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Build Your Own Microphone Pop Screen: craft project - could be a fun gift

Soviet Arcade Game Posters - a set on Flickr: Too bad all of these are ripoffs. (Or are they???)

Muralisms ... Some use[ful | less] ideas!!: 2010 wiki template for status report: oooh, useful little snippet of mediawiki template

What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why? | January 2010 | Communications of the ACM: familiar

http://www.kramm.com/blog/?p=175: to contact re encrypted videoconferencing (Farstream?)

The White House Blog | The White House: allez cuisine

Ill-mannered Grandiloquence » Blog Archive » Diversity at what cost?: talking about diversity in FLOSS for its own sake as opposed to for instrumental goals, + worries about taking the fun out of the community

Women in Open Source – Q&A with Myself « Marina'z Blog: a roundup of benefits to women & to open source to getting more women involved, activities in FLOSS, barriers, TODOs

git.collabora.co.uk Git - user/daf/serious-business/summary: for running a company-internal pastebin site

On public discussion and safety » philosophical geekess : why we need #ubuntu-women, & how to balance needs for privacy, safe-space assistance, and transparency

View-Source Is Good? Discuss. | Continuing Intermittent Incoherency: found via http://antennasoft.net/robcee/2010/01/08/view-source-is-good-full-stop/ via planet mozilla

Patents, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, & Trademarks: just had to consult this to refresh my memory

http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/01/in-an-ideal-world/: idea re creating deliberate dupes of poisonous bug reports

UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase - Ubuntu Wiki: submit Omni Animale Triste, 2 music videos?

User:Jebba/NAT - maemo.org wiki: how to turn your N900 into a wifi hotspot

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / User Profile / tor.com: Tor's posts on The Middleman

Obama Administration Appoints Openly Transgender Woman to Dept. of Commerce | PEEK | AlterNet: Simpson's quote at the end makes me choke up & feel patriotic

Restart MythTV via Remote | www.baablogic.net: oh this might be nice

http://blog.lebedel.net/index.php?post/2010/01/12/WoMoz-at-FOSDEM: The nascent Women in Mozilla group will be at FOSDEM, are figuring out their roadmap & plans, and need your suggestions

Call for Participation » Grace Hopper Celebration 2010: "Collaborating Across Boundaries"

DebianNYC/Workshops/3 - Debian Wiki: Debian packaging for semi-beginners, NYC, 21 January 2010

http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=43: Thanks for the review!

General Transit Feed Specification - Google Code: How many of the eight route_types have you experienced? I'm at 7, I think.

Recursivity: Stephen Meyer's Bogus Information Theory: Response to lousy book aside, this post is the best introduction i've read to what "information" means in different technical contexts

isolate - Project Hosting on Google Code: "Isolate make me a sandwich." "There's no bread."

Maia's Eclectic Ministry of Introspection :: The Zoo of Rampant Sexism : Maia Kozheva says: A Russian Linux site permits & approves horrendously sexist, demeaning, and objectifying comments, & the community at large doesn't notice because of language barrier

phylomon.org: Procyon lotor: weak against... carnivores. (Thank goodness for the International Year of Biodiversity!)

Mercurial « UCOSP: my old employer is sponsoring/leading some Mercurial development

http://vimeo.com/8000921: Preetty interesting paper on the Cybersyn. That control room? It's only a model.

mushroom bourguignon | smitten kitchen: I'm gonna make the _hell_ out of this recipe.

He's not that bad: Something about this composition gets me every time

MathFiction: Female mathematicians in fiction, as catalogued by Alex Kasman's great MathFiction project

Open Data: Reddit useful for something?!

Why ask for an unskilled, not-yet-involved comaintainer?: Christine Spang requests entirely new contributors for some FLOSS maintainer mentee work, gets far more responses than expected

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/RESTful-Web-Services-Orbitz: Not as much hypermedia as I'd hoped but the kind of presentation I would have loved people to be giving in, say, 2006.

An Ongoing, Erratic Diary: on the difficulties of new parenthood

A short follow-up on work at Hugo Schwyzer: "putting one’s relationships first, or at least making sure that they aren’t jeopardized by one’s livelihood, is something that those who are fortunate enough to choose their livelihoods ought to strongly consider"

such as it is « style over substance: on style & character

Chocolate Pudding Cake | Baking Bites: Pudding? Cake? Why not both?

M&M: Historical documents!

M&M: Historical documents!

ButterYum: Ina's Pecan Squares: I started out intrigued but now this seems kind of excessive.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ochre_jelly/4299323531/in/photostream/: ♪ To-to-ro in Le-go ♪

Guidelines: JJA's new mag

Worlds of Power: Mega Man 2 | Cinemassacre Productions: James Rolfe goes avant-garde.

