December 2008
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“Bus service will be significantly limited during the weather emergency.”
– What if the weather emergency never ends? More snow is falling. Even though I haven’t ridden a bus since Friday, I’m still obsessively checking this page: Ice & Snow - Metro Transit Service Status
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Happy Hanumas!
It’s that time of year again for the Troy-Stuart Family-Fun Holiday-Card™. What a year it’s been!
Isaac left for college in August and the house hasn’t been the same without him. He’s moved to Africa to attend the University of Mozambique and earn his degree in African Wombat Migration. We’re just glad he’s given up that all-accordion-and-kazoo klezmer band thing — they were going nowhere.
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“Seattle’s road crews are making ‘great progress’ in clearing the ice-caked...”
– How is it that Portland, a city half the size of Seattle, has 55 snow plows, and Seattle only has 27? I understand not salting the roads, but I do not understand not plowing them. Seattle refuses to use salt; roads “snow packed” by design — Seattle Times Newspaper
“Sad though we are, we’ve found a few bits of good news scattered amid the...”
– Polaroid will cease making film on December 31st. It’s a sad sad day in photographic history. But Photojojo! has some alternatives: Polaroid: R.I.P. in 14 Days :( via Subtraction
Meh. →
Not sure how I missed this when it was announced 3 weeks ago, but there it is: yet another word that I take for granted that was invented on The Simpsons and is now part of the lexicon.
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The anatomy of a viral campaign continued
It’s been a week since I updated the spread story of the Methodologie Browser Size Test, so I’ve decided to start a new post here to continue the story rather than keep updatng a post that was started nearly 2 weeks ago.
The sizer linkage has continued to grow. The links on Delicious are now at 510, as of 8:30am on 12.06.2008.
I decided to stop using “Methodologie” in my Google search, which...
Gizmine →
Japanese stuff, American website. I’d love pretty much anything from this website. via swissmiss
The Seed →
Amazing animation by Johnny Kelly. Wish I had more information on it. VLU says the animation was created for Adobe. via VLU
“Nonetheless, in the hierarchy of serious spirits, single malt Scotch whiskey...”
– The NY Times and Whiskey. What more could I ask for? Spirits of The Times - From One Region, a Variety in Tastes and Styles of Scotch - NYTimes.com
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