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links for 2007-04-15

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 15, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Photographing Squirrels – a photoset on Flickr
  Photos of squirrels, who are in turn taking pictures. Just look, it’s great.
  (tags: flickr photography)
• Hanttula.com Presents the { Circus of Disemboweled Plush Toys }
  I should send in pics of all the toys Spike has torn apart.
  (tags: toys funny)
• Russell’s teapot – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by o
  (tags: religion ideas theory)

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links for 2007-04-14

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 14, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• YUI Theater: Joe Hewitt, Welcome to Firebug 1.0 » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
  (tags: firefox webdev webstandards tutorial)
• Wikis Gone Wild
  A list of several interesting or prominent publicly-editable wikis.
  (tags: social wikipedia wiki reference)
• A Word of Advice During a Housing Slump: Rent – New York Times
  Interesting article on the housing market – renting is now a better financial option.
  (tags: realestate money)

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Friday the 13th Suxxxxx

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 13, 2007
• Post category:Memes

2022-03-17 Update:
No idea what this was about.

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links for 2007-04-13

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 13, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Winning without glory | IndyStar.com
  A measure to ask voters to amend the state constitution to prevent same-sex couples from getting married sailed through the state Senate and would have fared likewise in the House had it not run into a procedural snag and a push-back from corporate public
  (tags: Indiana marriage rights equality lgbt)
• Miracle at the Statehouse – NUVO.net
  Civil and human rights proponents, as well as those advocating on behalf of domestic violence victims and Indiana’s economic development potential, scored a substantial victory on April 3 when the Indiana House of Representative’s Rules and Legislativ
  (tags: marriage equality rights lgbt Indiana)
• Taking back Indiana’s Republican Party – NUVO.net
  Indiana Republicans who have spent the past 20 years feeling more and more like their party’s been hijacked ought to give Pat Bauer, the Democratic speaker of the House, a big hand.
  (tags: Indiana republicans marriage rights religion)
• A conspiracy of tolerance? Nah, it’s just good business | IndyStar.com
  The people pushing a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage just wrote a curious letter to the companies that helped kill the resolution. Are Sen. Brandt Hershman, R-Wheatfield, and Rep. Eric Turner, R-Marion, trying to bully some of the state’s leading
  (tags: marriage rights equality Indiana lgbt)
• Dog biscuits added to pet food recall – Pet Health – MSNBC.com
  Great. We had a package of these dog biscuits at our house. Wonderful.
  (tags: dogs pets safety)
• Pluggd –
  Discover, Listen to, and Share Podcasts. They also have a twitter feature that automatically lets twitter know what you’re listening to.
  (tags: twitter podcasts directory)
• Twitterverse
  What is twitter doing today?
  (tags: visualization twitter mashup tags)

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links for 2007-04-12

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 12, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• The TNL.net weblog » Blogger’s Code of Conduct: a Dissection
  (tags: culture speech blogging)
• NYPD Intelligence Op Targets Dot-Matrix Graffiti Bike –
  Mans arrest during the Republican Convention was a set-up by the police – he was targeted for not being Republican.
  (tags: surveillance activism abuse scandal freedom)
• you thought we wouldn’t notice
  Examples of ripped-off design.
  (tags: Plagiarism theft design art)
• The Sporting Scene: No Obstacles: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
  article on “parkour” the sport of leaping, jumping and climbing through city architecture.
  (tags: cities urban sports culture)
• parkour – Google Video
  (tags: video sports urban culture)
• I’d Rather Be Writing » Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog — Condensed from Dozens of Bloggers’ Experiences
  (tags: writing blogging)
• The Sun Online – News: Tarzan’s chimp Cheeta turns 75
  Happy birthday, Cheeta!
  (tags: monkeys)
• Grand Canyon Skywalk :: Hicks-Wright.net
  A review of the Grand Canyon Skywalk – pricy, no cameras allowed, long lines, and no tourist amenities.
  (tags: tourism grandcanyon skywalk travel usa)
• 3quarksdaily – Monday Musing: Taking Sides in the Recent Religion Debates
  Interesting article critiquing the recent backlash against atheist like Dawkins.
  (tags: atheism religion)
• Fantagraphics Books
  (tags: publishing literature popculture indie)

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links for 2007-04-11

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 11, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• List of Digital Asset Management systems – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: software tools)
• Top 10 successful ways to sell digital asset management to your boss – The Extensis Community Blog covering Font Management, Digital Asset Management and info for Creative Professionals
  (tags: productivity software)
• Subtraction: The Funniest Grid You Ever Saw
  (tags: grid webdesign system)
• A List Apart: Articles: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid
  (tags: webdesign layout grid system)