: We are not, are, are not.

HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris (02/02/2010) - The Full Story: Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence!

Joey in Astoria: Attention Veggies - Ornella's Got What You Need!: Sounds delicious

best cocoa brownies | smitten kitchen: "Best"? Those are some big fractal-brownie-pans to fill.

alt.org - All games by player: This is, indeed, strange.

http://lwn.net/Articles/372386/: food for thought

Terror Island: I decided to read this whole comic and now it's one in the morning.

http://vimeo.com/6588461: Sumana, you might like this.

The professional masquerade - The F-Word: SO GLAD tech isn't entirely like this (or maybe I just haven't risen high enough to see it)

Paige Williams – Journalism, etc. - Finding Dolly Freed - Possum Living: Bio of nature, science, and rocketry geek Dolly Freed

http://scholarsarchive.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/11355: Answering a newbie's question within 48 hours correlates strongly with them staying around & contributing

http://mediactive.com/2010/02/02/the-future-of-journalism-education/: this is the kind of journalism that could send graduates into industry as managers & facilitators, writers of many sorts

GNOME Revamps and Renews Outreach Program for Women : roundup of some GNOME outreach to women; comments are fail

http://rickscott.posterous.com/paying-off-technical-debt-ftw: tech debt is like financial debt: pay it off at the time of your choosing or it'll come due when you can ill afford it

Official Google Blog: 2010 Super Bowl: Some search touchdowns: "Behind every team is a great coach, and behind every coach is an engaged online community." This is not technically true.

Mac & Cheese & other lovely memories: memories of wonder, mastery, calm...

Chrome support for Greasemonkey: your favorite greasemonkey script likely already runs in Chrome!

Report From Staringintospacecon 2004: Seth's advice: be frank, gossip, use clear and specific examples, tell an interesting narrative.

Your Science Fiction Award Nomination Suggestions « Whatever: note to self: remember/calculate wordcounts for TE stories so as to suggest appropriate nomination categories

39 Dollar Glasses.com Discount Prices on High Quality Eyeglasses and Sunglasses Online.: recommended by Will Kahn-Greene

John O’Duinn’s Soapbox » Unveiling Mozilla’s Faraday Cage: my t-shirt insta-drawers could be holding mobile phones for testing!

http://bakesale.posterous.com/tracy-cox: for when you're alienated, and for a good cause

KeePass Password Safe: recommended by Skud

Book View Cafe - Mom and Dad at the Home Front: recommended by Cynthia1960

Engelbart Mural: I'm not crazy about the content but it's quite beautiful.

Character Actors: Useful list of character actors. Also a visual argument for more gender & ethnic diversity in film & tv.

Chicago Getaway Hostel in Chicago - Cheap Accommodation for International Backpackers: recommended by Roger Ebert ("I hear...")

Idealware: Four ways to send a SMS (a mobile text): any other ways to send an SMS? tell 'em about your project!

Damien Katz: Thoughts on an Open Source Company: I'm especially curious about how the anti-manager bias and the allergy to performance/productivity criteria will end up working

Can I say this? — Swfblag: headdesk headdesk headdesk

KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Mayor of the North Pole: Too bad it's Adam who's obsessed with FourSquare, and not Adi. Adi would read this and immediately stop playing because it had stopped being fun.

Strange Horizons Fiction: Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions, by Saladin Ahmed: hurts good

Foy? Are you there? | Real Live Preacher: I snorted out loud at the Jung reference.

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Stories / Tourists by Sean Craven and Goni Montes: No one could have predicted that the friendly-seeming aliens were out to screw us over. (Nice aliens, though.)

http://lwn.net/Articles/374612/: nice roundup & commentary

http://bakingbites.com/2010/02/sock-it-to-me-cake-from-scratch/#more-4245: How come stuff I wouldn't normally make looks so good on this weblog?

Bag, Lunar Sample Container Decontamination, Apollo 15 - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: My new duffel bag.

http://thecookieshopinenglish.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/happy-new-year-small-batch-chocolate-cupcakes-with-white-chocolate-buttercream/: Yay small batches

Lucy's Salty Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies + Momofuku Milk Bar Cookies - The Amateur Gourmet: These cookies are always a big hit.

IEEE Spectrum: IEEE Standards Board Member to Rejoin Iggy Pop and The Stooges: Sumana says "yay", doesn't think much of his previous day job.

MediaShift Idea Lab . Don't Blame the Tools -- People Plagiarize Copy! | PBS: Oh snap! Tell 'em, Scott

JanerBlog: February 2010 Archives: on gratitude, homemade, and the unexpected

Majikthise : Of course it was terrorism: "Stack said he hoped that his spectacular act of violence would galvanize others to rebel against the government."

