links for 2005-12-15

Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary “Double-Tongued Word Wrester records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English.” (tags: language words reference dictionary english) Apple – Trailers – X-MEN 3 Announcement Teaser heheheheehehehehehe. (tags: apple movies trailers x-men...

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Posted on 15 Dec 2005 | 2 comments

warming up

warming up

warming up Originally uploaded by cygnoir. I gave this orchid to the MSG two years ago and she’s still going strong.

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Posted on 14 Dec 2005 | Comments Off

links for 2005-12-13

PARK(ing) Rebar, a group of San Franciscans, turned a parking space into a park. (tags: urbanplanning parks projects) Jelly_D.mov (video/quicktime Object) Jelly D, the rapping jelly doughnut from Tourettes Without Regrets. Hilarious. (tags: humor music rap) Google Transit Google’s public transit trip planner. Only Portland thus far, but it looks terrific. (tags: google publictransit search maps) JotSpot Tracker – Stop emailing spreadsheets Share Excel spreadsheets online. (tags: excel web2.0...

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Posted on 13 Dec 2005 | Comments Off

links for 2005-12-10

goowy media home “goowy (re) is a rich experience service that offers you a new way of expressing yourself and interacting with your friends and family. We leverage the best web technologies to provide you with a fun, unique environment for managing your web mail, contact (tags: web2.0 email calendar web) Can you grow cress in a keyboard?? I really like this practical joke. (tags: humor pranks plants) Gingerbread House Photo Album They look good enough to eat! (tags: christmas food) Poetry Archive “The Poetry Archive is the world’s premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.” (tags: poetry audio) They Might Be Podcasting TMBG’s podcast, hooray! (tags: tmbg podcasting...

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Posted on 10 Dec 2005 | Comments Off

purge help needed

Anyone who has undergone a major purge of their possessions, especially books and clothing, please share your tips and tricks with me. (LiveJournal users who are subscribed to my site: I do not receive any comments you leave there for me! Please come over here instead!) The clothing I’ll probably just donate to Goodwill, but the books I’d like to recoup some cost on, so I’m slogging through the process of cataloguing all of my books. Then I can submit the list of what I want to sell to used bookstores, thus preventing the unnecessary schlepping of heavy boxes all around town. I’m bad at mailing packages in a timely fashion, so selling anything on Amazon or half.com is vastly unappealing. My room has gone from slightly unkempt to a total...

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Posted on 9 Dec 2005 | 5 comments

quiet

This episode of Zencast evened out my mood a bit this morning. I read a conservative Christian’s blog post about feminists and relationships and, while most of it was laughable, one sentence made me think. It was: “When in doubt, choose the most optimistic interpretation. That’s what he meant.” I wish this choice were automatic for me. Too much noise. I want to be quiet, inside and out. What I wouldn’t give for one truly quiet day.

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Posted on 8 Dec 2005 | Comments Off

links for 2005-12-08

BuyBlue.org | Vote With Your Wallet! BuyBlue.org is a consumer advocacy issues website that offers a list of companies with progressive values so you can “vote with your wallet” this holiday season. (tags: politics activism consumerism economy shopping reference) Protopage Protopage is a Ajax-built web app designed to bring your RSS feeds, sticky notes, and bookmarks into one pretty package. (tags: ajax web2.0 portal free) 5ives » Five ways to get on the del.icio.us home page (tags: del.icio.us howto 5ives merlinmann humor...

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Posted on 8 Dec 2005 | Comments Off

inner wolf

inner wolf

Hungry Wolf Originally uploaded by bonedad. Last night I talked through something in therapy with an odd result. I haven’t put it to words before, but something inside me feels like an abused animal, lashing out irrationally at anyone, anything, wisps of smoke or shadows. As I thought about this, I imagined a black wolf with lots of sharp white teeth and dark red eyes always ranging around on the outskirts of where I am, waiting to be hurt again. It always makes me kind of queasy to hear people talk about their inner children, to anthropomorphize something that was just an idea, just another part of who they are. But I see the appeal now: I can picture that wolf so clearly, and I can see it lunging for throats, so afraid to be hurt again that it...

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Posted on 7 Dec 2005 | 3 comments

links for 2005-12-06

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Literary classics become txt msgs Some of English literature’s greatest masterpieces have been condensed into a few lines of text message to help students revise for exams. For example, Hamlet’s famous line: “To be or not to be, that is the question” becomes “2b? Nt2b? ???”. (tags: humor mobile sms technology literature) Pardon Our Dust Spike Jonze’s funny Gap ad. (tags: humor advertising) 3M | Post-it® | Cards The sturdiness of index cards, the handiness of post-it notes. Thanks, weird dollar store, for showing me the light. One in the front of my Moleskine for my to-do list, and one in the back for my project list. Hooray, GTD! (tags: GTD organization supplies) MasterWish Online...

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Posted on 6 Dec 2005 | Comments Off

hi-lo tech

hi-lo tech

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } hi-lo tech, originally uploaded by cygnoir. 1 new Polaroid camera (thanks, Mom!) 1 willing subject (that’s me) 1 unwilling, bemused subject (that’s Zen) 1 scanner that will not cooperate 1 Moto Razr V3 that will all equals hi-lo tech...

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Posted on 5 Dec 2005 | 1 comment