Month: July 2010
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EPICWIN. Finally an iPhone To Do list app that I think the Snook might actually use!
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Week 28The week did not begin auspiciously. Last Friday night, I was coming home from the shops with the Snook and took a nasty fall on some wet, muddy leaves. I landed heavily on my left knee. I took off a layer of skin and got a massive bruise on the side.(Here’s a photo from…
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CrustgateSo yeah, yesterday that whole “Crustgate” thing happened. Summary: Crust Pizza are a pizza chain with a highly-regarded social media strategy, including a Twitter account that gives pizzas away every Friday. Yesterday they tweeted: “Need a laugh? Hilarious compilation of female driver madness.” with a link to a YouTube video of women crashing into light…
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Shared today on Google Reader: Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge Review for iPhone | Touch Arcade Blogging the periodic table – Snook: Chemistry nerdery for you. You can follow me on Reader here.
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HA! I don’t really like Jewel’s music that much, but this video makes me love her a little bit. She put on a disguise and went to karaoke and sang her own songs. It’s pretty cute. (I like pranks that don’t involve humiliating people.)
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This is for my Mom: Patchwork Pattern Maker from the V&A Museum. You upload a photo and then it converts it to a quilt pattern. Really cool! (Link courtesy of not martha.)
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Shared today on Google Reader: The Geek Galaxy Geek feminism as opposed to mainstream feminism? – The bit about being more comfortable with geek men than non-geek women? And about sometimes feeling slightly misogynist? Bingo. You can follow me on Reader here.
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The only thing better than “Guy amazed by double rainbow” is the DOUBLE RAINBOW SONG. (I especially like how they did the Pomplamoose thing of showing the performers at the end…)
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Knitters Guild Meeting at Surry Hills LibrarySaturday was the July meeting of the Inner City Group of the Knitters Guild. It was also our first meeting at our new venue: the Surry Hills Library and Community Centre. Our old meeting room at Customs House Library was just too small for the big crowds we’ve been…
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The Language of a Marriage. There’s a clichéd idea that what makes people stay in love is things like candlelight and flowers and sexy glances across crowded rooms. All that is lovely, and it helps. But so does our nerdy private language. This. A million times. There’s only one person in the world I can…