Bitch Ph.D.: There is no terrorism but Islamic terrorism: just for the title

Maslow's hierarchy of (community) needs | opensource.com: just now saw that "sex" is lower on the pyramid than sexual fulfillment

Reprint: Giving Thanks for the CC at Hugo Schwyzer: Community colleges for the win

Malaysian women redefine gender roles in technology | Gender News : Women are proportionately (or disproportionately) represented as programmers whenever programming is a low-status job.

Using XMLHttpRequest - MDC: sendbinary

Schneier on Security: Small Planes and Lone Terrorist Nutcases: disagreement from Schneier!

Twitter phishing scam Boing Boing: If only there were some way to work this incident into my WS-REST paper.

http://www.natebarksdale.com/2010/02/and-then-your-anthems-raise.html: Great fun

Google and Italy — Crooked Timber: on Italy, rule of law, & differing conceptions of what the law should be - read the comments

Waking Sleeping Beauty - Movie Trailers - iTunes: I so want to see this

What is Epic Fantasy? | Epiphany 2.0: makes me want to read "Twenty Epics" and make a chart

For The Community (Long) - Personal - The Atlantic: for the interaction designers in the room. Communities sneak up on you, and they care about convenience and branding

DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation Videos - G4tv.com: Glenn Beck needs to do a cover version of this video.

On 1:1s :: dria.org: as rands says, you will always learn something during your 1:1. Prep work for the win. Richardson's format mirrors that of the liaison chats from the performance appraisal system I developed

AFOL: A Blocumentary by Jess Gibson | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog: A good way to spend a run.

Getting involved with Mozilla | Dysfunctional Programming: tips on getting up to speed with a new source tree

Answers and Questions » Blog Archive » Firefox, Safe From Plugin Crashes: yay, process separation to come to Firefox

Open 311 | The White House: San Francisco, 311, API sharing, pushing far too many of my buttons

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Michael Whelan, an appreciation: "I read that book in one day. It wasn’t like anything I’d ever tried reading before. (I had never been introduced to fantasy novels.)... I remember a severe bout of disappointment upon finishing the book because I thought surely there couldn’t be anything else like it in the entire world."

Retronauts Video Game Podcast: Sumana, Episode 80 is about Bioware.

BBC News - WPP profits fall after 'brutal' 2009 : great photo + caption

Murray’s Blog » Blog Archive » Openismus Wants More Trainees: German software development firm wants to hire, mentor women & minorities, train them to develop FLOSS

http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm: via resiak -- on scurvy, how hard science is, and the forward-and-back cycle of knowledge

Strange Loopiness: The first n things to do after installing an Ubuntu command-line system, where n is large: molly-guard and !tty_tickets are the most exciting discoveries to me

http://skaredykat.livejournal.com/1083.html: note to self: use this to find that awesome Stargate "what else are you missing?" fic

mca blog [The H Factor for Media Types] : The many faces of hypermedia.

chocolate soufflé cupcakes with mint cream | smitten kitchen: OK, delicious, you're going to get a bunch of dessert recipes.

Chocolate Puddle Cookies Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: Madness.

http://bakingbites.com/2010/02/two-bite-chocolate-cream-pies/#more-4236: What's with all the things that take two bites to eat? Is it like the two Alka-Seltzer tablets making Alka-Seltzer sell better?

http://www.onceuponachef.com/2010/01/chocoholic-muffins.html: I thought this was a recipe for a man, but it only was a recipe for a muffin.

walnut jam cake | smitten kitchen: Every word in this recipe's name is delicious.

Chouquettes | Baking Bites: Amazing amazing-looking recipe!

http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=204: Don't deal with this now, but come back to it when looking for a project.

Still taking essay considerations for book on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 | cfp.english.upenn.edu: I'm not gonna make this deadline, but maybe you will?

Gotta Little Space: The Cake Slice February '10 - Mississippi Mud Cake: Damn you, cake.

Edge 314: missiology, science-based field research, and jihad

MBA Mondays : A VC: check for a refresher

http://prettyalright.com/792/unintentional-trebuchet: They're breeding.

'A Year in Pyongyang - North Korea' by Andrew Holloway: Kind of afraid to read this.

http://aqueductpress.com/newsletter/newsletter-win09.pdf: Aqueduct Press newsletter interviews women writing & editing in India

http://uncommonhuman.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/funny-blockbuster-sign.jpg: Thanks, clickolinko. (Is that a soon-to-be-bankrupt Blockbuster housed in a former movie theater?)

