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[{"model": "links.link", "pk": 26, "fields": {"title": "The internet is shit", "url": "http://www.internetisshit.org/index.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:42:08", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 27, "fields": {"title": "The Paumanok Review :: Archive", "url": "http://www.paumanokreview.com/index.php?page=archive", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:42:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 39, "fields": {"title": "Digital Black and White", "url": "http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/How_to/n_Digital_BW/a_Digital_Black_and_White.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:42:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 46, "fields": {"title": "squidfingers / patterns", "url": "http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/?type=extras&id=18", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:44:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 52, "fields": {"title": "Karl's New Manifesto - New York Times", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/opinion/29brooks.html?ex=1275019200&en=9970f3282b0b87cc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "I was in the library reading room when suddenly a strange specter of a man appeared above me. He was a ragged fellow with a bushy beard, dressed in the clothes of another century. He clutched news clippings on class in America, and atop the pile was a manifesto in his own hand. He was gone in an instant, but Karl's manifesto on modern America remained. This is what it said:\r\n\r\nThe history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Freeman and slave, lord and serf, capitalist and proletariat, in a word oppressor and oppressed, stand in opposition to each other and carry on a constant fight. In the information age, in which knowledge is power and money, the class struggle is fought between the educated elite and the undereducated masses.\r\n\r\nThe information age elite exercises artful dominion of the means of production, the education system. The median family income of a Harvard student is $150,000. According to the Educational Testing Service, only 3 percent of freshmen at the top 146 colleges come from the poorest quarter of the population. The educated class ostentatiously offers financial aid to poor students who attend these colleges and then rigs the admission criteria to ensure that only a small, co-optable portion of them can get in.\r\n\r\nThe educated class reaps the benefits of the modern economy -- seizing for itself most of the income gains of the past decades -- and then ruthlessly exploits its position to ensure the continued dominance of its class.\r\n\r\nThe educated class has torn away from the family its sentimental veil and reduced it to a mere factory for the production of little meritocrats. Members of the educated elites are more and more likely to marry each other, which the experts call assortative mating, but which is really a ceaseless effort to refortify class solidarity and magnify social isolation. Children are turned into workaholic knowledge workers -- trained, tutored, tested and prepped to strengthen class dominance.\r\n\r\nThe educated elites are the first elites in all of history to work longer hours per year than the exploited masses, so voracious is their greed for second homes. They congregate in exclusive communities walled in by the invisible fence of real estate prices, then congratulate themselves for sending their children to public schools. They parade their enlightened racial attitudes by supporting immigration policies that guarantee inexpensive lawn care. They send their children off to Penn, Wisconsin and Berkeley, bastions of privilege for the children of the professional class, where they are given the social and other skills to extend class hegemony.\r\n\r\nThe information society is the only society in which false consciousness is at the top. For it is an iron rule of any university that the higher the tuition and more exclusive the admissions, the more loudly the denizens profess their solidarity with the oppressed. The more they objectively serve the right, the more they articulate the views of the left.\r\n\r\nPeriodically members of this oppressor class hold mock elections. The Yale-educated scion of the Bush family may face the Yale-educated scion of the Winthrop family. They divide into Republicans and Democrats and argue over everything except the source of their power: the intellectual stratification of society achieved through the means of education.\r\n\r\nMore than the Roman emperors, more than the industrial robber barons, the malefactors of the educated class seek not only to dominate the working class, but to decimate it. For 30 years they have presided over failing schools without fundamentally transforming them. They have imposed a public morality that affords maximum sexual opportunity for themselves and guarantees maximum domestic chaos for those lower down.\r\n\r\nIn 1960 there were not big structural differences between rich and poor families. In 1960, three-quarters of poor families were headed by married couples. Now only a third are. While the rates of single parenting have barely changed for the educated elite, family structures have disintegrated for the oppressed masses.\r\n\r\nPoor children are less likely to live with both biological parents, hence, less likely to graduate from high school, get a job and be in a position to challenge the hegemony of the privileged class. Family inequality produces income inequality from generation to generation.\r\n\r\nUndereducated workers of the world, unite! Let the ruling educated class tremble! You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win!\r\n\r\nI don't agree with everything in Karl's manifesto, because I don't believe in incessant class struggle, but you have to admit, he makes some good points.", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:45:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 69, "fields": {"title": "Regular Expressions (Regex) Tutorial", "url": "http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/regular-expressions/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:46:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 70, "fields": {"title": "perlop - perldoc.perl.org", "url": "http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Regexp-Quote-Like-Operators", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:46:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 71, "fields": {"title": "A Regular Expression Primer", "url": "http://marvin.ibest.uidaho.edu/~heckendo/CS445/regex.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:46:33", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 73, "fields": {"title": "Repetition of Ratios", "url": "http://members.tripod.com/vismath/kappraff/kap3.htm", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:46:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 74, "fields": {"title": "Proportions: Golden Section", "url": "http://home.att.net/~vmueller/prop/theo.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:46:52", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 75, "fields": {"title": "Root 3 System", "url": "http://members.tripod.com/vismath/kappraff/kap7.htm", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:46:54", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 76, "fields": {"title": "Jason Santa Maria - Grey Box Methodology", "url": "http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2004/05/24/grey_box_method.php", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:46:56", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 77, "fields": {"title": "file formats", "url": "http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:47:04", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 78, "fields": {"title": "www.journalismjobs.com", "url": "http://www.journalismjobs.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:47:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 79, "fields": {"title": "Writers Write Technical Writing Message Board", "url": "http://writerswrite.com/messages/tech.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:47:23", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 80, "fields": {"title": "Backpacker Magazine - Contributor's Guidelines", "url": "http://www.backpacker.com/guidelines/0,3132,,00.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:47:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 81, "fields": {"title": "HTI American Verse Project", "url": "http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=amverse;cc=amverse;sid=05924e4e118709ad818a99f16e2c2c2a;q1=Sea%20Garden;tpl=home.tpl", "description": "The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:47:48", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 84, "fields": {"title": "Wilhelm Reich media", "url": "http://www.trettin-tv.de/tamb.htm", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:47:56", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 86, "fields": {"title": "Baudio", "url": "http://www.turnstyle.com/baudio/", "description": "Baudio is intended to encourage thought on issues surrounding file-sharing, derivative art, and the alternative copyright systems now under consideration. You can also conceivably use Baudio to glean some sense of the structure of a binary file.", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:48:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 88, "fields": {"title": "Refactor Mercilessly", "url": "http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RefactorMercilessly", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:48:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 90, "fields": {"title": "BOOKFORUM | feb/mar 2005", "url": "http://www.bookforum.com/boynton.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:48:14", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 92, "fields": {"title": "Ram-blings", "url": "http://www.ram.org/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:48:23", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 93, "fields": {"title": "Reason: Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future: The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America", "url": "http://www.reason.com/0502/fe.mg.neal.shtml", "description": "\r\nThe author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America \r\n\r\nIf you met the novelist Neal Stephenson a decade ago, you would have encountered a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction (1992's _Snow Crash_, in which computer viruses start invading hacker minds). It wasn't his debut\u2014he'd published two earlier novels in the 1980s\u2014but the book was such a hit that it put his name on the science fiction map in a way the earlier efforts had not.\r\n\r\nMeet Stephenson today, and you'll meet a well-muscled, shaven-headed, bearded fellow who's just published a highly acclaimed, massively popular trilogy of 900-page novels set mostly in the 17th century. Talk to him, though, and you still hear the rigorously humble guy of 10 years ago. Read that trilogy\u2014_Quicksilver, The Confusion_, and _The System of the World_, collectively called _The Baroque Cycle_\u2014and you'll have the uncanny sense that you're reading some new kind of science fiction. Actually, with every Stephenson book since _Snow Crash_, you feel that you're reading some new kind of science fiction, regardless of the nominal set and settings of the story.\r\n\r\nThe three parts of _The Baroque Cycle_ were published at six-month intervals in 2003 and 2004; they feature historical figures ranging from Newton and Leibniz to Louis XIV and a very young Benjamin Franklin, bound up in a narrative with the fictional ancestors of the characters in Stephenson's similarly huge, cryptology-centered 1999 novel _Cryptonomicon_. Like _Cryptonomicon_, the trilogy has attracted praise from mainstream critics as well as Stephenson's science fiction fan base. _The Village Voice_ calls the series \"a work of idiosyncratic beauty whose plots boast tangled, borderless roots.\" _The Independent_ says it is \"a far more impressive literary endeavour than most so-called 'serious' fiction.\" Even a mixed review of _Quicksilver_ in _The Washington Post_ describes it as \"often brilliant and occasionally astonishing.\"\r\n\r\nStephenson has a substantial libertarian following as well, and not merely because the decentralized, post-statist social systems he describes in _Snow Crash_ and _The Diamond Age _(1995) are so radically different from modern government. _The Baroque Cycle_ is, among other things, a close look at the rise of science, the market, and the nation-state, themes close to any classical liberal's heart. Reading it means reading three long, encyclopedic books and maybe spending half a year in an earlier century. It's not the kind of thing the average reader takes on lightly. But once you find you have a taste for Stephenson's broad range of obsessive interests, his fine ear for period and modern English prose and speech, and his gift for making the improbably comic seem eminently human, the question no longer is whether you'll read his books\u2014it's when.\r\n\r\nContributing Editor Mike Godwin interviewed Stephenson, primarily via e-mail, in late fall.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: In _The Baroque Cycle_ we see two different kinds of nation-states at war with each other: traditional monarchies vs. the modern mercantile state. Some readers see political themes in _Snow Crash, The Diamond Age_, and _Cryptonomicon_\u2014e.g., that traditional governmental institutions have collapsed or mutated into some less central form. Is this something you see as inevitable?\r\n\r\n**Neal Stephenson**: I can understand that if you are the sort of person who spends a lot of time thinking about government and commerce, then by reading _Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon_, and _The Baroque Cycle_ through that lens, and by squinting, holding the books at funny angles, and jiggling them around, you might be able to perceive some sort of common theme. But it is a stretch. The themes you mention are so vast and so common to all societies and periods of history that I would find it difficult to write a novel that did not touch on them in some way.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn general I try to avoid the easy, the glib, and the oversimplified in my books. I don't always succeed, but that is my goal. A way to approach that goal is to try to see things through the eyes of reasonably well-wrought characters. So, if I'm writing a book set 350 years ago, when the old medieval system of titled nobility is losing ground to a new power system based on international trade, then I try to get inside the heads of people who lived in those days and see things their way. Similarly, if I am writing something set in a high-tech world where the nation-state seems to be losing ground as compared to other sorts of entities, such as NGOs or traditional cultural groups, I'm going to do my best to reflect that. It is the sort of thing that intelligent people think about from time to time, and it would seem stilted to portray otherwise intelligent and self-aware characters who never think about such topics.\r\n\r\nMuch of what has gone on since 9/11, not only here but in other places, like the Netherlands, looks to me like a reversal of the trends of the previous couple of decades. Government is getting more powerful, and its (perceived) usefulness and relevance to the average person is more obvious than it was 10 years ago.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: _Snow Crash_ is almost a parody of a libertarian future. Do you think the affinity-group-based societies you outline in that book are on their way? Do you see that as a warning note, or a natural state we're progressing toward?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: I dreamed up the _Snow Crash_ world 15 years ago as a thought experiment, and I tweaked it to be as funny and outrageous and graphic novel\u2013like as I could make it. Such a world wouldn't be stable unless each little \"burbclave\" had the ability to defend itself from all external threats. This is not plausible, barring some huge advances in defensive technology. So I think that if I were seriously to address your question, \"Do you see that as a warning note, or a natural state\u2026?,\" I would be guilty of taking myself a little bit too seriously.\r\n\r\nSpeaking as an observer who has many friends with libertarian instincts, I would point out that terrorism is a much more formidable opponent of political liberty than government. Government acts almost as a recruiting station for libertarians. Anyone who pays taxes or has to fill out government paperwork develops libertarian impulses almost as a knee-jerk reaction. But terrorism acts as a recruiting station for statists. So it looks to me as though we are headed for a triangular system in which libertarians and statists and terrorists interact with each other in a way that I'm afraid might turn out to be quite stable.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: You gave a speech at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference a few years back in which you suggested that the focus on issues like encryption was too narrow, and that we should give more attention to what theologian Walter Wink calls \"domination systems.\" This surprised some of the attendees, partly because it reached outside the usual privacy/free speech issue set and partly because, hey, you were citing a theologian. What brought you to Walter Wink, and what other light do you think theologians can shed on our approaches to government?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: This probably won't do anything to endear me or Wink to thE typical reason reader, but I was made aware of him by a Jesuit priest of leftish tendencies who had been reading his stuff.\r\n\r\nIt's almost always a disaster when a novelist decides to become political. So let me just make a few observations here on a human level\u2014which is within my comfort zone as a novelist\u2014and leave it at that.\r\n\r\nIt's clear that the body politic is subject to power disorders. By this I mean events where some person or group suddenly concentrates a lot of power and abuses it. Power disorders frequently come as a surprise, and cause a lot of damage. This has been true since the beginning of human history. Exactly how and why power disorders occur is poorly understood.\r\n\r\nWe are in a position akin to that of early physicians who could see that people were getting sick but couldn't do anything about it, because they didn't understand the underlying causes. They knew of a few tricks that seemed to work. For example, nailing up plague houses tended to limit the spread of plague. But even the smart doctors tended to fall under the sway of pet theories that were wrong, such as the idea that diseases were caused by imbalanced humors or bad air. Once that happened, they ignored evidence that contradicted their theory. They became so invested in that theory that they treated any new ideas as threats. But from time to time you'd see someone like John Snow, who would point out, \"Look, everyone who draws water from Well X is getting cholera.\" Then he went and removed the pump handle from Well X and people stopped getting cholera. They still didn't understand germ theory, but they were getting closer.\r\n\r\nWe can make a loose analogy to the way that people have addressed the problem of power disorders. We don't really understand them. We know that there are a couple of tricks that seem to help, such as the rule of law and separation of powers. Beyond that, people tend to fall under the sway of this or that pet theory. And so you'll get perfectly intelligent people saying, \"All of our problems would be solved if only the workers controlled the means of production,\" or what have you. Once they've settled on a totalizing political theory, they see everything through that lens and are hostile to other notions.\r\n\r\nWink's interpretation of the New Testament is that Jesus was not a pacifist milksop but (among other things) was encouraging people to resist the dominant power system of the era, that being the Roman Empire. Mind you, Wink is no fan of violence either, and he devotes a lot of ink to attacking what he calls the Myth of Redemptive Violence, which he sees as a meme by which domination systems are perpetuated. But he is clearly all in favor of people standing up against oppressive power systems of all stripes.\r\n\r\nCarrying that forward to the present day, Wink takes a general interest in people in various places who are getting the shaft. He develops an empirical science of shaftology, if you will. (Of course he doesn't call it shaftology; that's just my name for it.) He goes all over the world and looks at different kinds of people who are obviously getting the shaft, be they blacks in apartheid South Africa, South American peasants, or residents of inner-city neighborhoods dominated by gangs. He looks for connections among all of these situations and in this way develops the idea of domination systems. It's not germ theory and modern antibiotics, but it is, at the very least, a kind of epidemiology of power disorders. And even people who can't stomach the religious content of his work might take a few cues from this epidemiological, as opposed to theoretical/ideological, approach.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: _The Baroque Cycle_ suggests that there are sometimes great explosions of creativity, followed by that creative energy's recombining and eventual crystallization into new forms\u2014social, technological, political. Are we seeing a similar degree of explosive progress in the modern U.S.?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: The success of the U.S. has not come from one consistent cause, as far as I can make out. Instead the U.S. will find a way to succeed for a few decades based on one thing, then, when that peters out, move on to another. Sometimes there is trouble during the transitions. So, in the early-to-mid-19th century, it was all about expansion westward and a colossal growth in population. After the Civil War, it was about exploitation of the world's richest resource base: iron, steel, coal, the railways, and later oil.\r\n\r\nFor much of the 20th century it was about science and technology. The heyday was the Second World War, when we had not just the Manhattan Project but also the Radiation Lab at MIT and a large cryptology industry all cooking along at the same time. The war led into the nuclear arms race and the space race, which led in turn to the revolution in electronics, computers, the Internet, etc. If the emblematic figures of earlier eras were the pioneer with his Kentucky rifle, or the Gilded Age plutocrat, then for the era from, say, 1940 to 2000 it was the engineer, the geek, the scientist. It's no coincidence that this era is also when science fiction has flourished, and in which the whole idea of the Future became current. After all, if you're living in a technocratic society, it seems perfectly reasonable to try to predict the future by extrapolating trends in science and engineering.\r\n\r\nIt is quite obvious to me that the U.S. is turning away from all of this. It has been the case for quite a while that the cultural left distrusted geeks and their works; the depiction of technical sorts in popular culture has been overwhelmingly negative for at least a generation now. More recently, the cultural right has apparently decided that it doesn't care for some of what scientists have to say. So the technical class is caught in a pincer between these two wings of the so-called culture war. Of course the broad mass of people don't belong to one wing or the other. But science is all about diligence, hard sustained work over long stretches of time, sweating the details, and abstract thinking, none of which is really being fostered by mainstream culture.\r\n\r\nSince our prosperity and our military security for the last three or four generations have been rooted in science and technology, it would therefore seem that we're coming to the end of one era and about to move into another. Whether it's going to be better or worse is difficult for me to say. The obvious guess would be \"worse.\" If I really wanted to turn this into a jeremiad, I could hold forth on that for a while. But as mentioned before, this country has always found a new way to move forward and be prosperous. So maybe we'll get lucky again. In the meantime, efforts to predict the future by extrapolating trends in the world of science and technology are apt to feel a lot less compelling than they might have in 1955.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: Is _The Baroque Cycle_ science fiction?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: Labels such as science fiction are most useful when employed for marketing purposes, i.e., to help readers find books that they are likely to enjoy reading. With that in mind, I'd say that people who know and love science fiction will recognize these books as coming out of that tradition. So the science fiction label is useful for them as a marketing term. However, non-S.F. readers are also reading and enjoying these books, and I seem to have a new crop of readers who aren't even aware that I am known as an S.F. writer. So it would be an error to be too strict or literal-minded about application of the science fiction label.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: To some of your longstanding readers, it may be a bit of a jolt to find themselves in the 17th- and 18th-century settings of this new trilogy. Is there any clear line connecting your earlier novels to your most recent ones?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: The progression from my earlier S.F. works set in the future to _The Baroque Cycle_ is easy to explain:\r\n\r\n \u2022 The earlier books like _Snow Crash_ and _The Diamond Age_ actually had a lot of historical content in them.\r\n\r\n \u2022 Obviously, I was paying a lot of attention to information technology.\r\n\r\n \u2022 Historical novels, such as alternate histories, are common in the S.F. world.\r\n\r\n \u2022 The Second World War has been, and continues to be, fertile ground for novelists and other artists.\r\n\r\n \u2022 Taking into account all of the above, it was reasonable, verging on obvious, to write a historical S.F. novel about the origins of information technology in the Second World War (_Cryptonomicon_). That book also ended up having a lot to do with money.\r\n\r\n \u2022 As I was working on _Cryptonomicon_ I became aware that a) Leibniz had done a lot of work with information technology and b) Newton had done a lot of work on money, and of course I already knew that c) Leibniz and Newton hated each other and had a philosophical war. When I began to study the period of time in which these two men lived I discovered that d) it was a fascinating epoch in many, many ways. So again, it became reasonable, verging on obvious, to write something about that topic. But the complexity of the era was such that I didn't think I could tell the story I wanted to tell in a single book. And yet the excitement and splendor of the times were such that I hoped I might be able to sustain a reasonably interesting narrative over a large number of pages.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: One of the things you discover reading The Baroque Cycle is just how much of today's understanding of the world\u2014not just the physical world, but the social and monetary worlds\u2014derives from ideas that were current in the time of Newton and Leibniz. Was that a surprise to you when you were researching the period?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: The initial surprise was that Leibniz had done so much computer-related work so early. I got that from George Dyson's _Darwin Among the Machines_. When I began to read about the period, I was surprised by the sophistication of the Amsterdam stock market and the complexity of the Lyonnaise financial system. But the greatest single surprise for me was the welter of ideas contained in [Robert] Hooke's Micrographia. Hooke talks about an incredibly wide range of topics in that volume.\r\n\r\nOne is how we ought to define thinking\u2014what is intelligence? He cites the way that flies are drawn to the smell of meat, which seems like intelligent behavior. But then he cites the counterexample of a trap that kills an animal. To a primitive person who didn't know that the trap had been invented by a person, it might seem that the trap itself possessed intelligence and will. Of course, this isn't really the case; it's just a dumb mechanism reflecting the intelligence of him who created it. But, Hooke says, who are we to say that a fly isn't just a more complicated mechanism that is designed to fly toward the smell of meat? In which case it isn't being intelligent at all, only reflecting the intelligence of the Creator.\r\n\r\nThe final surprise I'll mention is that Leibniz's system of doing physics, which is based on fundamental units called monads, has got a few things in common with the modern notion of computational physics, or \"it from bit.\" Furthermore, Leibniz's rejection of the concept of absolute space and time, which for a long time seemed a little bit loony to people, enjoyed a revival beginning with Ernst Mach.\r\n\r\nOne could argue that people like Leibniz and the others were able to come up with some good ideas because they weren't afraid to think metaphysically. In those days, metaphysics was still a respected discipline and considered as worthwhile as mathematics. It got the stuffing kicked out of it through much of the 20th century and became a byword for mystical, obscurantist thinking, but in recent decades it has been rehabilitated somewhat.\r\n\r\nAt bottom, anyone who asks questions like \"Why does the universe seem to obey laws?\" or \"Why does mathematics work so well in modeling the physical universe?\" is engaging in metaphysics. People like Newton and Leibniz were as well-equipped for this kind of thinking as anyone today, and so it is interesting to read and think about their metaphysics. Seventeenth-century chemistry may have been rudimentary, and of only historical interest today, but 17th-century philosophy is highly developed and still interesting to read.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: The Baroque Cycle is an unusual work of fiction in that it includes an extensive bibliography. Were you pre-emptively answering critics who might not appreciate how much of these books was drawn from life?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: I didn't anticipate (and so far have not seen) any such line of attack from critics and so made no effort to pre-empt it. It just seemed obvious to me that anyone who actually bothered to read The Baroque Cycle must have an interest in that era and might want to do some further reading, and so as long as I was killing trees I figured I'd try to save them some time and hassle by supplying a few pointers on where they might look.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: Your Newton and Leibniz (and the fictional Daniel Waterhouse) are remarkable characters because of their deep interest in almost everything around them. Are there modern figures who in your opinion show that range of interests?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: To be interested in too many things is not conducive to professional advancement in the sciences today. You can't write a general Ph.D. dissertation. You have to pick something very specific. What does happen from time to time is that you'll have one scientist working on a very specific problem in one field, and another working on what seems to be an altogether different problem in another field, and somehow a spark will jump between them and they'll end up writing a joint paper.\r\n\r\nFreeman Dyson and his son George Dyson are two people with extraordinarily broad scope. Beyond that, it is difficult to generalize. One encounters high-tech geeks, lawyers, ministers, businesspeople, soldiers, and construction workers who have made themselves extremely erudite by reading a lot of history, science, and philosophy. In an earlier era, people like these might have gravitated to the Royal Society, and indeed one of the many remarkable things about the early Royal Society was its ability to gather in such people, combined with its ability to identify and marginalize \"enthusiasts\" (cranks) while fostering the ones who had something to contribute. Modern-day scientific institutions tend to value specialization. But that is an unavoidable consequence of the advancement that has taken place in all sciences in the last 350 years.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: A critic once said of Thomas Pynchon that he was one of the few modern novelists for whom what the characters do for a living is more defining than what their emotional relationships are. It seems to me that you have that same focus. In The Baroque Cycle, the biggest romantic relationship in Daniel Waterhouse's life occurs mostly offstage, unless you count his difficult friendship with Isaac Newton.\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: There's a false dichotomy embedded in that. It's possible to have an emotional relationship with what you do for a living. And this is especially true when you work with other people, because naturally you form emotional relationships with those people, which get all tangled up with your relationship to the work itself.\r\n\r\nDaniel Waterhouse has all sorts of emotional relationships with people. It is true that his romantic relationships with women play little overt role in the book. But he's got a quite complex web of relationships to his father and to the rest of his family, as well as to people like the Bolstroods, who are so close that they might as well be family. And over the course of the story he develops relationships with people like Wilkins, Hooke, Oldenburg, Newton, and Leibniz. The book is much more about those relationships than what Daniel does for a living. We actually see very little of what Daniel does for a living and much more of his interactions with these other people. The reason he is summoned back from Boston in the opening chapters of Quicksilver is precisely because he is known to have relationships with Newton and Leibniz that no one else has.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: In the last decade or two, there's been a surge of fiction set in the 17th century: Tremain's _Restoration_, Pears' _An Instance of the Fingerpost_, Chevalier's _Girl with a Pearl Earring_. Is there something about the era that speaks with particular significance to the 21st century?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: The glib answer would be that this is such a broad question that I could only answer it by writing a big fat trilogy set during this era. And if I try to answer this question discursively, that's what it's going to turn into. So I'll fall back on saying that it just feels interesting to me.\r\n\r\nHere are a few specifics. The medieval is still very much alive and well during this period. People are carrying swords around. Military units have archers. Saracens snatch people from European beaches and carry them off to slavery. There are Alchemists and Cabalists. Great countries are ruled by kings who ride into battle wearing armor. Much of the human landscape\u2014the cities and architecture\u2014are medieval. And yet the modern world is present right next to all of this in the form of calculus, joint-stock companies, international financial systems, etc. This can't but be fascinating to a novelist.\r\n\r\nSome older systems have reached a splendid apotheosis. Probably the most splendid is the court of Louis XIV at Versailles. Others mentioned include the Spanish Empire, the Mogul Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. Unfortunately it was not possible to explore all of these in very much detail in these books without making the cycle five times as long as it was already.\r\n\r\nAt the same time, with the benefit of hindsight we can see that all of those great systems were peaking and going into decline. The most conspicuous example, again, is Louis XIV's version of the French monarchy, which held together as long as he was there to run it. But he was one of a kind, and as soon as he died it all began to unravel and ceased to exist in a few decades.\r\n\r\nAgain with hindsight, we can see that the new structures and systems that supplanted the old ones were being established during this period. And they were being established in some unlikely places by some unlikely people. The role of persecuted religious minorities\u2014Jews, Huguenots, Puritans, Armenians\u2014is especially interesting here.\r\n\r\nThat's all to give some explanation of why the period is interesting to me. Of course, I can't speak for the other writers you have mentioned.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: In _The Baroque Cycle_, with some exceptions, you stick to a modern, comic mode. Since it's clear from your parodic passages that you can do period voices when you want to, why did you choose to make the language so modern?\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: _The Three Musketeers_ has a distinctly 19th-century flavor, even though it's set in the 17th century. Shakespeare's _Julius Caesar_ reads like an Elizabethan play, not like an ancient Roman history. I'm hesitant to draw such comparisons because there is always the critic who jumps in with the cheap shot: \"Oh, look, he's comparing himself to Shakespeare.\" So as a parenthetical aside to those who think that way, I'll stipulate that I'm not a Shakespeare or even a Dumas, but I am capable of learning from them.\r\n\r\nI could have tried to write the entire _Baroque Cycle_ in Jacobean English, but at some point I'd have had to ask myself, \"Who am I kidding? Everyone knows this was written in the 21st century.\" The sensibility from which it's written is that of the high-tech modern world. To purge the whole cycle of all traces of modern English would have seemed forced and absurd. So I just wrote it in whatever language seemed best to get the story across, which in some places was modern-sounding English and in other places was period English.\r\n\r\n**Reason**: There are some mysteries in the trilogy that you don't fully explain.\r\n\r\n**Stephenson**: Mysteries and unresolved questions are a part of real life, and so it's OK for them to exist in novels. As a matter of fact, I'm inclined to be a bit suspicious of any novel in which everything gets tidily resolved at the end. It doesn't feel right for me to do this. So I typically leave some things unresolved. 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But while the blooming, buzzing diversity that caught Plato's eye was a property of the natural world, our plenitude is a property of the social world. For us, plenitude is a matter of lifestyle, belief, behavior, and an ever-increasing variety of observable ways of living and being that are continually coming into existence. Plenitude is everywhere among us, especially in our culture and our politics, where it is the source of gross misunderstanding and profound conflict. We have long been accustomed to stuffing the social world into a handful of categories. We used to say such things as, "basically, there are two kinds of people in the world," or to bundle the world into a typology: social classes, psychological types, birth signs, genders, generations, or lifestyles. But increasingly, the world won't go along with our attempts to reduce it. 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From Jefferson's warning that when we "get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall be as corrupt as Europe" to Madison's explanation that separation of church and state was the only way to avoid "the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries," the Founding Fathers used the Continent to signify everything our new nation was not. A century later the Gilded Age's yearning for cultural validation complicated matters, requiring a Henry James or an Edith Wharton to do justice to the shifting balance of social insecurity, moral superiority, confidence and naivete. But even the most starry-eyed grand tourist knew they were traveling backwards in time. 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The second part of the talk is more speculative, because it is often the case that old systems get broken before people know what's going to take their place. (Anyone watching the music industry can see this at work today.) That's what I think is happening with categorization."", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:55:02", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 203, "fields": {"title": "The Family World System", "url": "http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050530&s=anderson", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:55:05", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 204, "fields": {"title": "Bottlenecks", "url": "http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n10/dasg01_.html", "description": "Are our dealings with nature sustainable? Can we expect world economic growth to continue for the foreseeable future? Should we be confident that our knowledge and skills will increase in ways that will lessen our reliance on nature despite our growing numbers and rising economic activity? These questions have been debated for decades. If the debate has become increasingly shrill, it is because two opposing ways of looking at the world continue to shape it. If, on the one hand, we look at specific examples of natural assets (fresh water, ocean fisheries, the atmosphere as a carbon 'sink': ecosystems generally), there is convincing evidence that at the rate at which we currently exploit them, they are very likely to change character for the worse, with very little warning. 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In this case I generally agree that, were to be so unlucky as to work in an office, which thank god, I am not, this sounds like the sort of place I would want to work. 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To wit: "When most people think of Utilitarianism today, they are likely to think of the idea, central to much modern economic thought, that people are by nature maximizers of the satisfaction of their own interests. In its economic form, with the accent on natural selfishness, Utilitarianism looks like a cynical creed that denies the possibility of genuine altruism. If social good for all or most people is to be achieved, it will be because somehow or other the selfish decisions of many people combine to produce it. Such Utilitarian ideas, however, are but an amputated limb of the radical philosophy that once went by that name." 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That is, three out of four Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the core of our current individualist politics and culture, which was in fact uttered by Ben Franklin, actually appears in Holy Scripture. The thing is, not only is Franklin's wisdom not biblical; it's counter-biblical. Few ideas could be further from the gospel message, with its radical summons to love of neighbor. On this essential matter, most Americans -- most American Christians -- are simply wrong, as if 75 percent of American scientists believed that Newton proved gravity causes apples to fly up."", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:55:37", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 216, "fields": {"title": "Wal-Mart Blog | WalmartWatch.com", "url": "http://walmartwatch.com/blog", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-05-17T14:55:40", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 217, "fields": {"title": "The New Atlantis - Daedalus and Icarus Revisited - Charles T. 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"Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all and left them tiny and daunted. 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Our patent pending Fare Prediction shows if airfares will rise or drop, letting you know when to buy. Search for the lowest priced flights and buy directly with airline sites." 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A big help for that no-one-reads-anymore banality you've been planning to write.", "pub_date": "2006-07-07T20:03:13", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 500, "fields": {"title": "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces", "url": "http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/the_small_faces/reviews/8756", "description": "Oh Happiness Stan and the need to find out where the moon goes when it wans... pressing questions in this modern age.", "pub_date": "2006-07-07T20:24:49", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 501, "fields": {"title": "Synonyms and related words dictionary", "url": "http://www.synonyms.ca/", "description": "Synonyms and related words dictionary", "pub_date": "2006-07-09T01:08:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 502, "fields": {"title": "Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace", "url": "http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/18/RVG3SG4FHB1.DTL", "description": "I'm a little disappointed in this collection, there are some standout pieces, notably the essay on grammer usage, but the rest lack a certain earnestness that marks his better writing.", "pub_date": "2006-07-10T01:30:41", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 503, "fields": {"title": "Designer's decline White House Invitation", "url": "http://www.designobserver.com/archives/015742.html", "description": ""We understand that politics often involves high rhetoric and the shading of language for political ends. However it is our belief that the current administration of George W. Bush has used the mass communication of words and images in ways that have seriously harmed the political discourse in America."", "pub_date": "2006-07-11T08:52:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 504, "fields": {"title": "Giant Catfish Protected From Fishing in Thailand", "url": "http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060710-giant-catfish.html", "description": ""In honor of the King of Thailand's 60th year on the throne, fishers in northern Thailand have promised to stop catching the world's largest freshwater fish." To some that might sound like so much BS, but if you've been to Thailand you'd believe them.", "pub_date": "2006-07-11T19:59:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 505, "fields": {"title": "Wired News: Conde Nast Buys Wired News", "url": "http://wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,71366-0.html?tw=wn_index_2", "description": "Most people probably don't realize that Wired News wasn't owned by Wired Magazine. But it is now. And that makes sense doesn't it? I'm not sure where that leaves webmonkey though...", "pub_date": "2006-07-11T20:01:49", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 506, "fields": {"title": "Pinning Nabokov's Prose to his Science", "url": "http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/12/features/nabokov.php", "description": ""Scholars of Nabokov's writing have never quite known what to make of his work as an entomologist. But those who play down the seriousness of Nabokov's interest in butterflies tend to overlook the fact that he worked as an obscure curator of lepidoptera for seven years."", "pub_date": "2006-07-12T09:10:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 507, "fields": {"title": "Firsthand Account of Opening a Bookstore in England", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/shoptalk/story/0,,1818817,00.html?gusrc=rss", "description": "Something I've always wanted to to, but probably never will, And definitely not in Bath.", "pub_date": "2006-07-12T15:33:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 508, "fields": {"title": "Pearl Jam pledges $100,000 to counter CO2 effects of tour", "url": "http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1819136,00.html?gusrc=rss", "description": ""Rock group Pearl Jam has promised to donate $100,000 to several groups that focus on climate change, renewable energy and other environmental causes as part of an effort to offset carbon emissions the band churns out on tour"", "pub_date": "2006-07-12T23:59:01", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 509, "fields": {"title": "Astronomy: today at sunset, NYC turns into Stonehenge", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/12/astronomy_today_at_s.html", "description": "Wow, who knew? And it happens every year, twice a year, which is really the only reason I bookmarked it. Hopefully I'll be there for the next one.", "pub_date": "2006-07-13T00:04:25", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 510, "fields": {"title": "Revealing Hidden Texts by Archimedes", "url": "http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/start.html?pg=5", "description": "Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center are using a synchrotron that accelerates electrons to nearly the speed of light to produce x-rays to reveal works by the ancient Greek mathematician that are hidden in 1,000-year-old parchment.", "pub_date": "2006-07-13T08:51:46", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 511, "fields": {"title": "Doris Lessing on Lady Chatterley's Lover", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1819727,00.html?gusrc=rss", "description": "You can never have too much on D. H. Lawrence...", "pub_date": "2006-07-14T23:28:50", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 512, "fields": {"title": "Rabbis Against Torture", "url": "http://villagevoice.com/news/0629,hentoff,73857,6.html", "description": ""Invoking centuries of Jewish law, hundreds of American rabbis confront Bush... 