Lynwood to Residents: Pull Up Your Damn Pants! (1)
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We haven't decided if this idea is racist or stupid. Probably a healthy mix of both. South suburban Lynwood, in a move aimed at cleaning up their image to attract development, has passed an ordinance against baggy pants. That's right, you had better buy a belt because if you want to walk around town with your underwear hanging out, you're going to get slapped with a $25 fine. Huh, we didn't know our grandpa was ...
Air Force defies Congress, spends anti-terrorism money on "comfort capsules" with "aesthetically pleasing wall treatments/coverings" (8)
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From the WashPo: The Air Force's top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on "comfort capsules" to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world ... Air Force documents spell out how each of the capsules is to be "aesthetically pleasing and furnished to reflect the rank of the senior leaders using the capsule," with beds, a couch, a table, a 37-inch flat-screen monitor with ...
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Davis S said:
these comfort capsules sound so sick...
Bigstring Features Controllable Email (2)
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Have you ever wished you could delete an email message that you already sent? Or send an email that the recipient wouldn’t be able to print? These and other features - such as self-destructing email and messages that you can edit after sending - are features of the free web-based email accounts available from Bigstring. Of course, it’s a bit of a trick: the actual message sent contains just a link to an image-based version ...
Plum Sorbet (1)
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Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord who turned a few of our ripe plums into a "wow-that's-good" sorbet. ~Elise I developed this recipe out of necessity rather than noble ingenuity. Every summer Elise's mother loads me up with so many plums I can't eat them all in time, and many begin to get a bit over ripe, their skins bursting at the slightest touch sending their juice down my arms and onto my clothes and ...
The instant community. (3)
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A recruiter sends a job offer to 416 developers, mistakingly putting each developer’s name in the To field of the email, instead of BCC. Boom, instant community, complete with name and logo: It is such a fascinating thing to watch. It’s like a flash mob, except the surprise is on us, the mob participants. It’s like we were all beamed into the same virtual room by one single person who chose the group of us, ...
Challenging a much-loved media label - Daily Star - Lebanon (1)
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Challenging a much-loved media labelDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 5 hours ago"Janoub," the latest documentary by Palestinian filmmaker Nizar Hassan, is putatively about "Lebanon's Shiites." For audiences walking into this film cold, ...
What’s With the Irrational Preoccupation of Apple’s Guidance? (4)
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NY Times columnist David Carr has written a book about his (11)
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NY Times columnist David Carr has written a book about his days as a junkie who cleaned himself up only when twin daughters came into his life. The Times has a lengthy excerpt; it's possibly the best thing I've read all week. If I said I was a fat thug who beat up women and sold bad coke, would you like my story? What if instead I wrote that I was a recovered addict who ...
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Ben said:
Read the whole thing today, well worth the read.
Challenging a much-loved media label - Daily Star - Lebanon (1)
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Challenging a much-loved media labelDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - Jul 18, 2008"Janoub," the latest documentary by Palestinian filmmaker Nizar Hassan, is putatively about "Lebanon's Shiites." For audiences walking into this film cold, ...
Challenging a much-loved media label - Daily Star - Lebanon (1)
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Challenging a much-loved media labelDaily Star - Lebanon, Lebanon - 8 hours ago"Janoub," the latest documentary by Palestinian filmmaker Nizar Hassan, is putatively about "Lebanon's Shiites." For audiences walking into this film cold, ...
From what I can gather from these portraits, librarians are white, (6)
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Build a Basic Newspaper style layout with Wordpress and jQuery _NETTUTS (6)
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Grid/Newspaper/Magazine templates are becoming more and more predominant in the wordpress skin and theme community. They look classy, but it can be daunting knowing where to start. In this tutorial we use the power of jQuery to create a grid layout with size-degrading headers! Preface This tutorial assumes that you have a wordpress engine running on a server that you have access to upload files, download files and browse to. If you want to run ...
This is Gotham. (2)
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There is something both desolate and optimistic in Daniel Fell’s photography. His photos of Chicago remind me why I love the city, and why I’m so excited to move back.
Google Trifecta recording now available (32)
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Last Tuesday, Google hosted an online presentation about three free tools to help analyze and improve your sites. Dubbed "The Google Trifecta," this presentation explains the key features of Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, and Google Website Optimizer, and how you can use them together.To make the information from this presentation accessible to those who were unable to listen in last week or would like to review it again, we've put a recording of the ...
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Deeter said:
Watch this carefully...
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Reid said:
I know this guy!
Courtly Unimog camper (2)
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What happens when you combine one of my favorite European all-terrain utility trucks with tasteful design from a pair of Belgian architects? If you guessed "priapistic bruising" you'd be correct. But you'd also get these images of this stately camper vehicle which, when not parked on a hill overlooking an abbey, serves as the couple's bathroom in their garage. Unimog [OWI.biz via Core77] Previously • EarthRoamer XV-JP: Live-Aboard 4x4 Solar and Diesel Jeep • Mercedes-Benz ...