Web Illiteracy: How Much Is Your Fault? : Gus tells it like it is

http://intro-to-cs.dreamwidth.org/: working through intro to CS together, using MIT's open courseware

Alien Loves Predator » Resistance is Worthwhile: Yeah, pander to New Yorkers, that's the stuff. (cf. YOUR MOM LIKES IT ROUGH... FROM THIS TURNSTILE)

Alien Loves Predator » Please Swipe Again: Here's the other one, so you don't think I'm crazy. (Or, so you do.)

Southern California Review: in case I want a paper copy of the excellent "Shit Went Down" by a pal

Good Suppliers - And The Other Guys. In the Pipeline: : talking trash & recommending the reliable -- in chemical supply houses

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/12/the_history_of_the_honey_trap: poor Mata Hari! (her last name had always made me think she was Indian)

Artistic New Directions - Calendar: "Boxers," starring a guy I met on the subway last night, is on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th, & 28th of March 2010

Vegetarian (and Vegan) Delights of NYC: Mock Duck at Sumran Thai in Astoria, Queens - New York Restaurants and Dining - Fork in the Road: Kind of a walk, but probably worth it

Space Audio: I have determined this to be awesome.

Retro Core - Classic video gaming TV !: Not as fun as Chrontendo, but a much heavier focus on obscure games you might want to play.

British Fantasy Awards 2010: the Longlist: We're on the longlist for Thoughtcrime Experiments! resiak, is that you?

Ten Influential Books — Crooked Timber: oh dear, another very expensive Crooked Timber book thread

Politics, free trade, violence - Charlie's Diary: why capital and labor flows -> stupid harsh iron borders. Alt version http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012260.html#408196

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Bennett_Field: I am posting three campgrounds in descending order of accessibility

Malouf's Mountain Sunset Campgrounds Rates and Reservations : Or you can get off the train at Breakneck Ridge

Laughing Coyote Lodge at Groundhog Lake - Dolores, Southwest Colorado Mountain Vacation Resort Lodging: Aaand...

Civil Service — Crooked Timber: a reminder of the awesome Bunnatine Greenhouse

TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect: via Real Adult Sex. Personal excellence talks louder than bigotry, given a big juicy opportunity.

"Make True on that Promise" | The White House: Lincoln, then Obama playing with the word "bound" something fierce

Connected Histories project plan: "All code and technical developments generated by the project will be available as an Open Source, and governed by a Creative Commons Licence." Also, source control referred to in one place as CVS and in another as Subversion

Anacrusis › Pearl: "Mallory" fan fiction?

: "He saw that the popular doctrines of occultism are as dry and inflexible as those of science, yet without even the slender palliative of truth to redeem them." -- Lovecraft, "The Silver Key"

HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION | 31 WOMEN IN ART PHOTOGRAPHY PRESS RELEASE : I should try this out

Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, The, by H. P. Lovecraft: This is unquestionably the best written, most inventive, least formulaic Lovecraft I've ever read.

Emoticons and Smileys on PLATO in the 1970s: Truly, it was an age of wonders

Help us petition @SenChrisDodd to amend his proposal devastating startups and angel investors: missing the crucial info, *what is the bill and what is it aiming to do?!*

High-tech copy machines a gold mine for data thieves - thestar.com : oh jeez. via schneier

Electric_Sheep Reloaded — Kickstarter: 'twould be awesome if this worked out

Download « Planet M.U.L.E.: Before Croooow there was Muuuuule.

http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/art/artview/rogue-urinals: Interesting, but citation friggin needed.

Triple Threat Dark Chocolate Cookies | Baking Bites: Officer, I'm being threatened by a cookie.

stevethomas: New Products: Zazzle.com Store: The pulp SF version

8 Wonders of the Solar System, Made Interactive: Scientific American: The scientifically accurate version

Astonishing video: Most gigantic model railroad in the world | DVICE: "Eternally snow-covered Sweden"

http://vimeo.com/9679622: The fox knows many things, but tilt-shift photography knows one big thing. (And it's a doozy)

BOARD JAMES: Deadly Danger Dungeon | Cinemassacre Productions: Even if you hate the AVGN, the first half of this video is great.

Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Star Trek 1212: Four Funerals and a Wedding: "Best Ferengi swear ever." Agreed.

: One of the best lines from Lucretius: "The treatment that had allowed one to draw the breath of life into his throat and remain a spectator of the starry vault..."