'Complicity with torture diminishes America's ability to insist that other governments uphold human rights.'"", "pub_date": "2006-07-17T09:09:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 513, "fields": {"title": "Destination: Mexico | Salon Literary Guide to the World", "url": "http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/07/10/mexico/", "description": "Salon's Literary Guide to the World continues. There are some stupid recommendations in this one, Carlos Castaneda for instance, but there are also some good ones like Italo Calvino and Graham Greene.", "pub_date": "2006-07-17T09:16:35", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 514, "fields": {"title": "Boy uses sound to see", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/18/boy_uses_sound_to_se.html", "description": "If this is 1, and I have no reason to believe it's not other than fact that I read about it online, this boy represents some kind of evolutionary leap. Granted not a useful one for ordinary people, but holy crap the kids using primitive sonar to see!", "pub_date": "2006-07-18T17:33:59", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 515, "fields": {"title": "William Fitzsimmons' new Album Until When We Are Ghosts", "url": "http://www.myspace.com/williamfitzsimmons", "description": "Beautiful Acoustic music for the those lazy sunday afternoons. In the vein of Nick Drake and Iron and Wine.", "pub_date": "2006-07-19T18:24:22", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 516, "fields": {"title": "Artist: Stella Im Hultberg", "url": "http://www.stellaimhultberg.com/index.html", "description": "Some great work here, which reminds me of someone else though I can't think of it at the moment. The website is rather annoying as it insists on resizing your browser (why do people do stupid shit like that?), but otherwise a nice gallery.", "pub_date": "2006-07-19T18:32:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 517, "fields": {"title": "Wired News: Battery-Fueled Car Will Smoke You", "url": "http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,71414-0.html?tw=rss.index", "description": "Finally an electric car that doesn't suck. Though it does cost $80,000, but hopefully the "sedan" model coming next year will be cheaper.", "pub_date": "2006-07-19T18:46:17", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 518, "fields": {"title": "Silence of the City", "url": "http://www.silenceofthecity.com/", "description": "Publishing Talk of the Town pieces rejected by The New Yorker.", "pub_date": "2006-07-20T08:35:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 519, "fields": {"title": "A Porch and Flowering Meadow, 6 Floors Up", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/garden/20roof.html?ei=5090&en=49d810c74f57c165&ex=1311048000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all", "description": ""Front porches and rooftop meadows are hardly the norm in high-rise Manhattan, but a couple has managed to create both, inspired by a visit eight years ago to Elk Lake, Pa." Silly rich people.", "pub_date": "2006-07-20T20:31:46", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 520, "fields": {"title": "The Haunting", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23horror.html?ex=1311307200&en=ef91722856805de7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "description": ""How Asian horror films put the fear back into America?s scary movies ? and brought the A list to a B genre." If you want a truly freaky movie check out The Audition...", "pub_date": "2006-07-20T20:36:38", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 521, "fields": {"title": "December launch for Thomas Pynchon's latest novel", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1825993,00.html?gusrc=rss", "description": "I'd be lying if I said I'd heard something more exciting in the last couple months.", "pub_date": "2006-07-21T08:33:30", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 522, "fields": {"title": "Vietnamese Sex Ed", "url": "http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-07-20T024452Z_01_HAN135202_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-LIFE-VIETNAM-SEX.XML&src=rss", "description": ""The straight-laced government of communist-run Vietnam, where pornographic Web sites are banned, plans to offer downloadable movies on an Internet site to educate married couples"", "pub_date": "2006-07-21T22:41:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 523, "fields": {"title": "Samuel Pepys' Diary", "url": "http://www.pepysdiary.com/", "description": "The diaries of Samuel Pepys published as a blog. I linked to this a long time ago, but the link seems to have disappeared on me. (Pepys was a contemporary of Newton's, 17th century England)", "pub_date": "2006-07-21T22:43:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 524, "fields": {"title": "New Democracy Player: free and open Internet TV", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/22/new_democracy_player.html", "description": ""There's a new version of Democracy Player, the free and open source Internet TV program that can play any video format and that's as easy to use as a TV."", "pub_date": "2006-07-22T09:45:13", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 525, "fields": {"title": "Chamber Plots - New York Times", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/books/review/23alford.html?ex=1311307200&en=3926344be56e06f1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "description": "What prompts people to place books in the loo? Are the ones we keep there a reflection of our deepest selves?", "pub_date": "2006-07-22T09:47:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 526, "fields": {"title": "Schneier on Security: The Value of Privacy", "url": "http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_pr.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-07-23T14:12:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 527, "fields": {"title": "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", "url": "http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/", "description": "My third book", "pub_date": "2006-07-23T14:17:47", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 528, "fields": {"title": "95 Theses of Geek Activism", "url": "http://www.scienceaddiction.com/2006/07/23/95-theses-of-geek-activism/", "description": "Some good ideas. Some pie-in-the-sky idealism, but overall a very solid set of theses.", "pub_date": "2006-07-23T14:19:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 529, "fields": {"title": "Caroline Sullivan talks to X-rated rapper Peaches", "url": "http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1827509,00.html?gusrc=rss", "description": "You gotta love Peaches. To be honest I had never heard of her until earlier this year when a friend from Germany introduced me...", "pub_date": "2006-07-24T08:06:53", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 530, "fields": {"title": "Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters", "url": "http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=00010347-101C-14C1-8F9E83414B7F4945&ref=rss", "description": ""Rigorous studies in the past two decades have shown that professional stock pickers invest no more successfully than amateurs, that noted connoisseurs distinguish wines hardly better than yokels, and that highly credentialed psychiatric therapists help patients no more than colleagues with less advanced degrees. And even when expertise undoubtedly exists--as in, say, teaching or business management--it is often hard to measure, let alone explain." But apparently chess is different.", "pub_date": "2006-07-24T08:08:04", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 531, "fields": {"title": "Find Lost Detail in Your Photos", "url": "http://www.photojojo.com/content/tutorials/five-minute-photo-fix/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-07-28T23:17:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 532, "fields": {"title": "Overplot", "url": "http://persistent.info/overplot/", "description": "Overheard in New York plotted out on google maps. One of the winners of that Google "summer of code" thing. nerd stuff.", "pub_date": "2006-07-30T00:57:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 533, "fields": {"title": "mediabistro.com: Content: How to Pitch", "url": "http://www.mediabistro.com/content/archives/howtopitch.asp", "description": "Jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising", "pub_date": "2006-07-31T11:03:04", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 534, "fields": {"title": "Destination: West Texas | Salon Literary Guide to the World", "url": "http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/07/31/west_texas/index_np.html", "description": "Another installment of Salon's literary guide to the world. I can't vouch for any of their choices, but I think the very fact that they're doing such a list is encouraging. This time it's west Texas. A bit specific, but hey.", "pub_date": "2006-07-31T16:53:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 535, "fields": {"title": "Destination: New Guinea | Salon Literary Guide to the World", "url": "http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/07/20/new_guinea/index_np.html", "description": "Another installment of Salon's literary guide to the world. Probably I should actually read these guides as they may be listing complete shite, but I just don't have time right now.", "pub_date": "2006-07-31T16:55:34", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 536, "fields": {"title": "Lannan Foundation - Bookworm Archives", "url": "http://www.lannan.org/lf/audio/bookworm-archives/", "description": "Well they're all real player files which sucks but some good interviews nonetheless (Bookworm is a weekly radio show on KCRW out of Santa Monica - at least I think it's Santa Monica)", "pub_date": "2006-07-31T21:47:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 537, "fields": {"title": "Borges on the Couch - New York Times", "url": "http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E3D6123DF934A35752C1A9629C8B63", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-07-31T21:51:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 538, "fields": {"title": "What liberal country should I move to?", "url": "http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/43314", "description": "A writer asks metafilter a question I myself have pondered many time as I watch the U.S. continue to make poor decisions, curtail civil liberties and otherwise behave like an arrogant child.", "pub_date": "2006-08-01T20:41:42", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 539, "fields": {"title": "Baudrillard to appear at London art fair", "url": "http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1835928,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=6", "description": "The controversial French writer Jean Baudrillard will speak at the Frieze art fair on October 14, in conversation with the literary theorist Sylvare Lotringer.", "pub_date": "2006-08-02T22:18:33", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 540, "fields": {"title": "workFRIENDLY - BETA", "url": "http://www.workfriendly.net/", "description": "Make any website look like a Word Document for easier at-work browsing. Strips out the image (naturally) but it does indeed look like a word doc, which is kinda cool. It's good to CSS doing something useful.", "pub_date": "2006-08-02T22:24:55", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 541, "fields": {"title": "Pay off your house in three years", "url": "http://ca.pfinance.yahoo.com/ca_finance_loans/11/how-we-paid-off-our-house-in-three-years", "description": "I've always said that if I actually made any money I wouldn't live any different than I do now, which would allow me to do things like what this couple did. It's the change in lifestyle that comes with a change in pay that means you never have any money no matter how much you make.", "pub_date": "2006-08-03T19:55:49", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 542, "fields": {"title": "The Dilbert Blog: Secret Society", "url": "http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/07/secret_society.html", "description": ""My favorite conspiracy theory is the one that says the world is being run by a handful of ultra-rich capitalists, and that our elected governments are mere puppets. I sure hope it?s true. Otherwise my survival depends on hordes of clueless goobers electing competent leaders."", "pub_date": "2006-08-03T19:56:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 543, "fields": {"title": "Hackers Clone RFID Passports", "url": "http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/hackers_clone_r.html", "description": "Of course they do. I read somewhere else that someone showed how they could be used to set off roadside bombs. Not that's a smart bomb it doesn't go off until the right nationality walks by. Jesus people, what's wrong with paper?", "pub_date": "2006-08-03T19:58:15", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 544, "fields": {"title": "Brown-Bag Your Way To Half a Million", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/software/personal-finance/brownbag-your-way-to-half-a-million-115123.php", "description": "How much do you spend eating out?", "pub_date": "2006-08-03T19:59:59", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 545, "fields": {"title": "Moleskine stops a bullet, saves man's life", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/03/moleskine_stops_a_bu.html", "description": "I suspect this will turn out to be un1, but it if it is true it's pretty fucking cool.", "pub_date": "2006-08-03T20:01:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 546, "fields": {"title": "Rickshaw Run - Adventures in the India", "url": "http://www.rickshawrun.com/", "description": ""What better way to enjoy the Christmas holidays than two weeks of mountains, mud tracks, tropical heat, gin & tonics, cricket and that most noble of vehicular genius, the three wheeled motorised rickshaw."", "pub_date": "2006-08-04T08:55:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 547, "fields": {"title": "Attractive couples have girls...", "url": "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101142.html", "description": ""Good-looking parents are 36 percent more likely to give birth to a girl than less-attractive couples, which also explains why women are, on average, better looking than men."", "pub_date": "2006-08-04T08:57:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 548, "fields": {"title": "Internet Archive: Feature Films", "url": "http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films", "description": "I think I might have linked to this before, but if not here's an archive of legal downloads (films that are in the public domain). There's some really great older stuff in here.", "pub_date": "2006-08-05T21:15:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 549, "fields": {"title": "Delhi hires monkey thugs who make bad monkeys their bitches", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/06/delhi_hires_monkey_t.html", "description": ""They say it takes a thief to catch a thief, but India's Delhi Metro has hired a monkey to frighten off other monkeys from boarding trains and upsetting passengers."", "pub_date": "2006-08-06T10:22:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 550, "fields": {"title": "BookMooch: free book trade and exchange community", "url": "http://bookmooch.com/", "description": "Works more or less like similar cd swap sites, sign up, let people know what you have and then request things from others.", "pub_date": "2006-08-07T09:53:04", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 551, "fields": {"title": "Boing Boing: Only traitors try to make us afraid of terrorists", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/07/only_traitors_try_to.html", "description": ""The bottom line is, terrorism doesn't kill many people. Even in Israel, you're four times more likely to die in a car wreck than as a result of a terrorist attack. In the USA, you need to be more worried about lightning strikes than terrorism. The point of terrorism is to create terror..."", "pub_date": "2006-08-07T13:59:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 552, "fields": {"title": "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python", "url": "http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-08-07T22:14:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 553, "fields": {"title": "Ken Rosenthal: Pictures", "url": "http://www.kenrosenthal.com/pictures.htm", "description": "It has an extremely annoying navigation system, but I love the photos on this site. Sort of Joel Peter Witkin in a light hearted mood (if such a thing were possible).", "pub_date": "2006-08-07T22:33:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 554, "fields": {"title": "Ruins of Southern California", "url": "http://blogging.la/archives/2006/05/ruins_of_southern_california.phtml", "description": "An interesting list of strange monuments and abandoned, uh, stuff.", "pub_date": "2006-08-08T09:29:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 555, "fields": {"title": "Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Jaguar_Sun", "description": "Calvino's unfinished collection of short stories. The plan I guess was to have a story for each of the senses. It's good, but clearly unfinished.", "pub_date": "2006-08-08T09:58:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 556, "fields": {"title": "Fever Coast Log by Gordon Chaplin", "url": "http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131942344/102-7940259-0066530?v=glance&n=283155", "description": "A travelogue of a voyage from Miami to the Panama canal. Written in the spirit of Graham Greene and the like. It's okay. Not one of my favorites.", "pub_date": "2006-08-08T10:02:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 557, "fields": {"title": "The Sun Ra Arkestra live in Montreal", "url": "http://www.snackfight.com/archives/000335.html", "description": ""The sun ra arkestra under the direction of marshall allen performs live in montreal." Free mp3 download via snackfight.", "pub_date": "2006-08-08T10:10:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 558, "fields": {"title": "Creation: The Time Fountain", "url": "http://cre.ations.net/creation/44", "description": "Absolutely brilliant little fountain that uses UV LED's and something called Fluorescein to create a fountain where drops of water can be paused and even reversed in real time (it takes advantage of an optical illusion involving strobed motion and out of sync movement - very similar to how spoked wheels sometimes appear to spin backwards).", "pub_date": "2006-08-08T17:45:25", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 559, "fields": {"title": "Grace by jeff Buckley", "url": "http://www.jeffbuckley.com/", "description": "I resisted Jeff Buckley for a long time because of the hype etc, which of course was silly. He's really quite good, though better when he's quieter as opposed to trying to rock.", "pub_date": "2006-08-08T17:49:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 560, "fields": {"title": "The Beautiful Struggle by Talib Kweli", "url": "http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19164/Talib_Kweli_The_Beautiful_Struggle", "description": "Kweli takes a lot of crap for supposedly selling out as if production values were anything other then... well, production values. Anyway I've always thought this was a great record and I've been giving it a relisten lately.", "pub_date": "2006-08-08T22:07:30", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 561, "fields": {"title": "MyApartmentMap Find Apartments And Roomates On A Map", "url": "http://www.myapartmentmap.com/", "description": "Great little site that brings together apartment listings with google maps. Finally, i've only been looking for this for about two months.", "pub_date": "2006-08-09T10:00:50", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 562, "fields": {"title": "A children's bookstore in Beijing", "url": "http://www.thecoolhunter.net/design/HAVEN-FOR-THE-LITTLE-IMAGINATIONS-IN-BEIJING/", "description": "They definitely did not have anything this cool when I was kid.", "pub_date": "2006-08-10T00:51:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 563, "fields": {"title": "Nabaztag -- The first smart rabbit", "url": "http://www.nabaztag.com/vl/FR/index.jsp", "description": ""I'm a newborn bunny, one of a unique species of intelligent, smart objects. I'm 23 cm tall, I wiggle my ears, I sing, I talk and my body lights up and pulsates with hundreds of colours. Thanks to Wi-Fi technology, I'm always connected to the Internet."", "pub_date": "2006-08-10T00:52:49", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 564, "fields": {"title": "Listamatic: one list, many options - Using CSS and a simple list to create radically different list options", "url": "http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-08-10T20:22:39", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 565, "fields": {"title": "Liquids on a Plane", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/10/liquids_on_a_plane_a.html", "description": "Life imitates art. Don't ever let anyone tell you different.", "pub_date": "2006-08-11T01:12:35", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 566, "fields": {"title": "Open A Beer Bottle With A Piece Of Paper", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrXmDiYHUY0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhedonistica%2Ecom%2Fyt%2Ephp%3Fpath%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fv%2FqrXmDiYHUY0", "description": ""Like the title says, this video shows you how to open a beer bottle with a single 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. It helps if you know how to do the lighter trick already." Why? I have no idea.", "pub_date": "2006-08-11T21:20:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 567, "fields": {"title": "The Guardian on John Cowper Powys", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1842437,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10", "description": "I first heard of Powys from some Henry Miller essay and it took some time to actually locate one of his books, but I've been a fan ever since. It's a shame he isn't better know, but perhaps a new biography will change that.", "pub_date": "2006-08-11T21:32:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 568, "fields": {"title": "The Office meets Microsoft", "url": "http://www.ifilm.com/player/?ifilmId=2751040&pg=default&skin=default&refsite=default&mediaSize=default&context=product&launchVal=1&data=", "description": "Apparently Microsoft UK hired Ricky Jarvis to make these training videos. If you're a fan of the British version of The Office, you'll enjoy...", "pub_date": "2006-08-12T09:24:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 569, "fields": {"title": "Chicago Manual of Style", "url": "http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/about.manual.html", "description": "I've gone from being a grammar slob to being semi-obsessed. I personally don't like the Chicago Manual of Style, but maybe the CMS's foray onto the web will encourage some others (Oxford Unabridged Dictionary I'm looking at you)", "pub_date": "2006-08-15T21:09:49", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 570, "fields": {"title": "Who has killed more, Satan or God?", "url": "http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/08/who-has-killed-more-satan-or-god.html", "description": "This person "counted the number of people that were killed by the God in the Bible. I came up with 2,038,334." Satan on the other hand is recorded with only ten. Of course if I remember right Satan is more the get-after-they're-dead than the actual kill them type of guy. Still. god. damn that a lot of people.", "pub_date": "2006-08-15T21:12:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 571, "fields": {"title": "Build your own DVR - Lifehacker", "url": "http://www.lifehacker.com/software/dvr/hack-attack-build-your-own-dvr-165963.php", "description": "How to article from Lifehacker. Great little project. The main problem being that I don't own a TV. And I don't want one. But part of me wants to do this just because it sounds fun.", "pub_date": "2006-08-15T21:14:16", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 572, "fields": {"title": "Getting Finances Done: How to create a zero-based budget", "url": "http://www.gettingfinancesdone.com/blog/archives/2006/08/how-to-create-a-zero-based-budget/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-08-15T21:19:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 573, "fields": {"title": "Blood on the tracks", "url": "http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/08/06/blood_on_the_tracks/?page=full", "description": ""David Hume wrote that reason is a 'slave to the emotions.' But new research suggests that in our moral decision-making, reason and emotion duke it out within the mind." And no I didn't link to it just because it has the same title as one of my articles. Gotta love Bob Dylan though.", "pub_date": "2006-08-16T14:08:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 574, "fields": {"title": "Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay", "url": "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71543-0.html?tw=rss.index", "description": "Excellant article on the folks behind Pirate Bay the popular torrent tracking site (part one of two). And yes I do think copyright laws are outdated, over-restrictive and need to be rewritten.", "pub_date": "2006-08-16T14:11:14", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 575, "fields": {"title": "A Nation Divided Over Piracy", "url": "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71544-0.html?tw=rss.index", "description": "Part two of Wired's article on Sweden's Pirate Bay/Pirate Party. I wonder if, with the popularity of Pirates of the Caribbean, some unwitting folks will find themselves googled off into previously uncharted philosophical waters.", "pub_date": "2006-08-17T09:57:28", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 576, "fields": {"title": "Internet '96", "url": "http://www.msu.edu/~karjalae/internet96.htm", "description": "A hilarious (well if you're a nerd it's hilarious) look at some sites circa 1996. For those that think design is irrelevant, well, uh, that's just a stupid thought.", "pub_date": "2006-08-17T10:16:06", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 577, "fields": {"title": "YouTube - OkGo Dance", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWCSGGrU9MA", "description": "OkGo dancing on treadmills. I will admit to being somewhat skeptical of YouTube when it launched, but oh it has redeemed itself with brilliant things like this. Who knew the world had so much talent and creativity lurking in its recesses?", "pub_date": "2006-08-17T10:21:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 578, "fields": {"title": "China typhoon death toll hits 163 - Aug 13, 2006", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/china.typhoon.ap/index.html", "description": ""China's death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose Sunday to 134, with 163 people missing, as authorities said some victims were evacuees who died when buildings used as shelters collapsed in the strongest storm to hit China in more than five decades." 170 mph winds. Jesus.", "pub_date": "2006-08-17T10:28:06", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 579, "fields": {"title": "Schneier on Security: Human/Bear Security Trade-Off", "url": "http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/security_is_a_t.html", "description": "Shot clip about the bear problems in Yosemite NP back in the 1980's. Most notable for this quote: "Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.'"", "pub_date": "2006-08-18T10:18:15", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 580, "fields": {"title": "Found: Fishermen Lost at Sea", "url": "http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1219727.ece", "description": ""After having engine problems soon after they left their home port, it seems the men were steadily pushed west across the ocean and were lost for 11 months."", "pub_date": "2006-08-18T10:19:22", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 581, "fields": {"title": "New species of sea urchin found in eBay auctions", "url": "http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19125652.900.html", "description": ""They say you can get anything on the internet auction site - it now seems you can even discover new marine species"", "pub_date": "2006-08-18T10:21:48", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 582, "fields": {"title": "SellaBand", "url": "http://www.sellaband.com/", "description": ""SellaBand brings new artists and music fans together to reach one goal. Make music and money together." Very interesting business model. Certainly better than the current one (which is I guess something like suing all your customers until you don't have any left)", "pub_date": "2006-08-18T10:27:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 583, "fields": {"title": "The Odd Couple - New York Times", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/magazine/20outkast.html?ex=1313726400&en=b327de0475182547&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "description": ""Andr&#233; 3000 and Big Boi are about to star in the first OutKast movie. But that doesn?t mean that hip-hop?s greatest, strangest duo are back together." Fantastic NYTimes article/interview.", "pub_date": "2006-08-19T20:36:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 584, "fields": {"title": "ScrapeTorrent.com, a new Torrent Search Engine", "url": "http://www.scrapetorrent.com/index.php", "description": ""A clean and intuitive torrent search engine site that combines all the major torrent search sites into a single page of search results." Scrapes MiniNova, PirateBay, IsoHunt and TorrentSpy in one clean interface. Quite nice.", "pub_date": "2006-08-21T08:21:14", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 585, "fields": {"title": "Airfare Predictions, Find Cheap Airline Tickets - Farecast", "url": "http://www.farecast.com/", "description": "Farecast.com which I linked to some time back has finally gone nationwide with 55 departure cities... I can't say how accurate it is, but just the fact that it exists at all is great.", "pub_date": "2006-08-21T08:26:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 586, "fields": {"title": "Jonathan Franzen Interviewed in Time", "url": "http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1229130,00.html", "description": "Fluff piece but apparently he has a new memoir out. This is exactly the sort of writing that has inspired a music site I'm in the process of developing... you are a writer for Time Mag and you have an opportunity to ask Jonathan Franzen anything thing you want and you pick birdwatching? Jesus.", "pub_date": "2006-08-21T08:35:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 587, "fields": {"title": "Wired News: Perpetual Motion Claim Probed", "url": "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/gizmos/0,71626-0.html?tw=rss.index", "description": "A story about a possible perpetual motion machine popped up on the internet about a week ago and I've been following it since then. I doubt it will wash, but if it does... Well, here's Wired's take anyway.", "pub_date": "2006-08-21T17:21:24", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 588, "fields": {"title": "Photographer behind immortal Iwo Jima image dies", "url": "http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1855676,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=6", "description": ""Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer prize for his immortal picture of six US marines raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died on Sunday. He was 94."", "pub_date": "2006-08-22T09:25:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 589, "fields": {"title": "Boing Boing: RyanAir: Airport security is like a strip-search", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/22/ryanair_airport_secu.html", "description": ""RyanAir, the discount airline that's threatened to sue the UK government over new security procedures has posted this provocative image to its website: a crowd of naked people running away from their piled-up clothes, with the caption 'New Airport Security Procedures Put the Fun Back Into Flying.' ... The terrorists hate our freedom, so by eliminating the freedom, we can stop the terrorists from hating us."", "pub_date": "2006-08-22T09:27:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 590, "fields": {"title": "AllPeers.com", "url": "http://www.allpeers.com/index_nf.htm", "description": "I've been watching/hearing about this for some time and apparently it's set to launch today. I think this is going to be a big one, but hey, I could be wrong.", "pub_date": "2006-08-23T14:25:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 591, "fields": {"title": "What the Terrorists Want", "url": "http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/what_the_terror.html", "description": ""Another thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that the British government arrested the 23 suspects without fanfare. Imagine that the TSA and its European counterparts didn't engage in pointless airline-security measures like banning liquids. And imagine that the press didn't write about it endlessly, and that the politicians didn't use the event to remind us all how scared we should be. If we'd reacted that way, then the terrorists would have truly failed."", "pub_date": "2006-08-24T09:50:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 592, "fields": {"title": "Trionfi: History and Origin of Tarot", "url": "http://trionfi.com/", "description": "An interesting site for anyone who's curious about the history of cards, how a poker deck relates to tarot deck or how the whole concept got started.", "pub_date": "2006-08-24T09:55:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 593, "fields": {"title": "Beck in Wired: The Infinite Album", "url": "http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/beck.html", "description": "Nice interview with Beck about his new album and some of his ideas about where the album/music industry/thing-we-call-music is heading.", "pub_date": "2006-08-24T09:56:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 594, "fields": {"title": "Astronomers Say Pluto Is Not a Planet", "url": "http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060824/D8JMRAU80.html", "description": ""Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet." Which means... uh, well, not much.", "pub_date": "2006-08-24T10:08:13", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 595, "fields": {"title": "Just one big happy family, eh?", "url": "http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1857376,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=6", "description": "Very nice Gaurdian interview with those wacky (and numerous) Canadians know as Broken Social Scene.", "pub_date": "2006-08-24T17:12:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 596, "fields": {"title": "No Suit Required", "url": "http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/nettwerk.html", "description": "Wired interview with McBride, CEO of Nettwerk Music Group, who has some great ideas about the future of the music business, record companies and more. Excellant read if you're at all interested in where the music industry could be going instead of where it is going -- straight into the ground.", "pub_date": "2006-08-25T12:05:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 597, "fields": {"title": "Salon's Literary Guide to the World - Turkey", "url": "http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/09/04/turkey/index_np.html", "description": "Yet another installment. And I'm missed lots of them so if you want to see them all head over to Salon.", "pub_date": "2006-09-05T11:19:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 598, "fields": {"title": "Tuk-tuk pair end 12,000-mile trek", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/5311650.stm", "description": ""Two women have returned to the UK after a 12,000-mile (19,312km) charity drive through 12 countries in a pink tuk-tuk, a motorised three-wheeled rickshaw."", "pub_date": "2006-09-05T23:53:37", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 599, "fields": {"title": "Political NASCAR: What if pols had to wear $$ on their sleeves?", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/06/political_nascar_wha.html", "description": "Via Boing Boing: What if politians had to wear uniforms with patches from all their campaign contributers? Well, it's not as good as campaign spending limits, but it would be a step in the right direction.", "pub_date": "2006-09-06T18:19:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 600, "fields": {"title": "More Americans have now died In Iraq than died On 9/11", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/12/more_americans_have_.html", "description": "Just in case you were one of those two people that still think this war is about 9/11.", "pub_date": "2006-09-12T17:41:53", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 601, "fields": {"title": "The Project Apollo Image Gallery", "url": "http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html", "description": "The original photographs spanning nearly the entire Apollo space project. And these aren't the ones Time reprinted, this is the whole thing, training and everything. Some remarkable footage of the moon.", "pub_date": "2006-09-16T19:39:37", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 602, "fields": {"title": "What really makes Uncle Sam tick", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,1874064,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10", "description": ""Greil Marcus stages cultural firework shows, dazzling displays of erudition and arcane connections (from Mott the Hoople to Moby Dick via John Dos Passos)." From The Guardian.", "pub_date": "2006-09-17T12:52:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 603, "fields": {"title": "Eating cheaply in NYC", "url": "http://www.kottke.org/06/09/cheap-food-nyc", "description": "People always complain that New York is too expensive, and in some ways they're right, but as this handy list shows, there's plenty of cheap food in New York.", "pub_date": "2006-09-21T14:24:17", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 604, "fields": {"title": "Royal Society Publishing", "url": "http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373", "description": "The Royal Society Digital Archive is now on-line and free to use... until December. Until that time, every article in its collections, going back to 1665, is freely accessible...", "pub_date": "2006-09-22T09:23:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 605, "fields": {"title": "Symphony of sighs", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/poetry/0,,1879057,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10", "description": "Anne Carson, author of the fabulous Autobiography of Red, has a new book out.", "pub_date": "2006-09-22T20:02:33", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 606, "fields": {"title": "Cat and Girl", "url": "http://www.catandgirl.com/index.php", "description": ""The villanelle is the most restrictive of all sandwich forms." Not technically a villanelle, but funny anyway.", "pub_date": "2006-09-22T20:14:59", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 607, "fields": {"title": "All The Simpsons you need", "url": "http://www.allsimps.com/", "description": "Well I don't know how long this will last since it's definitely illegal, but there's a site up with all the episodes of the simpsons available for download...", "pub_date": "2006-09-24T10:43:54", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 608, "fields": {"title": "The World's Coolest Art-Themed Hotel Rooms", "url": "http://www.thecoolhunter.net/travel/THE-WORLDS-COOLEST-THEMED-HOTEL-ROOMS/", "description": "Fantastic gallery of some amazingly beautiful hotel rooms from around the globe.", "pub_date": "2006-09-27T09:22:42", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 609, "fields": {"title": "US may ban sale of cluster bombs to Israel", "url": "http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/us-may-ban-sale-of-cluster-bombs-to-israel", "description": ""The discovery of hundreds of US-made cluster bombs among the tens of thousands of unexploded munitions carpeting the south of Lebanon, has led to calls on Washington to impose a moratorium on sales of the weapons to Israel." About time. And while we're at it how about including everyone in that list?", "pub_date": "2006-09-27T09:26:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 610, "fields": {"title": "Boing Boing: Micro air vehicles that cooperate", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/27/micro_air_vehicles_t.html", "description": ""MIT researchers are using tricked-out model helicopters, each about the size of a seagull, to demonstrate swarming behavior in unmanned micro-air vehicles (drones)." Yeah, we all get to live in a scifi nightmare. I can't wait.", "pub_date": "2006-09-28T00:04:41", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 611, "fields": {"title": "Tokyo Rose (aka Orphan Ann) Dies at 90", "url": "http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/09/tokyo_rose_aka_.html", "description": ""Iva Ikuko Toguri was probably the most infamous female disc jockey in American history. Born in Los Angeles in 1916, Toguri was forced to broadcast propaganda for Japan during World War II after the U.S. abandoned her there just days before the Pearl Harbor attack."", "pub_date": "2006-09-28T00:05:48", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 612, "fields": {"title": "Interview: Seetharaman Narayanan", "url": "http://www.ironicsans.com/2006/09/interview_seetharaman_narayanan.html", "description": "If you work with photoshop a lot, you see the splash screen a lot. The splash screen has always listed the names of the various engineers that help design the program and one of those names stands out: Seetharaman Narayanan. For over seven years I have stared at that name. And now I know what he looks like.", "pub_date": "2006-09-28T00:25:32", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 613, "fields": {"title": "The postman always sings twice", "url": "http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1882780,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=6", "description": "After NMH broke up in 1999 Jeremy Barnes apparently moved to England and became a postmaster. Uh? Okay. He's back in the music world now with a new band 'A Hawk and a Hacksaw.'", "pub_date": "2006-09-28T21:39:06", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 614, "fields": {"title": "The Ode Less Travelled", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/books/review/Orr.t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=1c8616e7604308be&ex=1317355200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "description": "It seems Stephen Fry has written a book on poetry... From the Time's review: goal is to demystify poetry, to make it as open to the interested amateur as "carpentry and bridge and wine."", "pub_date": "2006-09-30T09:35:06", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 615, "fields": {"title": "Boing Boing: Gilberto Gil slams WIPO", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/01/gilberto_gil_slams_w.html", "description": ""Tropicalismo legend Gilberto Gil, now serving as the Brazilian Minister of Culture, excoriated the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization this week. He told WIPO that its fundamental reason for existence needed to be rexamined, now that knowledge-goods have become so critical to development"", "pub_date": "2006-10-02T11:15:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 616, "fields": {"title": "Lights go off in Iceland", "url": "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801546.html", "description": ""Iceland's capital and several towns plunged into darkness on Thursday as street lights were turned off for people to get a better view of the night sky." Great idea.", "pub_date": "2006-10-02T11:17:25", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 617, "fields": {"title": "Get Better Movie Recommendations", "url": "http://www.movietally.com/", "description": "Movietally.com is a great database for those looking to find better movie recommendations than the recommendations provided by say, netflix.", "pub_date": "2006-10-02T11:26:22", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 618, "fields": {"title": "One Last Night of Rock... CBCGs Closes it's Doors", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/arts/music/16cbgb.html?ex=1318651200&amp;en=d2d4cafa8c0658f7&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss", "description": "Sunday night was the last concert at CBGB, the famously crumbling NY rock club that has been in continuous, loud operation since December 1973.", "pub_date": "2006-10-16T13:05:13", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 619, "fields": {"title": "Wired News: Straight Dope on the IPod's Birth", "url": "http://www.wired.com/news/columns/cultofmac/0,71956-0.html?tw=rss.index", "description": "Interesting article tracing the initial development of the iPod...", "pub_date": "2006-10-17T10:00:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 620, "fields": {"title": "Does Television cause Autism?", "url": "http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/waldman/autpaper.html", "description": "Interesting Cornell study on the links between toddlers watching television and the development of autism? 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I can't wait to see you go down with the ship like all the other vermin."", "pub_date": "2006-10-26T11:06:42", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 633, "fields": {"title": "Lingerie, corsets and more at Lovefifi.com", "url": "http://www.lovefifi.com/", "description": "Sexy Lingerie, Corsets, and Plus Size Lingerie at discount prices.", "pub_date": "2006-10-30T11:47:43", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 634, "fields": {"title": "World Cities Database", "url": "http://www.worldcitydb.com/", "description": "WorldCityDB.com is free service using geographical database gazetteers of world features and cities with 3.1 million cities, 270+ countries and territories. 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Or the Red and White chess Queens perhaps? No fun at all. I'm with the Mad Hatter. Give me the crack in the teacup that opens a lane to the land of the dead. "", "pub_date": "2006-11-27T23:57:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 654, "fields": {"title": "Frontline: Secret History of the Credit Card", "url": "http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/view/", "description": ""It's one of the most wonderful times of the year for the banking industry's most lucrative business: credit cards. In the coming weeks, millions of Americans will reach into their wallets and use plastic to buy an estimated $100 billion in holiday gifts. 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Up until now, the standard answer to privacy concerns with RFIDs is to just kill them -- put your new US Passport in a microwave for a few minutes to nuke the chip. But with an RFID firewall, it might be possible to reap the benefits of RFID without the cost."", "pub_date": "2006-12-06T17:13:55", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 668, "fields": {"title": "Family of late prosecuted psychic calls for pardon", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/07/family_of_late_prose.html", "description": "Fifty years after the death of psychic Helen Duncan, the last person in the UK imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act, her family is calling for her to be pardoned. She was imprisoned after she channeled the spirit of a sailor from a specific sunken warship, several months before the loss of the ship was made public. 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Personally I have a nice pair I bought in a store and several "backup" pairs that I got online.", "pub_date": "2006-12-10T11:01:37", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 670, "fields": {"title": "Boing Boing: Charitable giving guide", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/11/charitable_giving_gu.html", "description": "Great list of charities...", "pub_date": "2006-12-11T17:42:19", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 671, "fields": {"title": "Learn to control your finances - Lifehacker", "url": "http://www.lifehacker.com/software/budgeting/learn-to-control-your-finances-220797.php", "description": "review of eco site feed the pig.", "pub_date": "2006-12-11T17:49:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 672, "fields": {"title": "Fool.com: Your Order", "url": "https://www.fool.com/Shop/Order.asp?cat=18&pid=1081&dc=B1F81728-9B6D-422A-8234-BFEEEE7C538A&diff=169&source=isaedilnk3550369", "description": "Try the motley fool financial advisor", "pub_date": "2006-12-11T17:50:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 673, "fields": {"title": "Premiere Magazine - 20 Most Overrated", "url": "http://www.premiere.com/feature/3268/20-most-overrated.html", "description": "Hurrah to Premiere magazine for picking Jules and Jim as one of the 20 most overrated films of all time. I agree with all the picks on here except maybe Clerks and Easy Rider, neither of which are spectacular, but I enjoyed them. The only question I have is why isn't the godfather I-III on that list?", "pub_date": "2006-12-11T17:55:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 674, "fields": {"title": "Robert Anton Wilson is blogging", "url": "http://beta.blogger.com/profile/06504517528789477168", "description": "His profile? Age: 74. Gender: Male. Astrological Sign: Capricorn. Zodiac Year: Sheep. Industry: Religion. Occupation: Mind Fucker", "pub_date": "2006-12-12T17:13:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 675, "fields": {"title": "Craigslist Meets the Capitalists", "url": "http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/craigslist-meets-the-capitalists/", "description": "Mr. Schachter still did not seem to understand. How about running AdSense ads from Google? Craigslist has considered that, Mr. Buckmaster said. They even crunched the numbers, which were "quite staggering." But users haven?t expressed an interest in seeing ads, so it is not going to happen. Following the meeting, Mr. Schachter wrote a research note, flagged by Tech Trader Daily, which suggests that he still doesn?t quite get the concept of serving customers first, and worrying about revenues later, if at all (and nevermind profits). Craigslist, the analyst wrote, "does not fully monetize its traffic or services." Which might be why it kicks so much ass.", "pub_date": "2006-12-12T17:15:50", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 676, "fields": {"title": "Used Book of the Month Club", "url": "http://savethebookstoresavetheworld.com/used-book-club/", "description": ""The concept is simple: we select a book for you (based on your suggestions) and send it to the address you choose once every month. Give us an idea the kinds of books you're interested in, and our staff will pick out a book that we think you'll like. The books are yours to keep or better yet to give to your friends when you're done with them." Prices start at $12.50 a month.", "pub_date": "2006-12-12T17:18:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 677, "fields": {"title": "Everyday Innovations - Booksling", "url": "http://www.everydayinnovations.com/pages/products_booksling.php", "description": "Some things are just better kept together. BookSling keeps your pen or highlighter with your book. Why would you want it any other way? Whether you're on the road or just lying in bed, it's nice to know your tool of choice is always within easy reach- write where you need it.", "pub_date": "2006-12-13T14:01:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 678, "fields": {"title": "Spend To Save - 10 Things To Buy That Will Save You Money", "url": "http://www.pfadvice.com/2006/11/02/spend-to-save-10-things-to-buy-that-can-save-you-money/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-12-13T23:49:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 679, "fields": {"title": "Sun Ra Videos", "url": "http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/sun_ras_space_i.html", "description": "Parts of Sun Ra's legendary Space is the Place movie have popped up on YouTube. Wikipedia describes it as "one part Blaxploitation film, and all polemic parable -- a mythopoetic manifesto, made by people who believed in Ra's mystical message as much as they appreciated his Afro-psychedelica." Unfortunately the whole thing isn't up there, but John Brownlee's post will direct you to a few clips.", "pub_date": "2006-12-14T10:17:46", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 680, "fields": {"title": "DIY cable and magnet bulletin-board - Lifehacker", "url": "http://www.lifehacker.com/software/diy/diy-cable-and-magnet-bulletinboard-221705.php", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-12-14T18:09:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 681, "fields": {"title": "MAKE: Blog: Scooter hack", "url": "http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/12/scooter_hack.