- Fashionspace.com: What MySpace did for music, Fashionspace hopes to do for design. Ganked from Second City Style.
- UN Data: The section on internet users is probably most relevant to this blog, but the life expectancy and refugee statistics will break your heart.
- Scottish Geneology Records online: Now we can all prove our claim of being directly descended from Rob Roy MacGregor.
Link Farm: 05.09.08
May 9, 2008 - 5:08 am
But it is just a THEORY
May 8, 2008 - 12:15 am
Ben Stein has a new movie out, called Expelled: No intelligence allowed. The tagline is pretty precious: Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom. What they forgot is every generation has its rebel…Ben blows the horn on supression. Apparently, Big Science also expelled grammar from the classroom. Its hard not to automatically reach for the joke on this one, but the movie is dead serious about ‘exposing’ the stranglehold so called Big Science has on …. science…and how unaccommodating they are about teaching things that….aren’t scientific….in science classrooms.
Women and Media
May 7, 2008 - 10:41 pm
Of late, I have become very interested in representations of women in the media, as part of my ongoing theme of interest that can be best described as how women consume media, and how media consumes women. Tell me what is wrong with this soundbite, from an interview in Elle magazine (scroll down to the headline, “Ashton Kutcher talks sex, drugs with his stepdaughters.”
Link Farm: 05.06.08
May 6, 2008 - 5:34 am
- Beware the curse of YouTube: Lore Sjöberg explains why having every bit of pop culture online is a dangerous thing, using the lyrics of La Isla Bonita his example.
- PDF Pad: Excellent free source of templates - from Cartesian graph paper to blank sheet music.
- Wesabe: A social networking site for your bank account.
Women in Games
May 5, 2008 - 6:52 am
My new HP desktop came loaded with game demos, most of which I will never play, but I got curious about them last week and started clicking around, which is when I found Diner Dash, which is the happy story of a woman who was so frazzled by her ordinary office job that she had to run away from corporate life and wait tables for a living.
That sound you hear is my forehead, hitting my desk.
Link Farm: 05.04.08
May 4, 2008 - 3:11 pm
- ERNursey: It is my fondest dream that every politician in this country start reading a health care provider’s blog on a regular basis, so that they may better understand how money and power have isolated them from the health care crisis in America. See also, White Coat Rants, DB’s Med Rants, and Med Blog Groupie.
- Passive Aggressive Notes: Be sure to check out the minor gall, the major lift (bonus points if you get the reference), The angry graduate assistants, and a great email from the front-lines of post-post feminism.
- I am RICH and I want to spend it on YOU tonight: I wish my husband would stop posting his personal ad on craigslist like this :)
An Interview with Vint Cerf
April 28, 2008 - 11:07 am
Not in my normal set of reads, but this month Esquire has an interview with Cerf. My favourite quote is this: Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. And the autistic. And terminally shy.
I <3 Interlibrary Loan
April 17, 2008 - 11:19 pm
I don’t know who invented it, but I would like to shake their hand. Its like a dream come true: here’s a database that can find any book in the world, and no matter where it is located, a copy will be sent to you, free of charge, and you can keep it for 3 months.
Currently waiting for:
- The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America
- The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It
- Infotopia
Next up on my list: every other book ever written :)
No header graphic?
April 12, 2008 - 8:50 pm
I know, I know - lots you cannot see the spiffy (thanks, Grandma!) header graphic. Apparently, I have to upgrade wordpress for it to show up again. So, that is on the to-do list - but its pretty far down the list!
Always Check Your Calendar
April 1, 2008 - 9:57 am
A few of my faves:
- A penguin species that flies (note the narrator).
- Gordon Brown appoints French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy to post of UK’s First Lady of Style.
- Gordon Ramsey bans swearing from restaurants.
- New campaign to relocate Polar Bears to Antarctica.
- Google and Virgin announce the creation of Virgle, a jointly held mission to settle Mars.
- All featured videos on UK YouTube are actually a Rickroll.
- Betamax to HD converter.
A comprehensive list of April Fool’s Day nonsense (including past years), can be found at the April Fool’s Day On The Web Repository.