Palimpsest - Charlie's Diary: I'm a little concerned that this provides invalidating prior art for one of my story ideas, but only one way to find out

http://soundcloud.com/gvsunme/zinc-1: Zoe Keating's great "In C" from that one Radiolab

A Random Assortment of Thoughts - All of the Continents Used to Be One Body: great poem

hazelnut chocolate thumbprint cookies | smitten kitchen: Flour is for squares! Take a non-square tip, Graham--use hazelnut... flour.

Jimbo Matison: several Uncle Morty's Dub Shack clips

garran: March novel-reading: I need to think about what it is to be Hugo-esque, plus a welcome reminder of Walton's note on magical realism vs fantasy

garran: March novel-reading: I need to think about what it is to be Hugo-esque, plus a welcome reminder of Walton's note on magical realism vs fantasy

Ventilations Or Revelations?: Munmun De Choudhury, Indian-American woman doing interesting CS research on homophily

Yahoo! Labs Research Presentations, February 2010: a Columbia Women in CS trip to Yahoo! Labs NYC; female researcher Sihem Amer-Yahia presented

Radish - Indoor Solar-powered Calendar Display - Google Calendar APIs and Tools - Google Code: cool

BBC News - Twitter used to predict box office hits: Aha! search queries do as well as existing methods, but add semantics and you get more predictive power

Indie Author: Lulu vs. CreateSpace: Which Is More Economical For The DIY Author?: thoughts on lulu vs createspace as pod options

epub-tools - Project Hosting on Google Code: epub-tools is a project aimed at software developers who need reusable toolkits to produce ePub files from various formats. This project includes Python libraries that convert from the DocBook and TEI XML formats and epubjs, a lightweight pure Javascript ePub reader

ffmpeg audio/video manipulation: Useful.

http://bakingbites.com/2010/04/hazelnut-chocolate-chip-cookies/: Man, adding hazelnuts to chocolate chip cookies?!

Pesto Pea Soup Recipe at Epicurious.com: Soup + fresh peas + pesto, got it.

http://collegerelations.vassar.edu/2007/2497/: CS pioneer Winifred Asprey wrote in 1967: "Familiarity with a computer will be as commonplace a demand as familiarity with a foreign language presently is."

http://innovators.vassar.edu/innovator.html?id=67: Dr Asprey - student, then friend of Grace Hopper. Turned Vassar into "one of the first liberal arts colleges in the U.S. to establish a computer center and to offer courses in computer science... and the second college in the country to acquire an IBM System/360"

Stop talking, start coding: canned food drive metaphor - ouch!

A rant about humans: "Maybe we can figure out how to make the workplace work for lots of different types of people...."

http://terriko.dreamwidth.org/28709.html: "The best women's groups aren't about separation and segregation: they're about providing an incubator for people who need a leg up to be part of the wider community."

wrkng » The Board : easy-peasy "who's doing what" magnet-style board

http://www.metaefficient.com/leds/breakthough-25-led-light-bulbs.html: If I'd told teenage me about the future teenage me would have said "LIGHT BULBS THAT ARE LEDS?!?!"

Danielle & David's wedding: star-studded!

http://playthisthing.com/randomness-blight-or-bane: for Leonard

Quahogcon-Day1 189 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Mary & me at QuahogCon

Quahogcon-Day1 175 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: My Hacker Jeopardy! team from QuahogCon, night 1: Mary (lastname unknown), me, Noah Bedford

shopfair: 99 sweatshop-free fashion brands: Fair trade eyeglasses (for "fair trade" == "made in the first world")

How to Manage Your Boss When Working Remotely : This is a good 101; a 201 of "how to deal with an uncommunicative remote boss" would be fantastic

4 Danger Signs To Search For, Before Sending Off Your Novel - Writing - io9: All the signs (except the author, who's cool) point to a cheap Digg-bait article, but in fact it's insightful and useful.

Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cake | Baking Bites: More awesome cakes

the original sushi pillow home: The original, huh? (Note: Nigiri pillows "are not intended to be separated.")

http://www.kevinfanning.com/store/lets-all-find-awesome-jobs/: If it has "awesome" in the title, I'm already 50% sold.

Adam Parrish · Social network APIs: A revised lexical analysis: Adam Parrish is the linguistics arm of my RESTful propaganda operation.

http://www.sfwa.org/registration-for-nyc-simulcast-of-nebula-reception/: Leonard, you interested? Nora'll be there

Using Laser to Map Ancient Civilization in a Matter of Days - NYTimes.com: Lasers: is there anything they can't do?

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. - ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THESTRUGGLE FOR LIFE. By CHARLESS DARWIN,M.A., etc. London, JOHN MURRY - Reprint, D.APPLETON and Co. - 1860. - Article - NYTimes.com: I need to read this again--the reviewer vacillates between "this is revolutionary" and "this is a clever idea that can't possibly work"

Portable home recording with Ubuntu on a netbook | ouistiti: Useful if you have the hardware

No-Knead Pull-Apart Dinner Rolls | Baking Bites: Oh yeah! I totally forgot about rolls!