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890", "description": "A lot of people think this is fake, and possibly it is, but having spent some time in Asia I can say that I have certainly seem scooters with similar, in not quite as extravagant, modifications, extensions, oversized loads and other craziness", "pub_date": "2006-12-14T18:11:41", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 682, "fields": {"title": "How to Build a Cardboard Castle", "url": "http://www.mrmcgroovys.com/castle.htm", "description": "With Mr. McGroovy's Box Rivets and free castle plans, anyone can build a cardboard castle for under $10! Instructions and plans included.", "pub_date": "2006-12-22T13:17:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 683, "fields": {"title": "How To Disable RDIF Chips in US Passports", "url": "http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=9", "description": "All passports issued by the US State Department after January 1 will have always-on radio frequency identification chips, making it easy for officials ? and hackers ? to grab your personal stats. Getting paranoid about strangers slurping up your identity? Here?s what you can do about it. But be careful ? tampering with a passport is punishable by 25 years in prison. Not to mention the ?special? customs search, with rubber gloves. Bon voyage!", "pub_date": "2006-12-28T23:14:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 684, "fields": {"title": "100 Things We Did Not Know Last Year", "url": "http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/12/100_things_we_didnt_know_last_2.shtml", "description": "My favorite end-o-the-year list. From the BBC, here's some spoilers: 1. Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese". 2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts. 3. Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.", "pub_date": "2006-12-28T23:16:10", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 685, "fields": {"title": "Egyptian temple in GA from Nuwaubian Nation of Moors destroyed", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/24/egyptian_temple_in_g.html", "description": "Just outside of Athens GA where I used to live was a religious group who called themselves the Nubians. The Nubians constructed a giant temple/replica of the egyptian pyramids. Alas apparently the Nubian leader was convicted of child molestation and the government seized the compound and tore the whole thing down. Did no one else see the marvelous amusement park possibilities here?", "pub_date": "2006-12-28T23:20:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 686, "fields": {"title": "Old FBI memo: "It's a Wonderful Life" is commie propaganda", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/24/old_fbi_memo_its_a_w.html", "description": "Just in case you thought the government only recently went crazy... FBI documents from 1947 show that government officials once believed the Christmas movie classic "It's a Wonderful Life" was Communist propaganda. The enlighteningly titled memo in question is: "COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY." Silly commies.", "pub_date": "2006-12-28T23:22:44", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 687, "fields": {"title": "Throw Away your TV and Save a Bundle", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/12/29/throw-away-your-tv-and-save-a-bundle/", "description": "An hour of television carries about twenty minutes of commercials. At thirty seconds per commercial, that?s forty ads an hour. Five hours of television each day would expose you to around 250 ads.", "pub_date": "2006-12-29T20:15:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 688, "fields": {"title": "Art of Science 2006 Gallery", "url": "http://www.princeton.edu/~artofsci/gallery2006/", "description": "The practices of science and art both involve the single-minded pursuit of those moments of discovery when what one perceives suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment. They range from the image that validates years of research, to the epiphany of beauty in the trash after a long day at the lab, to a painter's meditation on the meaning of biological life.", "pub_date": "2006-12-29T20:18:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 689, "fields": {"title": "Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein executed - CNN.com", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/29/hussein/index.html", "description": "Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator who spent his last years in captivity after his ruthless Baathist regime was toppled from power by the U.S.-led coalition in 2003, was hanged Saturday for crimes committed in a brutal crackdown during his reign, a witness said. Saddam was unquestionably a bad man, but I'm still sorry to see him hanged. In addition to believing the death penalty wrong, I think vengeance is the wrong note on which to start a new government.", "pub_date": "2006-12-29T21:07:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 690, "fields": {"title": "The Perpetual Baby", "url": "http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/the_perpetual_b.html", "description": "Brooke Greenberg is an infantile 13-year-old. She looks like an infant, acts like an infant, and has been this way for the past thirteen years. Her parents have simply adjusted to the forever baby, as medical science is completely unable to explain her condition.", "pub_date": "2006-12-29T21:09:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 691, "fields": {"title": "How I Bought My House With Very Little Of My Own Money", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/12/30/how-i-bought-my-house-with-very-little-of-my-own-money/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-12-30T21:14:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 692, "fields": {"title": "vi commands", "url": "http://www.ss64.com/bashsyntax/vi.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2006-12-30T21:32:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 693, "fields": {"title": "BitTorrent Tutorial Roundup at Torrentfreak", "url": "http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-tutorial-roundup/", "description": "The Latest BitTorrent News and Filesharing Info", "pub_date": "2006-12-31T08:31:11", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 694, "fields": {"title": "Hungry For a Month", "url": "http://hungryforamonth.blogspot.com/", "description": "Blog from a guy who lived on less than a dollar a day for food for one month. Interesting experience, in his words: "For the month of November, I?m only spending $30 on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, sauce packets from Taco Bell, free coffee from an office). Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of the month, it all has to add up to $30 or less."", "pub_date": "2007-01-05T18:22:41", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 695, "fields": {"title": "Photos of Paris flood, 1910", "url": "http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/france/paris/photos/flood/flood_1910_paris.html", "description": ""At ten minutes to eleven on the morning of Friday, January 21, 1910... the power station from which all the public clocks of Paris are worked by compressed air was flooded by the Seine. All the clocks stopped simultaneously with military exactitude, and with a start of surprise Parisians began to realize that the Seine in flood was not a harmless spectacle that could be watched with the cheerful calm of philosophic detachment, and that the river in revolt was an enemy to be feared even by the most civilized city in Europe. Crowds, it is 1, had gathered on the embankments, admiring the headlong rush of the silent yellow river that carried with it logs and barrels, broken furniture, the carcasses of animals, and perhaps sometimes a corpse, all racing madly to the sea; they had watched cranes, great piles of stones, and the roofs of sheds emerge for a time from the flooded wharves and then vanish in the swirl of the rising water, while barges and pontoons, generally hidden from sight far below, rose gradually above the level of the streets, notably one great two-storied bathing barge, a vision of unsuspected hideousness, that threatened at any moment, triply moored as it was, to crash into the parapet."", "pub_date": "2007-01-06T09:29:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 696, "fields": {"title": "Stuff We Like: The Doorganizer - Lifehacker", "url": "http://www.lifehacker.com/software/gadgets/stuff-we-like--the-doorganizer-226507.php", "description": "Along the lines of the previously-featured Do Not forget doorhanger, the Doorganizer is a doorknob pouch for stuff you need to take with you next time you go out.", "pub_date": "2007-01-06T09:30:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 697, "fields": {"title": "Black Tie Optional - New York Times", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/education/edlife/07nakedparties.html?ei=5090&en=4ff3d98d49f32172&ex=1325826000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all", "description": ""Naked parties on campus are more an experiment in social interaction than a sexual experience - Lighted only by tea candles, the party had the afterglow of a literary reading: Students chatted in small groups, drifting toward the darkest parts of the room. Arms held tight to the body, eyes unwavering from face level, they drank and smoked and talked about the fact that they were naked: 'I?m so pale.' 'You look radiant.' 'The air feels weird without clothes ? skin is this big sense organ.'" Years ago I attended a naked party at Brown University in Rhode Island and have to say that I agree, it was not a very sexual environment, but it was fun.", "pub_date": "2007-01-09T09:04:59", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 698, "fields": {"title": "Bookdarts.com - Store Loator", "url": "http://www.bookdarts.com/store_locations.asp?stateky=28239", "description": "book marks, BOOK MARKS, Book Marks, Book marks, highlighters, highlighter, HIGHLIGHTERS, Highlighters, book tools, Book Tools, BOOK TOOLS, study aids, STUDY AIDS, Study Aids, Page Points, page points, PAGE POINTS, ARCHIVE, Archive, archive, organizers, Organizers, ORGANIZERS", "pub_date": "2007-01-09T09:05:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 699, "fields": {"title": "Save a Snowflake for Decades - Popular Science", "url": "http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/e5fb1e4e0fca9010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html", "description": ""Ever wanted to catch a snowflake and keep it forever? You can. This is a photograph of a snowflake that fell in January 1979, but it isn?t a 27-year-old photo. It is a recent shot of a snowflake that?s been sitting in chemist Tryggvi Emilsson?s desk for 27 years, locked in a drop of that miracle of modern chemistry we call superglue. The 'super' in the thin, runny adhesive, which was invented during World War II, is the small molecules in it called cyanoacrylate monomers that penetrate and interlock with the microscopic forms of anything they touch."", "pub_date": "2007-01-09T09:07:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 700, "fields": {"title": "DIY soup-can safe - Lifehacker", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/software/security/diy-soupcan-safe-227284.php", "description": "The crafty DIY-ers at Instructables show you how to create a "diversion safe" (something an intruder / babysitter / good-for-nothing brother-in-law would never think to look in) out of an ordinary soup can.", "pub_date": "2007-01-09T17:37:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 701, "fields": {"title": "Is God an Accident?", "url": "http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200512/god-accident", "description": "Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe. Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for this phenomenon. One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Which leads to the question ...", "pub_date": "2007-01-09T18:54:20", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 702, "fields": {"title": "Boing Boing: London metro police poster", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/09/london_metro_police_.html", "description": ""This is an actual British Government poster outside a London Metro. Looks like they ripped it straight from the set of Brazil." Creepy I tell you...", "pub_date": "2007-01-09T18:56:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 703, "fields": {"title": "Le Grand Content", "url": "http://www.clemenskogler.net/film/grandcontent.htm", "description": "Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre' which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters. The film is a co-production with Karo Szmit. Andre Tschinder is the speaker. The diagrams are inspired by the site indexed.blogspot.com created by Jennifer Hagy.", "pub_date": "2007-01-12T18:43:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 704, "fields": {"title": "A Selection of Obscure Robert Anton Wilson Essays", "url": "http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/01/12/a-selection-of-obscure-robert-anton-wilson-essays/", "description": "I was prompted by yesterday?s news of the passing of RAW to scan the pieces he wrote for his 1999 column on GettingIt.com, the progenitor of this webzine. It was a casual act, under the assumption that they would be somewhat dated. But as I reread the articles, it became clear that admirers who are unaware of them might in fact find them enjoyable.", "pub_date": "2007-01-12T18:45:28", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 705, "fields": {"title": "The Surreal Art of Jacek Yerka", "url": "http://www.yerka.pl/stronaI/stronaI.html", "description": "Not all of this is amazing, some of it isn't even good, but there are several pieces in this collection that remind me of Bruegel or Hieronymus Bosch, but with an anthropomorphic sci-fi bent. Hard to explain, just have a look. Trust me.", "pub_date": "2007-01-16T14:34:20", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 706, "fields": {"title": "Mysterious samurai saves Police in UK", "url": "http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NewsDisplay/tabid/209/articleID/18823/Default.aspx", "description": "A samurai sword wielding vigilante came to the rescue of two Police officers when they were attacked by an armed gang in South Shields, England. A group of men had forced their way into a house and were ransacking the place when passing plain-clothes officers were alerted by a woman inside screaming. The criminals outnumbered them and were armed with a hammer, knives and chains and attacked the Police officers. Two of the criminals were arrested, but in true hero style the samurai disappeared before police could speak to him. So far as I can tell, this is real.", "pub_date": "2007-01-16T14:37:11", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 707, "fields": {"title": "How to Deduct Your Cell Phone", "url": "http://allfinancialmatters.com/2007/01/14/how-to-deduct-your-cell-phone/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-01-16T14:37:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 708, "fields": {"title": "New York Times Interviews John Ashbery", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/magazine/14WWLN_Q4.t.html?ex=1326430800&en=01c05d46abcd0441&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "description": "The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet talks about why he almost never talks about himself, how much poetry is too much and why he isn?t poet-laureate material. "Some writing you don?t like that much at the time you write it, but you don?t want to destroy it either, because maybe someone will come along sometime and find it more interesting than you think it is."", "pub_date": "2007-01-16T14:39:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 709, "fields": {"title": "National Archives on Footnote.com", "url": "http://www.footnote.com/nara.php", "description": "Footnote.com has teamed up with the National Archives to put original images of historical documents on the Internet for the first time. The press release says there's something like 4 million documents available. I just spent twenty minutes browsing through the Brady civil war photographs, some really amazing stuff in here and most of it is free.", "pub_date": "2007-01-16T14:43:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 710, "fields": {"title": "A Brief History of Money", "url": "http://rhetoricaldevice.com/BriefHistoryOfMoney1.html", "description": ""The places where herders, fishermen and farmers met were the first markets, where goods were traded by barter. There was, suddenly and for the first time, more than enough to go around. This abundance led to the creation of the mother of all savings accounts: pottery. Once there were pots in which to store agricultural goods, food science was born. Because agricultural productivity is seasonal but need is perennial, barley became beer, wheat became flour and then bread, milk became yogurt and then cheese." "It's not hard to imagine how difficult it must have been to bring a large supply of agricultural goods (live sheep, ceramic urns full of grain, and so on) to market. This physical problem led to the creation of tiny clay tokens formed into shapes representing various commodities. These tokens were swapped at market to make exchanges that were later fulfilled with actual deliveries. This proto-money is the first recorded use of a material abstraction to represent a real object in communication."", "pub_date": "2007-01-17T17:16:38", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 711, "fields": {"title": "Clooney and SciFi making "Diamond Age" miniseries", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/16/clooney_and_scifi_ma.html", "description": ""Neal Stephenson's Hugo-award winning masterpiece The Diamond Age is being made into a SciFi Channel miniseries. The Diamond Age tells the story of a group of neo-Victorians who've embraced strait-laced ethics and craftsmanship as a response to the infinite possibilities of nanotechnology. It features a stupendously imaginative interactive storybook, moments of convulsive hilarity, and a lovely explanation of Turing-complete computing." Great book. hopefully they won't fuck it up.", "pub_date": "2007-01-17T17:17:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 712, "fields": {"title": "Travelmag - The Independent Spirit", "url": "http://www.travelmag.co.uk/cat_index_16.shtml#840", "description": "We like to see anything you?ve taken the trouble to write. Features should be sent over as attached files, in word, rich text format, or even as notepad files. We can dig features out of emails, though this takes a bit longer, and clever formatting or page breaks just make our life difficult. Pictures always help liven up features, but please don?t send them embedded into word documents: they should be sent over as low-res (30k or thereabout) jpeg attachments. A good length for a Travelmag feature is 2,000 words. This doesn?t mean you should stretch shorter pieces ? usually the little gems shine all the brighter for their brevity. We do publish some super-long epics, but - with a few exceptions - these would be improved by being broken up into individual features or boiled down dramatically.", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T13:36:48", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 713, "fields": {"title": "Secure VNC with Hamachi - Lifehacker", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/software/vnc/geek-to-live--secure-vnc-with-hamachi-228862.php", "description": "Need to look up a phone number on your home computer from the office? Or control the headless media server you set up at your buddy's place across town? Or help Mom figure out how to use Flickr? You already know that Virtual Network Computing (VNC) remote controls computers over the internet. But VNC is not a secure protocol - and it won't work if the remote machine is behind a firewall you don't control.", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T13:38:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 714, "fields": {"title": "Go Open A Roth IRA Right Now", "url": "http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/go-open-a-roth-ira-right-now.html", "description": "Do you have a Roth IRA? If so, excellent job, you've already done one of the best things you could probably do to ensure you have a financially viable retirement. If not, why not? If your excuse isn't, I make", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T13:39:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 715, "fields": {"title": "Cake printer barfs up error-messages", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/19/cake_printer_barfs_u.html", "description": ""Wegman's bakery received an online order for a cake with a message in Italian and English, but couldn't process the accent characters in the Italian passage -- instead, the printer barfed out a ton of error messages in angle-brackets."", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T13:40:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 716, "fields": {"title": "10 ways to come up with a down payment (Page 1 of 2)", "url": "http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/mtg/20020807b.asp?caret=5", "description": "Ready to buy your dream house but don't have enough to put down? Here are some ways to come up with the cash.", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T13:41:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 717, "fields": {"title": "Amazing Comet McNaught Photo", "url": "http://spaceweather.com/comets/mcnaught/21jan07/lopez1.jpg", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T14:14:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 718, "fields": {"title": "Funny Guide to Wine", "url": "http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/the_nonexpert/red_white_and_you.php", "description": ""You like wine. Congratulations on being better than the rest of us, Lord Cashington, but I suppose even fancy billionaires like yourself occasionally encounter a problem they can?t simply stuff with money and expect to go away. Fortunately, I know a few things about wine. (See my recently published book, Sniffin' Cork: The MAXIM Guide to Getting Classy Girls All Retarded on Zinfandel, available from High-Five Press.) In fact, before sitting down to write this column, I drank three cans of wine?one red, one white, and one Groovy Grapefruit."", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T14:17:38", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 719, "fields": {"title": "Huge New Study On Free/Open Software", "url": "http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/huge_new_study_.html#more", "description": "While most of the statics and numbers are geared toward the EU and European nations in general (the lead contractor of the study was UNU-MERIT from the Netherlands), the study nevertheless provides a fascinating look at free software and its impact on the world at large. Particularly stunning is the estimated time to reproduce this software in proprietary format (131,000 person years) and the estimated amount of donated programming effort in monetary terms (800 million Euros per year).", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T14:21:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 720, "fields": {"title": "Women Prefer Men Desired By Others", "url": "http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/976", "description": "Just having a few women smile at a man in public is enough to make other women consider him much more desirable, according to researchers. British psychologists, led by Benedict Jones of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, have discovered that, when sizing up a man, a woman takes her cues from other women around him. The more females she sees smiling at a man, the likelier she is to consider the guy a good catch.", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T14:23:44", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 721, "fields": {"title": "Unboxing System76's Unannounced Laptop!", "url": "http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2007/01/20/top-secret-unboxing-system76s-unannounced-laptop/", "description": "Sweet looking Ubuntu-optimized Macbook look-a-like. Supposedly starting at under 1000 US, pretty nice, I might have to pick one up.", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T14:37:24", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 722, "fields": {"title": "LACMA's Magritte exhibit: This is not fair use", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/21/lacmas_magritte_exhi.html", "description": "I just went to this show yesterday and actually got yelled at for trying to take pictures. from BoingBoing: "The 'Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images' exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. It's a beautifully designed exhibition that incorporates themes from Magritte's work into the carpet and ceiling, the bowler hats on the attendants, and the exterior of the building."", "pub_date": "2007-01-21T14:43:44", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 723, "fields": {"title": "Does Urban Sprawl Make You Fat?", "url": "http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070120/bob9.asp", "description": "(University of British Columbia urban planning professor Lawrence) Frank's team, like the other groups, found that areas with interspersed homes, shops, and offices had fewer obese residents than did homogeneous residential areas whose residents were of a similar age, income, and education. Furthermore, neighborhoods with greater residential density and street plans that facilitate walking from place to place showed below-average rates of obesity. The magnitude of the effect wasn't trivial: A typical white male living in a compact, mixed-use community weighs about 4.5 kilograms (10 pounds) less than a similar man in a diffuse subdivision containing nothing but homes, Frank and his colleagues reported.", "pub_date": "2007-01-22T21:06:48", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 724, "fields": {"title": "Barack Obama on the Issues", "url": "http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm", "description": "I know next to nothing about Obama so I was digging around to find out who he is and what he believes in and this is the best thing I've found. It lists some bullet points and give links to primary sources and quotes. Interesting stuff. The rest of the site has similar info on other presidential hopefuls.", "pub_date": "2007-01-22T21:08:33", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 725, "fields": {"title": "The Happiest Man In The World", "url": "http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2171679.ece", "description": ""To scientists, he is the world's happiest man. His level of mind control is astonishing and the upbeat impulses in his brain are off the scale. Now Matthieu Ricard, 60, a French academic-turned-Buddhist monk, is to share his secrets to make the world a happier place. The trick, he reckons, is to put some effort into it. In essence, happiness is a 'skill' to be learned." He's also the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama, pretty fascinating guy in fact.", "pub_date": "2007-01-22T21:11:25", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 726, "fields": {"title": "Ship from 8th Century Found in Mediterranean", "url": "http://www.livescience.com/history/070123_shipwreck.html", "description": "A ship from the 8th century discovered off Dor Beach in the Mediterranean is thought to be the only vessel from that era ever found in the region. "We do not have any other historical or archaeological evidence of the economic activity and commerce of this period at Dor," said Ya'acov Kahanov from the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies and the Department Of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa. "The shipwreck will serve as a source of information about the social and economic activities in this area." The wreck was found almost a decade ago but only today were details released after a prolonged series of excavations. Using carbon dating techniques, the wreck was dated to the early 8th century, some 1,300 years ago.", "pub_date": "2007-01-23T19:39:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 727, "fields": {"title": "DIY: Magnetic Spice Rack", "url": "http://www.myaimistrue.com/archives/2007/01/diy_magnetic_spice_rack.html", "description": "Nice spicy rack", "pub_date": "2007-01-23T19:41:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 728, "fields": {"title": "The Simple Dollar > The FICO Battle: Ten Common Tactical Mistakes When Dealing With The Credit Score Blues", "url": "http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/22/the-fico-battle-ten-common-tactical-mistakes-when-dealing-with-the-credit-score-blues/", "description": "A personal finance blog focusing on twentysomethings and thirtysomethings dealing with unprecedented levels of debt.", "pub_date": "2007-01-23T19:41:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 729, "fields": {"title": "Vienna gallery admits visitors to erotic art exhibition for free if they disrobe", "url": "http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/30713.html", "description": "VIENNA, Austria - Vienna's prestigious Leopold Museum is usually a pretty buttoned-down place, but on Friday, some of the nudes in its marble galleries were for real. Scores of naked or scantily clad people wandered the museum, lured by an offer of free entry to "The Naked Truth," a new exhibition of early 1900s erotic art, if they showed up wearing just a swimsuit, or nothing at all. That was almost two years ago unfortunately not happening when I visited.", "pub_date": "2007-01-23T19:44:32", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 730, "fields": {"title": "Text Message Novel Published in Finland", "url": "http://www.examiner.com/a-526112~Text_Message_Novel_Published_in_Finland.html?cid=rss-Technology", "description": "A novel whose narrative consists entirely of mobile phone text messages has been published in Finland. "The Last Messages" tells the story of a fictitious information-technology executive in Finland who resigns from his job and travels throughout Europe and India, keeping in touch with his friends and relatives only through text messages. Of course it was bound to happen and while a lot of people might dismiss it out of hand, as with anything else it could be great it could be crap, depends on the execution. Hopefully an English translation will appear at some point.", "pub_date": "2007-01-24T19:14:28", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 731, "fields": {"title": "Mummified Baby Found in Storage Unit", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/23/mummified.baby/index.html", "description": "In keeping with the "downright horrifying" category you'll see in the upper right corner of this page I give you this, strange, mysterious, and yes, horrifying story. The partially mummified body of a baby, wrapped in 1950s newspapers, was found Monday by a woman going through her deceased parents' belongings in a southeast Florida storage facility, according to police. "It was a baby boy, partially mummified," said Delray Beach police spokesman Jeff Messer. "The woman was pretty upset when she found it. You could make out the features pretty clearly." The child had hair, he said. The body was in a small suitcase, which was placed inside a larger suitcase, said Messer, who viewed the remains. Apparently the woman claims she never heard any stories in the family about still births or abortions.", "pub_date": "2007-01-24T19:18:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 732, "fields": {"title": "Skid Mark Brief Safe", "url": "http://www.bookofjoe.com/2007/01/skid_mark_brief.html", "description": "The perfect travel safe - The "Brief Safe" is an innovative diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you're traveling. Items can be hidden right under their noses with these specially-designed briefs which contain a fly-accessed secret compartment with Velcro closure and "special markings" on the lower rear portion.", "pub_date": "2007-01-24T19:22:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 733, "fields": {"title": "Electronic Literature Collection Volume One", "url": "http://collection.eliterature.org/1/", "description": "Collection of literature that uses the electronic medium in different ways, some much more successful than others. In fact a whole bunch of these suck, but if you spend the time to dig through them there are some gems.", "pub_date": "2007-01-24T19:25:14", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 734, "fields": {"title": "Tiny London Apartment for $334,000", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/01/24/tiny-london-apartment-for-334000/", "description": "A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for &#163;170,000 (currently about 334,254 USD) in London's upmarket Chelsea. The former janitor's storeroom measures 11ft by 7ft and has a cupboard place for a shower and kitchenette area.", "pub_date": "2007-01-24T19:29:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 735, "fields": {"title": "Kid Turns 70 And Nobody Cares", "url": "http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13187&R=111EE2AA9E", "description": "Joseph Epstein turns seventy. Nice essay: "Seventy. Odd thing to happen to a five-year-old boy who, only the other day, sang 'Any Bonds Today,' whose mother's friends said he would be a heartbreaker for sure (he wasn't), who was popular but otherwise undistinguished in high school, who went on to the University of Chicago but long ago forgot the dates of the rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens and the eight reasons for the Renaissance, who has married twice and written several books, who somewhere along the way became the grandfather of three, life is but a dream, sha-boom sha-boom, 70, me, go on, whaddya, kiddin' me?"", "pub_date": "2007-01-29T22:10:10", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 736, "fields": {"title": "Unhappy Meals", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ex=1327640400&en=a18a7f35515014c7&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": ""Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning of a long essay, and I confess that I'm tempted to complicate matters in the interest of keeping things going for a few thousand more words. I'll try to resist but will go ahead and add a couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won't kill you, though it's better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you're much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That's what I mean by the recommendation to eat "food." Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it's not really food, and food is what you want to eat."", "pub_date": "2007-01-29T22:47:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 737, "fields": {"title": "Hard to Swallow "Unhappy Meals"", "url": "http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=hard_to_swallow_some_of_pollan_s_unhappy&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&ref=rss", "description": "Scientific America on the article that's listed just below this one: Michael Pollan's latest piece for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, "Unhappy Meals," seems destined to provoke discussion. I'm inclined to agree with the major proposition of his argument, summarized by his opening claim that the best dietary advice is fundamentally, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Notwithstanding the rise of whole industries linking nutrition to health since the 1970s, supported by endless volumes of research and responsive gyrations by the public, Americans today are more obese and prone to heart disease and diabetes. Pollan attributes the problem to the rise of "nutritionism."", "pub_date": "2007-01-29T23:07:01", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 738, "fields": {"title": "HSBC Direct Offers 6% APY On New Deposits Until April 30", "url": "http://consumerist.com/consumer/hsbc-direct/hsbc-direct-offers-6-apy-on-new-deposits-until-april-30-232099.php", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-01-29T23:10:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 739, "fields": {"title": "The Mystery of Consciousness", "url": "http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1580394,00.html", "description": "The young woman had survived the car crash, after a fashion. In the five months since parts of her brain had been crushed, she could open her eyes but didn't respond to sights, sounds or jabs. In the jargon of neurology, she was judged to be in a persistent vegetative state. In crueler everyday language, she was a vegetable. So picture the astonishment of British and Belgian scientists as they scanned her brain using a kind of MRI that detects blood flow to active parts of the brain. When they recited sentences, the parts involved in language lit up. When they asked her to imagine visiting the rooms of her house, the parts involved in navigating space and recognizing places ramped up. And when they asked her to imagine playing tennis, the regions that trigger motion joined in. Indeed, her scans were barely different from those of healthy volunteers. The woman, it appears, had glimmerings of consciousness. Try to comprehend what it is like to be that woman. Do you appreciate the words and caresses of your distraught family while racked with frustration at your inability to reassure them that they are getting through? Or do you drift in a haze, springing to life with a concrete thought when a voice prods you, only to slip back into blankness? If we could experience this existence, would we prefer it to death? And if these questions have answers, would they change our policies toward unresponsive patients--making the Terri Schiavo case look like child's play?", "pub_date": "2007-01-29T23:26:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 740, "fields": {"title": "DIY invisible bookshelf Lifehacker", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/software/books/diy-invisible-bookshelf-232262.php", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-01-29T23:27:29", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 741, "fields": {"title": "Houses of the Dead - Guardian Unlimited Books", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,1999580,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10", "description": "Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari. In 1776, a decade or so after Horace Walpole launched the English gothic novel with The Castle of Otranto, the Japanese poet and scholar Ueda Akinari published Tales of Moonlight and Rain, a collection of nine extraordinary (in every sense) stories that have come to be regarded as masterpieces of Japanese gothic. Mishima and Tanizaki were ardent admirers, and Mizoguchi's classic 1953 film Ugetsu Monogatari is based on a combination of two of the tales.", "pub_date": "2007-01-30T09:21:37", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 742, "fields": {"title": "Truly Indie Fans", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/fashion/28Blipsters.html?ex=1327640400&amp;en=31d7e7d3b0fe7f51&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss", "description": "When Douglas Martin first saw the video for Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as a teenager in High Point, N.C., "it blew my mind," he said. Like many young people who soothe their angst with the balm of alternative rock, Mr. Martin was happy to discover music he enjoyed and a subculture where he belonged. Except, as it turned out, he didn't really belong, because he is black. "For a long time I was laughed at by both black and white people about being the only black person in my school that liked Nirvana and bands like that," said Mr. Martin, now 23, who lives in Seattle, where he is recording a folk-rock album.", "pub_date": "2007-01-30T18:23:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 743, "fields": {"title": "The Little Book of Plagiarism by Richard A. Posner", "url": "http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-kirsch28jan28,0,5130367.htmlstory?coll=cl-bookreview", "description": "At 116 pages -- and small pages at that -- Richard A. Posner's "The Little Book of Plagiarism" is aptly titled. It's a brief but provocative and illuminating meditation on the current craze for searching out, denouncing and punishing authors who appear to have borrowed the work of others and passed it off as their own. Ever the controversialist, Posner is willing to entertain the idea that plagiarism is hardly the high crime that moralists in the media and the academy advertise it as, and he makes a good case for the notion that copying is (and always has been) a crucial element of the creative enterprise. Posner also reminds us that the roster of accused plagiarists also includes William Shakespeare, Martin Luther King Jr. and Vladimir Putin. Both Jonathan Swift and Laurence Sterne, he points out, "denounced plagiarism in words plagiarized from earlier writers." Only recently has plagiarism been elevated to its current high visibility, and only because the availability of search engines such as Google and the mass digitization of books "[have] made it at once easier to commit and easier to detect."", "pub_date": "2007-01-30T18:25:42", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 744, "fields": {"title": "American Journalism -- Adrian Holovaty Interview", "url": "http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4258", "description": ""Adrian Holovaty -- with his dimples, his short, brown hair and his affinity for polo shirts -- doesn't look like a rock star. There's no physical resemblance to Mick Jagger, Ozzy Osbourne or Kid Rock, but the 25-year-old Chicago area native has the same kind of exalted status in the computer geek world of mashups, those places on the Web where databases and computer graphics are "mashed" together in innovative, sophisticated and userfriendly ways. Holovaty became a celebrity among online journalists last year for his work fusing colorful maps with crime statistics for the Web site Chicagocrime.org. The award-winning site, which is widely accepted as one of the first mashups on the Web, allows users to track crimes reported to the Chicago Police Department on a Google map of the city." He's also one of the developers of Django, the framework that powers this site, and somehow finds time to be a very helpful and active participant on the Django mailing list.", "pub_date": "2007-01-30T18:28:35", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 745, "fields": {"title": "Get Rich Slowly Gardening 101: Plan Today for Summer Success", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/01/30/gardening-101-plan-today-for-summer-success/", "description": "Raising your own berries, fruits, and vegetables is a fun and rewarding way to save money. Our grocery bills drop dramatically during harvest season, and the food cannot be beat. (I love our salsa recipe.) But my wife notes, "February is the time to start planning your vegetable garden." This post contains her advice for starting a garden that will produce a bounty of delicious food.", "pub_date": "2007-01-30T18:30:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 746, "fields": {"title": "Robot parking garage to open in New York", "url": "http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2007-01-30-robotic-garage_x.htm", "description": "New York -- Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the city's first robotic parking opens in Chinatown. The technology has had a good track record overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical glitches.", "pub_date": "2007-01-30T18:32:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 747, "fields": {"title": "Harvard Lecture Downloads on iTunes Store", "url": "http://itunes.extension.harvard.edu/", "description": "Harvard's offering a limited slection of courses for free download via the iTunes Store. From the press release: "Harvard Extension on iTunes U, get a taste of a Harvard education -- Sample distance education courses and lectures, watch or listen on your computer, or download to your MP3 player. Stay tuned for updates and more lectures on iTunes."", "pub_date": "2007-01-30T18:35:25", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 748, "fields": {"title": "Tastespotting -- Great Looking Food", "url": "http://www.tastespotting.com/", "description": "Tastespotting is cool visual way to find recipies and more. From the site: "Tastespotting = A Visual Filtration of Great Taste = Image + Link + Thought ...Too much to blog, too little time. This is a new project of NOTCOT, because designers get hungry too, and we are in awe of how delectable the finds on food blogs both look and taste! So, realizing that the passion of food lovers is often as intense as those who contribute to NOTCOT.org we've created this space for like minded people to descend upon and share what delicious dishes, posts, images, products, ingredients, etc. inspire their great tastes.", "pub_date": "2007-01-30T18:39:28", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 749, "fields": {"title": "Good People By David Foster Wallace", "url": "http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/070205fi_fiction_wallace", "description": "New fiction from David Foster Wallace in the Feb 1 issue of the New Yorker. Can't say it's best thing he's ever written, but it's a good read.", "pub_date": "2007-02-01T10:05:10", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 750, "fields": {"title": "Serious Eats", "url": "http://www.seriouseats.com/", "description": "Serious Eats, the first website for serious eaters, consists of video, blogs, photos, and feature stories all geared toward the foods people love. Our goal, however lofty, is to provide the best, most satisfying food- and drink-related experience on the internet.", "pub_date": "2007-02-01T10:07:55", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 751, "fields": {"title": "Russian Loses Wife In Poker Game", "url": "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/31/man_gambles_wife/", "description": "Could be my favorite headline ever. From the Register: A Murmansk gambler lost his wife in a poker game when he ran out of cash and laid his other half on the table, Ananova reports. Unfortunately for Andrei Karpov, when winning opponent Sergey Brodov arrived to claim his prize, his wife Tatiana was "so angry" she opted for a divorce. She thundered: "It was humiliating and I was utterly ashamed. But as soon as my ex-husband did that I knew I had to leave him." In a heartwarming twist which disproves once-and-for-all the old "lucky at cards, unlucky at love" proverb, Tatiana started a relationship with Brodov and subsequently married him. She enthused: "Sergey was a very handsome, charming man and I am very happy with him, even if he did 'win' me in a poker game."", "pub_date": "2007-02-01T10:09:44", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 752, "fields": {"title": "Incarnations of Burned Children by David Foster Wallace", "url": "http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2001/001012_mfr_wallace_1.html", "description": "That last Wallace link led me to track down this which is a much better (though prefoundly disturbing) story that appeared in Esquire a while back. For folks that aren't familiar with Wallace's work.", "pub_date": "2007-02-01T10:11:42", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 753, "fields": {"title": "Kiruna: The Town That Moved", "url": "http://www.strangeharvest.com/mt/archive/the_harvest/kiruna_the_town.php", "description": "This January, Sweden's northernmost town of Kiruna, 145 kilometres into the Artic Circle has decided to move itself 4km in order to save itself from sinking into cracks created by the worlds largest iron ore mine. Kiruna grew thanks to the mine but the industry that created the town threatened to eventually consume it.", "pub_date": "2007-02-01T10:12:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 