links for 2010-02-11

Alexandre Dumas novels penned by 'fourth musketeer' ghost writer – Telegraph From Poets & Writers' news feed: "Alexandre Dumas, the nineteenth-century French author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, may have outsourced the actual writing of those books, according to France's leading Dumas expert." (tags: writing ghostwriting classics books dumas) YouTube – The Muppets: Beaker's Ballad O, Beaker. You had me at "mi mi miiii". (tags: muppets video humor internet) YouTube – Brilliant Beasts – Dog Genius Fascinating video about Donnie the dog, who arranges his toys in specific patterns. (via Metafilter) (tags: animals behavior patterns video) Chris Nolan's Third...

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Posted on 11 Feb 2010 | Comments Off

links for 2010-02-10

Google Buzz So here we go … Google's answer to (parts of) Facebook, Twitter, the review site that must not be named … all of it. (tags: google googlebuzz socialsoftware) Google Buzz goes after Facebook, Twitter – CNN.com I am interested to see what Google with do with this space. It can't be worse than what Facebook is doing. (Yes, my Facebook page changed today. Whee.) From the article: "Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tuesday, melding pieces of Facebook and Twitter into a new feature, Google Buzz." (via funkyplaid) (tags: google socialsoftware googlebuzz) 2 tragedies in S.F. involving city vehicles As any pedestrian here can tell you, it is an incredibly dangerous city to navigate. From the...

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Posted on 10 Feb 2010 | Comments Off

links for 2010-02-09

British Library to offer 19th Century first editions for free download on Amazon Kindle – Telegraph From the article: "The British Library is to make more than 65,000 rare first editions of 19th Century fiction available for the public to download for free from the spring." (tags: ebooks books)

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Posted on 9 Feb 2010 | Comments Off

the glass room and the tanker

A large glass room jutting onto the beach. Behind it, a forest of trees, perfectly straight, symmetrical pieces of wood with the tops cut off, like logs stood on end. I stand and marvel at the design. I say approving words to no one else; no one can hear me because I am here and they are all in the glass room. So many people I know in the glass room. I am reminding myself of how I know each of them when the ship appears at the horizon. An oil tanker, slick black and barnacled like I imagine whales to be, heads for the beach, for the glass room. It is bearing down too fast as its surface breaks, curves upwards like a fish. Suddenly the tanker flops like a massive trout on a hook, rearing from the beach, disturbing the ocean in great waves that finally catch...

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Posted on 8 Feb 2010 | 1 comment

links for 2010-02-08

Flickr: justinvg's stuff tagged with starwars From Laughing Squid: "Justin Van Genderen has created a wonderful series of minimalist Star Wars Galaxy Posters." (tags: design starwars film) Fringe Television – Fan Site for the FOX TV Series Fringe Another great site for "Fringe" fans. (tags: tv fringe) Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+ | Video on TED.com From the site: "To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's 'Blue Zones,' communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100." (via towse) (tags: via:towse health longevity diet) Fringe Wiki A wiki...

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Posted on 8 Feb 2010 | 1 comment

links for 2010-02-04

Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography If I had any design talent at all, I would make infographics all day long. (tags: infographics information visualization data) Fitbit Courtney told me about this at lunch today. I am lusting after the personal data collection capabilities of this marvelous gadget. As I understand it, you wear the device all day long and it collects data about your sleep patterns and activity levels. And it syncs wirelessly! (tags: fitness health gadgets sleep exercise tracking technology) librarian.net » Blog Archive » when good librarians go bad, geniune options in librarianship From this excellent blog post: "Where do we draw the line between enforcing other people’s rules and solving problems with our...

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Posted on 4 Feb 2010 | Comments Off

links for 2010-02-03

An End To Blog Comments This has certainly given me something to ponder. I would miss the comments I receive on cygnoir.net. The nice ones, anyway. I wouldn't miss the comments on SFGate.com, though. (via @njudah) (tags: weblogs community)

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Posted on 3 Feb 2010 | 1 comment

gluten-free favorites

Because you asked … here are my favorite gluten-free recipes. I take absolutely no credit for any part of their deliciousness; I merely looked for recipes that sounded good, and then followed their instructions. Pork chops with bacon-sage sauce: bacon, sage, and shallots are wonderful things. Creamed leeks: because I wanted to do something awesome with our lovely CSA leeks. (I substituted gluten-free baking flour.) Baked butternut squash: because FunkyPlaid is all squashed out, yet I still desire their tastiness. Roasted potatoes with fried sage and brown butter: are you sensing a theme? I modified this one to half potatoes, half sweet potatoes. FunkyPlaid really loves this dish! Shredded Brussels sprouts: again with the bacon. Lest you think I hate...

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Posted on 1 Feb 2010 | 3 comments