Tasting Tour: Eating on the Go in NYC | Serious Eats: Good advice for tourists

Blue Ocean Institute | FishPhone: Sumana, you have a call on the FishPhone

Your hands tell your story: on hands

Natural Latex Mattresses | MetaEfficient Reviews: I'd love to be able to justify spending THREE GRAND on a mattress.

raffertyesque: Pat Rafferty's one of the most underrated humor writers in NYC.

There are 12 people who…: Watch out for the 12 people who love everything you do without justice or reason.

Graduation gifts | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog: Cute.

Design By Committee Always Works | Ask MetaFilter: that road is not a trail!

coraa: Wiscon Panel Notes: Must Pleasures Be Guilty?: "By the end I was intermittently laughing too hard to take good notes."

Capcom US - Buy Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Tote Bag: For Sumana

S’mores Bread Pudding « Baking Bites: Proof that any two desserts can be combined as long as one of them is bread pudding.

Lamb Meatballs with Lemon-Cumin Yogurt Recipe - CHOW: This was pretty good on pita

Orangette: You deserve a waffle: When waffles compete, you win.

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Stories / The Office of Shadow by Matthew Sturges: Like "Declare" only good?!

The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits - Open Source Bridge attendee wiki 2010: one thing to add: themes of "you should be doing this anyway"

What do jokes and bugs have in common? « Valerie Aurora: jokes, debugging, assumptions, constraints

If You Build This, Magazines Will Come | K. Tempest Bradford: manybooks.net should hook up with this

Salted Caramel Chocolate Cupcakes Proof That Opposites do Attract | Grin and Bake It!: Why are two well-known compatible tastes (or a taste + a generic flavor enhancer?) "opposites"? Only these delicious-sounding cupcakes know.

root beer float cupcakes | smitten kitchen: More cupcake madness.

Bulk Herbs, spices and botanicals from Mountain Rose: For herbs too obscure for Penzey's.

deviantART Shop: Le Totoro Noir: Why does a damn error keep occuring when I add to cart?

Lustlab: Control Tower: Dirty Talk: NSFW. rel: a friend's "VERB my NOUN" pattern; also see http://www.crummy.com/graphics/screenshots/newsbruiser/trackback-spam.png

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cbi00021.html: I bet there's some stuff from my dad in here.

Full List of Talks | HOPE: Totally going.

Yatima » Blog Archive » a chimpanzee manifesto: You knew I'd bookmark this. Status play, compromise, imagining the possible, the endless joyous struggle.

chocolate doughnut holes | smitten kitchen: FRY

Relativity on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Very clever.

Dr. Rivka - Life and Death Situations: "My job, when I meet a suicidal person, is uncomplicated. It is my job to stand with the part of the person that wants to live.....Why is it that there is literally no disaster, no tragedy, no collection of problems so severe that our society argues that a person ought to be allowed to die rather than suffer them – EXCEPT for physical degeneration?"

http://alyse.org/home/2010/03/30/passover/: asking Jews & non-Jews what about the seder speaks to them

Open source is NASA's next frontier -- Federal Computer Week: open source at NASA -- takes organizational, structural, cultural change -- no surprise

Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online | Open Culture: So...laris!

"Clever Title: City Name + Time Frame" = nonfiction delight | Ask MetaFilter: for Leonard

INTERKOSMOS | a film by Jim Finn: Leonard, did you already know about this?

Marian Call Music - MarianCall.com: For Sumana!

Dark and Milk Chocolate Brownies « Baking Bites: A delicious brownie recipe... and Leonard deliciouses it.

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Oscar_Brand:Presidential_Campaign_Songs_1789%E2%80%931996_%281999%29: includes lyrics to "Get on a Raft with Taft," "Huzzah for Madison, Huzzah," "If He's Good Enough for Lindy," "Harding, You're the Man for Us," "Buckle Down With Nixon"; my heart sings to see this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_star: Tragically, filming one of these will cause it to go nova.

http://www.flyingghoti.net/blogs/personal/comment.php?comment=56849&disp=full: an aphorism/insight/inspiration that's helped me a lot

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/geeks-at-work.html: For S

On fathers and daughters and illusions and strength: "... It is full of wonders, even though they are illusory, sometimes because of that...." one of many awesome sentences from this thoughtful essay

Elaine May (I): Sounds like a really interesting person

Doc⚡split: Kaboom!

