Monday, March 16th, 2009
The lovely @history_geek (whom I follow on one of my two Twitter accounts) tweeted about a site I must keep on my radar, though I don’t have the time right now to do anything about it: The Bookies Group is a blogspot [urgh] blog for discussing titles of interest.
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Around last weekend, I changed my life. I’d folders of saved crap on my desktop, about 2500 links in my bookmarks keeper, an OmniFocus that meant nothing, and bits and pieces of projects and ideas and germinations scattered here to Sunday. I’ll write about what happened later, but in the meantime, here’s one of the few remaining tasks. In random order*. Enjoy.
30 unforgettable opening movie title sequences (videos)
A reference to Fairytale Of New York in Andy Ihnatko’s blog. That’s a fave song. Especially poignant as Kirsty died a few years later (while Shane is still trooping along; go figure)
A site about the art of foley. Y’know, making noise in movies.
Bartleby.com looks to be a huge reference for book lovers, readers. I can actually search for a section of text in a lot of classic books.
A video bicycle tutorial site. Bike repair. Cool.
Learn a lot of obscure stuff about your birthday. What happened on date, various esoteric bits of info.
The ever popular BMI site has a BMR calculator (basal metabolic rate).
Four links about braceros.
The bubble calendar. You love to pop them. Do it every day.
Louis Wain was an 19C. artist who drew/painted cats. He developed schizophrenia and his art changed. (video)
If you want to buy your cat entertaining DVDs, here’s the place.
Change.org – ideas for change in America
If you always forget what Chinese New Year it’s going to be, check here.
One of the best cartoons I’ve seen in a while on my profession. (How to kill a web designer in 6 steps)
This post on shower power was tweeted and I replied that I’d long (2004, 2006) had an idea for a whiteboard in the shower. Someone already patented it.
The scientific angle on exercise and health. Note to self: remember this.
A lot of cool hemp products. Hemp is a terrifically sturdy fabric/thread and it’s ignorance and bias that keeps American farmers from a useful crop.
Why Google is the best way to download MP3s. (video)
Self-chosen top “most Canadian” songs.
Because I can’t put this on my business site: 20 signs you don’t want that web design project (real examples) from Zeldman
A recent sideways turn in an iChat brought me a-cappella.com and the Kings Singers with lots of madrigals I used to sing.
WSJ (!) editorial by Ethan A Nadelmann: Let’s end drug prohibition. Too commonsensical for the ideologues.
A fantastic compendium of millions of historic photos from 1860s forward through the decades, from Life magazine, hosted by Google
A list of unusual words beginning with B. I’d been looking for a good alliterative mate.
A most unusual artist, Ashleigh Talbot: Madame Talbot’s Gothic Lowbrow
Movie-O examines the historic truth of “based upon” movies
Mukhtar Mai is a brave and admirable Pakistani woman. Read this to get some perspective. I wish I had the dough to send her school tons of my books.
Don’t look now. Non responsive tuberculosis could be sitting nearby.
A few very interesting thoughts on what’s “fair”.(context: the bailouts) Note to Detroit: You’re history.
Paul Krugman’s depression economics – how it works (Salon)
Because I always want to know where to find that photo of soldiers returning from World War I to Prohibition, bearing the sign “We want beer”
Retro-food.com could be the source of a lot of great recipes
The Right to Quiet Society.
The way to save (native) squirrels in England may be to consume the invaders.
The way to mulitply numbers in your head. Pretty cool. (video)
Spirals. More spirals. If it’s spiral and it’s not here, it’s not really spiral. Gallery of photos.
Learn Lord of the Rings elven languages.
An interesting idea that didn’t work out. Sort of a lottery. The Eleven Dollar House.
Change is come today. The country’s new robots.txt file
Steampunk Workshop. I just find this stuff fascinating.
Love it. Hate it. Pick it apart. Feel renewed by it. Barack Obama’s inauguration speech.
WSJ on Walmart and the shopping death. I have my opinion.
The Beguiling is Canada’s finest purveyor of comics, graphic novels, etc.
What do women want (sexually). It’s not simple.
(*They’re actually in alpha order by web page title, but that’s pretty meaningless in this context.)
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
I finished reading this book just this morning. It’s less lengthy than the other books of his I have (and have not yet read: The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Botany of Desire). I do look forward to those other books, but I was invigorated by In Defense of Food as it takes an informed activist approach to looking at how and why we eat the way we do, and what “forces” are interested in maintaining that zeitgeist.
The option Pollan counters with is so simple, so logical, so easy (once one gets past some newly acquired habits) that it begs to be adopted. What a relief to drop the mania to look for the newest nutritional study for guidance, the need to be a chemist to figure out what to look for in food labeling.
This fits so well, so hand-in-glove, with some other threads in my life, towards simplicity in structure, toward logic and pragmatism, toward acting upon ideals, toward health, toward gardening expansion. This is a book of substance, but a pretty easy and fast read. Recommended.
Monday, October 20th, 2008
I was so sick of the default Kubrick style, so I’m half way across the stream: Header and background in. Structure in. The rest is pending.
I’m really being affected by the shorter days. Here it is, nearly 8 a.m., and it’s pre-dawn: sun lighting the horizon a bit pink, people have their lights on.
My hurt ankle (which is doing much better, thanks, though still swollen — or “schwollen”, as one of my wonderful acupucturists says) really kiboshed the good progress I was doing on getting in better shape. Blobbing will do that. I was working in the garden yesterday and got winded after a short while.
Reading In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Much work to do. My whiteboard needs this week’s focii placed beneath the day of week headers.
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