754, "fields": {"title": "Imitating A Scanner Darkly", "url": "http://www.illustratortechniques.com/imitating-a-scanner-darkly.html", "description": "Using Adobe Illustrator to create images similar to the color techniques in the film A Scanner Darkly. Quite a bit of work actually, and that's just for one photo, I can't image what it must have taken to illustrate the entire film.", "pub_date": "2007-02-01T10:18:06", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 755, "fields": {"title": "How to Cheat at Everything", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/02/how_to_cheat_at_ever.html", "description": "Simon Lovell's "How to Cheat at Everything: A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams and Hustles," is a veritable encyclopedia of cons, scams, tricks and rip-offs. Lovell is a magician by trade, and much of the book is given over to detailed sleight-of-hand HOWTOs for palming, greasing, fixing and cheating cards, dice, coins, and so on.", "pub_date": "2007-02-02T19:42:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 756, "fields": {"title": "How to Eat Vegetarian on the Cheap", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/02/02/how-to-eat-vegetarian-on-the-cheap/", "description": ""I recently posted two articles for frugal carnivores: a guide to cheap cuts of beef and another on on how to buy a side of beef. GRS-reader Sally has produced an introduction to eating vegetarian for cheap. Though her tips are for herbivores, many are useful to omnivores, as well."", "pub_date": "2007-02-02T19:44:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 757, "fields": {"title": "Windows that become mirrors at the flip of a switch", "url": "http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/02/01/windows_that_tu.html", "description": "A fancy new glass has been developed in Japan, one that promises to cut down on the energy usage of buildings everywhere. It looks like a normal window regularly, but at the flip of a switch it turn to a mirror. When used as exterior windows, the mirrors can deflect the sun on hot days. This keeps the interior cool, cutting down on AC costs. When the temperature drops, you can turn the windows back into regular windows, letting the warm sun filter on through and lowering heating costs.", "pub_date": "2007-02-02T19:45:37", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 758, "fields": {"title": "How to File Taxes if Your Status Is Self-Employed", "url": "http://www.ehow.com/how_12326_file-taxes-status.html", "description": "File Taxes if Your Status Is Self-Employed When you work as an independent contractor, receive professional fees or run a small business, you need to file a Schedule C form with your tax return to report income and expenses from self-employment.", "pub_date": "2007-02-02T19:46:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 759, "fields": {"title": "Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce 'n' Beckett", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p856CfM64w8&eurl=", "description": "Golfing with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Clever and funny. If you're a nerd. (video link)", "pub_date": "2007-02-02T19:47:25", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 760, "fields": {"title": "Your Access to Free Credit Reports", "url": "http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/freereports.htm", "description": "A FTC Facts for Consumers educating the public about their right to a free copy of their credit reports.", "pub_date": "2007-02-03T12:04:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 761, "fields": {"title": "AnnualCreditReport", "url": "https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-02-03T12:05:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 762, "fields": {"title": "Wifi Liberator", "url": "http://www.coin-operated.com/projects/wifiliberator.html", "description": "Wifi Liberator is an open-source toolkit for a laptop computer that enables its user to "liberate" pay-per-use wireless networks and create a free, open node that anyone can connect to for Internet access. The project is presented as a challenge to existing corporate or "locked" private wireless nodes to encourage the proliferation of free networks and connectivity across the planet.", "pub_date": "2007-02-03T12:05:32", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 763, "fields": {"title": "Viacom Terrorizes YouTube with Bullshit DMCA Notices", "url": "http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/03/viacom_terrorizes_yo.html", "description": "Viacom did a general search on YouTube for any term related to any of its shows, and then spammed YouTube with 100,000 DMCA take-down notices alleging that all of these clips infringed its copyright and demanding that they be censored off the Internet. YouTube made thousands of clips vanish, and sent warning notices to the people who'd posted them, warning them that they were now on a list of potential copyright infringers and telling them that repeat offenses could lead to having their accounts terminated. This is shockingly bad behaviour on the part of both Viacom and Google, YouTube's owner. Viacom's indiscriminate spamigation is incredibly negligent and evil.", "pub_date": "2007-02-03T12:06:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 764, "fields": {"title": "The Ashtray of History", "url": "http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200701/smoking-sidebar", "description": "Atlantic Monthly: "When the French National Library airbrushed the cigarette out of Jean-Paul Sartre's hand in a 2005 poster of the iconic, chain-smoking philosopher, you knew it was only a matter of time. This February, France joins a growing number of jurisdictions that have implemented far-reaching smoke-free legislation -- including such unusual suspects as Cuba (after Fidel Castro gave up cigars in 1986) and Hong Kong (which has temporarily exempted mah-jongg parlors and a few other places). But while the current antismoking phenomenon may appear unstoppable, a look back reveals that tobacco bans are hardly new -- and rarely permanent. Here are some of the earlier smoke-free movements in history." Personally I think when your movement carries on the traditions of Hitler and Russian Czars, you might be on the wrong track.", "pub_date": "2007-02-03T12:10:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 765, "fields": {"title": "Patti Smith singing "You Light Up My Life"", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agl4IvNnQPo&eurl=", "description": "Patti Smith sings You Light Up My Life. Seriously. Video from 1979 when she appeared on the television show "Kids Are People Too." Amazing. This is one of the reasons Patti Smith is my hero.", "pub_date": "2007-02-03T12:14:19", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 766, "fields": {"title": "Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04digi.html?ex=1328245200&en=28e094940f7284cb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "description": ""Sending Wi-Fi signals from the inside out, for better service." Here's hoping.", "pub_date": "2007-02-05T16:42:01", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 767, "fields": {"title": "Miracle Fruit", "url": "http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/632.html", "description": "Miracle fruit is an obscure fruit that alters one's sense of taste, masking bitter and especially sour flavors, causing lemons, limes, beers, and lots of other things to taste amazingly good. After reading about it on the Web and tracking down a source, Limes tasted like lime candy, lemons like lemonade, and meyer lemons and red grapefruit were some of the most tasty things I've ever eaten in my life. On the other hand, pineapples and kiwi were cloying, coffee was mostly unchanged, and wine was just plain disgusting.", "pub_date": "2007-02-05T19:45:20", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 768, "fields": {"title": "Claim The Home Office Deduction - Consumerist", "url": "http://consumerist.com/consumer/taxes/claim-the-home-office-deduction-234086.php", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-02-05T19:46:19", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 769, "fields": {"title": "Indexed: We're all going to Hell.", "url": "http://indexed.blogspot.com/2007/01/were-all-going-to-hell.html", "description": "If you arrange the 7 Deadly Sins around a heptagon label them A-G, and connect each Sin to the others, you get 21 secondary sins. For instance Sloth + Pride = Slackers.", "pub_date": "2007-02-06T09:00:19", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 770, "fields": {"title": "Language, Truth And Wine - New English Review", "url": "http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=5509&sec_id=5509", "description": ""Wine is always described as being like something else. This is appealingly post modern. If a chardonnay tastes a bit like a peach, what then does the peach taste like? A chardonnay? And if so, what does either taste like? If you must describe the Van Loveren 2001 limited edition Merlot as being 'chocolately', does it mean that chocolate tastes like the Van Loveren Merlot? And if we like the Merlot on account if its tasting like chocolate, why don't we eat chocolate instead of drinking wine? These are questions of a profound epistemological weight. They reflect the uncertain status of anything we claim to know and understand. If I don't understand the meaning of a word, and I look it up in the dictionary, I see it explained in other words. Those other words, in case I don't understand them either, are explained by yet further words. There is no absolute point of reference. So where does knowledge begin? Aren't we all just refracting meaning around from one word to another in a pleasant verbal gavotte to fill in the time as we wait for death?" If this sort of thing interests you, have a read of Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski.", "pub_date": "2007-02-06T09:04:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 771, "fields": {"title": "Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll", "url": "http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/index.html", "description": "Another awesome essay piece from New York Magazine: "It's been a long time since there was a true generation gap, perhaps 50 years?you have to go back to the early years of rock and roll, when old people still talked about "jungle rhythms." Everything associated with that music and its greasy, shaggy culture felt baffling and divisive, from the crude slang to the dirty thoughts it was rumored to trigger in little girls. That musical divide has all but disappeared. But in the past ten years, a new set of values has sneaked in to take its place, erecting another barrier between young and old. And as it did in the fifties, the older generation has responded with a disgusted, dismissive squawk. Clay Shirky, a 42-year-old professor of new media at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, who has studied these phenomena since 1993, has a theory about that response. 'Whenever young people are allowed to indulge in something old people are not allowed to, it makes us bitter. What did we have? The mall and the parking lot of the 7-Eleven? It sucked to grow up when we did! And we're mad about it now.' People are always eager to believe that their behavior is a matter of morality, not chronology, Shirky argues. 'You didn't behave like that because nobody gave you the option.'"", "pub_date": "2007-02-09T16:59:50", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 772, "fields": {"title": "Philippe Chancel Photo Essay on North Korea", "url": "http://www.philippechancel.com/port-dprk-txt.html", "description": ""It is not exaggerated to say that North Korea is one of the most isolated countries in the world. It is also the last under Stalinian regime. Here, the cult of personality, first of Kim Il Sung and now of his son Kim Jong Il, has reached unprecedented levels."", "pub_date": "2007-02-09T17:01:32", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 773, "fields": {"title": "The Ecstasy of Influence", "url": "http://www.harpers.org/TheEcstasyOfInfluence.html", "description": "Jonathan Lethem's amazing essay on copyright, plagiarism and what's wrong with the American copyright system. Quite possibly the best essay you'll read this year. Long yes, but well worth it especilly when you get to the end and realize how it was contructed.", "pub_date": "2007-02-09T17:05:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 774, "fields": {"title": "The Naked Truth: Authors Who Write in the Buff.", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/", "description": "Writing takes a lot of focus -- here are a few authors who got rid of all sorts of distractions, including their clothes, while writing.", "pub_date": "2007-02-09T17:06:04", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 775, "fields": {"title": "Fear and Loathing in the Bay State", "url": "http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=571", "description": "Deconstructing Boston's idiotic over reaction to the Aqua Teen ad campaign: So this is what it has come to: Two young artists (their demeanor an echo of 1960s creative expressiveness), paid a pittance to playfully market a surrealist cartoon movie starring several talking base-level consumer commodities, have been labeled semiotic terrorists and criminals by official reality. What does this political panic reflex, played out in the gerontocratic and the politically correct Commonwealth of Massachusetts, tell us? According to the criminal statute applied, these crude LED "Mooninites" that literally flipped Boston "the Bird" were legally defined as "infernal machines." Among the eleven cities targeted by this particular guerilla marketing campaign, only in Boston were these innocuous "lite brites" perceived to be objects of terror. Only in Boston did official reality shut down major parts of the city, deploy the Bomb Squad, and make ritualistic arrests and arraignments. Therefore, the question can, and should, be asked: What does this say about the current conscience collectif in the land of the Puritans, Kerouac, and Kennedy? Official and local media reactions constitute a classic case of what psychologists call "hostile attributional syndrome." In this syndrome, subjects inappropriately react to neutral stimuli as if such stimuli were signals of real hostility. Appropriately decoded, these reactions have significant diagnostic value.", "pub_date": "2007-02-09T17:10:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 776, "fields": {"title": "Plustek BookReader Scanning Solution", "url": "http://www.plustek.com/product/book3600.asp", "description": "Plustek's new OpticBook 3600 is a low-cost scanner optimized for scanning books -- it has a little shelf-thing at the edge that makes it easier to get the book flatter, and some kind of "Shadow Elimination Element" to correct for the distortion and shadow cast by the hump of the book at the spine.", "pub_date": "2007-02-09T17:12:10", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 777, "fields": {"title": "The Lay of the Land", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2009441,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10", "description": "From The Guardian: Montana-based Thomas McGuane might seem to belong in a 'western' literary tradition, but his novels replace cowboys and Indians with the everyday anxieties of American life: Among the younger American writers he admires are Nell Freudenberger ("awkward name, sounds like a snack food, but she got a million-dollar advance and deserved it") and Julie Orringer. Jonathan Franzen? "I thought the family stuff in The Corrections was phenomenal. But I thought that almost every page was a third too long. It kind of reminded me of reading Thomas Mann; you don't know how you're going to get to the bottom of the page, but somehow you do. I'd rather read something fiery. I'd rather read Stendhal. I just like a hotter surface, I guess."", "pub_date": "2007-02-09T17:15:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 778, "fields": {"title": "Eat, Drink and Be Merry", "url": "http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=13A84F12-E7F2-99DF-3AAF3B046BF5FEB4", "description": "Scientific American on eating: When it comes to healthy absorption of nutrients, taste matters. Glassner cites a study in which "Swedish and Thai women were fed a Thai dish that the Swedes found overly spicy. The Thai women, who liked the dish, absorbed more iron from the meal. When the researchers reversed the experiment and served hamburger, potatoes, and beans, the Swedes, who like this food, absorbed more iron. Most telling was a third variation of the experiment, in which both the Swedes and the Thais were given food that was high in nutrients but consisted of a sticky, savorless paste. In this case, neither group absorbed much iron." To clarify this cornucopia of data, Glassner quotes the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Marcia Angell: "Although we would all like to believe that changes in diet or lifestyle can greatly improve our health, the likelihood is that, with a few exceptions such as smoking cessation, many if not most such changes will produce only small effects. And the effects may not be consistent. A diet that is harmful to one person may be consumed with impunity by another."", "pub_date": "2007-02-09T17:16:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 779, "fields": {"title": "Study: Seafood Good For Pregnant Women", "url": "http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2003574746_fish16.html", "description": ""A large study has found that children of women who ate little fish during pregnancy had lower IQs and more behavioral and social problems than youngsters whose mothers ate plenty of seafood, a finding that challenges the U.S. government's standard advice to limit seafood while pregnant. The study finds 'no evidence to lend support to the warning of the U.S. advisory that pregnant women should limit their seafood consumption.'"", "pub_date": "2007-02-22T10:58:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 780, "fields": {"title": "Dahiwali Chicken Curry", "url": "http://www.hookedonheat.com/2007/01/24/domesticating-the-dilemma/", "description": "Chicken Curry Made In A Yoghurt Gravy", "pub_date": "2007-02-22T10:59:24", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 781, "fields": {"title": "BBC News: Paraglider Survives At 32,000ft", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6369923.stm", "description": ""A German paragliding champion has survived being sucked into a storm that pulled her higher than Mount Everest. Ewa Wisnierska, 35, who lost consciousness as she soared skywards, was covered in ice and battled hailstones the size of oranges. She was pulled 9,940m (32,612 feet) above sea level in the storm near Tamworth, in New South Wales, paragliding officials said."", "pub_date": "2007-02-22T11:00:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 782, "fields": {"title": "The Guilty Pleasures of Literary Greats", "url": "http://www.observer.com/20070219/20070219_Drew_Friedman_culture_observatory.asp", "description": "Cartoon depicting the strange habits of some well known writers.", "pub_date": "2007-02-22T11:02:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 783, "fields": {"title": "Designer Creates Floating Mag-Lev Bed", "url": "http://niburu.nl/index.php?showarticle.php?articleID=14139", "description": ""A young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million). Jan Jaap Ruijssenaars took inspiration for the bed -- a sleek black platform, which took six years to develop and can double as a dining table or a plinth -- from the mysterious monolith in Stanley Kubricks 1968 cult film 2001: A Space Odyssey. 'No matter where you live all architecture is dictated by gravity. I wondered whether you could make an object, a building or a piece of furniture where this is not the case -- where another power actually dictates the image,' Ruijssenaars said."", "pub_date": "2007-02-22T11:04:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 784, "fields": {"title": "Uncovered, Jordan Matter's Photos Of Topless Women On NYC Streets", "url": "http://www.jordanmatter.com/view.asp?url=/exhibits/broadband/nudes_01/025_ellie.jpg&id=025_e&path=/exhibits/broadband/nudes_01", "description": "Uncovered is Jordan Matter's gallery of photos of topless women on the streets of NYC. Apparently it's legal for women to go topless in New York. (NSFW)", "pub_date": "2007-02-22T11:09:24", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 785, "fields": {"title": "Jean-Paul Sartre, 911 Operator.", "url": "http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/1/25smith.html", "description": "The best thing I've seen on McSweeney's in some time. What happened to that magazine, it used to be so good?", "pub_date": "2007-02-22T11:10:38", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 786, "fields": {"title": "Tragic Fire Destroys Terence McKenna's Rare Book Library", "url": "http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=journal&cat=&file=chunkfrom-2007-02-13-2307-0.txt", "description": "Terence's brother Dennis owns an index of Terence's collection, which will at least give us an overview of his library -- sorta like a playlist without the MP3s. But even this valuable document will not replace the body of knowledge itselfa body that had become, in the weird ways of the memetic world, a kind of second body for Terence's fabulous and fascinating mind. No budding head will ever be able to poke through this collection again, with its faintly perfumed volumes on Chinese alchemy and butterflies and hash. And the world has one fewer 1659 folio of Isaac Casaubon's A True and Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr. John Dee and some spirits, and one fewer old-school copy of Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, which Terence swapped for a pound or two of yummies back in the day. The content of these books, at least, is reproducible; Terence, of course, was one-of-a-kind.", "pub_date": "2007-02-26T21:17:01", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 787, "fields": {"title": "Sphene Community Tools", "url": "http://sct.sphene.net/wiki/show/Tutorial/", "description": "Django based wiki and bulletin board tools. Looks nice though I haven't peeked at the code yet.", "pub_date": "2007-02-26T21:22:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 788, "fields": {"title": "Tau Ceti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Ceti", "description": "Tau Ceti is a star that is similar to the Sun in mass and spectral type in addition to being relatively nearby. Tau Ceti is a "metal-deficient" star and therefore is thought to be less likely to have rocky planets around it. However observations have detected over 10 times as much dust surrounding Tau Ceti as is present in the solar system. No companions have yet been detected through astrometric or radial velocity measurements. Tau Ceti can be seen with the unaided eye as a faint third-magnitude star in the constellation of Cetus.", "pub_date": "2007-02-26T22:11:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 789, "fields": {"title": "Theodore von Karman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_Karman", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-02-26T22:11:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 790, "fields": {"title": "Council for Secular Humanism - Religion in Conflict", "url": "http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=kurtz_27_2", "description": ""Let's be fair: Until now, it has been virtually impossible to get a fair hearing for critical comment upon uncontested religious claims. It was considered impolite, in bad taste, and it threatened to raise doubts about God's existence or hegemony. I have often said that it is as if an 'iron curtain' had descended within America, for skeptics have discovered that the critical examination of religion has been virtually verboten. We have experienced firsthand how journalists and producers have killed stories about secular humanism for fear of offending the little old ladies and gentlemen in the suburbs, conservative advertisers, the Catholic hierarchy, or right-wing fundamentalists. It is difficult to find any politicians who are not intimidated and will admit that they are disbelievers or agnostics, let alone atheists. Today, there are very few, if any, clearly identified atheist personalities in the media -- Bill Maher is a notable exception. The war against secularism by the Religious Right is unremitting. Even New York Times columnists are running scared."", "pub_date": "2007-02-26T22:15:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 791, "fields": {"title": "Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S and UK 1815-1914", "url": "http://vc.hul.harvard.edu:11080/vc/deliver/home?_collection=scarlet", "description": "<p>The public fascination with the human drama of the courtroom did not begin with Perry Mason or Court TV. Cases involving the relationships between men and women, within or outside the bonds of marriage, have long engaged the popular imagination. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, published accounts of sensational trials provided the public with both entertainment and cautionary tales. Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Included are a number of trials of the wealthy and renowned such as an account of the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde, and the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, the famous architect who was Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's lover. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women thrust into the public eye when their marriages and love affairs went wrong or their relationships did not conform to social standards.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-20T04:49:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 792, "fields": {"title": "Evolution Myths", "url": "http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25350-2622681,00.html", "description": "<p>A couple of interesting looking books on Darwin and a challenge to the notion that Darwin somehow eroded Christian beliefs when in fact they were already collapsing. "The Victorian 'crisis of faith' predated the Origin by many years; Tennyson found himself stretching 'lame hands of faith' when confronted by 'nature red in tooth and claw' in 1850, almost a decade before Darwin went public. When Nature gave voice in Tennyson's In Memoriam, instead of demonstrating the existence and beneficence of the creator, she expressed complete indifference for species, the 'types' of living things: 'So careful of the type?' but no. / From scarped cliff and quarried stone / She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go'".</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-20T04:53:10", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 793, "fields": {"title": "Attention: You Cut Your Electric Bill By Almost Half", "url": "http://consumerist.com/consumer/energy/attention-you-cut-your-electric-bill-by-almost-half-246296.php", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T05:57:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 794, "fields": {"title": "Which Online High-Yield Savings Account is Best?", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/21/which-online-high-yield-savings-account-is-best/", "description": "Review of online accounts", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T05:58:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 795, "fields": {"title": "Ain't It Strange?", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/opinion/12smith.html?ex=1331352000&en=258f2817a39fec96&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>Patti Smith on being inducted into the Rock and Rool Hall of Fame. "Should an artist working within the revolutionary landscape of rock accept laurels from an institution? Should laurels be offered? Am I a worthy recipient?"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T05:59:48", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 796, "fields": {"title": "The fictions of Foucault's scholarship", "url": "http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25347-2626687,00.html", "description": "<p>The Times Online has a look at couple of new books on Foucault. Say what you will, the man was brilliant, erudite and most definitely influenced twentieth century thought in some profound ways.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T06:02:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 797, "fields": {"title": "The Science of Lasting Happiness", "url": "http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=5B76E630-E7F2-99DF-3958811DF98CBC37&pageNumber=1&catID=2", "description": "<p>Researchers looking into the science of happiness have found evidence that through kindness, gratitude, and optimism exercises, a person can increase their happiness level, much like physical exercise can increase physical fitness. (via Kottke)</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T06:03:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 798, "fields": {"title": "Writing in the free world", "url": "http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/03/25/lethem_interview/", "description": "<p>Jonathan Lethem explains to Salon why copyright laws stifle creativity and why he's giving away the film option to his new novel. Lethem continues to be an outspoken critic of the publishing world and, in my opinion, one of the only contemporary writers who gets it. Too bad his actual fiction isn't better, but oh well you can't have it all I guess.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T06:07:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 799, "fields": {"title": "The Valiant Swabian", "url": "http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/04/02/070402crbo_books_updike?printable=true", "description": "<p>New Yorker book review of a new Einstein biography. "When youthful and frisky, Albert Einstein would refer to himself as 'the valiant Swabian,' quoting the poem by Ludwig Uhland: 'But the valiant Swabian is not afraid.' "</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T06:15:35", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 800, "fields": {"title": "NASA - Solar Storm Warning", "url": "http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm", "description": "<p>NASA on the possibility of a coming solar storm. "It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet. Like the quiet before a storm. This week researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). 'The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one,' she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T06:16:33", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 801, "fields": {"title": "2007 Leipzig Book Fair Closes Doors", "url": "http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2418949,00.html", "description": "<p>"A record 127,000 visitors browsed the titles at this year's Leipzig Book Fair. The fair offers intimate book browsing and prides itself in connecting readers of all ages to their favorite authors. 'You discover all the types of books here, ones that you can't find in the little bookstore in our town and ones you can't track down on the Internet. Here you have them all in front of you,' a woman said." Note to self: go to Germany next spring.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T06:18:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 802, "fields": {"title": "New York Times Profiles a Manhattan Rare Book Dealer", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/books/review/Donadio.t.html?ex=1332475200&en=465b053249b918f1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "description": "<p>Like the art and real estate markets, the archive market has gone through the roof, and Horowitz, with his wealthy clients and a belief that books will gain increasingly fetishistic status in the digital age, has helped bolster it. Among other deals, he has brokered the sale of Norman Mailer?s and Don DeLillo?s papers to the deep-pocketed Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin ? where he also helped place the Watergate notebooks of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for an astounding $5 million in 2004</p>", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T06:20:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 803, "fields": {"title": "Lasagna With a Twist - The Boston Globe", "url": "http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/03/25/lasagna_with_a_twist/", "description": "rolled lasagna", "pub_date": "2007-03-27T06:21:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 804, "fields": {"title": "Spinach and Cheese Strata Recipe at Epicurious.com", "url": "http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/107754?mbid=rss_epinr", "description": "<p>Search more than 18,000 recipes, including the latest from Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines, famous chefs, and cookbook authors.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-02T16:39:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 805, "fields": {"title": "Asparagus with black sesame sauce (asparagasu no gomayogoshi)", "url": "http://www.justhungry.com/asparagus-black-sesame-sauce-asparagasu-no-gomayogoshi", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-04-02T16:40:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 806, "fields": {"title": "Don't buy an HDTV without reading this first", "url": "http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=458", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-04-02T16:41:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 807, "fields": {"title": "Paul Rudnick's Naughty Bedtime Stories And the NSFW Bogeyman", "url": "http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2007/03/inappropriateby.html", "description": "<p>"Who's afraid of naughty words? Not The New Yorker this week, but it made me wonder what would happen if I, a simple blograt, ran the same darn thing: 'A children's book that included the word "scrotum" was recently the subject of great controversy in school libraries nationwide. A Google search has discovered several more questionable titles and excerpts from other works intended for readers twelve and under.'</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-02T16:42:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 808, "fields": {"title": "Increase Your Reading Comprehension", "url": "http://helios.hampshire.edu/~apmNS/design/RESOURCES/HOW_READ.html", "description": "Educator Ann McNeal of Hampshire College offers a four-step guide for reading with greater comprehension. While her tips primarily apply to students trying to slog their way through academia, anyone who wants to read with more comprehension will get something out of this. The tips boil down to skimming, deciphering vocab, attempting to comprehend, and then criticism/reflection. A good set of reminders for anyone who wants to get more out of their reading.", "pub_date": "2007-04-02T16:44:41", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 809, "fields": {"title": "Django Snippets", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/", "description": "Excellent online repository of helpful little chunks of Django code for my fellow django programmers. Created by James Bennett.", "pub_date": "2007-04-02T16:47:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 810, "fields": {"title": "The Second-Level Digital Divide of the Web and Its Impact on Journalism", "url": "http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_8/loosen/index.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-04-11T21:08:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 811, "fields": {"title": "Database Journalism, by Jeffrey Veen", "url": "http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000839.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-04-11T21:09:43", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 812, "fields": {"title": "How to Avoid Getting Audited - WSJ.com", "url": "http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117589697192162590-OJsUL_ijba1pecxa6UaILHiMAj4_20070416.html?mod=blogs", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-04-11T21:11:45", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 813, "fields": {"title": "Pearls Before Breakfast", "url": "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html", "description": "<p>"Joshua Bell is one of the world's greatest violinists. His instrument of choice is a multimillion-dollar Stradivarius. If he played it for spare change, incognito, outside a bustling Metro stop in Washington, would anyone notice?" As it turns out, no, but a fascinating read nonetheless.<p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-12T09:40:38", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 814, "fields": {"title": "Too Busy to Stop and Hear the Music", "url": "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/04/06/DI2007040601228.html", "description": "<p>Follow up piece on the previous link about Joshua Bell playing violin in the Washington DC subway.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-12T09:42:51", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 815, "fields": {"title": "Dreamed up phone number leads man to a bride", "url": "http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070409/od_nm/britain_text_dc_1", "description": "<p>A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message. How's that for random?</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-12T09:43:55", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 816, "fields": {"title": "Geek Doormat for Those Who Don't Get Out Much", "url": "http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/04/geek_doormat_fo.html", "description": "<p>ThinkGeek, every gadget lover's favorite store, continues with the awesomeness. While this doormat will take a lot of explaining to most of your visitors, the one time somebody gets the joke will make it all worthwhile.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-12T09:45:11", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 817, "fields": {"title": "Fire destroys Johnny Cash's Tennessee home", "url": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/11/wjohnny111.xml", "description": "<p>The lakeside home of the late country icon Johnny Cash, where he wrote many of his most famous songs and entertained music royalty, American presidents and fans, has been destroyed in a fire. Cash and his wife, the country singer June Carter Cash, lived in the house from the late 1960s until their deaths in 2003. Barry Gibb, a former member of the Bee Gees, purchased the home for a reported $2.3 million in 2006, but he and his wife had not yet moved in.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-12T09:46:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 818, "fields": {"title": "Money Metaphors (You wouldn't punch a kitten, would you?)", "url": "http://www.wisebread.com/money-metaphors-you-wouldnt-punch-a-kitten-would-you", "description": "<p>Good essay on why late fees are fucking you over.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-12T09:47:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 819, "fields": {"title": "RyanAir To Transatlantic Flights For Five Pounds", "url": "http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aVuJzHEsqzOA&refer=uk", "description": "<p>Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O'Leary plans to start a discount trans-Atlantic airline, offering fares as low as $12, following the open skies accord between the U.S. and European Union. The new airline would fly from Ryanair's existing bases including London Stansted, Dublin and Frankfurt-Hahn, O'Leary said today in a briefing to reporters. The carrier would go to secondary U.S. airports at destinations including New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, Dallas and Florida.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-21T05:08:11", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 820, "fields": {"title": "Image: Crocodile With Human Arm In Its Mouth", "url": "http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/04/croc_bites_vets.html", "description": "<p>"To my profound delight, Stickypig sent me a link to photos of a fantastically beautiful crocodile, grinning around a mouthful of severed human arm. With echoes of Peter Pan, Jurassic Park, and the paintings of James Gurney, this croc and the arm form a thrilling still life of indigo, ivory, gold and flesh. 'Veterinarian Chang Po-yu was reaching through iron bars to remove tranquilizer darts before treating the 440-pound (200-kilogram) reptile when the inadequately sedated animal bit the vet's forearm off.'"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-21T05:11:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 821, "fields": {"title": "www.myspace.com/katrinakerns", "url": "http://www.myspace.com/katrinakerns", "description": "<p>I generally can't stand MySpace, but for Katrina Kerns we make an exception because she really is that good.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-21T05:12:32", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 822, "fields": {"title": "Predictions From The Learned, 1900 As Told To The Ladies Home Journal", "url": "http://www.yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_predictions.htm", "description": "<p>The Ladies Home Journal from December 1900, which contained a fascinating article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years". Mr. Watkins wrote: "These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001 -- a century from now. These opinions I have carefully transcribed." Some highlights: Nicaragua will ask for admission to our Union after the completion of the great canal; Automobiles will be cheaper than horses are today; Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance; Man will See Around the World, Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits; No Mosquitoes nor Flies, Insect screens will be unnecessary. And perhaps most bizarre: Peas as Large as Beets. Peas and beans will be as large as beets are to-day." Uh, Okay.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-21T05:18:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 823, "fields": {"title": "60 Things Worth Shortening Your Life For", "url": "http://www.esquire.com/print-this/60things0507", "description": "<p>I've actually done a fair number of these, but it's interesting to see how various people see risk or what they consider risk. From Esquire magazine.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-21T05:20:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 824, "fields": {"title": "The Peruvian Church of Cthulhu", "url": "http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/04/cthulhu_cthursd_6.html", "description": "<p>My fellow Wired writers over at Table of Malcontents are mildly obsessed with the Cthulhu, throw in a Church dedicated to Cthulhu and they're pretty much smitten. Worth it for the picture alone.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-21T05:23:48", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 825, "fields": {"title": "La Philharmonie de Paris 2", "url": "http://www.dezeen.com/2007/04/15/la-philharmonie-de-paris-2/", "description": "<p>Images of the new Philharmonic Theatre about to be built in Paris. Stunning images, though I'm curious what the outside will look like. Still, good enough reason to go back.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-21T05:36:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 826, "fields": {"title": "Python Implementation of Markdown", "url": "http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/", "description": "Finally one that actually works and is customizable.", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:40:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 827, "fields": {"title": "A List Apart: Articles: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid", "url": "http://www.alistapart.com/articles/settingtypeontheweb", "description": "<p>My new obsession, replicating the typographical norms of print on the web. Behold the baseline.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:41:58", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 828, "fields": {"title": "Beware Mob Media", "url": "http://weblog.infoworld.com/realitycheck/archives/2007/04/beware_mob_medi.html", "description": "<p>Ephraim Schwartz on "citizen journalism." "Let me offer a very cynical point of view: Citizen journalism is a form of fascism waiting to happen. Now I know fascism requires the centralization of power, and that would appear to be the opposite of citizen journalism. But think of dark historic times such as the Salem witch trials or Hitler's rise to power. They both started with the rantings of individuals, but somehow those individuals became 'thought leaders,' and around them coalesced a central organization made up of like-minded individuals."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:44:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 829, "fields": {"title": "The Devil's Bible: The Biggest Book in the World.", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/21/the-devils-bible/", "description": "<p>The Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible, is the biggest book in the world. Made at the start of the 13th century in a Bohemian monastery, it was one of the country's most prized works of art. In medieval times, its uniqueness was even put on a par with the wonders of the world. . . . Why, how and by whom the Devil's Bible was made has remained a mystery until this day. But legend has it that the book was written by a monk, who faced being walled up alive for breaching a monastic code, and promised to create the biggest manuscript in the world in just one night in return for being spared from punishment. But when he realised that he would not be able to deliver on his promise, he asked the devil for help and his prayer was answered. The devil, to which the monk sold his soul, is depicted in the Penitential - a chapter that takes the form of a handbook for priests, listing various sins and the corresponding forms of repentance.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:46:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 830, "fields": {"title": "Myth America", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/26/myth-america/", "description": "<p>Refuting some popular America history myths over at Neatorama. For instance, the Native American tribe that "sold" Manhattan Island for a few clams didn't actually "own" it, in fact, they didn't even live there -- who's the sucker now?</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:48:58", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 831, "fields": {"title": "Sacred texts that reveal a common heritage", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2065531,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10", "description": "<p>British Library exhibition celebrates the links between three monotheistic faiths. For the first time, the oldest and most precious surviving texts of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths have gone on display side by side at the British Library. They include a tattered scrap of a Dead Sea Scroll and a Qur'an commissioned for a 14th-century Mongol ruler of modern Iran who was born a shaman, baptised a Christian, and converted first to Buddhism, then Sunni and finally Shia Islam. The exhibition also has some exotic private loans, including an embroidered 19th-century curtain which once covered the door of the Ka'bah, the shrine which is at the core of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, a hand embroidered Jewish bridal canopy - and a gold shalwar kameez worn by Jemima Goldsmith in 1995, when she married the former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:50:33", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 832, "fields": {"title": "The Tunguska Incident", "url": "http://www.paranormalwatch.com/2007/04/09/the-tunguska-incident/", "description": "<p>One of the major plot points and running themes in Pynchon's last book, I've developed a bit of a fascination with the Tunguska Incident. "At 7:15am on June 30, 1908, a blue-white fireball flew over the remote region of central Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River and exploded with the force of a 10- to 15- megaton hydrogen bomb. The explosion wiped out approximately 60 million trees across an area of 2,000 square kilometers. Witnesses from hundreds of miles away saw an immense pillar of fire and heard thundering claps. Those closest to the blast were deafened by the noise and knocked off their feet when the thermal wave swept through the area. Miraculously, no one was killed."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:52:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 833, "fields": {"title": "The Truce", "url": "http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/the_truce/", "description": "<p>Hilarious cartoon: God's top translator meets with Allah's top translator to sort out some differences.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:53:55", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 834, "fields": {"title": "The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web", "url": "http://webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Vertical_Motion/2.2.1/", "description": "<p>Choose a basic leading that suits the typeface, text and measure.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:54:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 835, "fields": {"title": "You Are What You Grow", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html?ex=1334980800&en=680e005f2d5b1e6a&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg", "description": "<p>Compared with a bunch of carrots, a package of Twinkies, to take one iconic processed foodlike substance as an example, is a highly complicated, high-tech piece of manufacture, involving no fewer than 39 ingredients, many themselves elaborately manufactured, as well as the packaging and a hefty marketing budget. So how can the supermarket possibly sell a pair of these synthetic cream-filled pseudocakes for less than a bunch of roots? For the answer, you need look no farther than the farm bill. This resolutely unglamorous and head-hurtingly complicated piece of legislation, which comes around roughly every five years and is about to do so again, sets the rules for the American food system -- indeed, to a considerable extent, for the world's food system.