The World of Ticketing Options | Idealware: a case study in why Idealware is an essential resource

Debian -- Details of package moreutils in sid: I think every Unix utility should have its own individual package.

reseda: Fake News: Five Other Correspondents Jon (Thought He) Seduced : You haven't read enough Daily Show slash recently, have you?

Totally Awesome Space Colonies - Boing Boing: The first one especially.

Hardcore Gaming 101 - Blog: Obscure Video Game Controversies - Hard Hat Mack: FWIW, I could never beat the second level either. It's possible to get all the lunchboxes but the level doesn't end after that! You're supposed to do something else, I have no idea what.

Andrew Jackson's America - National - The Atlantic: "They claim to fear the immigrant clinging to his language. No. What they fear is the immigrant learning theirs."

http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_07.html#000831: " In the real world, the labor that the bored sysadmin contributes to Apache is surplus created by the hyperefficient operations of state-mediated market capitalism..."

Going Hollywood. In the Pipeline: : On where the pharma/Hollywood analogy works or breaks down. I really like this + the linked article about the uniqueness of medicine as an industry.

Kung Fu Monkey: LEVERAGE #311 "The Rashomon Job" Question Post: in which I get weirdly intellectually schmoopy about "Leverage"'s "The Rashomon Job"

The 101 Best Sandwiches in New York -- Grub Street New York: Apparently I'm never going to get through this list, since they decided to do one friggin sandwich per page

Baked Alaska « Baking Bites: Hey, that's pretty easy

robotfindskitten - The identi.ca experience: [trumpet fanfare]

kaigou | the currency of little stories (pt 2): to read when I'm awake

marnanel | Song against Twitter: lovely

http://www.smallpeculiar.com/?p=805: Ha!

chainsawsuit by kris straub - buy tabasco products: Kris and I came up with this joke in the 90s... but there was no outlet for it then.

Scott versus Hayek — Crooked Timber: price is a lossy indicator, we knew that, but what about standardization as lossy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_11_crew_in_quarantine.jpg: "You S.O.B.s just made my list!"

JetPens - Japanese Pens and Stationery: Cool things I'll prob. never buy

Japanese cityscapes with monster-sized wildlife ::: Pink Tentacle: Now, it's awesometime.

Suvudu Library: “The Literomancer” by Ken Liu « Del Rey and Spectra - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Graphic Novels, and More: Ken Liu sighting

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2010/09/18/color-attack/: Rawr!

http://www.confinednomad.com/?p=1062: NYC poutine?!

http://mommysavers.com/boards/kitchen-chatter/165272-homemade-fruit-roll-ups-100-fruit.html#post1252073: Susanna gunning after Alton Brown's job

Olive Biscuit Cookies Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: Through madness lies genius. (Or, perhaps, genious.)

Time Tree :: The Timescale of Life : Looks almost exactly like a crackpot site, but that crazy-looking diagram is accurate.

ESA - Human Spaceflight and Exploration - Business - Weightless washcloths and floating showers - images: Cute crocodiles in space (Thanks, Kirk)

everyday chocolate cake | smitten kitchen: I don't recommend eating this every day.

poesy galore: Being Visibly Queer-Friendly: Please Consider It: Thinking about how to embody this. Not as necessary in NYC, but in India maybe? A button would be a start

Fragments of Evolving Manhood: The Violence In Me 1 | Alas, a blog: heartwarming depiction of a loving relationship in the end-middle

Wii.com - Iwata Asks: Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary: Is there something wrong with the translation? Two really smart guys talking in almost nothing but platitudes.

seanan_mcguire: Bitterness, bullying, and breaking the circle.: maybe someday we can have a farewell to the hellmouth

Bitch Ph.D.: goodbye. *sniff* But deciding to end is better than never closing the parenthesis

staranise: Automated bingo cards, get 'em while they're hot : sweet! 'I wrote that program with a little under a month of first-year University-level computing science under my belt. I was in that class at all because fandom, Dreamwidth and the AO3, said, "Coding isn't scary. Anyone can learn it." That's something I've tried to carry forward with this code.'

Zenni Optical : Cheap glasses, as recommended by Ask MeFi

Warby Parker: Boutique Quality, Vintage Inspired Eyewear for $95: Fancy eyeglasses, as recommended by Ask MeFi

http://www.foodbeam.com/2010/09/27/encore-un-tout-petit-peu-et-ce-sera-un-autre-jour-tarte-meringuee-et-gateau-de-voyage-au-citron/: Lemon meringue tart

mushroom lasagna | smitten kitchen: I love tomato-sauce lasagna, but I also love mushrooms...

How to explore and automate Twitter's OAuth implementation - O'Reilly Answers: Oh, geez

Raw Tuscan Kale Salad Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: Conceivably a way for me to enjoy kale.