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links for 2007-04-10

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 10, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Google Maps
  Custom google maps are now much easier….
  (tags: help howto cartography custom)
• Easter Monday – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Dyngus Day, or Easter Monday. Never heard of it before. Adding it to the Odd Holidays calendar.
  (tags: holidays)
• The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 286
  John McCain and Mike Pence make spectacles of themselves in Iraq, and other nutty fun.
  (tags: conservatives idiots republicans politics)
• The Old Centrum | Gathering Place for New Community
  The foundation for one of the historic churches in our neighborhood.
  (tags: neighborhood Indianapolis downtown)
• O’Reilly Radar > Draft Blogger’s Code of Conduct
  Yeah. Like I said in a previous post – starting in the wrong place. Shoot this up to Fox news first, and we’ll talk.
  (tags: etiquette philosophy culture technology)
• What should I put on my Apple TV? « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger
  Videocasts that might be cool to check out.
  (tags: apple video television)
• Anil Dash: Threatening to Kill Blogs
  Interesting thoughts on the code for conduct and other ways to clean up public discourse. Dash at least acknowledges that the problem is outside the internet, too – but I still say it starts in the political sphere and washes down from there…
  (tags: web blogging internet)
• “Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life”
  Interesting discussion from emerging technologies conference.
  (tags: technology trends networking web)
• Wikipatterns – Wiki Patterns
  (tags: wiki patterns webdev social strategy)
• American Visionary Art Museum – Art Cars!
  You can make an art car – a tutorial.
  (tags: art auto ideas)
• The Pompous Ass Words Home Page
  This is the Pompous Ass Words site, a place dedicated to identifying words that shouldn’t be used on the grounds that doing so makes you sound like a pompous ass.
  (tags: english funny list language writing)
• Tubes – The private, secure way to share any file with any friend!
  (tags: p2p software)

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links for 2007-04-09

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 9, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
  Awesome website.
  (tags: funny marketing publishing)
• Permanent drought predicted for Southwest – Los Angeles Times
  The driest periods of the last century — the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and the droughts of the 1950s — may become the norm in the Southwest United States within decades because of global warming, according to a study released Thursday.
  (tags: environment climate green)
• Copyright Renewal Database: Welcome
  Stanford’s database makes it much easier to find out if works published between 1923 and 1963 are in the public domain, making tmillions of orphan works savable.
  (tags: copyright database ideas reference books)
• Flickr: wardrobe_remix
  wardrobe_remix is a DO IT YOURSELF street fashion community.
  (tags: fashion flickr photos shopping trends)
• Disney to Allow Same-Sex Couples to Have Fairy Tale Weddings
  The Walt Disney Co. has changed its policy to allow same-sex couples to participate in a popular Fairy Tale Wedding program it runs mainly at its two U.S. resorts and cruise line, a Disney spokesman said on Thursday.
  (tags: marriage religion lgbt)
• TOM’S QUACKPOT FE$T TO HIT CITY
  Tom Cruise is attempting to “detox” 9/11 firefighters of their trauma from the event – using the World Trade Center attack as a tool for Scientology recruiting.
  (tags: religion)
• Field & Stream – Photo Gallery – The 50 Greatest Lures of All Time
  Just linking for my brother…
  (tags: sports fishing)
• Edwards Camp Goes All A-Twittering – New York Times
  (tags: twitter)
• Technology Review: Is Twitter Here to Stay?
  (tags: social networking Twitter)
• Evolution for Everyone – David Sloan Wilson – Books – Review – New York Times
  (tags: evolution science future)
• Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast
  (tags: tutorial reference photoshop illustrator)

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links for 2007-04-08

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 8, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Drobo | Products
  The drive enclosure I should have bought.
  (tags: hardware wishlist)

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links for 2007-04-07

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:April 7, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
  Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
  (tags: sound software radio freeware)
• About TypeIt4Me
  (tags: apple freeware productivity software)
• I love my new Mac (list of cool utilities from Twitter) « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger
  (tags: apple mac software productivity)
• The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
  Good stuff.
  (tags: webdesign inspiration ideas)
• New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970) – a photoset on Flickr
  Tons of good design ideas here on standardization, presentation, consistency.
  (tags: visualization inspiration reference standards)
• Cornershop – Rounded Graphics for CSS Box Corners
  Hmmm. I’m not sure I buy that this works well, but I need to play with it before I can tell, and I don’t have time now.
  (tags: webdesign buttons)
• Stripe Generator – diagonal stripes background tiles
  (tags: webdesign trends aesthetics freeware generator)
• High dynamic range imaging – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: photgraphy photoshop tutorial wikipedia)
• Internet Access CAPTCHAs
  And so, a modest proposal: Internet Access Captchas, built right into browsers, designed to greatly reduce the overabundance of youtube commenters, MySpacers, and bloggers.
  (tags: funny grammar humor internet)

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