Month: January 2010
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Gay couple adopts 23-year-old. That made me a little teary. Good on them!
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Crispy Black Bean Tacos with Feta and Cabbage SlawI was in the mood for feta tonight, so I hit up epicurious on my way home to look for a recipe. I found these interesting-sounding tacos. Harris Farms has canned black beans, so I decided to go for it. They were very quick and easy. I…
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Suicide Food – animals that desire to be eaten. It’s a blog about disturbing food imagery where animals serve up themselves (or other animals). Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode with the discussion about the movie concession ad: JERRY: I just don’t understand the raisinettes.ELAINE: The sax player?JERRY: Yeah.ELAINE: Yeah.JERRY: The box of raisinettes runs…
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Heart Rate TrainingWhen I got my heart rate monitor last month, the first thing I wanted to know was what level I should be training at. I used a number of online formulas to work out my Maximum Heart Rate, which turned out to be 185bpm. I knew I was supposed to be working at…
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New form controls in HTML5. I’m surprised by how many of them are really only useful on the iPhone. (At least right now, anyway.)
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Happy blog-birthday to me!As of today, web-goddess is now officially nine-years-old. We’re comin’ up on a decade, here! I definitely feel like my blogging took a backseat to other media in 2009. I started using Twitter and Facebook more heavily, and I do a lot of my “wacky link” sharing on Google Reader now. Still,…
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I know it’s from a blog about “manliness,” but this post about discipline is something everybody should read.
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Jamie Oliver Knitting Kits. Neat idea! (Link courtesy of Sally.)
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Goodbye 2009!We had a fairly low-key New Year’s Eve this year. Miss Fee and the Sock Victim invited us over for dinner at their place in Marrickville. We had barbecue pork, sauerkraut, baked potatoes, brie, grapes, champagne cocktails, trifle, and all sorts of lovely things. (Many of them supposed to bring luck for the new…
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2010 Happiness ChallengeI’ve been following The Happiness Project for a while now, and last week I decided to sign up for the 2010 Happiness Challenge. Gretchen will be designating an overall theme for each month of 2010, and every week she’ll be giving a small resolution for you to work on. January’s theme is “Energy,”…