Pinboard: bookmarks for epersonae

I like the naming, and it seems useful to limit to three things so as not to be overwhelming. (I think the group I used to go to at Orca had a "one thing that worked, one thing that could be better" rule.)

writing
22 days ago

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Industrial Steel Folding Security Gates | Scissor Gate | Accordion Gate
fence home
22 days ago

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Driveway gates

crazy/gorgeous handmade gates a ways down in the thread.

fence home
22 days ago

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Science-Based Medicine » Lessons Learned

A nice rule of thumb here.

science medicine
22 days ago

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History of Currency | Athenian owls use heads and tails | Event view

lovely owl image.

owl tattoo personal
5 weeks ago

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From Our Corner » Blog Archive » New congressional boundaries unveiled

I'm going to be changing districts; no more being lumped w/rural SW WA: now it's most of Thurston County, Shelton, and suburban/exurban Pierce County. Should be interesting.

politics local
5 weeks ago

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A Literary History of Word Processing - NYTimes.com

“The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that would have littered Gutenberg’s print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine,” Mr. Kirschenbaum said, before asking a question he hopes he can answer: “Who were the early adopters, the first mainstream authors to trade in their typewriters for WordStar and WordPerfect?”

writing history misctech
5 weeks ago

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Information Diet | A Primer: How Money Influences Congress

Understanding the process.

politics finance
5 weeks ago

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DIY Toe Socks for Vibram FiveFingers

Stitch between big toe & second toe, cut off the tip of the sock. Might sacrifice a couple of pairs of not-that-great trouser socks.

5fingers clothes exercise
5 weeks ago

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Chanukah Recipe: Light Sweet Sephardic Fritters – Sfenj » Israeli Kitchen

Hanukkah donuts!

sweet breakfast recipes
6 weeks ago

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A Day in the country : impressionism and the Fr...

book from the 1984 LA County Art museum. Yay archive.org!

arts personal
6 weeks ago

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Adventure Cycling Association: Flat's Where It's At: My 10 Favorite Rail-Trails
bicycling
6 weeks ago

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As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter, the Wrong Friends Might Just Sink Your Credit | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.

“We make friends with people we barely know!” And yet, that info could be used for virtual redlining? WTF?

socialmedia finance creditunion facebook
6 weeks ago

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GeekMom » Blog Archive » Does It Feel Like Lego Bricks Just Keep Getting More Expensive?

Inflation-adjusted price per brick...mid70s & mid80s were peak price for Lego.

lego history finance
6 weeks ago

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Pretty Picante: Carne Asada

looks easy, actually.

mexican recipes meat
7 weeks ago

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Goodbye Delicious, hello Pinboard: why we'll pay for internet plumbing | Technology | guardian.co.uk

"Guardian Technology is switching its bookmarking system over from the ex-Yahoo Delicious service (now owned by the YouTube founders) to Pinboard, a paid-for service." (of course, I'm saving this on Pinboard.)

webdev business
7 weeks ago

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A Brief History of Palm Trees in Southern California | LA as Subject | SoCal Focus | KCET

lots of great photos.

history californication
7 weeks ago

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Macro Cell Lens Band

WANT.

photography android gifts
7 weeks ago

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My Needles are Never Naked: Elementary, Dr. Watson

scarf pattern from new Sherlock Holmes movie?

knitting
7 weeks ago

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Scrapscallion - deconstructed Barbie jewelry

I want the shoe bracelet. I kept a pair like that (in pink) long after I'd gotten rid of all my Barbies. It was one of my early fidget-objects.

weird arts personal
7 weeks ago

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Area Students Win National Merit Grants - Los Angeles Times

random thing found online while looking for something else... (My national merit scholarship!)

personal academia
7 weeks ago

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Sesame Street: Keep Christmas With You - YouTube

Makes me weepy and happy at the same time.

holiday music personal
7 weeks ago

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Google Kills Tricorder Android App After CBS Sends A DMCA Takedown? | Techdirt

I like this app, though I don't use it often.

android
7 weeks ago

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vanilla cupcakes
recipes dessert sweet baking fave-foods
7 weeks ago

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Eco-friendly Starbucks cafe made out of shipping containers | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

"Earlier this week, a construction crew on East Marginal Way in Tukwila was assembling what look like several cargo-style containers stacked on top of each other. The containers are painted shades of brown and feature a drive-thru window on one side."

eco local
8 weeks ago

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The diagnosis - Boing Boing

"Nothing bad can happen in a new place if you're cracking jokes and 50,000 people are watching."

medicine socialmedia
8 weeks ago

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How to make your own Dungeons & Dragons chocolate dice mold | Offbeat Bride

crazy! (or, sounds you can order chocolate dice from her, too.)

chocolate gaming weird
8 weeks ago

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Wikimedia blog » QR Codes + Wikipedia

Fun!

arts webdev mobileweb
8 weeks ago

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A Reluctant Enemy - NYTimes.com

“What a strange position I find myself in,” he wrote a friend, “having been assigned the mission diametrically opposed to my own personal opinion, with no choice but to push full speed in pursuance of that mission. Alas, is that fate?”

