans.
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You must watch this hilarious advertisement for ASU – one of the worst ads for a university ever, and sooooo funny.
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Great alphabet cards with poltically-incorrect drawings to illustrate the letters, created by a great artist with a funny sense of humor. Do check them out.
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Interesting article on new cell phones that don’t require a cellular network — they work on wireless hotspots. Hmmm.
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Yeah, this video certainly makes Black Expo look good. And people wonder why no one wants to go to the downtown mall area at night any more. Here’s why.
No, English is OUR language
“Lananguage.” Your language is the language of “stupid.”
(shamelessly stolen from Shakespear’s Sister.)
2022-03-15 Update:
One of the few posts making fun of misspellers where I didn’t make a Grammar mistake.
One of the few posts making fun of misspellers where I didn’t make a Grammar mistake.
links for 2006-08-01
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A free booklet you can request via toll-free number.
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A semi-private blogging tool that allows you to share with just friends and family.
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A pictorial history of history scrubbing propaganda and photo manipulation in Communist Russia.
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Awesome laptop bags.
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