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T07:57:41", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 836, "fields": {"title": "Sea Organ -- A Pipe Organ Played by the Sea", "url": "http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om24550.html", "description": "<p>Yet another reason to go back to Croatia: The Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world's first pipe organ that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 pipes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and -- depending on the size and velocity of the wave -- musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T08:00:54", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 837, "fields": {"title": "Exploratorium: The Wave Organ", "url": "http://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/wave_organ.html", "description": "<p>Similar to the previous link, but somewhat closer to home: The Wave Organ is a wave-activated acoustic sculpture located on a jetty in the San Francisco Bay. The concept was developed by Peter Richards and was installed in collaboration with sculptor and master stone mason George Gonzales. Inspiration for the piece came from artist Bill Fontana's recordings made of sounds emanating from a vent pipe of a floating concrete dock in Sydney, Australia.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T08:02:32", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 838, "fields": {"title": "The Shipwrecked Memory of the L'Utile slaves", "url": "http://portal0.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26887&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html", "description": "<p>Quick make it this island before the UNESCO fans discover it. \"On July 31, 1761, the French ship L'Utile is shipwrecked on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Not long after, the sailors manage to reach Madagascar, but they leave behind the Malgache slaves they had embarked illegally on L'Utile. Only a handful of survivors remain when they are found 15 years later, in 1776. UNESCO has reopened this lost chapter in the history of the slave trade.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T08:02:33", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 839, "fields": {"title": "Baby-Crying Contest", "url": "http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2007-04/28/content_863189_4.htm", "description": "<p>News of the wacky. Babies, held by amateur sumo wrestlers, cry loudly during a baby-crying contest in Tokyo April 28, 2007. Eighty-four babies born in 2006 took part in the event, which is held to pray for the babies' health and growth. The winner of the contest is the baby who cries the loudest.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T08:07:33", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 840, "fields": {"title": "Flood Maps", "url": "http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=43.3251,-101.6015&z=13&m=7", "description": "<p>Dynamic maps of sea level rise. Ever wondered how much it would affect coastal areas if the sea level were to rise a few meters? Wonder no longer, now there's a Google maps mashup to visually demonstrate.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T08:09:44", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 841, "fields": {"title": "Challenging The Web's Endless Cacophony", "url": "http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2068194,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=20", "description": "<p>Andrew Keen's new book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy accuses bloggers and other evangelists for the web of destroying culture, ruining livelihoods and threatening to make consumers of new media regress into 'digital narcissism'. Keen questions the euphoria surrounding the rise of citizen journalism, online communities such as MySpace and user-generated websites including online encyclopedia Wikipedia and video-sharing site YouTube.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T08:13:17", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 842, "fields": {"title": "Fugazi on Metafilter", "url": "http://www.metafilter.com/60734/I-like-people-to-support-the-label-but-as-a-musician-when-I-write-a-song-I-want-it-to-be-heard-Ian-Mackaye", "description": "<p>One of the reasons I still love metafilter is that posters take the time to put up more than one link. In this case a great collection of Fugazi links, Ian MacKaye interviews and more. There's even a link to free copies of some Fugazi songs in the comments.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T15:09:20", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 843, "fields": {"title": "New York Times Magazine: A Disciplined Business", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/magazine/29kink.t.html?ex=1335585600&en=802f9b879941be4b&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg", "description": "<p>Interesting behind the scenes look at an internet porn company in this weekends Times' magazine. Nice that it avoids some of the pratfalls of most porn articles I've seen, but then again it still buys the industry's numbers which have been repeated revealed to be over-inflated. Still, nice piece of writing.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T15:10:34", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 844, "fields": {"title": "phpMyAdmin 2.9.0-rc1", "url": "https://web3.webfaction.com/static/phpMyAdmin/index.php", "description": "Webfaction luxagraf db login", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T16:57:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 845, "fields": {"title": "Lunacore Photoshop Training - Smooth Skin tutorial (part 2/2)", "url": "http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut020_2.htm", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T17:13:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 846, "fields": {"title": "Fixing Haze in Digital Photos", "url": "http://www.jakeludington.com/photography/20060921_fixing_haze_in_digital_photos.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T17:14:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 847, "fields": {"title": "Installing Django on OS X", "url": "http://cavedoni.com/2005/django-osx", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T17:15:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 848, "fields": {"title": "The Myth of Superstar Cities", "url": "http://www.joelkotkin.com/Urban_Affairs/WSJ%20The%20Myth%20of%20Superstar%20Cities.htm", "description": "<p>\"Over the past 15 years, it has been opportunistic newcomers -- Houston, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Dallas, Riverside -- that have created the most new jobs and gained the most net domestic migration. In contrast there has been virtually negligible long-term net growth in jobs or positive domestic migration to places like New York, Los Angeles, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area. What as much as anything distinguishes elite places -- what Wharton real-estate professor Joe Gyourko calls 'the superstar cities' -- are their absurdly high real-estate prices. New York, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles have long been more expensive than, say, Dallas, Houston or Phoenix, but in recent years the difference in price, he calculates, has increased beyond all reason. San Francisco prices since 1950, for example, have grown at twice the national rate for the 50 largest metropolitan areas.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-04-30T17:15:35", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 849, "fields": {"title": "600-Year-Old Music Found Encoded in Chapel Walls", "url": "http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5529", "description": "<p>A father-and-son team, Thomas and Stuart Mitchell, have unlocked a coded music system present in decorations of the Rosslyn Chapel. The chapel contains 213 carved blocks showing thirteen geometric patterns. In addition to these blocks, there are carved angels playing musical instruments, including one who is pointing to certain notes on a musical staff. So here's the crazy math part -- Thomas Mitchell discovered that the thirteen geometric patterns carved on the blocks were cymatics (also known as Chladni patterns). Cymatics are generated by amplifying a musical tone onto a resonant surface (similar to a drum head) which is covered by grains of sand, or a similar medium. At certain frequencies, the sand forms intricate geometric patterns. The Mitchells' call their composition, based on the carvings, The Rosslyn Motet. It will debut on May 18, 2007 in a performance at the chapel.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-03T17:15:15", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 850, "fields": {"title": "Silk: The Queen of Textiles", "url": "http://wpni01.auroraquanta.com/pv/cwsilk", "description": "<p>A photoessay on silk, remarkable photography. "The Chinese held on to the secrets of silk for more than 5000 years. Legend tells of two monks who smuggled silkworm eggs, hidden in their staffs, as they traveled west along the Silk Road in the 6th Century. Emperor Justinian received the eggs and established the first silk industry in the west. Today Asia still dominates in the production of silk. As always, the commodity finds its admirers everywhere."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-03T17:19:46", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 851, "fields": {"title": "The Drama of Sarah Bernhardt", "url": "http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20151", "description": "<p>Sarah Bernhardt won't go away. She was born in 1844 and died in 1923, long past her glory days and well out of our reach. Her few silent films are awkward and off-putting. Yet she remains the most famous actress the world has ever known. Books about her, films, plays, dance works, documentaries, exhibitions, merchandise -- they keep on coming. Only last year, a big new biography was published in France -- respectable, but essentially going over the same old ground. Also last year, the Jewish Museum in New York staged an exemplary Bernhardt exhibition, which demonstrated, among other things, why Bernhardt was the priestess of Art Nouveau, with her elaborately rich costumes, her splendid ornaments of gem-studded precious metals, and --obvious in the portraits, the photographs, the caricatures-- the way she almost always stood and sat: in a pure Art Nouveau spiral.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T12:30:16", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 852, "fields": {"title": "Jonathan Coulton On How Musicians Ought To Use The Internet", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/magazine/13audience-t.html?ex=1336708800&en=5d5b4730dd74dc8d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "description": "<p>Here's an interesting idea: "When he performs, he upends the traditional logic of touring. Normally, a new Brooklyn-based artist like him would trek around the Northeast in grim circles, visiting and revisiting cities like Boston and New York and Chicago in order to slowly build an audience, playing for 3 people the first time, then 10, then (if he got lucky) 50. But Coulton realized he could simply poll his existing online audience members, find out where they lived and stage a tactical strike on any town with more than 100 fans, the point at which he'd be likely to make $1,000 for a concert. It is a flash-mob approach to touring: he parachutes into out-of-the-way towns like Ardmore, Pa., where he recently played to a sold-out club of 140."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T12:32:20", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 853, "fields": {"title": "The Book Inscriptions Project", "url": "http://bookinscriptions.com/", "description": "<p>The book inscriptions project collects personal messages written inside books. From the about page: "Pictures count. So do poems. So do notes on paper found in a book. The more heartfelt the better. Send a copy of the cover and the inscription and any details about how, when and where you found it. The Book Inscriptions Project started in 2002 when I opened a book from the shelf of an underground Manhattan bar. The Road to 'Human Destiny': A Life of Pierre Lecomte Du Nouy by Mary Lecomte Du Nouy. Inside the book I found this inscription: 'Joey, I love you so much! You have surpassed the definition for all. I will always cherish our orgasmic moments. love + resistance Mark.' For whatever reason, I happened to open the book and saw the message from Mark to Joey. Something about that note, handwritten by an unknown to an unknown of whose whereabouts, gender and relationship I was unaware, struck me as both tragic and powerful. Since then I've been searching for more inscriptions and, after poring through thousands of books at garage sales, libraries and book sales, I now have a large and ever-growing collection."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T12:38:25", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 854, "fields": {"title": "Encyclopedia of Life", "url": "http://www.eol.org/", "description": "<p>The Encyclopedia of Life, is an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens would have multi-media access to all known living species, even those that have just been discovered. The Field Museum, Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole), Smithsonian Institution, and Biodiversity Heritage Library joined together to initiate the project, bringing together species and software experts from across the world. The Missouri Botanical Garden has become a full partner, and discussions are taking place this week with leaders of the new Atlas of Living Australia.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T12:41:19", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 855, "fields": {"title": "Bright Idea Creates 25-hour day", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6654017.stm", "description": "<p>If I'm not mistaken the man who stumbled upon chaos theory was living on a 25 hour day at the time. Anyway according a new study, funded by NASA, it's possible to cram an extra hour into the day. The study looked at 12 healthy young adults (average age: 28) who volunteered to spend 65 days living in individual rooms without windows, clocks, or any other time cues. "Before the experiment began, the volunteers got eight hours of nightly sleep at home for at least three weeks. When they reported to the lab, they spent three days on a normal 24-hour day. Then the researchers tweaked the hours of light and darkness to pinpoint the participants' natural circadian rhythm, commonly called the 'body clock.' Next, the scientists tacked on an extra hour of light to each participants' natural amount of daily wakefulness. The researchers didn't just leave the lights on for an extra hour. At the end of each "day," the scientists cranked up the light in the overhead fluorescent lights, delivering two pulses of extremely bright light. The bright light pulses were nearly 10 times brighter than normal room light, according to the study. After the pulses of bright light, participants didn't go to sleep right away. They stayed up an extra hour, effectively getting 25 hours per day."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T13:13:28", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 856, "fields": {"title": "A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09mini.html?ex=1336363200&en=e39e14cf6af1b0bc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>Stuart Elliott the New York Times "Minimalist" writes what professional chefs have always known: all that expensive kitchen equipment is totally unnecessary. "The question I'm asked more often than any other is, 'What kitchen equipment should I buy?' Like cookbooks, kitchen equipment is a talisman; people believe that buying the right kind will make them good cooks. Yet some of the best cooks I've known worked with a battered batterie de cuisine: dented pots and pans scarred beyond recognition, an old steak knife turned into an all-purpose tool, a pot lid held just so to strain pasta when the colander was missing, a food processor with a busted switch. They didn't complain and they didn't apologize; they just cooked." Here's how a good cook can outfit an entire kitchen for under $300.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T13:25:49", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 857, "fields": {"title": "Flickr: The Your Books Pool", "url": "http://www.flickr.com/groups/your_books/pool/", "description": "<p>Great Flickr group of people who post photos of their book. Nerdy yes, but very cool.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T13:45:13", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 858, "fields": {"title": "Antoni Gaudi On MetaFilter", "url": "http://www.metafilter.com/61195/Antoni-Gaudi", "description": "<p>Three exceptionally beautiful videos featuring surreal genius architect Antoni Gaudi. The comments also contain a number of additional links to various examples of Gaudi's work.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T13:50:32", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 859, "fields": {"title": "Libya | MetaFilter", "url": "http://www.metafilter.com/61144/Libya", "description": "<p>The more time I spend on Digg, the more I really appreciate Metafilter, here's a recent collection of links about Libya which high on my list of travel destinations: "Libya is a desert, yes, but if you trace your fingers through the moonlit sand and listen, carefully, you may hear ancient whispers: of Apollo's love of Cyrene; of prehistoric hunters making Rock Art [1, 2, 3], back when the Sahara was wet; of Phoenicians subdued by Greeks, of Romans followed by Byzantines, all leaving ruins that Libya is famous for [Cyrene, Leptis Magna, Sabratha, et cetera]; of desert soldiers in World War II, remembered in Graves and Memorials; of the occupying Italians, who responded to Omar Mukhtar's resistance of the Fascists by rounding Libyans into concentration camps; of the camps' prisoners, one of whom wrote this famous poem: 'My only illness is the torturing of our young women, with their bodies exposed ... how my speech has become subdued, the humiliation of our noble and leading men and the loss of my gazelle-like horse...'; of more culture, more memories from this land that witnessed the wrenching passion of all man's history -- whispering in the very dust that made his soul."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T13:53:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 860, "fields": {"title": "Ancient Star Nearly as Old as the Universe", "url": "http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070510_oldest_star.html", "description": "<p>Long before our solar system formed and even before the Milky Way assumed its final spiral shape, a star slightly smaller than the Sun blazed into life in our galaxy, formed from the newly scattered remains of the first stars in the universe. Employing techniques similar to those used to date archeological remains here on Earth, scientists have learned that a metal-poor star in our Milky Way called HE 1523 is 13.2 billion years old-just slightly younger than 13.7 billion year age of the universe. Our solar system is estimated to be only about 4.6 billion years old. The findings are detailed in the May 10 issue of Astrophysical Journal. Like other early stars, HE 1523 contains very few elements heavier than hydrogen or helium. But it does have some. In particular, it contains radioactive metals such as uranium and thorium, both of which have extremely long half-lives.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T13:58:24", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 861, "fields": {"title": "New Hummingbird Already In Peril", "url": "http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070515.whumming0515/BNStory/Science/home", "description": "<p>Scientists in Colombia have discovered a new species of hummingbird: "A newfound denizen in Colombia's forest, but its future may be choked by the slashing and burning of trees by coca farmers, researchers said. The gorgeted puffleg, a rare hummingbird that boasts a plumage of violet blue and iridescent green on its throat, has been discovered living in the cloud forests of southwestern Colombia, researchers announced. The species belongs to the puffleg genus, which appear to have 'little cotton balls above their legs,' said Luis Mazariegos-Hurtado, who has spent 30 years documenting hummingbirds and founded the Colombian Hummingbird Conservancy."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T14:18:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 862, "fields": {"title": "DeLillo Confronts September 11", "url": "http://www.nysun.com/article/53594", "description": "<p>Don DeLillo, author of Libra, White Noise and other tomes of paranoia has a new book coming out which is apparently about the events of September 11 2001: "Once the immediate shock and fear of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, subsided into wary anxiety, it became clear that what that day demanded, above all, was interpretation. Only if we knew what September 11 meant -- to its perpetrators, to its immediate victims, and to the nation that was its ultimate, intended victim -- could we know how to respond, both individually and collectively. This instability of meaning is what made the attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center different from the earlier national tragedies to which it was compared -- for instance, the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941, was immediately legible: It was an act of war by one state against another, and there was no doubt about what would follow. September 11 was, and to a large degree remains, a coded and symbolic declaration, whose meaning and implications vary widely from one observer to the next. The loudest interpreters of the attacks, as usual, were politicians and pundits. But there is something truly impressive about the way novelists have insisted on their own right to confront and explain history. For two generations, at least, we have been told that novelists are relics, mere craftsmen of narrative in an age of mass production. The novel was doomed to go the way of poetry, a semiprecious hobby unplugged from the live wires of the culture. Yet during the last five and a half years, almost all of our best novelists have written books explicitly or implicitly about September 11 -- some good, some bad, but all unflinching in the face of the largest, most urgent questions. And as history teaches, it is the novelists' interpretations of our moment that will testify on our behalf to posterity, long after the official explanations have gone brittle.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T14:23:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 863, "fields": {"title": "Atheists with Attitude", "url": "http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/05/21/070521crbo_books_gottlieb?currentPage=all", "description": "<p>I'm no fan of organized religion and in general I think they have the potential to do far greater harm than good. However, I have an equal dislike of atheists, since I think they suffer from the same basic problems. "Belief," as Robert Anto Wilson said, "is the death of intelligence." And by that I think he mean that when we stop thinking about something and change that thought to static acceptance our minds atrophy and that is never a good thing. </p><p>From the New Yorker review of a pair of new books that blame most of the world's ails on religion: "Great portents and disasters turn some minds to God and others away from him. When an unusually bright and long-tailed comet was tracked through the sky in the last two months of 1680, posters and sermons called on Christians to repent. A hen in Rome seemed to confirm that the Day of Judgment was near. On December 2nd, it made an extraordinarily loud cackle and produced an exceptionally large egg, on which could be seen a likeness of the comet, or so it was said. This added to the religious panic. But the comet also sparked a small triumph for rationalism. In the next few years, as Armageddon somehow failed to arrive, a stream of pamphlets across Europe and America argued that heavenly displays were purely natural phenomena. The skeptics won the day. From the eighteenth century onward, no respectable intellectual saw comets as direct messages from God--though there were still some fears that one might eventually hit the earth. The felling of the World Trade Center in New York, on September 11, 2001, brought its share of religion. Two populist preachers, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, called it divine punishment (though both quickly withdrew their remarks), and not only the bereaved prayed for help. But September 11th and its aftershocks in Bali, Madrid, London, and elsewhere are more notable for causing an outbreak of militant atheism, at least on bookshelves. The terrorist attacks were carried out in the name of Islam, and they have been taken, by a string of best-selling books, to illustrate the fatal dangers of all religious faith.... As far as Harris is concerned, Islam brought down the Twin Towers, thanks in no small part to the incendiary language of the Koran; Middle East politics, history, and economics are irrelevant sideshows. This thesis suffers from a problem of timing: if he is right, why did Al Qaeda not arise, say, three hundred years ago, when the Koran said exactly what it says now?"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T14:37:54", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 864, "fields": {"title": "City Skyline Bookshelves", "url": "http://www.roije.com/studiofrederikroije.html", "description": "<p>Artist Frederik Roije has designed some gorgeous bookshelves shaped like city skyline silhouettes. Unfortunately the site is Flash, but if you click "Products" and then "storylines" you'll see them. There's also links to purchase them, though most of the retailers are out of the Netherlands, the shelves retail for 189 Euro.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T14:54:08", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 865, "fields": {"title": "First Photo From Space", "url": "http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/december-january/FEATURE-FirstPhoto.php", "description": "<p>On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful -- the first pictures of Earth as seen from space. The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range. Snapping a new frame every second and a half, the rocket-borne camera climbed straight up, then fell back to Earth minutes later, slamming into the ground at 500 feet per second. The camera itself was smashed, but the film, protected in a steel cassette, was unharmed. Fred Rulli was a 19-year-old enlisted man assigned to the recovery team that drove into the desert to retrieve film from those early V-2 shots. When the scientists found the cassette in good shape, he recalls, "They were ecstatic, they were jumping up and down like kids." Later, back at the launch site, "when they first projected [the photos] onto the screen, the scientists just went nuts."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T14:56:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 866, "fields": {"title": "Clave y Guaguanco from "...y tenemos sabor" (YouTube)", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpIrnv3fS6o", "description": "<p>Beautiful old-school rumba from Clave y Guaguanco.This clip is from "...y tenemos sabor" (1967) dir. Sara Gomez. If anyone knows where I can find a copy of the full length movie please email me.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T14:57:33", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 867, "fields": {"title": "A Sweet So Sour: Kool-Aid Dills", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09kool.html?ex=1336363200&en=7a27f375c16d4371&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>Typical New York Times take on The South -- a full article on a small store in Mississippi that sells Kool-Aid marinated dill pickels (which by the way is disgusting). Could the Times be any more patronizing? The whole quiant little slice of life portrait of the backwaters is about as tired as the whole New Yorkers never leave New York cliche. Yawn.They are either the worst thing to happen to pickles or a particularly brave new taste sensation, but Kool-Aid dills are now popular in the Mississippi Delta.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T15:03:12", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 868, "fields": {"title": "No Hurry in JC: Bam, Iran", "url": "http://mariejavins.blogspot.com/2007/05/unpacking-continues-bam-iran.html", "description": "<p>From the always excellent blog of Marie Jarvis, cartoonist and traveller: "I came across a photo CD of images from my 1998 overland truck trip from Kathmandu to Damascus. This trip went through Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Jordan. I was on an overland truck with 8 people. During the Iran section, we visited the mud brick city of Bam. The Bam Citadel was about 2,000 years old, standing tall above the ancient city. We walked around the walls and listened to a guide's lecture. My mind wandered and I ended up talking to the guide's son about the illegal satellite dish his friend had, and about Batman. Sadly, Bam was destroyed in the tragic 2003 earthquake which killed around 30,000 people. Officials are determined to rebuild it, but at the moment it is a pile of rubble." Gotta do that, but in the opposite direction.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T16:23:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 869, "fields": {"title": "TenThings: Come On, Get Thankful", "url": "http://10things.wordpress.com/", "description": "<p>From the about page: "10 Things began as a nightly list scribbled in a tiny journal: "Ten Great Things About Today." No matter what, find ten great things about the day, even if when it's easier to list 20 terrible things. It's a pretty great exercise in "glass mostly full." In the summer of 2006, I started keeping a visual diary of this list, with monthly photo essays of my great things. Janelle said, "Let's start a website!" and so we did. This photo project has quickly become one of my favorite things to do. I hope we can inspire you to start your own lists and come back here to share them with us." Tip of the hat to Debi for bringing it to my attention.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T16:29:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 870, "fields": {"title": "11 Tips for Better Candid Photography", "url": "http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/11-tips-for-better-candid-photography/", "description": "<p>"Candid styles of photography are increasingly becoming popular both in general day to day photography but also in formal photographic situations. Last time I was asked to photograph a wedding the couple actually hired me purely to take paparazzi style shows of them and their guests throughout the day. They had another photographer for the formal shots and gave me the brief of getting a behind the scenes look of the day. The results, when they put together my shots with the formal ones were a wonderful blend of photos that told a fuller story than if they'd gone for one or the other. Below are a number of tips to help photographers improve their 'candid' photography. Please note that these tips are not about taking sneaky, voyeuristic or true paparazzi shots (ie photographing people without their permission) but rather about how to add a more candid feel to the shots you take of people that you know."</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-17T16:53:24", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 871, "fields": {"title": "Slow Sync Flash", "url": "http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/slow-sync-flash/", "description": "<p>Slow snyc flash can produce some very interesting results. I've never really sat down and figured out the best way to use it, but several of my photo-savvy friends swear by it. </p> <p>\"When shooting with a subject in low light situations you generally have two options; either to shoot with a flash or to shoot with a slow shutter speed.\"</p> <p>\"Slow Sync Flash is a function found on many cameras that tells your camera to shoot with both a longer shutter speed as well as firing the flash. This means you get the best of both worlds above and can both get a relatively sharp shot of your main subject as well as get some ambient light from the background and foreground.\"</p> <p>\"Some cameras allow you to access slow sync flash manually and set exposure length and flash strength but on many compact cameras there is a little less control given and it's presented as an automatic shooting mode, often called 'night mode' or even 'party mode' where the camera selects the slower shutter speed and flash strength for you.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-23T19:35:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 873, "fields": {"title": "The Last Temptation of Al Gore", "url": "http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1622009-1,00.html", "description": "<p>I'm not political and I don't vote, but if Al Gore were to run again, I would vote for him, were I to start voting. Great piece on Gore in Time recently:</p> <p>\"Let's say you were dreaming up the perfect stealth candidate for 2008, a Democrat who could step into the presidential race when the party confronts its inevitable doubts about the front-runners. You would want a candidate with the grassroots appeal of Barack Obama — someone with a message that transcends politics, someone who spoke out loud and clear and early against the war in Iraq. But you would also want a candidate with the operational toughness of Hillary Clinton — someone with experience and credibility on the world stage.\"</p> <p>\"In other words, you would want someone like Al Gore — the improbably charismatic, Academy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of political and cultural capital at his command. There's only one problem. The former Vice President just doesn't seem interested. He says he has \"fallen out of love with politics,\" which is shorthand for both his general disgust with the process and the pain he still feels over the hard blow of the 2000 election, when he became only the fourth man in U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose a presidential election. In the face of wrenching disappointment, he showed enormous discipline — waking up every day knowing he came so close, believing the Supreme Court was dead wrong to shut down the Florida recount but never talking about it publicly because he didn't want Americans to lose faith in their system. That changes a man forever. \"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T10:30:12", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 874, "fields": {"title": "Robotic Submarine Reaches New Depths", "url": "http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11890-robotic-submarine-reaches-new-depths.html", "description": "<p>Fascinating: \"A robotic submarine yesterday mapped the bottom of the world's deepest water-filled sinkhole in Mexico for the first time. Similar autonomous craft could some day be used to explore the oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa, researchers hope.\"</p> <p>\"DEPTHX (Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer) is 2 metres wide, weighs 1.3 tonnes and is equipped with movement, depth, temperature, and salinity sensors in separate pressurized chambers. Sonar beams all around the probe to provide a map of its surroundings for navigation. A sampling arm can extend to collect samples from the walls of the sinkhole.\"</p> <p>\"Entering El Zacaton Cenote in eastern Mexico for the first time on Wednesday, DEPTHX dived down to 270 meters, creating the first map of the giant cavity, which is large enough to swallow New York's Chrysler Building.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T10:34:38", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 875, "fields": {"title": "The Civil War in Four Minutes", "url": "http://www.lincolnlibraryandmuseum.com/m5.htm", "description": "<p>Unfortunately for some reason the video has been removed from YouTube by the user, but it was damn cool, hopefully someone will get it back up.</p> <p>\"To inform and illustrate the scale, scope and tragedy of the Civil War, the museum's Civil War in Four Minutes was created. It is a large animated map which plays out the progress of the war with continuously shifting battle lines and flare-ups that mark specific major battles. The entire war is presented in this way in roughly 4 and one half minutes. Nothing like this has been done before on the Civil War.\"</p> <p>\"The map is of the period and based on meticulous research. The war was broken down into one week time periods and then each week was represented in one second. Storyboards were created illustrating the fluctuation of the battle fronts. Key battles were represented by explosions on the map. The graphic look, information and lay-out was developed and finalized and then digitized to its final presentation format.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T10:40:28", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 876, "fields": {"title": "The Lonely Sea Monster", "url": "http://www.deannamolinaro.com/Stuff_That_I_Made/Books/SeaMon/sm_1.html", "description": "<p>A sea monster sat on a rock sad and all alone ... until one day, a little girl floated on a little boat. See what happens next in this delightful story called \"Lonely Sea Monster\" by Deanna Molinaro. </p> <p>[Via <a href=\"http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/deanna-molinaros-lonely-sea-monster-book/\">Neatorama</a>]</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T10:43:41", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 877, "fields": {"title": "Stilton Launch Blue Cheese Perfume", "url": "http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1839895.html", "description": "<p>This sounds so damn wrong, but the makers of the famously pungent Stilton blue cheese have launched their own perfume. Oh yes, and it is apparently, \"an eminently wearable perfume.\" I dunno as much as I like Stilton I don't think this is going to sell very well. </p> <p>Eau de Stilton \"claims to recreate the earthy and fruity aroma of the cheese in an eminently wearable perfume.\"</p> <p>\"The perfume, blended by a Manchester-based aromatics company, features a 'symphony of natural base notes including yarrow, angelica seed, clary sage and valerian.'\"</p> <p>\"It was commissioned by the Stilton Cheesemakers' Association as part of a campaign to persuade more people to eat their product.\"</p> <p>\"Nigel White, of the SCA, brushed off suggestions that it might not be the most alluring of scents.\"</p> <p>\"'Blue Stilton cheese has a very distinctive, mellow aroma and our perfumier was able to capture the key essence of that scent and recreate it in what is an unusual but highly wearable perfume,' he said.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T10:51:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 878, "fields": {"title": "Strange Alien World Made of "Hot Ice"", "url": "http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11864-strange-alien-world-made-of-hot-ice-and-steam.html", "description": "<p>From the New Scientist: \"A bizarre world of scorching hot ice shrouded in a steamy atmosphere may have been found, according to new observations. Characterising the Neptune-size planet is an important milestone on the way to detecting and characterising Earth-like planets that could harbour life.\"</p> <p>\"Astronomers have discovered more than 200 planets orbiting other stars, called extrasolar planets or exoplanets. Almost all of these were detected by the way their gravity makes their parent stars wobble. But this technique, called the radial velocity method, reveals very little about the planet except for the size of its orbit and an estimate of its mass.\"</p> <p>\"Astronomers can learn a lot more by watching \"transits\" of planets that pass in front of their parent stars as seen from Earth. Careful analysis of the dimming this causes can provide clues to the planet's composition and structure. But the brightness dips are small and difficult to detect for all but the largest planets.\"</p> <p>\"Now, astronomers have observed the smallest ever transiting planet. It has turned out to be a strange world, unlike anything seen before.\"</p> <p>\"The planet, which orbits a small star located 30 light years from Earth called GJ 436, was actually discovered in 2004 using the radial velocity method (see Two new rocky super Earths found). At that point, astronomers deduced that it was about as massive as Neptune.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T10:59:30", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 879, "fields": {"title": "Marine Species Suggest Antarctic "Cradle of Life"", "url": "http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=marine-species-suggest-an&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters", "description": "<p>From Reuters: \"Carnivorous sponges, 585 new species of crustaceans and hundreds of new worms have been discovered in the dark waters around Antarctica, suggesting these depths may have been the source of much marine life, European researchers reported on Wednesday.\"</p> <p>\"The team, who scooped samples from as deep as 20,000 feet, found unexpectedly rich diversity of animal life.\"</p> <p>\"Many belong to species found around the world, notably in the Arctic, while others appear to be unique to the deepest Antarctic waters, the researchers reported in the journal Nature.\"</p> <p>\"The unique species tend to be the kind that do not spread easily, which suggests the deep, cold southern oceans may have been the source of many types of marine life, the researchers conclude.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:02:37", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 880, "fields": {"title": "Someecards.com", "url": "http://www.someecards.com/?ep=12", "description": "By far the best, funniest and most disturbing ecards on the net. And they seem to be adding more at an impressive rate. Personal favorite, in the apology category: \"I'm sorry my web browser history scared you.\"", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:11:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 881, "fields": {"title": "The Thorny Path to Enlightenment", "url": "http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/29/MNG22PBS151.DTL", "description": "<p>An interesting look at Buddhism and martial arts that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle a couple weeks back.</p> <p>\"Legend says that more than 1,500 years ago, an Indian monk named Bodhidharma sat meditating before a wall for nine years on Mount Songshan in northern China. When he finished, he began teaching at the Shaolin Temple that long periods of seated meditation would lead to enlightenment — the essence of Chan Buddhism, popularly known as Zen.\"</p> <p>\"But the extended meditations also atrophied the monks' bodies. So Bodhidharma developed a series of calisthenics that evolved into kung fu, a form of martial arts.\"</p> <p>\"Shaolin believe meditation clears the mind, preparing it for purer action. But a weak or sick body hinders clarity of thought. Kung fu, by building the body, complements meditation.\"</p> <p>\"Over the centuries, the Shaolin Temple in Henan province has been razed and resurrected several times. After the communist government's Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, many of the nation's religious institutions were purged or destroyed. Only a handful of Shaolin monks in the temple survived.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:16:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 882, "fields": {"title": "Collect-Me-Nots", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/opinion/17pascoe.html?ex=1337054400&en=3ad5b071a4bd1c1c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>New York Times Op/Ed piece on the collectors of strange things, for instance, what is rumored to be Napoleon's penis. </p> <p>\"The owner of Napoleon's penis died last Thursday in Englewood, N.J. John K. Lattimer, who'd been a Columbia University professor and a collector of military (and some macabre) relics, also possessed Lincoln's blood-stained collar and Hermann Goering's cyanide ampoule. But the penis, which supposedly had been severed by a priest who administered last rites to Napoleon and overstepped clerical boundaries, stood out (sorry) from the professor's collection of medieval armor, Civil War rifles and Hitler drawings.\"</p> <p>\"The chances that Napoleon's penis would be excised so that it could become a souvenir were improved by his having lived and died at a moment when the physical remains of celebrities held a strong attraction. Shakespeare didn't become Shakespeare until the dawn of the romantic period, when his biography was written, his plays annotated and his belongings sought out and preserved. Trees that stood outside the bard's former homes were felled to provide Shakespearean lumber for tea chests and tobacco stoppers.\"</p> <p>\"The belief that objects are imbued with a lasting essence of their owners, taken to its logical extreme, led to the mind-set that caused Mary Shelley to keep her husband's heart, dried to a powder, in her desk drawer. Of course, relic collecting long predates the romantic period; medieval pilgrims sought out fragments of the True Cross. In the aftermath of the Reformation, religious relics that had been ejected from monasteries joined secular collections that freely intermingled belemnites with saints' finger bones. When Keats died, his hair took on the numinous appeal of a religious artifact.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:20:35", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 883, "fields": {"title": "New Grub Street", "url": "http://www.cjr.org/essay/new_grub_street.php?page=all", "description": "<p>Interesting look at the debate over whether or not Whole Foods is any better than any other grocery store. Probably not, based on my experiences, but it does cost a hell of a lot more, so if you equate money spent with quality, then you'll love Whole Foods. From the Columbia Journalism review:</p> <p>\"Time was, a war of words between a food writer and an organic-foods retailer would have attracted the interest of maybe seven people in your local food co-op — a bit of chatter over the brown-rice bin and everyone would move on. Those of us in a Safeway with our Perdue roasters and our broccoli avec a hint of pesticide would not have known that an argument took place. But the recent exchanges between Michael Pollan, author of the 2006 bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, and John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, are, if not squarely in the mainstream, awfully close to it.\"</p> <p>\"Thanks to his perch as The New York Times Magazine's resident food sage, Pollan is a well-known champion of the ethical superiority of small, local organic farms, and of the superior taste of their products. Whole Foods, of course, is a bringer of organic food to grateful yuppies across the country. In The Omnivore's Dilemma, Pollan describes Whole Foods as the embodiment of 'Industrial Organic.' The company's appetite for product has driven some organic farmers to scale up and become very much like the farms they were supposed to replace: organic dairies now house thousands of cows who have never munched on a patch of grass, while Brobdignagian vegetable farms ship their produce across the country, undercutting small, local farmers. Whole Foods even sells 'organic' TV dinners (Pollan says one he tried 'looked and tasted very much like airline food') and, during the North American winter, has asparagus shipped north from Argentina. This would be environmentally dubious on its face, Pollan suggests, given the fuel required to ship the vegetable. In any case, it \"tasted like damp cardboard.'\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:25:35", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 884, "fields": {"title": "As a Carbon 'Sink,' Southern Ocean May be Plugged", "url": "http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-carbon18may18,0,2503092.story?coll=la-home-center", "description": "<p>The ocean seems to be coming up a lot lately in the news, which is worrisome because the news only covers things like the ocean when they get so bad no one can ignore them anymore. Or when they smell a sensational sky-is-falling sort of story. Hard to tell which is which anymore. From the LA Times (possibly the worst major city paper in the world, but oh well):</p> <p>\"The Southern Ocean, a massive storehouse for carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, is slowly losing its capacity to buffer the world from rising concentrations of the greenhouse gas, researchers reported Thursday.\"</p> <p>\"As a result, the study said, carbon dioxide could accumulate in the atmosphere faster than expected over the coming decades.\"</p> <p>\"The ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, accounts for about a third of all carbon stored in the world's five oceans.\"</p> <p>\"The researchers described a vicious cycle in which global warming reduced the ocean's ability to absorb the heat-trapping gas. That would then accelerate the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, triggering more warming.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:29:28", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 885, "fields": {"title": "Samantha Larson Climbs Mt. Everest", "url": "http://www.samanthalarson.com/", "description": "<p>Eighteen-year-old Samantha Larson reached the peak of Mount Everest on May 16th and became the youngest person to have ever climbed all the world's \"seven summits\". She's also the youngest person to have climbed Everest and fittingly, the first to have made a phone call from the summit. Kids these days.</p> <p>From a LA Times article: \"Miss Larson has been climbing since she was a child. She reached the summit of Aconcagua in South America when she was 13, and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa the next year. The seven peaks include Kosciuszko in Australia, although some mountaineers say that Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia should supplant it on the list. Just to make sure, Miss Larson plans to climb it in August. The other mountains are Elbrus in Russia; Mount McKinley in Alaska; and Vinson in Antarctica.