history war
8 weeks ago

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Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)

"free web services are not like free software"

webdev business
8 weeks ago

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Frameless

"Frameless is the spiritual successor to Less Framework. It’s a much simpler idea, more flexible, and hopefully easier to integrate into your design workflow." I've used (and liked) Less Framework before, so this could be cool.

css grid
8 weeks ago

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ThinkGeek :: Blue Canary in the Outlet by the Light Switch

WANT.

gifts weird home
9 weeks ago

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S A S Knits It Again: FREE PATTERN: Space Invader
knitting
9 weeks ago

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Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer - Bloomberg

"I can’t buy enough of anything to make up for the fact that millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans can’t buy any new clothes or enjoy any meals out."

politics finance
9 weeks ago

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Grumperina goes to local yarn shops and Home Depot

how to make cables without a cable needle. makes my brain hurt right now, but might be useful someday.

knitting
9 weeks ago

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Boing Boing Gift Guide 2011 - Boing Boing

a zillion things, not just gadgets/software, but books, games, weird stuff.

gifts
9 weeks ago

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The Doctor Who Scarf

showing different stripe patterns from different seasons. wacky!

knitting weird
9 weeks ago

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The League of Education Voters Budget Calculator

try it yourself: agonize over how much to screw over kids, poor people, disabled, state employees...or INCOME TAX. (plus reduction in property tax, elimination of B&O!)

politics local
9 weeks ago

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An Open Letter to Those Worried About a Secular War on Christmas — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

"Look, in the future, here’s a good tip for stuff like this: If you are worried that we secularists are trying to destroy your way of life, come ask us."

religion politics funny
9 weeks ago

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Chai-Cherry Walnuts Recipe | MyRecipes.com
recipes breakfast fave-foods
9 weeks ago

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WA State Salaries - The News Tribune

Public data! (Boggled to discover that my successor at Pierce is making less than I made 5 years ago. WTF?)

politics academia
9 weeks ago

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Data Furnaces Could Bring Heat to Homes - NYTimes.com

"In the coldest climate, about 110 motherboards could keep a home as toasty as a conventional furnace does."

misctech eco home science
9 weeks ago

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Pumpkin Soup - Pure Hunger
recipes soup veggies
9 weeks ago

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Home “Canned” Cranberry Sauce Made in a Tin Can Mold | Food in Jars
jam holiday recipes fruit
9 weeks ago

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Pear Cinnamon Jam | Food in Jars
jam recipes fruit
9 weeks ago

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Adactio: Journal—Pattern primer

Fascinating. I'd like to play with this.

css webdev
10 weeks ago

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Costco's Tiny House

A step up from the usual yard shed?

adu home
10 weeks ago

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Less Human Than Human: The Design Philosophy of Apple | The Awl

"For someone who thought that taste was connected to originality, one can't help noting that Jobs's taste was derivative in the extreme" Excellent essay on Jobs, some of the midcentury industrial designers, and William Morris.

arts misctech design
10 weeks ago

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Robot Ipsum | Mechanized filler text for your site or project

even more ipsum, this time with a robot theme.

webdev
10 weeks ago

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Space Ipsum

generates space-exploration-related text

webdev
10 weeks ago

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This Is How You Should Cook Your Turkey Next Thursday (Or You Could Waste Hours of Your Life)

not actually planning on making turkey this week, but possibly at Xmas.

recipes food meat turkey holiday
10 weeks ago

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Beer Battered Tofu Recipe - Food.com - 166238
recipes
10 weeks ago

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Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike - Alexis Madrigal - National - The Atlantic

"Let's not pretend that Pike is an independent bad actor." militarization of the police. (I'd go back even a step further and look at Darrell Gates & LAPD, early 90s.)

occupy
10 weeks ago

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xkcd: Money

"A chart of (almost) all of it, where it is, and what it can do" - astounding, overwhelming, fascinating.

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Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. - Anil Dash

"Facebook promotes captive content on its network ahead of content on the web, prohibits users from bringing open content into their network, warns users not to visit web content, and places obstacles in front of visits to web sites"

webdev facebook socialmedia
10 weeks ago

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Confessions of a Community College Dean: An Open Letter to Chancellor Katehi of the University of California, Davis

"I’m not writing you to educate you about free speech or police brutality. I assume you’re smart enough to understand both, and to see clearly that the University was badly on the wrong side here. I’m writing as a fellow higher ed administrator."

academia occupy
10 weeks ago

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About Pepper Spray | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

"As the chart makes clear, commercial grade pepper spray leaves even the most painful of natural peppers (the Himalayan ghost pepper) far behind."

science medicine occupy
10 weeks ago

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Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street | The Nation

"most of what police are called upon to do, day in and day out, requires patience, diplomacy and interpersonal skills." not this paramilitary BS. Honestly, I don't want to be all "F*** Tha Police"; I'd rather have guys like the one who gave me a ride home after C's bike crash.

occupy politics seattle
10 weeks ago

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Single serving sandwich bread. Really. No, seriously.

Sweet!

bread baking recipes
11 weeks ago

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