Blackwater Station : Platform: A world of possible insanity.

http://kieran.healy.usesthis.com/: many choice quotes, incl "I resent the way its preferred means of solving your problems is first to have you surrender to it completely."

Krystal Ball's New Statement About The Scandalous Photos Released Online | The Frisky: and she designs educational software!

Critical-Gaming Network - Blog - Iwata Asks: Megafied: Confirming my growing belief that "Iwata Asks" deserves round-the-clock parody

http://www.wright20.com/auctions/view/KF2W/KF2Z/207/LA/none/K14N/3: First the Z-scale train set in a briefcase, and now this!

A mobile interface to the Registry of Standard Biological Parts at Your bones got a little machine: A cool BS project.

The Early Days of a Better Nation: This stayed in my browser tabs for four months, but once I watched it it was very nice.

http://hradzka.dreamwidth.org/412402.html: I noticed exactly this problem with CG--at least half the characters are female (for some value of "female") but because the narrator is male I had to gender-change bit roles to pass Bechdel.

deborah: authorial intent: "yay equality" in the book, "except for you" online

pandagon.net: on hipsters, Tea Partiers, and the danger of pronouncing others inauthentic

Manufacturers, Suppliers, Exporters & Importers from the world's largest online B2B marketplace-Alibaba.com: They may not have both bears *and* dolls, but what can you do

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/661527: Trying this workaround and deliciousing the bug in case it backfires

Anti-Bullying Starts in First Grade - Portrait of an Adoption: women who like Star Wars and boys who are fine with girls liking Star Wars

http://www.slideshare.net/mchua/eotf2010-5836179#commentsList: great explanation of complementary strengths of FLOSS & academe

vito_excalibur | thinking out loud: "I play best in stolen amounts of time from required interactions, in imitation and opposition."

TURKEY TRAINING CAMP / It's a turkey! / After two laborious weeks, our trainee produces a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner: gynecologist learns to make, carve Thanksgiving turkey

Bible verses from The Life of the World to Come « Against Acedia: THANK YOU

YouTube - Dan Telfer: "The Best Dinosaur" 5-4-10 at Chicago Underground Comedy : wins me in the very first sentence/frame

YouTube - As Seen on TV - a tribute to doing it wrong : via http://metatalk.metafilter.com/20061/How-many-times-has-this-happened-to-you

Young Entrepreneurs Create Their Own Jobs - NYTimes.com: disorienting & freeing to think "you will probably fail your first time"

Forget What Did: Hold the snide.: and now, a message from Robert Louis Stevenson

The Flag of Earth - Order: Nine bucks for a small.

Ad Hoc Chocolate Chip Cookies « Baking Bites: The first chocolate chip cookie recipe I've seen where you _chill_ the butter.

GRIN: They've got whole categories with no images, though.

: Test

: test

The History of Phone Phreaking Blog: Bell System Technical Journal Finally On-Line: How the phone system used to work (I guess I just can't link to the PDF)

garlic butter roasted mushrooms | smitten kitchen: Time to save some recipes

Winter Pasta Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: Kale pasta

Ad Hoc Chocolate Chip Cookies « Baking Bites: May have already posted these

Cinnamon Spiced Candied Walnuts « Baking Bites: More food!

Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes - 101 Cookbooks: Meta-food!

spicy squash salad with lentils and goat cheese | smitten kitchen: Goat cheese food!

Ten in Ten 01: Universal Redirect Locomotive : I worked on a RESTful Turing machine, but never completed it.

Joseph Leonard | West Village, NYC: West Village

- Geek Chic - Custom, Handcrafted Furniture & Accessories for the Geek Lifestyle: Things not expensive enough? We've got you covered.

Walnut Cheddar Pesto « Baking Bites: More a dip than a pesto.

SansaAMS < Main < Wiki: Rockbox for the Sansa Clip

Zucchini with Almonds - The Amateur Gourmet: ways to get rid of zucchini

Keeping the Game Alive: Evaluating Strategies for the Preservation of Console Video Games | Guttenbrunner | International Journal of Digital Curation: I'm probably not going to read this, and it's my loss.

JetPens - Japanese Pens and Stationery: PENS PENS PENS

buckeyes | smitten kitchen: I got my chocolate in my peanut butter!

Diamonds for Dessert: Chewy Brownies: These are great.

Thomas Keller’s Fried Chicken Recipe | Average Betty: This doesn't seem *that* difficult.

Cooks Illustrated Molasses Cookies [Archive] - CookingLight.com Community: Cached, delivious

Penny Arcade - The Usurper: "my job is to be noticed"

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