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:41:02", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 886, "fields": {"title": "Why Bush Hasn't Been Impeached", "url": "http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/05/22/impeachment/?source=whitelist", "description": "<p>Salon compares the Bush persidency to an abusive relationship. Perhaps that's why I'm actively making plans to leave the country, I've never been the confrontational type, nor have I ever been in an abusive relationship, but were I to be in one I have a feeling I would just leave without a word.</p> <p>\"The Bush presidency is a lot of things. It's a secretive cabal, a cavalcade of incompetence, a blood-stained Church Militant, a bad rerun of \"The Godfather\" in which scary men in suits pay ominous visits to hospital rooms. But seen from the point of view of the American people, what it increasingly resembles is a bad marriage. America finds itself married to a guy who has turned out to be a complete dud. Divorce ? which in our nonparliamentary system means impeachment ? is the logical solution. But even though Bush cheated on us, lied, besmirched our family's name and spent all our money, we the people, not to mention our elected representatives and the media, seem content to stick it out to the bitter end.\"</p> <p>\"There is a strange disconnect in the way Americans think about George W. Bush. He is extraordinarily unpopular. His approval ratings, which have been abysmal for about 18 months, have now sunk to their lowest ever, making him the most unpopular president in a generation. His 28 percent approval rating in a May 5 Newsweek poll ties that of Jimmy Carter in 1979 after the failed Iran rescue mission. Bush's unpopularity has emboldened congressional Democrats, who now have no qualms about attacking him directly and flatly asserting that his Iraq war is lost.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:45:17", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 887, "fields": {"title": "New Evidence of Water on Mars", "url": "http://news.com.com/Photos+New+evidence+of+water+on+Mars/2300-11397_3-6185679-1.html?part=rss&tag=6185679&subj=news", "description": "<p>\"Based on photographic evidence from the Mars rover Spirit, NASA scientists conclude that water must have flowed over an area on Mars. The ground exposed by Spirit's tire tracks shows an area so rich in the brightly-colored silica that 'water must have been involved in concentrating it,' according to NASA.\"</p> <p>\"One of Spirit's six wheels no longer works so it drags along exposing the soil.\"</p> <p>\"The Mars Express spacecraft has also taken high-resolution photos of an area that was probably formed by glaciers. Its instruments also show ice on the south polar region that could be up to two miles thick.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:47:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 888, "fields": {"title": "The Birth Control of Yesteryear", "url": "http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=851", "description": "<p>Old news if you know anything about Greek history or alternative medicine, but I've never linked to it before, so what the heck. From Damn Interesting:</p> <p>\"Approximately 2,600 years ago — around 630 BCE — the Greek island of Thera was plagued by drought and overpopulation. According to legend, an assortment of settlers were selected to sail south to establish a colony in more hospitable climes. The men and women apprehensively put to sea, and the gaggle of enterprising Greeks eventually erected the city of Cyrene on Africa's northern tip. There, the settlers encountered a local herb which would ultimately bring them and their progeny fantastic wealth.\"</p> <p>\"The prized plant became such a key pillar of the Cyrenean economy that its likeness was stamped upon many of the city's gold and silver coins. The images often depicted a regal-looking woman sitting in a chair, with one hand touching the herb and her other hand pointing at her genitals. The plant was known as silphium or laserwort, and its heart-shaped fruit brought the ancient world a highly sought-after freedom: the opportunity to enjoy sex with very little risk of pregnancy.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:51:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 889, "fields": {"title": "Automatically Upload a Folder's Photos to Flickr", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/automatically-upload-a-folders-photos-to-flickr-262311.php", "description": "<p>I love Flickr, but I'm so good about actually uploading images. Actually, I'm not so good about even getting the images off the camera in a timely fashion, but that's a whole separate problem. To solve the former, I set up this great little python script which I discovered via Lifehacker. Uploadr.py can watch a folder of your choice for new pictures, then automatically upload them to your Flickr account. See the article for a step by step walkthrough on how to set it up.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T11:55:13", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 890, "fields": {"title": "Cars: 10 Confessions Of A Progressive Insurance Rep - Consumerist", "url": "http://consumerist.com/consumer/cars/10-confessions-of-a-progressive-insurance-rep-262641.php", "description": "A former Progressive car insurance customer service rep has stepped forward into the light to give us the low-down on how his ex-employer works:", "pub_date": "2007-05-24T13:12:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 891, "fields": {"title": "Man Clad in Underwear Pins Leopard", "url": "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052800382.html", "description": "<p>Definitely better than any headlines I came up with this week. Apparently leopards in Israel frequently prey on house pets when they get weak or sick and can no longer run down wild prey. Or if they're just feeling a bit lazy. From the Washington Post:</p> <p>\"JERUSALEM — A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.</p> <p>'This kind of thing doesn't happen every day,' said 49-year-old Arthur Du Mosch, a nature guide. 'I don't know why I did it. I wasn't thinking, I just acted.'</p> <p>Raviv Shapira, who heads the southern district of the Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority, said a half-dozen of the leopards have been spotted near the small community of Sde Boker in the Negev desert in southern Israel, 'but we have never heard of a leopard coming into a private home,' he said. He said it was food, not curiosity, that lured the cat.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T11:45:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 892, "fields": {"title": "LOTR Re-Enacted by The Muppets", "url": "http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/05/muppets_in_the_.html", "description": "<p>There's a comic book shop in Toronto that has set up a diorama of the Battle For Ham's Deep, a scene in Lord of the Rings, using Muppets. Hundreds of penguins in place of attacking orcs, Sweetums as Gandalf, Beaker in full battle armor... \"It was an elaborate display of slightly twisted imagination, creativity and skilled model building.\"</p> <p>Now I know what the next (and probably never to exist) Muppet movie should be, Lord of the Rings with muppets. Epic.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T11:50:22", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 893, "fields": {"title": "The Truth About Pearl Harbor", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/the-truth-about-pearl-harbor/", "description": "<p>Neatorama has been reprinting sections of Uncle John's Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader, including this one on whether or not there was a conspiracy to let the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. </p> <p>My question is why is there a conspiracy to suppress the conspiracy that there's a conspiracy about the conspiracy to allow the attack on Pearl Harbor?</p> <p>Anyway, from Neatorama:</p> <p>Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the most dramatic incidents in U.S. history - and the source of persistent questions. Did President Roosevelt know the attack was coming? If so, why didn't he defend against it? Here's some insight from It's a Conspiracy!</p> <p>Shortly after dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes launched an all-out attack on Pearl Harbor, the major U.S. military base in Hawaii. Within two hours, they had damaged or destroyed 18 warships and more than 200 aircraft, killing 2,403 American soldiers, sailors, and marines, and wounding 1,178. Americans were stunned and outraged.</p> <p>The next day, FDR delivered a stirring speech to Congress in which he referred to the day of the attack as \"a date which will lie in infamy.\" In response, Congress declared war, and the country closed ranks behind the president.</p> <p>Despite America's commitment to the war, however, questions arose about Pearl Harbor that were not easily dismissed: How were we caught so completely by surprise? Why were losses so high? Who was to blame? Did the president know an attack was coming? Did he purposely do nothing so America would be drawn into the war? Although there were seven full inquiries before the war ended, the questions persist to this day.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T11:59:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 894, "fields": {"title": "The Itinerant Poetry Librarian", "url": "http://itinerantpoetrylibrarian.blogspot.com/", "description": "<p>I can't remember how I ran across this site, but it's kind of cool. A woman who travels around promoting \"lost and forgotten\" poetry. No idea what is classified as lost and forgotten or whether it's worth promoting, I just like the idea of an Itinerant Poetry Librarian. </p> <p>There's also a great quote on the masthead from Margaret Herdman: \"Freedom from even a semipermanent location with other materials promotes greater flexibility to meet the constantly changing variety of reader demands\"</p> <p>From the About page: \"The Itinerant Poetry Librarian is a writer, artist & independent research scholar. She has previous bedroom empire experience. In May 2006 she was engaged by <a href=\"http://www.thepoetrycubicle.org.uk/indexTPC.html\" title=\"The Poetry Cubicle\">The Poetry Cubicle</a> as an agent poesie, responsible for installing a Library of 'Lost & Forgotten' Poetry around the world. Ten countries and fourteen cities later it is 2007. She currently eats, sleeps and lives wherever her Library is.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T12:06:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 895, "fields": {"title": "Our Oceans Are Turning Into Plastic... Are We?", "url": "http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/travel-leisure/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we.shtml", "description": "<p>I first heard of Trash island from my uncle who's a bit of a sailor and have subsequently discovered that not many people realize there is a pile of trash in the middle of the pacific that's twice the size of Texas. The vast majority of it is plastic waiste and now scientists say the toxins released by the plastic are causing obesity, infertility and worse.</p> <p>From a recent article in Best Life (which I've never heard of until now):</p> <p>\"Captain Charles Moore Fate can take strange forms, and so perhaps it does not seem unusual that Captain Charles Moore found his life's purpose in a nightmare. Unfortunately, he was awake at the time, and 800 miles north of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.</p> <p>Returning to Southern California from Hawaii after a sailing race, Moore had altered Alguita's course, veering slightly north. He had the time and the curiosity to try a new route, one that would lead the vessel through the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre. This was an odd stretch of ocean, a place most boats purposely avoided. For one thing, it was becalmed. 'The doldrums,' sailors called it, and they steered clear. So did the ocean's top predators: the tuna, sharks, and other large fish that required livelier waters, flush with prey. The gyre was more like a desert — a slow, deep, clockwise-swirling vortex of air and water caused by a mountain of high-pressure air that lingered above it.</p> <p>The area's reputation didn't deter Moore. He had grown up in Long Beach, 40 miles south of L.A., with the Pacific literally in his front yard, and he possessed an impressive aquatic resume: deckhand, able seaman, sailor, scuba diver, surfer, and finally captain. Moore had spent countless hours in the ocean, fascinated by its vast trove of secrets and terrors. He'd seen a lot of things out there, things that were glorious and grand; things that were ferocious and humbling. But he had never seen anything nearly as chilling as what lay ahead of him in the gyre.</p> <p>As Alguita glided through the area that scientists now refer to as the 'Eastern Garbage Patch,' Moore realized that the trail of plastic went on for hundreds of miles. Depressed and stunned, he sailed for a week through bobbing, toxic debris trapped in a purgatory of circling currents. To his horror, he had stumbled across the 21st-century Leviathan. It had no head, no tail. Just an endless body.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T12:40:50", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 896, "fields": {"title": "Street Use: Lamp from Lightbulb", "url": "http://www.kk.org/streetuse/archives/2007/05/lamp_from_lightbulb.php", "description": "<p>Very cool little oil lamp fashioned from a lightbulb. Seeing how California and some others are looking to get rid of the good old incandescent lightbulb, perhaps this is good use for them after they've burned out — screw fire hazards lets go back to oil lamps. The light bulb/kiwi tin lamp was apparently photographed \"some years ago in an inn along the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, probably in Hikkaduwa.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T12:46:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 897, "fields": {"title": "Drifting Rubber Duckies Chart Oceans Of Plastic", "url": "http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0731/p01s04-woeu.html", "description": "<p>Awesome. I really want to take some time off and go look for these things.</p> <p>Theirs is an epic tale of resilience and pluck, a seafarer's yarn of high-seas adventure that has seen them brave some of the world's wildest waters in their 11-year odyssey from the Pacific Ocean toward landfall in Europe.</p> <p>They have bobbed through storms that would have wrecked larger vessels, to drift deliberately down the Bering Strait. They have patiently borne a four-year spell trapped in Arctic ice packs, to float freely into the Atlantic.</p> <p>And now, buoyed perhaps by the prospect of an end to their pelagic paddling, a flotilla of yellow bathtub rubber ducks, lost at sea when they fell off a container ship in the North Pacific in 1992, is about to wash up on Europe's western shores, according to an oceanographer who has been tracking them for years.</p> <p>More of the much-traveled toys are thought to be heading down the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, where their arrival would offer new data on ocean currents and wind patterns. And the US company that made the ducks is offering $100 in savings bonds to anyone who finds one.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T12:49:22", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 898, "fields": {"title": "Thinking of Something to Say: Topoi", "url": "http://scribalterror.blogs.com/beautiful_english/2007/05/thinking_of_som.html", "description": "While I've never seen these formalized like these, I definitely spend a lot of time working through questions like this when I write stuff for luxagraf, and to a lesser degree, Wired. A handy cheat sheet for those looking to improve their writing or just thinking, courtesy of Aristotle. \"Sometimes when you're thinking about a subject that you might want to write about -- or even form an opinion about -- you don't know quite where to start or how to proceed. In rhetorical theory, this stage in the process of developing an argument -- coming up with ideas, thinking of something to say -- is called invention (inventio). In the fourth century before Christ, the Greek philosopher Aristotle provided would-be orators with a wealth of topoi (sing. topos), literally places, intellectual places to explore, in his Rhetoric. In their classic textbook, Writing, Gregory and Elizabeth Cowan (1980) adapted Aristotle's concept for modern use in the form of a heuristic, a sort of thought-provoking questionnaire that helps writers develop a more thorough understanding of a topic as they work through each stage. It has become one of my favorite teaching tools.\"", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T12:53:19", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 899, "fields": {"title": "Salvage and Season Cast Iron Cookware", "url": "http://www.curbly.com/Chrisjob/posts/1673-Salvage-and-Season-Cast-Iron-Cookware", "description": "<p>As a former chef, there's nothing that disturbs me quite as much as watching people wash their cast iron skillets with soap and water. Well, okay there's plenty of things that disturb me far more, but still, for the love of something, don't do that. </p> <p>Curby, a restoration, DIY, etc community has a great article on how to restore rusted or otherwise abused cast iron pots, skillets and more. </p> <p>\"Cast iron is incredible. It's like nature's non-stick surface. I have a 12\" skillet, a round griddle for tortillas, and a large, rectangular griddle/grill pan, all of which I absolutely baby, adding flavor layer by layer, and avoiding soap, and many times water, at all cost.</p> <p>So, I was stoked to find this cast iron Dutch oven at a thrift store for $4. All it needed was a little TLC and a round of seasoning, and I knew it would be my new best friend.</p> <p>So, scour garage sales and your grandparents' house for all the cast iron you can get your hands on. Don't be afraid of the condition. This stuff is immortal, and anything can be salvaged and recycled. Then, follow these steps to get it into shape, and you'll never reach for Teflon again.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T12:57:19", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 900, "fields": {"title": "Curried Scallop Cakes Recipe", "url": "http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/printer_friendly/105953", "description": "Creamy on the inside and crunchy on the outside, these are fragrant with Indian curry and cilantro. Scallops are a less expensive alternative to crab, and they make a moist, plump little cake. Prepare the scallop cakes ahead and simply reheat right before guests arrive.", "pub_date": "2007-05-30T13:32:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 901, "fields": {"title": "The Bicycle-Eating Tree", "url": "http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/4226/", "description": "<p>From the Museum of Hoaxes (which this is not): \"The bicycle-eating tree is probably familiar to most residents of Washington, since it's located on Vashon Island, Washington (and won a 1994 contest to select the most unusual places or events in the Washington-Oregon area), but it's new to me. Apparently someone, decades ago, left their bicycle leaning against the tree, and as the tree kept growing it enveloped the bike and now lifts it seven feet off the ground. I think it's amazing that a) the tree actually grew around the bike instead of pushing it over, and that b) in all that time no one ever moved the bike. The bicycle-eating tree has been featured in Ripley's Believe It Or Not, and also inspired a children's book by Berkeley Breathed, Red Ranger Came Calling.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T12:16:12", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 902, "fields": {"title": "Internet Library of Early Journals", "url": "http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/", "description": "<p>Well it's got the web design quality of a 1998 site, but the Internet Library of Early Journals, ILEJ, is actually pretty cool. It's got scanned images from a number of sixteenth and seventeen century journals for your perusing pleasure.</p> <p>Journals include (the last one is the real gem):</p> <p>\"Annual Register -- started in 1758, an annual survey of European and world events from a British perspective, but including biographical notices, parliamentary and legal reports, and some book reviews, divided into topical sections with chronological sub-divisions.</p> <p>Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- started in 1817 (as a Tory rival to the Whig Edinburgh Review), a medium for imaginative literature, publishing English poetry, essays and especially prose fiction, and pioneering the presentation of European literature (particularly German) to a British audience.</p> <p>The Builder -- started in 1843, a mine of information on domestic and foreign building developments from the perspective of the architect, engineer, constructor and art historian, including accounts of new buildings, materials, processes and books, and articles on ancient monuments and other historic buildings.</p> <p>Gentleman's Magazine -- started in 1731, a Britain-focused miscellany of information about people, places and events, including news summaries, parliamentary reports, biographies and obituary notices, poems, essays, and a register of current publications.</p> <p>Notes and Queries -- started in 1849, \"a medium of intercommunication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, etc.\", carrying brief reports of completed research on humanities and related subjects and questions inviting answers in subsequent issues.</p> <p>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society -- started in 1660, initially as a forum for the publication of scientific papers of both a general and a specialized nature, although increasingly a learned journal carrying refereed papers from established scientists.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T12:23:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 903, "fields": {"title": "django-contact-form - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-contact-form/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T12:24:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 904, "fields": {"title": "BibliOdyssey: On The Fly", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/05/on-fly.html", "description": "<p>Another great post of old manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts and more. I don't know where BibliOdessey finds all this stuff, but it really is a great site. Highly recommended for the book nerds among you.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T12:28:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 905, "fields": {"title": "Zen in the Kitchen: Tevfik Usta", "url": "http://zeninthekitchen.blogspot.com/2007/05/tevfik-usta.html", "description": "<p>From a Turkish food blogger I ran across the other day: \"This morning, I went to my favorite place in Antalya. It is a simple pastry shop, which is open between 7-12 in the morning. Tevfik Usta, or Master Tevfik, has been making this Antalya specialty for over 40 years. He has two kinds of 'serpme borek' as said in Antalya, one with a ground meat filling, other with cheese filling. But you may have the cheese borek -- which he makes with unsalted cheese -- with powdered sugar as a dessert. So with that choice, you have three selections. Since I'm not a meat eater, I eat my cheese borek each time I go there. He knows how I like. Cheese, parsley and black pepper. Then he rolls my pastry, turns it few times on his hand to make it thinner, folds like an envelope, adds the filling, folds once more and bake until it gets crisp. Not only the borek he makes, but also the atmosphere is magical. I feel like I'm at home. I watch him make the pastries, mesmerized. Peace fills me while watching. My gift is the warm pastry and a glass of tea. Isn't that a wonderful way to start the day?\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T12:52:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 906, "fields": {"title": "The Bloody Olive", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB041MXW1Rw", "description": "<p>A few days ago a friends of mine actually sent me a YouTube video of her cat. Who does that? Anyway, shortly thereafter a ran across The Bloody Olive, which has redeemed YouTube for me. It's about ten minutes long and had more twists than the average pretzel, but I enjoyed it. From the mid nineties, with English subtitles.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T13:06:59", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 907, "fields": {"title": "Water Spout on Flickr", "url": "http://www.flickr.com/photos/spamforsam/513339303/", "description": "<p>An amazing photo of the Singapore Waterspout. \"A few days ago, this giant waterspout (50 m or 164 ft. diameter and average wind speeds of up to 150 km/hr or 93 mph) was spotted in Singapore. Apparently a large waterspout can be quite dangerous - it can spin a small ship around.\"</p> <p>For those thinking the image is a fake, here's a <a href=\"http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/278343/1/.html\">link to the news story</a>.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T13:12:56", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 908, "fields": {"title": "Django projects on Google", "url": "http://www.google.com/search?q=django-+-:inurl:/source+-inurl:/wiki+-inurl:/soc&hl=en&domains=code.google.com&sitesearch=code.google.com&start=0&sa=N", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T13:16:43", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 909, "fields": {"title": "Nine Wines Under $10", "url": "http://drvino.com/2007/05/31/nine-wines-under-10/", "description": "<p>A nice list of highly affordable wines (under $10). Curtesy of Dr. Vino:</p> <p>\"The hardest thing -- but perhaps more sought-after than a Lafite -- is a list of good, interesting and affordable wines, for parties or for dinner Sunday to Thursday or even all week long. Here's my latest list, arranged not by preference, but by style, from lightest to fullest in white and red.</p> <p>Why is it only a list of nine wines under $10 instead of the usual ten under ten? Because I'm grumpy. It's increasingly difficult to find good wines with character under ten dollars. Blame part of it on the weak dollar (though my list here is heavy on eurozone wines), blame it on producer greed-they're all just excuses! Good wines, easy on the palate and on the wallet are what consumers want. Sure, there are lots of great wines for $12-$15 and many more from $15 - 20, but these are out of reach for a lot of people to have with dinner on a given Tuesday. Producers take note of this market opening, ready to be filled! Meanwhile, we can fill up our wine storage areas with this value vino.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T13:20:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 910, "fields": {"title": "The Deserted Medieval Armenian City of Ani", "url": "http://www.virtualani.org/", "description": "<p>VirtualANI is a website/virtual museum for the lost Turkish city of Ani, which is on my list of places to visit whenever I finally get to Turkey. In the mean time, or if you perhaps have no plans to visit Turkey, this site lets you investigate and dig through the ruins (there's also some other medieval Armenian churches, monasteries, and the like which are located within Turkey)</p> <p>From VirtualANI:</p> <p>\"What is Ani? 'There are, of course, things we cannot describe however hard we try' wrote Konstantin Paustovsky after visiting Ani in 1923. A thousand years ago Ani was the capital of an Armenian kingdom that covered much of present day Armenia and eastern Turkey. Ani had a population of at least 100,000 and its wealth and renown was such that it was known as the \"City of 1001 Churches\". Built on a spectacular site - a plateau encircled by deep ravines - Ani's many churches, palaces, and fortifications were amongst the most technically and artistically advanced structures in the world at that period.\"\"</p> <p>\"Ani is now a ghost city, uninhabited for over three centuries and marooned inside a Turkish military zone on Turkey's border with modern Armenia. Ani's recent history has been one of continuous and always increasing destruction. Neglect, earthquakes, cultural cleansing, vandalism, quarrying, amateurish restorations and excavations - all these and more have taken a heavy toll on Ani's monuments. Yet still Ani survives.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T13:28:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 911, "fields": {"title": "Video: Frozen Waves in Newfoundland", "url": "http://www.break.com/index/newfoundland_frozen_waves.html", "description": "<p>I'd settle for just seeing snow on the beach as a complete novelty, but in Newfoundland things go a bit further. The quote from the poster of the video: \"A strange weather phenomenon occurred in Newfoundland where the waves were actually frozen as they crashed on the beach.\"</p> <p>Uh I think the strange weather phenomena is called buck ass freezing cold. Though this is apparently somewhat unique even in the extreme cold of Canada. Very odd to watch.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T14:57:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 912, "fields": {"title": "Coelacanth Hooked in Indonesia", "url": "http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070522-coelacanth.html", "description": "<p>Coelacanth for dinner. A fisherman in Indonesia reeled in the bizzare coelacanth which scientists believed was exinct until one turned up in 1938. Coelancanth's are unusual for fish, they give live birth.</p> <p>From National Geographic:</p> <p>\"The four-foot, 110-pound specimen lived for 17 hours in a quarantine pool, an \"extraordinary\" feat considering the cold, deep-sea habitat of the fish, marine biologist Lucky Lumingas of the local Sam Ratulangi University told the Associated Press. Lumingas plans to study the carcass.</p> <p>Scientists were shocked when a coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) was found off Africa's coast in 1938. They had believed the fish went extinct 65 million years ago, as did a related lineage of prehistoric fishes.</p> <p>The fish has been a source of fascination ever since. Several other coelacanths have been caught in recent decades, including another in the species-rich waters of Sulawesi in 1998.</p> <p>Coelacanths usually reach five feet in length, have limblike fins, and are covered in hard scales and toothy outgrowths that protect their bodies from rocks and predators. UUnlike other fish, they also give birth to live young.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-01T15:03:15", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 913, "fields": {"title": "django-captcha", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-captcha/", "description": "add captchas to django apps. sort of. has some quirks.", "pub_date": "2007-06-05T20:07:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 914, "fields": {"title": "Hard Drive Upgrade Solution for MacBook Pro and MacBook", "url": "http://www.mcetech.com/msperformance/", "description": "350 gig macbook drive from MCE", "pub_date": "2007-06-05T20:05:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 915, "fields": {"title": "Electric Orange Account Information Page", "url": "https://home.ingdirect.com/products/products.asp?s=ElectricOrange&NF=false#", "description": "America's first all-electronic, paperless checking account is going to change the way you do your banking. Earn a great rate, with online Free Bill Pay, easy access to cash, an Electric Orange MasterCard Debit Card and more -- it provides the access and convenience of checking with the earning power of savings.", "pub_date": "2007-06-05T20:04:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 916, "fields": {"title": "How to Control Crowds in Ancient Pompeii", "url": "http://www.csoonline.com/read/050107/fea_crowds.html", "description": "<p>An interesting study of crowd control and urban design as practiced by the acient Greeks in Pompeii. Strangely enough, I found this in a white paper at a security consulting firm:</p> <p>\"In ancient Pompeii, if you walk northeast along the wide Via dell'Abbondanza, then cut right onto the narrower Via Nocera for a block, then turn left onto Via di Castricio, you'll approach the southeastern corner of the city, where the road again opens wide to the Anfiteatro, Pompeii's stadium, preserved remarkably well by the thick blanket of Vesuvian ash that covered it for about 1,700 years.</p> <p>When G. Keith Still took this walk for the first time nearly 11 years ago and went inside the stadium, he sensed a paradox. In many ways it felt just like modern stadiums. That's not surprising; the design ethic of modern arenas still borrows liberally from classical Greek and Roman architecture.</p> <p>But at the same time, Still, a world-leading expert on crowd management who has consulted on some of the biggest crowd-control events in the world, including the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca and the upcoming Beijing Olympics, felt something different from today's stadiums at Pompeii. 'Everything seemed so much easier,' he says. 'There was enough space for everyone. Entrance and exit were simple, elegant. It wasn't just a stadium, it was an integrated part of the city design.'</p> <p>Crowd behavior can be so distinct from individual behavior that the crowd is thought of as one thing, a kind of superorganism with its own psychology. Back when Pompeii's amphitheater still hosted gladiatorial spectacles, Titus Livius (Livy) complained that crowds are 'either humble and servile or arrogant and dominating... incapable of making moderate use of freedom.' Gustave le Bon, who wrote about group psychology in the early 20th century, said we must either figure out the psychology of crowds or 'resign ourselves to being devoured by them.'\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-05T20:00:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 917, "fields": {"title": "A hermit's 15,000 Page Work of Beauty", "url": "http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6151", "description": "<p>A nice look at Henry Darger, from Mental Floss:</p> <p>\"Perhaps the most prolific artist of our time, Henry Darger's strange genius wasn't discovered until after his death. He was a lonely and highly reclusive man who worked for years as a janitor in Chicago. He was odd and unkempt, scavenged through the garbage for art supplies and talked to himself in strange voices. He never took an art class, never bought a manual on how to draw or paint, but when he died in 1973 — buried in a paupers' cemetery not far away, with no family or friends to provide for his burial — his landlord discovered a massive literary and artistic body of work that he had been creating since nearly the turn of the century. It included hundreds of paintings, many of them up to ten feet in length, and an amazing, 15,145-page fantasy graphic novel entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.\"</p> <p>If you aren't familiar with Darger's art you owe it to yourself to do some Googling, it's amazing stuff.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-05T19:55:56", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 918, "fields": {"title": "True to His Tongue", "url": "http://www.reason.com/news/show/119736.html", "description": "<p>Reason.com recently reviewed Barry Glassner's new book, The Gospel of Food:</p> <p>\"Years ago, I interviewed Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, for a National Review article about his group's highly publicized reports decrying the delicious dangers lurking in popular restaurant dishes. \"I like my vegetables and rice as much as somebody likes their steak and French fries,\" he told me. \"No, you don't,\" I thought. The cadaverous Jacobson, who looks like he is conducting a life extension experiment involving extreme calorie restriction, routinely reduces the dining experience to numbers indicating nutritional assets and liabilities, treating pleasure as, at best, an afterthought.</p> <p>To some extent, Barry Glassner, author of The Gospel of Food (Harper-Collins), errs in the opposite direction.... \"Some of us see eating as something we get to do, a privilege and source of joy,\" Glassner writes. \"Others view eating as something they have to do.\" He is referring to New York Times health columnist Jane Brody, but the same description applies to Jacobson (who gets his share of criticism elsewhere in the book) and every other nutrition nag who rigidly assigns foods to recommended and prohibited categories. Glassner understands that any food can be made to seem good or bad depending on which features one chooses to emphasize, and that a dish's merits cannot be fully captured by a table listing vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, fats, cholesterol, sodium, and sugar.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-05T19:51:54", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 919, "fields": {"title": "Jonas Hallgrimsson: Selected Poetry and Prose", "url": "http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/", "description": "<p>From [metafilter]:</p> <p>Jonas Hallgrimsson (1807-45) was an Icelandic Romantic poet and natural scientist. Dick Ringler, a professor at The University of Wisconsin, has a site that contains 50 poems and prose texts by Jonas in parallel English/Icelandic versions. Also on the site, a guide to traditional Icelandic verse, a biographical sketch of the poet and a map of Iceland with places Jonas wrote about marked. Here's his short Above the Ford: The cliffs on life's swift current/are cleft by shallow valleys./Masses have queued to cross there --/crowds of billy-goat milkers./We'll go upstream, God willing,/to walk the hawk-high ridges/and pitch ourselves -- impetuous --/plumb in the roaring torrent! [Today is Iceland's Independence Day]</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T09:50:06", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 920, "fields": {"title": "Iron Age 'Mickey Mouse' Found", "url": "http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/15/mickey_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070615090000&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000", "description": "<p>Proving once again that everything Disney is a second rate knockoff (from Discovery):</p> <p>\"One thousand years before the cartoon character Mickey Mouse was even a glint in Walt Disney's eye, a French artist created a bronze brooch that looks remarkably like the famous rodent, according to archaeologists at Sweden's Lund Historical Museum, which houses the recent find.</p> <p>The object, dated to 900 A..D., was excavated at a site called Uppakra in southern Sweden.</p> <p>Although made of bronze, the brooch ornament likely adorned the clothing of an Iron Age woman. Excavations at nearby sites, such as at Jarrestad, have yielded other unusual pieces of jewelry, such as a necklace with a pail fob at the end and another necklace strung with 262 pieces of amber.</p> <p>The bronze brooch may remind modern viewers of Mickey Mouse, but archaeologist Jerry Rosengren from Lund University told Discovery News that it actually represents a lion.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T09:45:15", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 921, "fields": {"title": "Forgetting May Be Part of the Process of Remembering", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/health/psychology/05forg.html?ei=5090&en=542015b4e0b4b6c1&ex=1338696000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1182111914-vXP8MxY7UN2x0EKuy2nfPQ", "description": "<p>Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a blessing, and researchers reported on Sunday that the ability to block certain memories reduces the demands on the brain when it is trying to recall something important.</p> <p>Blocking out a distracting memory is something like ignoring an old (and perhaps distracting) acquaintance, experts say: it makes it that much harder to reconnect the next time around. But recent studies suggest that the brain plays favorites with memories in exactly this way, snubbing some to better capture others. A lightning memory, in short, is not so much a matter of capacity as it is of ruthless pruning — and the new study catches the trace of this process at it happens.</p> <p>The <a href=\"http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn1918.html\">study</a>, appearing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, is the first to record visual images of people's brains as they suppress distracting memories. The more efficiently that study participants were tuning out irrelevant words during a word-memorization test, the sharper the drop in activity in areas of their brains involved in recollection. Accurate remembering became easier, in terms of the energy required.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T09:43:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 922, "fields": {"title": "Interview With the (Then) Oldest Woman in the World.", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/06/interview-with-the-then-oldest-woman-in-the-world/", "description": "<p>A Neatorama reader translates a video clip of the (then) world's oldest woman:</p> <p>\"Grandmother Sarhat is always happy when her 2 years-old neighbour Nadin gets in her window. They drink tea and eat candies together.</p> <p>Saahrad says that this child could have been her granddaughter in 7th generation.</p> <p>Sarhat Rashidova is 131 years old. The proof for this is her passport, which shows the date of birth of 1875. Locals found this fact out during a passport exchange (we had that some years ago), but they believed it only after their own investigation.</p> <p>The old lady doesn't have any relatives, her husband died in the 50s and they did not have any children. Sarhat has been living in this clay house all the time. There is only one lamp at the ceiling and no socket in her tiny 2 by 2 meters room.</p> <p>She was born during the reign of Alexander II, lived in 3 centuries and speaks only in Azerbaijan language:</p> <p>'There are not many families in this village now. But I remember the time when there were a lot of people. I lived all the generations over. I have seen tzar's, Nicolay's and Soviet times. When my husband died I promissed not to get married again and I kept my word.'</p> <p>The only memory of her husband that is left is his shirt. Sarhat once sewed it into a pillow-case and sleeps on it for 50 years now.</p> <p>'Longevity secret - old lady laughes - there is no such a secret. To live long you should be kind, you should respect the elders, you should work and do only good. Why do women live longer? Because man gives her all his power! My husband cared for me, brought water himself. If a man treats his woman good, the woman will live long.'</p> <p>Sarhat Rashidova died early this year (January 16, 2007). She was 131 at the time of her death.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T09:37:48", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 923, "fields": {"title": "What the World Eats -- A Photo Essay", "url": "http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html", "description": "<p>Time has a great photo essay documenting everything that fifteen families from around the world eat in a typical week. The photo essay comes from Peter Menzel's book <cite>Hungry Planet</cite>.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T09:35:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 924, "fields": {"title": "500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art (YouTube)", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs", "description": "<p>Amazing YouTube video of morphing female portraits from the last 500 years of Western art with a soundtrack of Yo-Yo Ma playing the sarabande from Bach's first cello suite in G Major. </p> <p>There's something like 85 portraits blended together in the course of the video with each getting about two seconds or so of screen time. One strange side effect is that it seems to give the images an almost 3-D effect.</p> <p>Really amazing and well worth the click through. Created by a YouTube user named eggman913, who also has some <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=eggman913\">other great videos on his page</a>.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T09:12:42", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 925, "fields": {"title": "Historical Wrecks", "url": "http://www.historicalwrecks.com/", "description": "<p>Deep Blue Marine, a marine salvage company specializing in recovery of \"important treasures and artifacts worldwide,\" launched a new non-profit site/blog detailing information about historical shipwrecks. The site is being promoted as a tool for students, teachers, historians and the curious alike.</p> <p>Historical Wrecks, setup for the recording of historical information with regards to ship wrecks and recoveries, right now holds information on a variety of wrecks around the world. Particular areas of geographic coverage include Florida and different parts of the Caribbean.</p> <p>Deep Blue Marine says Historical Wrecks will eventually contain wreck information such as manifests, passenger lists, survivor lists, last sightings and recoveries. Readers can submit additional information they may feel fits a particular wreck and, if validated by the company, will appear on the site. Users will also be able to interact with one another through posts. </p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T09:03:04", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 927, "fields": {"title": "The Power of Yes: A Simple Way to Get More Out of Life", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/06/13/the-power-of-yes-a-simple-way-to-get-more-out-of-life/", "description": "<p>From <a href=\"http://www.getrichslowly.org\">Get Rich Slowly</a>:</p> <p>\"For much of my adult life I've been shackled by fear. I've been afraid to try new things, afraid to meet new people, afraid of doing anything that might lead to failure. This fear confined me to a narrow comfort zone. Recently, however, I made a single small change that has helped me to overcome my fear, and allowed me to get more out of life.</p> <p>Last fall somebody at Ask Metafilter posted a question looking for books about self-confidence. One person recommended Impro by Keith Johnstone. Intrigued, I borrowed it from the public library. It blew my mind. Though it's a book about stage-acting, several of the techniques it describes are applicable to everyday life.</p> <p>I was particularly struck by the need for improvisational actors to accept whatever is offered to them on stage. In order for a scene to flow, an actor must take whatever situation arises and just go with it.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T08:57:48", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 928, "fields": {"title": "Irena Sendlerowa Named Polish National Hero", "url": "http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2034182,00.html", "description": "<p>From the Guardian:</p> <p>\"Irena Sendlerowa was named a national hero by Poland yesterday for her secret work in the Warsaw ghetto. She smuggled children out through sewers and in suitcases and boxes. </p> <p>Irena Sendlerowa, 97, who has been nominated for this year's Nobel peace prize, changed the identity of the children she rescued from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and 1943 and placed them with Polish families.</p> <p>She and her team smuggled the children out by variously hiding them in ambulances, taking them through the sewer pipes or other underground passageways, wheeling them out on a trolley in suitcases or boxes or taking them out through the old courtyard which led to the non-Jewish areas.</p> <p>Unlike the German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who saved more than 1,000 Jews by employing them at his Krakow factory and is widely recognized thanks to an award-winning book and film, Mrs Sendlerowa's story remains relatively unknown. A few years ago it was picked up in America by a group of Kansas school children who wrote a play about it, Life in a Jar.</p> <p>But Mrs Sendlerowa, who is in a Warsaw nursing home, insisted she did nothing special.</p> <p>In an interview she said: \"I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.\"</p> <p>\"The term 'hero' irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.\"</p> <p>She was arrested in October 1943 and taken to Gestapo headquarters where she was beaten. Her legs and feet were broken and she was then driven away to be executed. But a rucksack of dollars paid by Zegota secured her release. She was knocked unconscious and left by the roadside. She still has to use crutches today as a result of her injuries.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T08:52:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 929, "fields": {"title": "High Resolution Imaging Of Mars", "url": "http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/", "description": "<p>High quality images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have been posted to the web on the site HiRISE for public viewing. The images take a bit to load, but are worth the wait.</p> <p>\"Onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen. It's the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth's orbit.</p> <p>During its mission, HiRISE will collect thousands of images of the Martian surface, covering only one percent of the planet. The camera's advanced optics allow us to see objects a few meters across.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T08:47:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 930, "fields": {"title": "Khmer Rouge Trials Ready to Start", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6747143.stm", "description": "<p>No one has ever faced charges for the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and 80s. Pol Pot who was largely responsible for the deaths of an estimated two million Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge's reign died almost a decade ago but the former head of state and foreign minister have been living freely in the country since the Vietnamese invasion which put an end to the Khmer Rouge.