Month: February 2011
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Shared today on Google Reader: Every T-shirt in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Awesome. Nomad Paintbrush For Your iPad, A New Way To Play With Capacitive Displays – That is so cool. Billboard Comes Down After Outcry Over Jonestown Reference – Ahhh, Hacienda. I’ve eaten in that restaurant before. Stay classy, South Bend! Christchurch…
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Shared today on Google Reader: How to Make a Franken-Blanket – I’ve been toying with doing something similar for years. I still love you, Sarah Silverman, by Mayim Bialik, PhD You can follow me on Reader here.
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AHHHHH! Eileen! We need to go to Singapore! They’ve got a Battlestar Galactica Roller Coaster with duelling trains, and one side is a Cylon Raider and the other is a Viper Mark II! LET’S MAKE A PLAN.
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Shared today on Google Reader: Smoking in Indiana: The ifs, ands & butts | The Indianapolis Star – My jaw actually dropped like 5 times reading this article. 43% of adults?! The lady who started smoking at 12?! The schools only went smoke-free in the past 10 years?! A SAWMILL only went smoke-free last year?!?!…
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Health MonthA few weeks ago I saw a MetaTalk post about forming a team for Health Month. I’d seen the site before when it was in private beta, but now anyone can sign up. I quickly joined the MetaFilter team. The site is all about promoting good habits and behaviours through social gaming. You create…
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So there’s a new Radiohead album. There’s also a video for one of the songs that features Thom Yorke dancing in a warehouse. Somebody has set his dancing to Beyoncés “Single Ladies.” It made my day.
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The Snook discovered today that he’s a referenced author! Someone actually found a practical use for the results of his university chem thesis and patented it. He’s listed in the references and everything! Now we’re trying to figure out his Erdős–Bacon number.
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Shared today on Google Reader: Meat-Only Diet = Crave Carbs. Meat + Egg: No Craving 10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Starting Out As A BA Requirements infographic Saturday Night Special: Welcome To The Dollhouse – Oh my god. I too received a doll with glasses to “make me feel…
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Saturday was the apps4nsw development day, a “hack day” event where programmers were challenged to mash up government data in new useful ways. The Snook went along as part of the Yahoo team. (He tried to get me to go, but I felt like a day at home knitting was a bigger priority.) I followed…
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Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #5: Oozy Mushroom RisottoThis is our fifth official cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. Hey, we’ve made it through 10% of the book! I had plans to go to the Eveleigh Farmers’ Market on Saturday morning, so I figured we should find a recipe that uses ingredients I can get…