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links for 2007-03-31

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 31, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Jott.com – Mobile Note Taking and Hands-Free Messaging
  You call the number, leave a message, and it transcribes you message and emails the message to you. Interesting… now I just need it to post a message to my blog for me.
  (tags: communication tools)
• School bus yellow – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The RGB and hex values for school bus yellow.
  (tags: wikipedia colors reference)
• When A Man Hates A Woman / The ugly side of sex and the Web
  Great SF Gate article by Violet Blue on Kathy Sierra, Xeni Jardin and hate sites directed at them.
  (tags: feminism sexism women blogging)
• Larry Beinhart: Short Shots #2: Dispatches From the War on Stupidity
  From that point of view, we see that among people who think, 72% are liberal and 15% conservative. Among elite thinkers, the portion of liberals goes up 87%.
  (tags: conservatives progressive education ideas)

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links for 2007-03-30

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 30, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Finally, a Feminism 101 blog
  An awesome resource from feminist bloggers on the basics of feminist thought – basic resources to link to when you’re having a discussion and you don’t have time to go into all the detail.
  (tags: feminism sexism progressive women)
• Exercise Is a State of Mind – Health For Life – MSNBC.com
  Another study on how exercise improves brain functions.
  (tags: psychology health fitness brain)

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Twittervision

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 29, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read/Technology

Twittervision is a googlemap with all the latest twitter posts displayed on it – it’s pretty mesmerizing to watch – check it out.

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links for 2007-03-29

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 29, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Teacher Lesson Plan – Suffragists and Their Tactics
  Cool!
  (tags: feminism equality rights)
• ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon » The Unsinkable Kathy Sierra
  (tags: blogs civility)

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links for 2007-03-28

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 28, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Museumr > dumpr.net
  hee. Frame a Flickr photo like it’s hung in a museum.
  (tags: flickr funny gallery museums photography)
• Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic – New York Times
  “Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the chances of mistakes” – studies show multi-tasking doesn’t work, and actually costs more.
  (tags: attention myth productivity science)
• TripHub Group Travel – My Trip Map
  Trip hub is a group travel site, and trip map is a way to map out all the locations on your trip. Just the other day I was saying I wish google or yahoo had these capabilities, so we could locate the hotel, and all the sites at our destination…
  (tags: maps cartography travel planning)
• ToonGum Free Flash Toons
  A YouTube for cartoons.
  (tags: cartoons funny flash community)
• Park Seed
  Seeds and plants for vegetable, flower, annual and perennial gardening.
  (tags: plants shopping garden green)

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links for 2007-03-27

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 27, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Inhabitat » MICRO WIND TURBINES: Small Size, Big Impact
  Wind turbines for urban settings.
  (tags: energy home solar green)
• CodeAve.com/JavaScript – Confirm Alert Box
  (tags: javascript)
• MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home
  a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
  (tags: opensource research learning education)
• Aesop’s Fables – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: literature history wikipedia)
• iBegin Blog / iBox (powered by evoBlog)
  (tags: javascript ajax popup reference)
• The Sultan’s Elephant – 3 quarks daily
  a really excellent (but very long!) article on the French puppet show that uses enormous, 3 story-tall marionettes and is fascinating because of it’s realism and attention to detail.
  (tags: giant entertainment fun france puppets)
• Royal de luxe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  More about the theater troupe that created The Sultan’s Elephant
  (tags: theatre puppets performance)
• Coding Horror: Creating User Friendly 404 Pages
  (tags: standards tips webdesign)
• BarCamp – The password is c4mp.
  (tags: conference discussion education webdev)

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links for 2007-03-26

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 26, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• steampunk magazine – putting the punk back into steampunk
  (tags: Steampunk nostalgia zine)
• Coulrophobia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Steve, your condition has a name.
  (tags: clowns phobias wikipedia)
• Ladder Abuse
  Wow, I can’t believe some of these folks did this, and lived, apparently.
  (tags: funny photos safety)
• Free Photoshop – Free Photoshop Shapes and demos for download.
  Free Photoshop Shapes and demos for download.
  (tags: clipart patterns photoshop)
• Get the Glass!
  (tags: flash games onlineGames)

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links for 2007-03-25

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 25, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Desktop Tower Defense
  Wasting hours at a time.
  (tags: onlineGames videogames games fun)
• Neatorama > 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World.
  Wow. I love the chapel in the tree.
  (tags: cool environment green interesting science)
• List of famous trees – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: green environment biology cool interesting)
• Study Showing that Women Opting Out of Work is a Myth
  The handful of women doing this are upper-middle class white women. Often they do it because maternity leave is shorter and they don’t feel they have enough time off for early development.
  (tags: business economics family feminism myth)
• More men taking wives’ last names – USATODAY.com
  And people are giving them a lot of misogynist shit about it, too.
  (tags: feminism marriage prejudice gender)

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links for 2007-03-24

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 24, 2007
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• Far From Iraq, A Demonstration Of a War Zone – washingtonpost.com
  War veterans stage a protest by going on patrol in Washington D.C., demonstrating what it’s like to live an occupied nation. Cool.
  (tags: military activism protest war)
• Health: Can Exercise Make You Smarter? – Health For Life – MSNBC.com
  I sure hope so.
  (tags: health fitness)
• Marriage amendment is a little too long | Marion Chronicle Tribune – www.chronicle-tribune.com –
  The Marion Chronicle Tribune comes out against SJR-7
  (tags: SJR-7, newspaper equal marriage rights)
• JavaScript Variables and Functions
  (tags: javascript webdesign reference)
• Joe. My. God.: Blades Of Bore-y
  Joe reviews the Blades of Glory movie and concludes that it plays on homophobia for laughs. Discouraging.
  (tags: movies homophobia skating)

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links for 2007-03-22

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:March 22, 2007
• Post category:Recently Read

• Digital Web Magazine – Redesigning the ExpressionEngine Site
  Great article on redesigning a website.
  (tags: webdesign inspiration process)
• NOVA | The Last Great Ape | The Bonobo In All of Us
  Bonobos are great apes that are peaceful, emotionally-sensitive primates.
  (tags: news science money)
• The Wisdom of Children: Humor: The New Yorker
  A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table
  (tags: funny children essay)
• Fun Facts About the OCLC Top 1000 – Britannica Blog
  (tags: books library lists)
• Twitterholic: Who are these people?
  (tags: lists social stats)
• twittervision
  (tags: maps social stats trends)

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