</p> <p>From the BBC:</p> <p>The long-awaited Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia are ready to start, after a panel of judges approved ground rules.</p> <p>The deal was reached in a week-long meeting, after a delay of more than six months because of disagreements between local and UN-appointed legal officials.</p> <p>The tribunal is expected last for three years, with trials starting in 2008.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-18T08:45:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 931, "fields": {"title": "Obsidian Knives Sharper Than Surgical Scalpels.", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/obsidian-knives-sharper-than-surgical-scalpels/", "description": "<p>The folks over at Neatorama have a nice reminder that sometimes technology really doesn't have any room to improve what it tries to replace. Yes, it's true obsidian blade can be much sharper than surgical scalps:</p> <p>\"A scientific study showed that obsidian blades are sharper than surgical scalpels: Obsidian is used in cardiac surgery, as well-crafted obsidian blades have a cutting edge up to five times sharper than high-quality steel surgical scalpels, with the edge of the blade reaching veritable molecular thinness. It produces a cleaner cut and less tissue trauma, which translates to faster healing and less scar tissue.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-25T15:54:24", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 932, "fields": {"title": "MetaFilter: Frida Kahlo's 100th", "url": "http://www.metafilter.com/62185/Frida-Kahlos-100th", "description": "<p>Nice roundup of Frida Kahlo links on Metafilter. Worth a look if you're a fan. It's kind of cool that lots of people know who Kahlo is these days even if it is only because of the rather awful movie that came out a while back.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-25T15:51:12", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 933, "fields": {"title": "South Korea's "Love Land"", "url": "http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,431224,00.html", "description": "<p>File this under bizarre (and be sure to check out the images, though they may be NSFW):</p> <p>There's a persistent prejudice against the Japanese, the Koreans and other Asians — that they're prudish and repressed. But go to \"Love Land\" on Cheju Island in South Korea and you'll start to question that cliche.</p> <p>\"If you really want to learn about the Asian sex life, Love Land is the place to visit.\"</p> <p>\"Love Land is a theme park, about the size of two soccer fields, located in the north of Cheju Island. And it's crammed with soft porn memorabilia — statues, photographs and sculptures that seem like something halfway between a post-modern version of those temple phalluses and a Jeff Koons installation — just more trashy, if that's possible.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-25T15:37:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 934, "fields": {"title": "Travels With Herodotus", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/books/review/Bissell-t.html?ex=1339128000&en=c76f1e3722f2370c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>Count me as one of those whom this article says would have mistaken Kapuscinski for Polish espresso, but he certainly sounds fascinating. </p> <p>From the New York Times:</p> <p>\"Ryszard Kapuscinski disappeared in the dead of winter, January 2007, half as well known as his influence would lead one to expect. He went into the beyond Nobel-less, like Joyce and Proust and Nabokov, but to many who read him he was as exalted: \"deity\" was used, more than once, in his assorted funeral songs. While such desperate formulations as \"world literature\" conjure up bongos, beads and sitting Indian-style, the books Kapuscinski wrote may actually qualify, as evocative and singular in English as they are in their native (and what is said to be austerely fine) Polish. For many of us, the day of his death was a dark, cold day.</p> <p>Until 1983, most Western readers would have mistaken the man for Polish espresso. Kapuscinski's first book to appear in English, thanks to the translation of the husband-and-wife team of William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, was \"The Emperor\" (originally published in Polish in 1978), a spell-casting oral history of Haile Selassie's rule over Ethiopia. \"The Emperor\" was followed in 1985 by what many believe to be Kapuscinski's masterpiece, \"Shah of Shahs\" (originally published in 1982), a short, tense, fragmentary account of the 1979 Iranian revolution. In 1987 came \"Another Day of Life\" (originally published in Polish in 1976), his bizarre and shattering reportage from Angola as its former Portuguese overlords fled for their lives. </p> <p>These three books brought Kapuscinski acclaim in the West as perhaps the world's leading literary journalist. The acclaim was rather tardy, seeing that for the past three decades Kapuscinski had been filing dispatches from the Indian subcontinent, Asia, Latin America and, most often, Africa, initially in the service of a Polish youth journal as its first and only foreign correspondent and later for the Polish Press Agency. As his now famous about-the-author note from \"The Shadow of the Sun\" (2001) informs us, Kapuscinski \"witnessed 27 coups and revolutions\" and \"was sentenced to death four times,\" a biographical precis many nonfiction writers would do anything, short of earning it, to have.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-25T15:33:28", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 935, "fields": {"title": "McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Now Would Be a Good Time.", "url": "http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/6/12agoodtime.html", "description": "<p>McSweeney's is having a book sale. I'm bit late on this one, but you can read more about what happened in the <a href=\"http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/06/21/independent_press/\" title=\"The struggle for independents\">Salon article</a> as well.</p> <p>From McSweeney's:</p> <p>\"Over the next week or so, we'll be holding an inventory sell-off and rare-item auction, which we hope will make a dent in the losses we sustained. A few years ago, the indispensable comics publisher Fantagraphics, in similarly dire straits, held a similar sale, and it helped them greatly. We're hoping to do the same.\"</p> <p>\"As you may know, it's been tough going for many independent publishers, McSweeney's included, since our distributor filed for bankruptcy last December 29. We lost about $130,000 — actual earnings that were simply erased. Due to the intricacies of the settlement, the real hurt didn't hit right away, but it's hitting now. Like most small publishers, our business is basically a break-even proposition in the best of times, so there's really no way to absorb a loss that big.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-25T15:30:04", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 936, "fields": {"title": "Historic Bottle Website", "url": "http://www.sha.org/bottle/index.htm", "description": "<p>Yes it really is a website dedicated to information on historical glass bottle found in the United States. Everything you ever needed to date that weird bottle you dug up in the yard last weekend and more. </p> <p>It began under the auspices of a BLM project but now, from what I can tell it's largely a one man project.</p> <p>And no it isn't every glass bottle, here's bit from the FAW:</p> <p>\"Since there were several hundred thousand different bottles produced in the United States (and Canada) between 1800 and the 1950s, it is beyond the scope of this or any website (or book) to provide specific details about more than a tiny fraction of those bottles (Fike 1987). This site instead attempts to help the user determine some key facts — approximate age & function — about a given bottle based on observable physical characteristics.</p> <p>Very handy for \"field archaeologists trying to identify and date bottles or bottle fragments which are found during cultural surveys and excavations in the United States; educators dealing with the subject of historic archaeology; and collectors trying to date a bottle.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-25T15:27:15", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 937, "fields": {"title": "Girl, 2, Becomes Member of Mensa", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6229738.stm", "description": "<p>This is pretty damn amazing. From the BBC:</p> <p>\"A two-year-old girl from Hampshire has become the youngest ever female member of British Mensa.\"</p> <p>\"Georgia Brown, from Aldershot, Hampshire, astounded experts by scoring 152 in an IQ test — putting her in the top 2% of the population for her age.\"</p> <p>\"Psychologist Joan Freeman, who tested Georgia, said she thought the toddler could have scored even higher but needed a nap after 45 minutes of work.</p> <p>\"Georgia was crawling at five months, walking at nine months and, by 18 months, was having proper conversations.\"</p> <p>\"Freeman told the BBC: \"She is two years, nine months — not very much older than a toddler really — and she is able to answer questions five and six-year-olds can't.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-25T16:07:36", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 938, "fields": {"title": "Museum's Broken Treasure Not Just Any Old Shit", "url": "http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,11711,972060,00.html", "description": "<p>Somewhere in these link archives there's story about people that collect weird things and how it's about time they let them go. Well, this would probably qualify by that author's yardstick, but I dunno, poop is almost always entertaining. </p> <p>From The Guardian:</p> <p>\"York's Archaeological Resource Centre is working to repair a valued piece of fossilized Viking excrement damaged during a school visit.\"</p> <p>\"The Viking who lay it down probably gave his feces little thought but more than a millennium later it was, in its hardened form, a York museum's most treasured excrement.\"</p> <p>\"School parties visiting the Archaeological Resource Centre would admire the artifact in a way that only children could. And all was well until two weeks ago when its display stand collapsed in the hands of an unfortunate teacher and, crashing to the floor, the rock-like lump broke into three pieces.\"</p> <p>\"A reconstruction job is now under way to glue the Viking feces back together again. Named the Lloyds Bank Turd after its discovery on a 1972 dig on the land now occupied by a Lloyds TSB bank in York, it is considered to be the largest complete example of preserved human excrement ever found.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-06-25T16:02:51", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 939, "fields": {"title": "Amazon.com: Arianne Juliette Camisole with Padded Shelf: Apparel", "url": "http://www.amazon.com/Arianne-Juliette-Camisole-Padded-Medium/dp/B000Q3095W/ref=sr_1_1/002-2332003-8476046?ie=UTF8&s=apparel&qid=1183255377&sr=8-1", "description": "Amazon.com: Arianne Juliette Camisole with Padded Shelf: Apparel", "pub_date": "2007-06-30T19:30:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 940, "fields": {"title": "Arianne Penelope Long Gown", "url": "http://pamperedpassions.com/arianne_penelope_long_gown_12225_prd1.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-06-30T19:22:45", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 941, "fields": {"title": "Sexy Lingerie, Sexy Stockings, G-Strings and Bras - Pampered Passions Fine Lingerie", "url": "http://pamperedpassions.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-06-30T19:21:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 942, "fields": {"title": "Sweet Dreams 2 PC Set - PureDecadence.co.uk - Lingerie, Sexy Lingerie & Underwear UK, Plus Size Lingerie, Bridal Lingerie, Erotic Clothing!", "url": "http://www.puredecadence.co.uk/modules/view.asp?prodcode=197005_blue", "description": "Sweet Dreams 2 PC Set - With Sweet Dreams like these, you'll never want to wake up, Play out all of you fantasies in Sweet Dreams. Ribbon tie front top and flowy skirt is made with innocent pastel coloured mesh fabric trimmed with sexy black lace. Accesories not included.", "pub_date": "2007-06-30T19:20:04", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 943, "fields": {"title": "PureDecadence.co.uk - lingerie - sexy lingerie - plus size lingerie - lingerie uk - sexy underwear - bridal underwear - erotic clothing", "url": "http://www.puredecadence.co.uk/", "description": "Lingerie by Pure Decadence - Look the part and feel the pleasure - We offer the finest in quality and fashion with Free Delivery and Special Offers on an expensive range of sexy lingerie.", "pub_date": "2007-06-30T19:18:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 944, "fields": {"title": "Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread", "url": "http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/11/65688", "description": "<p>I was cleaning out some old notes and ran across this link, a bit old, but definitely worth a read if you haven't before:</p> <p>By conventional industry logic, file sharing hurts the odds for commercial success. Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy disagrees. Wired News caught up with him during his current tour to find out just what makes Wilco so wired.</p> <p>Wired News: What sparked the idea of offering your music online for free?</p> <p>Jeff Tweedy: Being dropped from Reprise in 2001. They weren't going to put out Yankee Hotel Foxtrot the way we'd created it. They wanted changes; we weren't willing to do that, so they rushed a contract through their legal department to let us go. It was the fastest I'd ever seen a record company work. Once they let us go, we were free to do with the album what we chose.</p> <p>We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become — once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-07T22:07:16", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 945, "fields": {"title": "Frederick's of Hollywood - Lace Inset Corset Set", "url": "http://www.fredericks.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=Holiday2002&category%5Fname=Bridal%2DCorset&product%5Fid=51405&cookie%5Ftest=1", "description": "The official web site for Frederick's of Hollywood. Hollywood Glamour at its best with bras, panties, lingerie, sexy/sensual women's apparel and more.", "pub_date": "2007-07-09T17:48:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 946, "fields": {"title": "Lingerie < YumDrop, Inc.", "url": "http://www.yumdrop.com/Lingerie/All/?od=StatusID", "description": "Lingerie live at YumDrop, your Lingerie Superstore. Have Lingerie Lingerie delivered right to your door! We have a wide selection of specialty Lingerie, visit today!", "pub_date": "2007-07-09T17:47:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 947, "fields": {"title": "Kings of the Road", "url": "http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20070730&s=raskin", "description": "<p>A book I've been meaning to read for years, Jack London's The Road. From The Nation:</p> <p>\"In 1907, exactly fifty years before Jack Kerouac's On the Road reached the New York Times bestseller list, Jack London — then one of the most popular authors in America — published a memoir titled simply The Road. Its centennial will be greeted with much less fanfare than On the Road's fiftieth anniversary, which will be feted this year all over the world with readings, conferences and a new Viking reissue of the book. The Road reflects its author's highly developed class consciousness and comes from an era when American writers like London, Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair wrote to make their readers aware of injustices and to rouse them to political action. Moreover, London's account of his wild, eye-opening journey across the country by railroad, boat, on foot — and even barefoot, when his shoes fell apart — remains a pivotal work in the cultural history of America's long obsession with road travel, roadside attractions and road books. A literary gem in its own right, it has achieved fame among historians and scholars as the grandfather of all twentieth-century American books that explore life and death on the road, including, most famously, Kerouac's classic. For several generations of rough-and-tumble readers, including the members of the Beat generation, it served as an invitation to see the country firsthand, though not first-class.\"</p> <p>\"Yet while On the Road is Kerouac's signature work and a pivotal text of twentieth-century American literature, London's The Road is a largely forgotten volume among the fifty-odd books he published, never having achieved the popularity of his tales about dogs and wolves, like The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Still, it is among the most compelling of his books — and the closest he came to recounting honestly his life as an outsider, outcast, wanderer and vagabond. London's portraits of American places, including small towns like Underwood, Leola, Menden, Avoca and Marno, are still memorable because he captured their undeniable hospitality and generosity and because they encouraged him, in the spirit of Walt Whitman, to sing his own song of the open road. His self-portrait is equally indelible. By depicting himself as a \"stranger in a strange land,\" and by taking on the larger-than-life persona of \"the American hobo,\" he was able to write insightfully about the underside of American life — the poverty, the violence and the brutality — that was largely ignored by his contemporaries Henry James, Edith Wharton and even William Dean Howells. \"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-27T19:30:38", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 948, "fields": {"title": "Photography: Vermilion Cliffs National Monument", "url": "http://www.arny.nl/thewave.html", "description": "<p>Stunning photographs of something called \"The Wave\" in Coyote Buttes, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. Vermilion Cliffs is in a remote part of Arizona and I've stared at it on a map before, thinking, 'I wonder what's there?' Definitely need to see this in person.</p> <p>Apparently the BLM only gives out ten visitors permits a day, which means it should be blissfully solitary up in the red rock canyons. One day...</p> <p>The images after the links are by Arny Raedts.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-27T19:21:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 949, "fields": {"title": "Pentagon's Psychic Vision Revisited", "url": "http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/dinner-with.html", "description": "<p>Great Interview with the former head of the Pentagon's \"Remote Viewing\" project on Wired's Danger Room blog. From Sharon Weinberger's intro:</p> <p>\"John Alexander, a former Green Beret, earned a reputation in the 1990s as a vocal advocate of nonlethal weapons research. He was also a champion of the government's now defunct \"Remote Viewing\" program, which, until its termination in 1995, sought to use psychics in the service of national security. Today, he continues to advise the military and frequently writes on national security issues. We met for dinner earlier this month and it was about the time that Alexander started talking about witches that I asked him if I could record some of our dinner conversation. After all, it's not too often that you get to talk about witchcraft in the context of national security.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-27T19:14:04", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 950, "fields": {"title": "Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru Desert", "url": "http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/37392703.html", "description": "<p>From National Geographic News:</p> <p>\"Penguins about the size of humans roamed South America some 35 million years ago, and they didn't need ice to survive.\"</p> <p>\"That's the result of a new study by North Carolina State University paleontologist Julia Clarke and her colleagues.\"</p> <p>\"The discovery pushes the date of penguin migration to equatorial regions back more than 30 million years, to one of the warmest periods of the last 65 million years.\"</p> <p>\"The find also casts doubt on climate as the main factor in penguins' choice of habitat through history.\"</p> <p>\"'The public is very familiar with the image of penguins and icebergs,' Clarke said.\"</p> <p>\"Today's penguins are cold-adapted and therefore at grave risk from global warming, she said, but the new fossils suggest that hasn't always been true.\"</p> <p>\"The new study describes two new species of penguins from fossils, including the first complete skull from an ancient giant penguin.\"</p> <p>\"That species, which the authors say lived in Peru about 36 million years ago, is the third largest penguin known and stood about 4.5 feet (1.5 meters) tall.\"</p> <p>\"The other, dating to 42 million years, was about three feet (a meter) tall, which is comparable to the today's second largest living penguin, the king penguin.\"</p> <p>\"Most modern penguins in South America are 2 feet (0.6 meter) tall or less.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-27T19:11:04", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 951, "fields": {"title": "3 Famous Psychology Studies That Would Be Illegal Today", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/26/3-famous-psychology-studies-that-would-be-illegal-today/", "description": "<p>\"What happened to the good old days, when a scientist could just rustle together some test subjects and let loose in the lab? You know, without having to worry about petty humane things.. like ethics!\"</p> <p>Indeed. And what's more, who knew that all that drama of the Stanford Prison Experiment actually happened in only six days? That's a remarkable amount of crazy in a very short time.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-27T19:06:58", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 952, "fields": {"title": "After 1,000 years, Restored Viking Ship to Sail North Sea", "url": "http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070624041839.nats3k6m&show_article=1&cat=0", "description": "<p>\"An 11th-century Viking longship that has been reconstructed to its original condition will soon depart on a seven-week voyage from Denmark across the North Sea to her home port of Dublin, powered only by her sails.\"</p> <p>\"The Havhingsten fra Glendalough (The Sea Stallion from Glendalough) is the largest Viking warship ever rebuilt.\"</p> <p>\"On July 1 the vessel will leave the Danish port of Roskilde, which served as the Vikings' flourishing political and commercial centre from the 9th to the 12th century.\"</p> <p>\"After a 44-day and 900-nautical-mile crossing using only its huge square sail, the longship and its 65 crew will reach Ireland, where it was originally built in 1040 in the Glendalough forest.\"</p> <p>\"The boat was sunk in the Roskilde fjord with four other ships at the end of the 11th century to defend the Danish coast from invading Vikings from Norway.\"</p> <p>\"The hull of the oak ship was found in 1962, and reconstruction began in 2000 at the dockyards of Roskilde's Viking Ship Museum — a task that was to take four years.\"</p> <p>\"After 84 days of tests in nearby waters, the ship is now ready to retrace its route home.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-27T19:04:15", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 953, "fields": {"title": "Greenskeeping", "url": "http://www.doriegreenspan.com/dorie_greenspan/2007/06/greenskeeping.html", "description": "<p>This makes logical sense (plants need carbon dioxide, which you exhale), but I've never tried it myself (from Dorie Greenspan):</p> <p>\"I know, it looks a little weird, kind of like a terrarium for lettuce, but it's really a little bit of low-tech genius. It's a terrific trick I learned from Michael Newburg, who grows the best, best greens at his Falls Brook Organic Farm. Put your fresh greens in a big plastic bag, gather up the neck, blow a little air, aka carbon dioxide, into the bag, then seal it up quick. If your greens are perfectly dry and really fresh (when Michael brings his to the Lyme Farmers Market, they're only two-hours old), they'll stay bright, firm and flavorful for at least a week like this. The only problem is the amount of space the puffed-up bag takes in the fridge — but scrambling for a few extra cubic-inches of room on the shelf seems a small price to pay for greens that stay great from market day to market day.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-27T19:01:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 954, "fields": {"title": "Sao Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising", "url": "http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2007/id20070618_505580.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_innovation+%2Bamp%3B+design", "description": "<p>This sounds too good to be 1, but apparently Sao Paulo Brazil banned all forms of advertising within the city limits. That's gotta scare the crap out of Google, but it sounds great to me.</p> <p>\"A city stripped of advertising. No Posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. No Adshels, no 48-sheets, no nothing.\"</p> <p>\"It sounds like an Adbusters editorial: an activist's dream. But in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the dream has become a reality.\"</p> <p>\"In September last year, the city's populist right-wing mayor, Gilberto Kassab, passed the so-called Clean City laws. Fed up with the \"visual pollution\" caused by the city's 8,000 billboard sites, many of them erected illegally, Kassab proposed a law banning all outdoor advertising. The skyscraper-sized hoardings that lined the city's streets would be wiped away at a stroke. And it was not just billboards that attracted his wrath: all forms of outdoor advertising were to be prohibited, including ads on taxis, on buses — even shopfronts were to be restricted, their signs limited to 1.5 metres for every 10 metres of frontage. 'It is hard in a city of 11 million people to find enough equipment and personnel to determine what is and isn't legal,' reasoned Kassab, 'so we have decided to go all the way.'\"</p> <p>The law was hailed by writer Roberto Pompeu de Toledo as 'a rare victory of the public interest over private, of order over disorder, aesthetics over ugliness, of cleanliness over trash. For once, all that is accustomed to coming out on top in Brazil has lost.'\" </p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-27T18:55:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 955, "fields": {"title": "Mental Floss On The Outer Banks", "url": "http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/6259", "description": "<p>I've been meaning to go North Carolina's Outer banks for years new. I might even get around to it one of these days. In the mean time, here's Mental Floss Magazine's educational take on the area:</p> <p>\"If you've ever noticed the squiggle in the east coast of detailed US maps, you've seen the Outer Banks (OBX) of North Carolina. Take highway 64. When you see the unforgettable billboard for Dirty Dick's Crab House, slow down because you are about to hit the ocean at Nags Head. Then you have to turn left or right, but in either direction, you'll find something interesting to learn about.\"</p> <p>\"Turn south and you'll enter Cape Hatteras National Seashore, with 75 miles of seashore on each side, limited development, and protected wildlife. Ocracoke Island is the southernmost part of the national seashore, and was recently named the United States' best beach. There are no roads to Ocracoke, so you'll have to get there by ferry or private plane. \"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-27T18:47:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 956, "fields": {"title": "Ghost Writing, Orpheus in the Guardian", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2136130,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10", "description": "<p>Probably my favorite myth — Orpheus. From the Guardian:</p> <p>\"This is the year of the return of Orpheus. It is 400 years ago that Monteverdi's opera Orfeo was staged in Mantua. It was not quite the first opera, not even the first to tell the story of the demigod musician - but it was the first opera to last. Monteverdi's contemporaries believed that actors in ancient Greece sang their parts, and so the new form was a conscious attempt to recapture what music meant to the ancient world: something that was not merely a skill, a display of virtuosity, but an enchantment, something that spoke to the soul, something deeply and sweetly natural. But when you choose to work with the Orpheus myth, you are even going beyond this: you are searching, in the dark, with your breath and your fingertips, for an art so powerful that, like the art of Orpheus himself, it can suspend or, as it may be, reverse the laws of nature.\"</p> <p>\"The story of Orpheus was old when Ovid told it. In words, in music, in film, successive generations have worked it over, made it their own, every artist or would-be artist finding in it something personal and something new. When Eurydice, the bride of Orpheus, died of snakebite, Orpheus travelled to the underworld and used his skill in music to open the hearts of the gods, who allowed him to take back his beloved. One condition was made: that until they had left the underworld behind, Orpheus must not look at his wife's face. He led her towards the light, then, at the last second, his desire defeated him; he looked back, and with that glimpse Eurydice vanished for ever.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-31T12:33:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 957, "fields": {"title": "Peanuts by Charles Bukowski", "url": "http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/peanuts-by-charles-bukowski/", "description": "<p>Dead-on and Hilarious.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-31T12:30:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 958, "fields": {"title": "The Languid Bazaar of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet", "url": "http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su07/quartet-trueheart.html", "description": "<p>Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves, it's an absolutely amazing portrait of Egypt in the 1940s. Here's a great little essay from The American Scholar about re-encounter both the successes and failures of Durrell's four volume work:</p> <p>\"Speak the name Lawrence Durrell, as I have been doing recently, and you will have little trouble prompting the title of his masterwork, the four-novel cycle he called 'The Alexandria Quartet.' Yes, everyone read it back when. Or some of it. Justine... Balthazar... The well of memory tends to run dry about there, leaving only the wistful fragrance of the little remembered but not quite forgotten.\"</p> <p>\"Yet half a century ago, when Justine appeared, it elicited a rush of critical superlatives that announced the birth of a literary classic. Almost at once the novel established an outlandish reputation for Durrell, previously known for a precocious first novel and some sublime travel writing. He was confidently placed in the big shoes of Joyce, Proust, Henry Miller, and D. H. Lawrence, among other modernist forebears. 'The novel may indeed be dying,' declared the critic Robert Scholes, 'but we need not fear for the future. Durrell and others are leading us in a renaissance of romance.'\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-07-31T12:28:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 959, "fields": {"title": "Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/dining/18mini.html?ex=1342411200&en=44fa45164cd22b02&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>The New York Times on quick and easy meals. Some of these aren't half bad. Some of them, regrettably, are. Or at least I certainly hope people can come up with a lot of these without having the read it in the Times:</p> <p>\"The pleasures of cooking are sometimes obscured by summer haze and heat, which can cause many of us to turn instead to bad restaurants and worse takeout. But the cook with a little bit of experience has a wealth of quick and easy alternatives at hand. The trouble is that when it's too hot, even the most resourceful cook has a hard time remembering all the options. So here are 101 substantial main courses, all of which get you in and out of the kitchen in 10 minutes or less. (I'm not counting the time it takes to bring water to a boil, but you can stay out of the kitchen for that.) These suggestions are not formal recipes; rather, they provide a general outline. With a little imagination and some swift moves — and maybe a salad and a loaf of bread — you can turn any dish on this list into a meal that not only will be better than takeout, but won't heat you out of the house.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T17:56:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 960, "fields": {"title": "David Foster Wallace Parodies Contest", "url": "http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dfw-parodies-2007.html", "description": "<p>The Howling Fantods, a David Foster Wallace fansite recently held a DFW parody contest with some truly great entries. You can check out the finalists by following the above link, but here's an exceprt from the winner, entitled \"RE: The Aforementioned Matter Of The Comically Oversized Underpants,\" which is pretty spot on:</p> <p>\"The problem didn't so much concern the origin of the underpants that the Senior White House Aide was found sniffing — the origin was verified by the DNA tests that the Senior White House Aide had ordered be performed on the traces of vaginal mucus found within the underpants on account of his [i.e. the SWHA's] own doubts concerning the origins of the underpants he was so keen on sniffing — so much as it concerned the incredible size of the underpants that were found draped across the SWHA's head. In other words, after the results of the DNA tests were leaked to the quote unquote Liberal Media, and after the subsequent public and scientific verifications of said leaked results, no one doubted that the underwear had been, if not provably owned and purchased by the Young Female Celebrity Who Shall Remain Nameless, at the very least worn for an extended period by the Aforementioned YFCWSRN. But again, that was not really what concerned people. What people were really scratching their heads over also wasn't why a SWHA would want to sniff the AYFCWSRN's aforementioned underpants (nearly eighty percent of males aged 14-65 would have sniffed said underpants if given the chance, CNN polls reported), but why, when the AYFWSRN generally appeared so fit and lithe, the AYCFWSRN's underpants were so friggin' huge. As in comically huge. As in probably too big for any or most NFL players or sumo wrestlers to wear. As in if you were stranded at sea on a small raft with only one piece of clothing you would want those underpants because those underpants would make a big ass sail and then some.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T17:52:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 961, "fields": {"title": "Virtual Egyptian Museum", "url": "http://www.virtual-egyptian-museum.org/Collection/Highlights/Collection.Highlights-FR.html", "description": "<p>Found via Neatorama:</p> <p>\"The Virtual Egyptian Museum has an excellent online collection of everything related to Egyptian antiquities.\"</p> <p>\"This one to the left is a Falcon sarcophagus with an Osiris mummy (which actually isn't a real mummy but a figurine made from earth and grain seeds to represent the god Osiris, a god of rebirth after death).\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T17:45:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 962, "fields": {"title": "On the Deaths of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni", "url": "http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7109", "description": "<p>Both Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni, to giants of film in my opinion (Bergman is hands down my favorite director) died this week. Rather than write up obituaries for them I thought I would defer to Mental Floss who do an excellent job and even tracked down a YouTube clip of a scene in Wild Strawberies.</p> <p>\"Attention legendary auteurs of world cinema: please stop dying! In the past two days, we've lost two of the best — Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni — and if death keeps swinging his cinema scythe at this rate, we'll be down to the likes of Spielberg in a week or two.\"</p> <p>\"While both were highly respected filmmakers in their own right, Bergman was undoubtedly the giant of the two. American filmmaker Paul Schrader (he wrote Taxi Driver) said of his passing, 'It's impossible for anyone of my generation not to have been influenced by Bergman.' High praise indeed, and not far from the mark: you see his trademark all over today's movies, but perhaps nowhere more clearly, I will argue, than in dream sequences.\"</p> <p>\"David Lynch could never be called derivative, but watching Eraserhead feels like you're watching a feature-length version of one of Bergman's dream sequences.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T17:43:17", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 963, "fields": {"title": "Veil Nebula Pierced by Hubble's Gaze", "url": "http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070731_veil_nebula.html", "description": "<p>Stunning images from the Hubble telescope of the Veil Nebula. From Space.com:</p> <p>\"Only 5,000 to 10,000 years ago, a star familiar to human observers detonated and burned with a brightness comparable to that of a crescent moon-an event visible even in broad daylight.\"</p> <p>\"The dead star's name may be lost, but its shattered remains are known as the Veil Nebula or Witch's Broom Nebula. Now, the Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers three extreme close-ups of the supernova remnants' wispy clouds of dust and gas still careening into space some 1,500 light-years away from Earth.\"</p> <p>\"The Hubble close-ups reveal the rope-like filaments of gas in the nebula, which resulted from enormous amounts of dusty debris plowing into gaseous surroundings. Thicker filaments of material result from viewing the supernova's shock wave edge-on, while more wispy and diffuse views correspond to a face-on view of other parts of the shock wave from Earth.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T17:35:32", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 964, "fields": {"title": "Religion and the Arts in America", "url": "http://www.bu.edu/arion/Paglia.htm", "description": "<p>Facinating essay by Camille Paglia about the role of religion in culture and art. Rather long and quite of bit of historical background, but well worth the read and generally agree with these last few paragraphs:</p> <p>\"For the fine arts to revive, they must recover their spiritual center. Profaning the iconography of other people's faiths is boring and adolescent. The New Age movement, to which I belong, was a distillation of the 1960s' multicultural attraction to world religions, but it has failed thus far to produce important work in the visual arts.1 The search for spiritual meaning has been registering in popular culture instead through science fiction, as in George Lucas' six-film Star Wars saga, with its evocative master myth of the \"Force.\" But technology for its own sake is never enough. It will always require supplementation through cultivation in the arts.\"</p> <p>\"To fully appreciate world art, one must learn how to respond to religious expression in all its forms. Art began as religion in prehistory. It does not require belief to be moved by a sacred shrine, icon, or scripture. Hence art lovers, even when as citizens they stoutly defend democratic institutions against religious intrusion, should always speak with respect of religion. Conservatives, on the other hand, need to expand their parched and narrow view of culture. Every vibrant civilization welcomes and nurtures the arts.\"</p> <p>\"Progressives must start recognizing the spiritual poverty of contemporary secular humanism and reexamine the way that liberalism too often now automatically defines human aspiration and human happiness in reductively economic terms. If conservatives are serious about educational standards, they must support the teaching of art history in primary school — which means conservatives have to get over their phobia about the nude, which has been a symbol of Western art and Western individualism and freedom since the Greeks invented democracy. Without compromise, we are heading for a soulless future. But when set against the vast historical panorama, religion and art — whether in marriage or divorce — can reinvigorate American culture.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T17:17:53", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 965, "fields": {"title": "The 'Crossover Point': When Your Income From Investments Covers Your Living Expenses", "url": "http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/12/when-your-income-from-investments-covers-your-living-expenses-the-crossover-point", "description": "This is actually makes sense to me. Far more sense than an \"retirement\" fund advice ever has. Probably cause it's way more tangible.", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T16:50:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 966, "fields": {"title": "21 Strategies for Creating an Emergency Fund, and Why It's Critical", "url": "http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/21-strategies-for-creating-an-emergency-fund-and-why-its-critical/", "description": "hmm. Still haven't actually gotten around to this...", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T16:48:47", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 967, "fields": {"title": "Shop Around: Don't Spend $1,000 On $8 Glasses", "url": "http://consumerist.com/consumer/shop-around/dont-spend-1000-on-8-glasses-284963.php", "description": "Most people spend too much on glasses, failing to shop around even though they are legally entitled to take their prescription anywhere. Local opticians usually provide the best service, but offer the worst deals. 147 million Americans might save on glasses by following these simple tips from the Chicago Tribune:", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T16:32:45", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 968, "fields": {"title": "BibliOdyssey: Buddha in the Far East", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/08/buddha-in-far-east.html", "description": "<p>BibliOdyssey, excellent as always. Here with some amazing prints from the Oriental and Judaic Collections at the Royal Library of Denmark, which are from a book that's \"five sheets with hand-painted Buddhist figures between two covers. Chinese or Tibetan from early 20th Century.\"</p> <p>\"The figures portray Sakyamuni (Shijiamouni) his two disciple Ananda (Anantuo) and Kasyapa (Qie(ka)yebo), three guardian figurers and 18 Arhats (Luohan). Accompanying Buddha and each of the eighteen Arhat are explanatory texts.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T16:31:46", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 969, "fields": {"title": "10 of the Best Natural Phenomena", "url": "http://www.deputy-dog.com/?p=29", "description": "<p>Very cool list with a number of things I was not familiar with including something called gravity waves, which are described thusly:</p> <p>\"In a gravity wave, the upward moving region is the most favorable region for cloud development and the sinking region favorable for clear skies. That is why you may see rows of clouds and clear areas between the rows of clouds. A gravity wave is nothing more than a wave moving through a stable layer of the atmosphere. Thunderstorm updrafts will produce gravity waves as they try to punch into the tropopause. The tropopause represents a region of very stable air. This stable air combined with the upward momentum of a thunderstorm updraft (trigger mechanism) will generate gravity waves within the clouds trying to push into the tropopause.\"</p> <p>Right. Anyway there's an awesome video of the effect that looks like something that should have been in Koyaanisqatsi. In fact nearly all the phenomena listed have accompanying videos, or at least an image.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T18:33:02", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 970, "fields": {"title": "MIT Finds Cure for Fear", "url": "http://pressesc.com/01184528191_cure_for_fear", "description": "<p>This does not seem like a good thing to me, I've yet to hear a ethicist weight in on this, but I can think of a few arguments against this discovery ever being used. Yes, it would be nice to help those of us who suffer from panic attacks and those with post traumatic stress, but it's also not heard to imagine this being abused or even weaponized.</p> <p>\"MIT biochemists have identified a molecular mechanism behind fear, and successfully cured it in mice, according to an article in the journal Nature Neuroscience.\"</p> <p>\"Researchers from MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory hope that their work could lead to the first drug to treat the millions of adults who suffer each year from persistent, debilitating fears — including hundreds of soldiers returning from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.\"</p> <p>\"Emotional disorders such as post-traumatic stress and panic attacks stem from the inability of the brain to stop experiencing the fear associated with a specific incident or series of incidents.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-03T18:23:13", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 971, "fields": {"title": "How to Start a Family Without Breaking the Bank", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/07/17/how-to-start-a-family-without-breaking-the-bank/", "description": "Get Rich Slowly", "pub_date": "2007-08-04T04:43:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 972, "fields": {"title": "Photo Gallery Of The Summer Redneck Games", "url": "http://summerredneckgames.com/photos/", "description": "<p>What features the mud pit belly flop contest and a butt crack contest held while participants bob for pickled pigs feet? The Redneck Summer Games of course. Held every summer not far from where I live. I didn't make it this year, but I definitely will next year and I'll have my camera in tow.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-04T06:05:54", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 973, "fields": {"title": "The Realities of Home-Ownership", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/07/16/renting-vs-buying-the-realities-of-home-buying/", "description": "<p>Get Rich Slowly has an interesting breakdown of the cost of buying a house, which makes renting seem not necessarily that bad. Of course it also does some things like take the extra money for the mortgage payment versus rent and invest that money in high yield account. Still, it might dispell some myths about owning a house:</p> <p>\"If you rent, you're throwing away your money.\"<br /> \"Owning your own home is a forced savings plan.\"<br /> \"Home ownership is an excellent path to build wealth.\"</p> <p>You've probably heard statements like these plenty of times. On television, radio, the internet, and in casual conversation. Such sentiments are common in any discussion that involves home-buying and personal finances. It's common knowledge that buying a home is a better financial move than renting. After all, you're building equity instead of throwing away your money, right? Well, maybe not quite... Rather than assuming the \"common knowledge\" on this subject is accurate, let's take a look for ourselves at some of the financial differences between renting and home-buying.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-04T06:01:48", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 974, "fields": {"title": "Ancient Forest Found in Hungary", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6942733.stm", "description": "<p>From the BBC:</p> <p>\"An ancient forest of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old, has been discovered in Hungary.</p> <p>\"Archaeologists found the 16 preserved trunks in an open cast coal mine in the north-eastern city of Bukkabrany.</p> <p>\"The specimens were preserved intact while most of the forest turned to coal thanks to a casing of sand, which was perhaps the result of a sandstorm.</p> <p>\"It is hoped the trees may offer experts a valuable insight into Earth's climate eight million years ago.</p> <p>\"The massive trunks are of a species known as swamp cypresses, which grew for 200-300 years.\" </p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T19:59:25", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 975, "fields": {"title": "Davy Crockett Almanacs", "url": "http://dsloan.com/Auctions/A21/crockett_almanac-pictures.html", "description": "<p>Awesome collection of 21 Crockett almanacs, all in original pictorial wraps and profusely illustrated about to go on the auction block. These are in fact the ghost written texts from which we get our legend of Davy Crockett (which naturally bears almost no resemblance to the historical figure, but that's beside the point). This is the first time in decades a collection this large has been on the market and as you might have guessed it's way way out of my price range. Still nice to look at though.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T19:57:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 976, "fields": {"title": "Debtor Nation", "url": "http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/debtor-nation.html", "description": "<p>Great piece in the Harvard Magazine about something that's always puzzled me... consumerism. I've long wondered exactly how American culture can continue to buy and buy and buy, it seems like eventually we'll run out of stuff to buy and money to buy things with. And I realize there's a multibillion dollar advertising industry dedicated to ensure that that never happens, but still.