links for 2010-01-31
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Sadly, I do this far too often myself. I should really be ashamed. Ha!
links for 2010-01-30
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Wow – that's better than the Mayor's rinky-dink shrimp bet. Way to raise the stakes, IMA.
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I cannot WAIT to see the video of this.
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Gay marriage opponents reveal that they don't just want to ban gay marriage, but also straight marriages that don't produce children, divorce, single-parent families, and any combination of relationships that don't produce children.
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Lock him up and throw away the key.
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Lots of very cool trends. Unfortunately I won't get to do many of them at work, but I'll have to experiment with some of them on my own sites.
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They still have open spots for Pop-Tarts, but they're telling the gay dating service that all the ad spots are filled. BS.
links for 2010-01-29
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Bookmarking because I needed this: "Create a twisted drop stitch: Insert needle into the stitch as if to knit. Instead of wrapping the yarn around the back needle to create a regular knit stitch, wrap yarn around both needles and then wrap around the back needle. Complete stitch as you would normally."
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Sadly, they missed the most important one – the slow learners who don't know how to hide Farmville or block invites, and instead bitch about how many Farmvile updates they get. Oh, wait, the author is one of those idiots.
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Evan Bayh is in for the shock of his political life during his next political primary.
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"Rudy Giuliani took to the airwaves this morning pounding on Obama for not using the word "terrorism" and for not mentioning the Flight 253 incident in his SOTU — except, well, Obama did in both instances." – Someone needs to start suing media personalities for these kinds of outright lies. This sort of crap shouldn't stand.
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He was a really good guy.
links for 2010-01-28
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A better title for this would be "The Secret Life of a mentally under-developed London Times writer/sexist douchbag."
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Dorothy breaks down the box office numbers on movies about lesbians, and throws out hope that a fiesty indie film at Sundance will finally be the female version of Brokeback Mountain.
links for 2010-01-27
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Yeah, we're going them shrimp from St. Elmo's. Yes, you read that right; we sending SHRIMP south, to NEW ORLEANS. Which is probably where we flew it to Indianapolis from in the first place. Our mayor, in case you haven't heard me the other 1,000 times I've said it, has a serious case of the dumbs.
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This makes my heart ache.
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The money quote from this article: "For some, however, the mix-up is an indicator of a larger problem with the way the elected board members have approached the update of state curriculum standards." NO SHIT.
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Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the positive psychology concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.
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Hyperfocus is an intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses consciousness on a narrow subject, separate from objective reality and onto subjective mental planes, daydreams, concepts, fiction, the imagination, and other objects of the mind. It is the normal state that occurs during hypnosis, especially at theta levels. psychology productivity ideas creativity cognition
Knitting and Design and Flow
It struck me on the way in to work this morning that the reason I love knitting so much is because it’s design in almost pure form. With web design, there are so many hurdles you have to jump through to get your design into a working state – css attributes to learn, scripting languages to inhale, content management systems to navigate, coding issues, browser inconsistencies, bugs, communication, frustration, office politics and ridiculousness; the pure visual design work (the part I love) is only about 15% of what I get to do, and the rest is just necessary evil.
Knitting, on the other hand, is just pure design elements: space, line, color, texture, shape, form, value – all right in your hands to sculpt at will with nothing in between you and the finished work – blissful flow.
I feel the same when with photography much of the time as well — just me and a camera and vision in my head captured.
Maddow on Obama Spending Freeze: Completely Insane
I gotta say, I agree with her. It’s crazy and it’s not gonna work.
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links for 2010-01-26
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South Carolina Lt. governor Andre Bauer says they should stop feeling poor kids free lunches because "feeding stray animals" causes them to "breed." South Carolina seems to be just chock-full of elected idiots.
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Now I'm concerned as well. I wish the Bush Adminstration hadn't sat on this information so long – I would have taken action before now.
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My favorite line from this fabulous post about Feminists critiquing other Feminists: "I admit it: I kind of like it when people decide to start blaming Jessica Valenti for things, although I imagine she doesn’t like it much, because: oh, man! Someone is getting a Valenti-authored blog post they won’t soon recover from! I basically approach feminism like it is professional wrestling, and I am sorry."
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