</p> <p>Anyway here's Jonathan Shaw's take on the matter:</p> <p>\"Consumerism is as American as cherry pie. Plasma TVs, iPods, granite countertops: you name it, we'll buy it. To finance the national pastime, Americans have been borrowing from abroad on an increasingly stunning scale. In 2006, the infusion of foreign cash required to close the gap between American incomes and consumption reached nearly 7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), leaving the United States with a deficit in its current account (an annual measure of capital flows to and from the rest of the world) of more than $850 billion. In other words, the quantity of goods and services that Americans consumed last year in excess of what we produced was close to the entire annual output of Brazil. \"Brazil is the tenth largest economy on the planet,\" points out Laura Alfaro, an associate professor of business administration who teaches a class on the current account deficit at Harvard Business School (HBS). \"That is what the U.S. is eating up every year — a Brazil or a Mexico.\"</p> <p>\"Whether this practice is sustainable — and if not, how it might end — are questions that divide scholars and investors alike. We have borrowed so much from abroad — between half a trillion and a trillion dollars a year for the past six or seven years — that in 2006, our investment balance with the rest of the world (what we pay foreign investors on their U.S. assets versus their payments to us on our investments abroad, historically nearly equal) tipped to became an outflow for the first time in more than 50 years. We are a debtor nation swiftly heading deeper into debt.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T19:53:11", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 977, "fields": {"title": "The New Scientist On Conspiracy Theories", "url": "http://www.therazor.org/?p=855", "description": "<p>The New Scientist recently published an interesting article on conspiracy theories and why we believe them. The article is locked behind a paywall, but the link above leads to a reprint (probably an illegal reprint, but hey, knowledge want to be free right?).</p> <p>\"Conspiracy theories can have a valuable role in society. We need people to think 'outside the box,' even if there is usually more sense to be found inside the box. The close scrutiny of evidence and the dogged pursuit of alternative explanations are key features of investigative journalism and critical scientific thinking. Conspiracy theorists can sometimes be the little guys who bring the big guys to account — including multinational companies and governments. After all, some conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Take the Iran-Contra affair, a massive political scandal of the late 1980s. When claims first surfaced that the US government had sold arms to its enemy Iran to raise funds for pro-American rebel forces in Nicaragua and to help secure the release of US hostages taken by Iran, it certainly sounded like yet another convoluted conspiracy theory. Several question marks remain over the affair, but President Ronald Reagan admitted that his administration had indeed sold arms to Iran.</p> <p>\"On the other hand, there is a dangerous side to conspiracy theories. During the cold war, they arguably played a part in sowing mistrust between east and west. For canny politicians or campaigners, conspiracy theories can be a good way of exploiting people's fears by promulgating rumours that are difficult, if not impossible, to disprove.</p> <p>\"So what kind of thought processes contribute to belief in conspiracy theories? A study I carried out in 2002 explored a way of thinking sometimes called 'major event - major cause' reasoning. Essentially, people often assume that an event with substantial, significant or wide-ranging consequences is likely to have been caused by something substantial, significant or wide-ranging.\"</p> <p>Great article and it even includes instructions on how to create your own conspiracy theory.</p> <p>There's also some great discussion on security guru <a href=\"http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/conspiracy_theo.html\">Bruce Scheier's blog</a>, as well as <a href=\"http://xkcd.com/258/\">this great comic</a> from xkcd which seems somehow pertinent.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T19:46:58", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 978, "fields": {"title": "blueprintcss - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/wiki/Links", "description": "A css framework. next time a design a site this will be the base code on which I build.", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T19:27:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 979, "fields": {"title": "Hacking The Buffalo TeraStation to Work with Mac OS X", "url": "http://www.campworld.net/thewiki/pmwiki.php/MACosX/BuffaloTeraStation", "description": "The teraStation is nice Raid capable NAS server for those of us on a budget. I may end up with one of these yet.", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T19:26:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 980, "fields": {"title": "Theatrum Virtutum", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/08/theatrum-virtutum.html", "description": "<p>More georgeous books from BibliOdyssey:</p> <p>\"As the title page above suggests, 'Theatrum Virtutum' (The Theatre of Virtues) was something of a homage to the learned and widely respected catholic bishop and papal envoy during the Counter-Reformation, Stanislaus Hosius (1504-1579).</p> <pre><code>\"He did more for the preservation of the Catholic religion in Poland than all the other Polish bishops combined. He was withal, a man of prayer, mortification, and great liberality towards the poor. Both clergy and laity looked upon him as a saint.\" </code></pre> <p>\"I presume this (latin) sketch album by Tomasz Treter from 1588 was the draft for an engraved publication under the same title that was released soon after. Most information online is in Polish, a language which is as easily understood in the original as it is in the resultant gobbledegook from online translation. I daresay I would have passed over this work if it were in the published form, but there is something elegant about the ink and wash drawings that caught my eye. All the text is very neat and there is an index laying out the location of all the virtues in the (60-odd) pictures; no doubt it was a presentation album, although the 19th century bookplates don't provide any assistance.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T19:24:30", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 981, "fields": {"title": "The Road to Clarity", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html?ex=1344571200&en=5486b683e4ea62d4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>An excellent piece in the New York Times Magazine called about the U.S. transition from the age old Highway Gothic typeface to the more optimized Clearview font for road signs. I know, it sounds super nerdy and it is, but it's also fascinating and it has some well written prose about typography that generally avoids that whole \"did you know there's and art to these things?\" angle that mars many longer Times essays (it's also by a new writer, go figure).</p> <p>\"Type is just as much about psychology as geometry. A letter's shape, its curves, the way it sits next to other letters — all these factors give a font its personality and in turn create an emotion and connotation for the reader.\"</p> <p>\"Clearview is a sans-serif face, meaning the terminal points of its letters lack any ornamental lines, wedges and other shapes. It wasn't until the 1920s that sans-serif came into wide use with typefaces like Futura and later, in the '50s, Helvetica, but they are now the typeface style of choice for any design job requiring a clean, vaguely futuristic aesthetic. The clear, pristine shapes of sans-serif fonts grab the eye in an instant, lending themselves to advertising copy and large, punchy headlines as well as highway signs. But in large blocks of text, the detailed edges of the letter forms in serif fonts give the type an easy-to-follow flow reminiscent of cursive script, making them the preferred typeface for newspapers, magazines and books.\"</p> <p>\"There are some typefaces that work for selling estate jewelry and others that seem to fit in best pushing high-tech toys. Volkswagen's aggressively plain ads for the Beetle ushered in a new era of straightforward and minimalist advertising in the '60s. 'The Creative Revolution,' as it came to be known in the advertising world, was set off by a few words — \"Lemon\" and 'Think Small' were among the most popular slogans — written in Futura, a typeface chosen for its bare style that spoke to Volkswagen's message of simple claims and precision engineering. Decades later, in the early 2000s, a light and nimble lowercase typeface style defined the waning years of the dot-com boom. Its casual, approachable look quickly appeared in the logos of corporate behemoths like Cingular, British Petroleum and Accenture. Stodgy or irreverent, timely or timeless, typography helps establish the ethos and identity of a brand — and it can have a similar effect on the highway.\"</p> <p>Also some great discussion over at Khoi Vinh's <a href=\"http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2007/0813_graphic_desi.php\" >Subtraction blog</a>.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T19:21:53", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 982, "fields": {"title": "Women in Film", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/13/women-in-film/", "description": "<p>Women in Film. From the same person that brought us <a href=\"http://luxagraf.net/link/924/\">Women in Art</a>, which I have to say is better, though this does provide an interesting look at the changing perceptions of beauty over the years in mainstream American culture. Anyway:</p> <p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/vEc4YWICeXk\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/vEc4YWICeXk\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"></embed></object></p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T20:37:10", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 983, "fields": {"title": "Vietnam's War against Agent Orange", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3798581.stm", "description": "<p>From the BBC:</p> <p>The Vietnam War ended in 1975, but the scourge of dioxin contamination from a herbicide known as Agent Orange did not.</p> <p>\"The damage inflicted by Agent Orange is much worse than anybody thought at the end of the war,\" said Professor Nguyen Trong Nhan, the vice-president of the Vietnam Victims of Agent Orange Association (VAVA).</p> <p>Between 1962 and 1970, millions of gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed across parts of Vietnam.</p> <p>Professor Nhan, the former president of the Vietnamese Red Cross, denounced the action as \"a massive violation of human rights of the civilian population, and a weapon of mass destruction\".</p> <p>But since the end of the Vietnam War, Washington has denied any moral or legal responsibility for the toxic legacy said to have been caused by Agent Orange in Vietnam.</p> <p>The unresolved legacy and US denials of responsibility triggered three Vietnamese to take unprecedented legal action in January 2004.</p> <p>The plaintiffs alleged war crimes against Monsanto Corporation, Dow Chemicals and eight other companies that manufactured Agent Orange and other defoliants used in Vietnam.</p> <p>The case has been brought by VAVA, which was set up to promote an international campaign to gain justice and compensation for Agent Orange victims.</p> <p>Preliminary hearings began in January at the US Federal Court in New York, presided over by senior judge Jack Weinstein. </p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T20:28:14", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 984, "fields": {"title": "Hackszine.com: Investment Spreadsheet 2.0", "url": "http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/investment_spreadsheet_20.html?CMP=OTC-7G2N43923558", "description": "<p>My trial run of an open-access wikisheet was a huge success. Thanks to the hundreds of you who have collaborated and experimented with the document in the last couple of days, I've put together an update that accounts for your pre-tax 401k contributions as well as a home loan. Special thanks to James G. McIlhargey, who contributed the loan debt model!</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T20:19:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 985, "fields": {"title": "Manuscript Decoration", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/08/manuscript-decoration.html", "description": "<p>Oh yes, BibliOdyssey again. Because you can never have too many links to beautiful old books.</p> <p>\"This Spanish parchment manual for calligraphers/copyists was made between 1500 and 1515. Unfortunately, that is all the information available. Twelve of the thirty one pages have been digitised (eleven are shown above).</p> <p>\"While looking around fruitlessly for further information, I came across a site put together by the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University in Budapest - Medieval Manuscript Manual (available in four languages). It's a basic overview of manuscript production (types, techniques, inks, typology etc) aimed at a non-professional audience and includes a useful glossary.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T20:05:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 986, "fields": {"title": "South Park Creators Animate Talks by Alan Watts", "url": "http://www.coldhardflash.com/2007/07/flash-animated-philosophy-from-south.html", "description": "<p>Apparently Trey Parker was at least partly raised as a Buddhist, which, in this country, when Parker was young, meant encountering the work of Alan Watts. Years later, Parker and Matt Stone decided to do some animation for some of the teachings of Alan Watts, the comparative religion expert and philosopher. And no these aren't humorous, or at least not in the typical South Park kind of way.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-08-14T20:03:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 987, "fields": {"title": "Letterpress Documentary (YouTube)", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv69kB_e9KY", "description": "<p>Despite what might quite possibly be the worst most annoying voiceover ever, this is still an amazing little documentary on letterpress printing. If I could have just one extravagant thing, totally unnecessary, gross conspicuous consumption type of thing, it would most definitely be a letterpress. Never mind that I don't have the slightest idea how to use one.</p> <p>It's a shame that the letterpresses are headed the way of the dodo, though one of my Wired colleagues claims there's a couple small papers in the states that still use them. Here's to Firefly Press, a dying breed.</p> <object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Iv69kB_e9KY\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Iv69kB_e9KY\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"></embed></object>", "pub_date": "2007-09-08T05:52:42", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 988, "fields": {"title": "Bill Murray Drives Golf Cart Through Stockholm, Refuses To Take Breath Test", "url": "http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/082307dnglbillmurray.5be539b3.html", "description": "<p>If almost anyone else did this I would probably think they were a crass America, but for some reason Bill Murray doing it just seems hilarious.</p> <p>Bill Murray could face a drunken driving charge after cruising through downtown Stockholm in a golf cart and refusing to take a breath test, citing U.S. law.</p> <p>Police officers spotted the \"Caddyshack\" star early Monday in the slow-moving vehicle and noticed he smelled of alcohol when they pulled him over, said Detective-Inspector Christer Holmlund of the Stockholm police.</p> <p>\"He refused to blow in the (breath test) instrument, citing American legislation,\" Holmlund told The Associated Press on Wednesday. \"So we applied the old method — a blood test. It will take 14 days before the results are in.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-08T05:46:35", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 989, "fields": {"title": "NPR : Problems Surface at 'Net Phone Service Skype", "url": "http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13966270", "description": "<p>My debut on NPR, in which I learn that radio does not interest me, which is good because I suck at it.</p> <p>When the Internet phone service Skype went down recently, millions of its customers lost contact with the world. Skype says 30 percent of its customers are business users. Scott Gilbertson of Wired News tells Renee Montagne that Skype may not be reliable enough to be a sole provider for big businesses.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-08T07:33:38", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 990, "fields": {"title": "No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?", "url": "http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2149304,00.html", "description": "<p>Having worked in the food industry for nearly nine years, I can attest to the staggering amount of waste it produces, and it sounds like the supermarket world is no better, so why not grab some? Unfortunately lots of places pour bleach over their waste food to prevent freeloading, which should really be criminal. The pouring of bleach that is, not freeloading. From the Guardian:</p> <p>\"Alex Renton rides shotgun with a band of eco-minded 'freegans' who plunder the bins behind the local M&S for gourmet foods. But how ethical is it? And can you get enough for a dinner party?\"</p> <p>\"I'm chopping an onion for the tomato and beef ragu and shouting happily to Ruth: 'This and a bit of olive oil are the only things in this entire meal that were bought!' But she sniffs and says: 'Have you really thought through the ethics of this?'\"</p> <p>\"For a journalist that question is never good news. Especially from your wife. So I reply, just a little bit spikily: 'You mean that this food is stolen?' I turn to the asparagus - beautiful, grown in Hereford, in perfect condition - and start cutting the stubs off it, though it's so fresh I hardly need to. 'Actually I don't consider it stolen - it's liberated.' I look at the strawberries, stacks of them, raised in Perthshire without a blemish. 'Liberated from those who neither wanted nor deserved it. Diverted on the way to the landfill.' Now I'm quoting my new friend Dave, an anarchist-freegan with whom I spent part of last night in a wheelie-bin outside Marks & Spencer.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-08T07:31:15", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 991, "fields": {"title": "I Will Teach You To Be Rich", "url": "http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/step-2-to-getting-rich-banking", "description": "I Will Teach You To Be Rich: Personal-finance basics for college students, recent college grads, and everyone else", "pub_date": "2007-09-08T07:26:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 992, "fields": {"title": "Photo ID Cards for Indian Cattle", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6970305.stm", "description": "<p>From the land of the bizarre (via the BBC):</p> <p>\"Indian border guards are photographing cows in villages in the eastern state of West Bengal and issuing them with identity cards, officials say.\"</p> <p>\"Border Security Force (BSF) spokesman GK Sharma said the move was meant to stop smuggling of cattle from India to neighbouring Bangladesh. Mr Sharma said thousands of cows were smuggled every day from West Bengal.\"</p> <p>\"India prohibits cattle exports, as beef consumption is frowned upon by the country's majority Hindu population.\"</p> <p>\"Thousands of villagers in the state's Murshidabad district bordering Bangladesh are queuing up outside photo studios to have their cows photographed for the identity cards.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-08T07:25:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 993, "fields": {"title": "Anthony Bourdain's Overrated Menu", "url": "http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/09/anthony_bourdain_overrated_menu.php", "description": "The cranky celebrity chef chops up dining's hottest trends: \"Be sure to sample our selection of flavored salts, and please await the water sommelier: A chef who offers anything other than sea salt probably refers to himself in the third person. When the water sommelier comes over, I reach for my gun.\"", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T13:11:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 994, "fields": {"title": "Big Brother is Watching us All", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6995061.stm", "description": "<p>There's a line in the quintessentially paranoid film <cite>Enemy of the State</cite> where Gene Hackman's character suggests that all the technology being used to track Will Smith's characheter is nothing, antiquated, compared to what could be used. Judging by this report from the BBC, Hackman's character is pretty spot on, here's some highlights:</p> <p>\"Gait DNA, for example, is creating an individual code for the way I walk. Their goal is to invent a system whereby a facial image can be matched to your gait, your height, your weight and other elements, so a computer will be able to identify instantly who you are.</p> <p>\"'As you walk through a crowd, we'll be able to track you,' said Professor Challapa. 'These are all things that don't need the cooperation of the individual.'\"</p> <p>From Darpa: \"'Unless we're going to train every American citizen and soldier in 16 different languages we have to develop a technology that allows them to understand — whatever country they are in — what's going on around them. I hope in the future we'll be able to have conversations, if say you're speaking in French and I'm speaking in English, and it will be natural.\"</p> <p>\"And this idea about a total surveillance society,\" I asked. \"Is that science fiction?\"</p> <p>\"No, that's not science fiction. We're developing an unmanned airplane - a UAV - which may be able to stay up five years with cameras on it, constantly being cued to look here and there. This is done today to a limited amount in Baghdad. But it's the way to go.\"</p> <p>Some lab in Hawaii working on through-the-wall-scanning: \"'First, you can tell whether someone is dead or alive on the battlefield,' said Ian. 'But it will also show whether someone inside a house is looking to harm you, because if they are, their heart rate will be raised. And 10 years from now, the technology will be much smarter. We'll scan a person with one of these things and tell what they're actually thinking.'\"</p> <p>\"Interestingly, we, the public, don't seem to mind. Opinion polls, both in the US and Britain, say that about 75% of us want more, not less, surveillance. Some American cities like New York and Chicago are thinking of taking a lead from Britain where our movements are monitored round the clock by four million CCTV cameras.\"</p> <p>Paranoid yet?</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T13:10:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 995, "fields": {"title": "Leck Mich im Arsch", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_me_in_the_ass", "description": "<p>History is almost always far more ribald and entertaining than we give it credit for, and this is one example I personally didn't know about. Now, yes, I am bookmarking Wikipedia, but in this case I've found outside sources as well.</p> <p>It would seem that one of Mozart's song was originally entitled Leck mich im Arsch. A literal translation of the song's title and lyrics into English would be \"Lick me in the ass\". The correct idiomatic translation is \"Kiss my ass.\" </p> <p>The publishers Breitkopf & Hartel changed the title and lyrics of this canon to the more acceptable — and saleable — \"Lasst froh uns sein\" (\"Let us be glad\"), similar to the traditional German Christmas carol, \"Lasst uns froh und munter sein\".</p> <p>Some folks, unhappy about the title, have gone so far as to suggest that the song is evidence to that Mozart had Tourette syndrome, never mind that most medical professionals reject that idea. </p> <p>Are we really that Victorian? I guess so.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T13:09:55", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 996, "fields": {"title": "John Ashbery: MtvU's First Poet Laureate", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/books/27laur.html?ex=1345867200&en=16649c519c6f6594&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>John Ashbury, poet of the MTV generation. Yes, apparently mtvU now has a poet laureate. That's flippin' hilarious. </p> <p><em>MtvU, the subsidiary of MTV Networks that is broadcast only on college campuses, will announce today that it has selected its first poet laureate. No, he doesn't rap. And it's not Bob Dylan, or even Justin Timberlake.</em></p> <p><em>It is John Ashbery, the prolific 80-year-old poet and frequent award winner known for his dense, postmodern style and playful language. One of the most celebrated living poets, Mr. Ashbery has won MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection <cite>Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror</cite>.</em></p> <p><em>Excerpts of his poems will appear in 18 short promotional spots — like commercials for verse — on the channel and its Web site (mtvu.com, which will also feature the full text of the poems). In another first, mtvU will help sponsor a poetry contest for college students. The winner, chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, will have a book published next year by HarperCollins as part of the National Poetry Series.</em></p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T17:39:58", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 997, "fields": {"title": "BibliOdyssey: Offcuts", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/08/offcuts.html", "description": "Proving once again that there's nothing in today's technology that can match the beauty of old printing methods and hand drawn illustrations, here's five pages of scans from the original manuscript of \"Banderia Prutenorum,\" containing 56 images of flags captured from the Teutonic Knights by the Polish after the battle of Tannenberg (15 July 1410, Grunwald, nowadays in Poland. Designed in 1448 by the Polish painter Stanislao Durink.\"", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T17:36:24", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 998, "fields": {"title": "What Your Food Cravings Are Really For", "url": "http://www.naturopathyworks.com/pages/cravings.php", "description": "<p>I generally eschew all forms of health food, eat what tastes good remains my prevailing motto. I'm fortunately in that I think fresh food, well prepared tastes good. But bias aside, this is an interesting look at what food cravings might really mean. For instance, craving chocolate? There's a decent chance you actually need magnesium, which is also found in raw nuts, seeds, legumes, and fruits.</p> <p>The author believes (probably correctly) that many food cravings are your body's way of telling you that you need something found within that food's ingredients or chemical makeup. Of course the author neglects to acknowledge that some times you just crave the taste of things, for instance my generic craving for Indian food this evening doesn't really fit with the handy printable list of food cravings and what you truly need, featured on the site.</p> <p>But it's still worth a read.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T17:33:02", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 999, "fields": {"title": "The Fantastic Tale of Opal Whiteley", "url": "http://intangible.org/Features/Opal/OpalHome.html", "description": "<p>In 1918, at the age of 20, Oregonian Opal Whiteley published \"The Fairyland Around Us\" (contains full text & pictures), a nature book for children. Two years later, her diary (also contains full text and pictures) was published and became one of the best-selling books in the world. She died in a British mental hospital in 1992. </p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T17:27:44", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1000, "fields": {"title": "Out-Of-Body Experience Recreated", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6960612.stm", "description": "<p>Scientists are now able to trigger an out-of-body experience (without subjecting volunteers to near-death):</p> <p><em>Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere.</em></p> <p><em>The visual illusion plus the feel of their real bodies being touched made volunteers sense that they had moved outside of their physical bodies.</em></p> <p><em>One theory is that it is down to how people perceive their own body — those unhappy or less in touch with their body are more likely to have an OBE.</em></p> <p><em>But the two teams, from University College London, UK, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, believe there is a neurological explanation.</em></p> <p><em>Their work suggests a disconnection between the brain circuits that process visual and touch sensory information may thus be responsible for some OBEs.</em></p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T17:25:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1001, "fields": {"title": "Use a Wristwatch As a Compass", "url": "http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=use_a_wristwatch_as_a_compass;action=display;category=Live", "description": "<p>The Wired How To Wiki on using a wrist watch as a compass, pretty simple, though I have no idea why I'm bookmarking it since I don't actually own a watch. You just never know though do you?</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T17:12:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1002, "fields": {"title": "The Beginners Guide To Lock Picking", "url": "http://www.gunslot.com/blog/picking-locks-beginners-guide-lock-picking", "description": "<p>Kind of scary gun fanatics site, but a pretty good guide to picking locks. It looks a lot harder than it seem like should, but probably I've just seen too many movies.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T17:10:09", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1003, "fields": {"title": "'We were abandoned'", "url": "http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20060515_126689_126689", "description": "<p>I'm as none violent as them come, but this a fascinating piece and the idea of hitting something with a rifle from 2.4 kilometers is similtaneously incredible and terrifying. That the something happens to be human being is tragic, but the feat no less impressive. From McCleans, a Canadian magazine\"</p> <p>\"An elite unit of snipers went from standouts to outcasts — victims, many say, of a witch hunt driven by jealousy and fear.\"</p> <p>\"Lying low beside the rifle, his stomach touching the ground, Cpl. Rob Furlong concentrated hard on his breathing. In, out. In, out. In, out. Deep, but not too deep. Slow, but not too slow. The tiniest twitch — a heavy exhale, perhaps, or a breath held one second too long — could jerk his weapon ever so slightly, turning a sure hit into a narrow miss. In the sniping world, where one shot should always equal one kill, steady breathing is just as crucial as steady aim.\"</p> <p>\"On that March afternoon in 2002, Cpl. Furlong squinted through the scope of his McMillan Tac-50, a sleek bolt-action rifle almost as long as he is. In his crosshairs were three men, each lugging weapons toward an al-Qaeda mortar nest high in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Master Cpl. Tim McMeekin, hunkered behind his fellow sniper, saw the same trio through the lens of his Vector, a binocular-like device that uses a laser to pinpoint targets thousands of metres away. Speaking quietly, both soldiers agreed on the obvious: take out the biggest threat first, in this case the man in the middle carrying the RPK machine gun. According to the Vector, he was exactly 2,430m away — nearly 2 1/2 kilometres.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T17:07:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1004, "fields": {"title": "Candid Camera: The Cult of Leica.", "url": "http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_lane?currentPage=all", "description": "<p>The New Yorker on the genius and beauty of the Leica camera:</p> <p>\"To non-photographers, Leica, more than any other manufacturer, is a legend with a hint of scam: suckers paying through the nose for a name, in a doomed attempt to crank up the credibility of a picture they were going to take anyway, just as weekend golfers splash out on a Callaway Big Bertha in a bid to convince themselves that, with a little more whippiness in their shaft, they will swell into Tiger Woods. To unrepentant aesthetes, on the other hand, there is something demeaning in the idea of Leica. Talent will out, they say, whatever the tools that lie to hand, and in a sense they are right: Woods would destroy us with a single rusty five-iron found at the back of a garage, and Cartier-Bresson could have picked up a Box Brownie and done more with a roll of film — summoning his usual miracles of poise and surprise — than the rest of us would manage with a lifetime of Leicas.\"</p> <p>\"These days, Leica makes digital compacts and a beefy S.L.R., or single-lens reflex, called the R9, but for more than fifty years the pride of the company has been the M series of 35-mm. range-finder cameras — durable, companionable, costly, and basically unchanging, like a spouse. There are three current models, one of which, the MP, will set you back a throat-drying four thousand dollars or so; having stood outside dustless factory rooms, in Solms, and watched women in white coats and protective hairnets carefully applying black paint, with a slender brush, to the rim of every lens, I can tell you exactly where your money goes.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T17:02:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1005, "fields": {"title": "Keep Your Eyes on the Bat", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXIGeGhEhAs", "description": "<p>Mets vs Braves. Wednesday, September 12, 2007. Top of the Fifth. An amazing, once in a lifetime combination of way to many factors to even contemplate... just watch the bat.</p> <p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/KXIGeGhEhAs\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/KXIGeGhEhAs\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"></embed></object></p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T16:56:21", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1006, "fields": {"title": "No Thanks, Mr. Nabokov", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?ei=5090&en=b15813ab807e51f7&ex=1346990400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1189696065-YIo9j116NmKw8ZiAuYCaYw", "description": "<p>People always complain that there's no good books being written anymore, but the truth is there's no good books being <em>published</em> anymore. Ever since the publishing houses became multi-million dollar enterprises the level of risk taking dropped dramatically. Of course there's a record of all the publisher's bad decision, which this NYT piece wades through. Case in point\"</p> <p>\"In the summer of 1950, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. turned down the English-language rights to a Dutch manuscript after receiving a particularly harsh reader's report. The work was 'very dull,' the reader insisted, 'a dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions.' Sales would be small because the main characters were neither familiar to Americans nor especially appealing. 'Even if the work had come to light five years ago, when the subject was timely,' the reader wrote, 'I don't see that there would have been a chance for it.'\"</p> <p>\"Knopf wasn't alone. <cite>The Diary of a Young Girl</cite>, by Anne Frank, would be rejected by 15 others before Doubleday published it in 1952. More than 30 million copies are currently in print, making it one of the best-selling books in history.\"</p> <p>And the truth is, despite blunders of this nature, there are good books published all the time, most of them just aren't on the major presses — more or less just like the major labels in the music industry haven't released a decent record in twenty years.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T16:53:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1007, "fields": {"title": "Electrolytic Rust Removal aka Magic", "url": "http://www.instructables.com/id/E17UQMY28PEQ6T2A5Z/", "description": "This is a relatively simple, safe and cheap way to remove light or heavy rust from any ferrous object. I used this process to restore an old wood plane that I bought for $1 (it looked totally un-usable because of the rust). As opposed to grinding, heavy wire brushing and acid bath processes, this method removes none of the original steel and is not noisy or caustic.", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T18:41:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1008, "fields": {"title": "Enfield Tennis Academy T-Shirts", "url": "http://www.neighborhoodies.com/enfield-tennis-academy-p-179.html", "description": "<p>Oh the sheer nerdiness of it is just too much. I think I'm going to have to buy one of these Enfield Tennis Academy t-shirts:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Ever want to win the Whataburger Classic? How about memorize the Oxford English Dictionary front to back? What about that Halfway House down the hill? Don this design and it'll be just like hanging with Pemulus and John Wayne. This product is great for stoners and stoners alike... Oh, DFW, you've made this a very difficult product description to write. Enjoy.</em></p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T18:29:54", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1009, "fields": {"title": "How to Get Paid to Live Overseas", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/05/traveling-to-save-how-to-get-paid-to-live-overseas/", "description": "<p>People are always asking me how to go about traveling around the world. The answer quite simply is to save money. Westerners are doubly fortunate because our currencies are generally stronger than the rest of the world (though the dollar is in an alarming slump).</p> <p>But for some people, saving is just something they don't seem to know how to do (kudos to the parents for instilling that one). Never fear though, there are ways to go abroad and still make money. Get Rich Slowly, a great personal finance blog, recently ran this piece about working abroad, which has some great tips and a few tidbits I wasn't familiar with (like, for example, working in Japan exempts you from taxes in both the U.S. and Japan).</p> <blockquote> <p><em>I've spent the last two years working in Japan as an English teacher, an opportunity open to anyone with a college degree. During that time I've taken four overseas vacations and several trips within Japan, paid off a small debt and saved another $20,000AU (roughly $15,000 US). Not only have I had the time of my life discovering Asia and studying Japanese cooking, I've built up a financial cushion that will give me options later. Meanwhile, friends from college who took out a loan for their first overseas vacation two years ago are still paying it off.</em></p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T18:27:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1010, "fields": {"title": "100-year-old celebrates her birthday by smoking 170,000th cigarette | the Daily Mail", "url": "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=478075&in_page_id=1770", "description": "<p>A life-long smoker, Winnie Langley just celebrated her 100th birthday by smoking her 170,000th cigarette:</p> <p><em>Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever since.</em></p> <p><em>She has no intention of quitting, even after the nationwide ban forced tobacco-lovers outside.</em></p> <p><em>Speaking at her 100th birthday party Winnie said: "I have smoked ever since infant school and I have never thought about quitting.</em></p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T18:14:34", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1011, "fields": {"title": "Soldering 101: Lesson 1: Tin the Tip - Instructables", "url": "http://www.instructables.com/id/EHD4UHG1XDEWUSKWVD/", "description": "This short and easy instructable shows how (and why!) you tin the tip of the soldering iron. Never soldered before? Here's where to start. Last week I decided to make a USB powered flashlight. While I know a lot about computers, I'm pretty much a solder newbie. This was a problem. Luckily, though, I work with a formerly-NASA-micro-soldering-certified technician and soldering instructor. Yesterday, he instructed me as I soldered together my lovely little flashlight.", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T18:12:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1012, "fields": {"title": "Power Saving Remote Computing - Instructables", "url": "http://www.instructables.com/id/EZOFUB1F54HJ6LF/", "description": "Windows power saving features make it easy for a person to save power when the computer is not in use. Nevertheless I always left these features disabled because I frequently need to access my computer remotely. I also like having my computer perform automated tasks such as backing up files, defragmenting, and running virus scans when I am not using it. This meant I left my computer on 24/7 so it would always be available. Obviously that was not a very efficient solution.", "pub_date": "2007-09-18T18:11:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1013, "fields": {"title": "Dogs That Know: Participate", "url": "http://www.opensourcescience.net/index.php?title=Can_Dogs_Anticipate:Participate", "description": "<p>Is your dog pyschic? Aren't they all? Seriously though, the folks over at open source science are having a contest (highly unscientific in it's methods I might add) to see if anyone can \"prove\" their dog knows when they are coming home. It largely sounds like BS to me (and yes I do have a dog), but there's a $1000 prize.</p> <blockquote> <p>Do you and your dog have a special connection? Does your dog seem to know when you're coming home, even at odd hours? If so, your dog will be a great candidate for our experiment, and our $1,000 prize offered to dog owners who successfully participate.</p> <p>The first step to joining the experiment is self-testing your dog to see whether they can anticipate your intention to return home. The easiest way to do is to have someone at home with your dog while you're away running errands. Then, have the person watching your dog call you on your cell phone and tell you to come home. If your dog is tuned-in to your return trip home you should observe them spending more time at the door or window when you're on your way.</p> <p>If you're dog makes it through this first round of testing you may have a psychic pet on your hands. Contact us, we'll send you the equipment and resources you need to perform more rigorous testing.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-20T18:33:41", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1014, "fields": {"title": "The Strange Story of Napoleon's Wallpaper", "url": "http://www.grand-illusions.com/articles/napoleons_wallpaper/", "description": "<p>Napoleon, as we all know, died on the remote island of St Helena. A sample of his hair analyzed in the 1960s revealed a high concentration of arsenic, which, over the years has convinced some that he was poisoned, quite possible by the the British government.</p> <p>However there is another possibility as well, which is explored in this article: Napoleon's wallpaper contained arsenic and the humidity of St Helena vaporized enough of it be fatal.</p> <blockquote> <p>Scheele's Green was a colouring pigment that had been used in fabrics and wallpapers from around 1770. It was named after the Swedish chemist Scheele who invented it. The pigment was easy to make, and was a bright green colour. But Scheele's Green was copper arsenite. And under certain circumstances it could be deadly.</p> <p>If the wallpaper was so poisonous, why wasn't everyone else that was there at the same time as Napoleon also poisoned? Well, it may be that they were, since many of the people in Napoleon's retinue at Longwood complained of the 'bad air', and of feeling ill. If you are a healthy adult to begin with, arsenic poisoning will make you a bit sick. Arsenic poisoning causes stomach pains, diarrhea, shivering and swollen limbs. And Napoleon's butler did actually die. </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-20T18:27:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1015, "fields": {"title": "Head-mounted Device is the Cat's Whiskers", "url": "http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/09/head-mounted-device-is-cats-whiskers.html", "description": "<p>Get your spidy sense in realtime. A pretty remarkable project of the Japan that gives you 360 degree sensory awareness:</p> <blockquote> <p>A series of infrared sensors positioned around the device act as invisible whisker or antenna sensors. When these detect an object, a small motor vibrates on the appropriate side of the wearer's head to alert them.</p> </blockquote> <p>There's some great video too: <a href=\"http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/HapticRadar/HAPTICRADAR_VIDEO/HapticRadar_PROOF_OF_PRINCIPLE_DEMO_NOINTRO.wmv\">This one</a> shows a group of volunteers using the device after just a few minutes instruction and <a href=\"http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/HapticRadar/HAPTICRADAR_VIDEO/hapticRadarSimulator.wmv\">this one</a> shows the same device being used to navigate a virtual maze.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-20T18:14:38", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1016, "fields": {"title": "Diableries: Early Visual Media", "url": "http://users.telenet.be/thomasweynants/diableries.html", "description": "<blockquote> <p>The goal of this page is to offer a Bibliotheque of all known Stereo-Diableries. The most complete list (compiled by Denis Pellerin) I have ever seen mention 139 different Diableries, most likely part of several series since some of them are related to others or simply other versions of the same subject.</p> <p>Diableries are wonderfull examples of the fascination for death in 19th. Century photography and made with a lot of imagination and humour. Death in photography is seen in many different ways but here we see the subject in a less serious interpretation. In another page we will see stereo-ghost images but both, these devils & ghosts images, are in no way related to the respectfull 19th. Century Post-Mortem photographs, subject of another page on this website.</p> <p>The most popular Diableries are the \"tissue\" versions since they are made to view with transmitted light from behind, revealing the most wonderfull coulors and light effect similar as seen in a Vue d'Optique viewed by back-light in a peepshow box. </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-20T18:10:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1017, "fields": {"title": "Train Runs Through Bangkok Market", "url": "http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=368159", "description": "<p>Just one of the many reason why Asia is so damn great. Try to imagine what would happen if you attempted this in the west.</p> <object width=\"464\" height=\"392\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://embed.break.com/MzY4MTU5\"></param><embed src=\"http://embed.break.com/MzY4MTU5\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"464\" height=\"392\"></embed></object>", "pub_date": "2007-09-20T18:07:59", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1018, "fields": {"title": "Monks in Myanmar Protest for Third Day", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/world/asia/21myanmar.html?ei=5090&en=b8dc6167a2718c4e&ex=1348027200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1190385487-O+e284wXWXM5G0aGD8Qj0g", "description": "<p>The monks are challenging the military regime in Burma/Myanmar. From the New York Times:</p> <blockquote> <p>Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through rain-washed streets for the third day in Myanmar's main city yesterday, taking the lead in monthlong protests that the military junta has so far been powerless to contain.</p> <p>Buddhist monks took to the streets in Yangon, Myanmar, for the third day on Thursday. They were joined at times by other residents of this former capital. In a gesture of protest, at least some monks reportedly refused to accept alms from members of the military.</p> <p>The involvement of large numbers of monks has increased the challenge to the government in a nation where the Buddhist clergy is highly revered and is the most organized group apart from the military.</p> <p>The current protests began after the government raised fuel prices on Aug. 15 without warning or explanation by as much as 500 percent.</p> <p>Protests by monks have been reported in a number of other cities over the past three days. If the monks' demonstrations continue, analysts said, the military junta will face a difficult decision over whether to crush them by force and risk a still greater public backlash.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T07:54:24", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1019, "fields": {"title": "Life Before Air Conditioning", "url": "http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/7424", "description": "<p>Having spent the seven of the last ten years in the American south, where summer is a sweltering miserable nightmare, I've given quite a lot of thought to heat, air-conditioning and the impacts both have had on the local culture. </p> <p>There's no denying that air-conditioning revolutionized culture (and continues to revolutionize it in the developing world as it arrives), but it has some significant tradeoffs.</p> <p>In my own case for instance, when I arrived back in Athens I rented an old mill-house that had no air-con. I spent a fair bit of my time on the back porch. Actually I pretty much lived out there as soon as the summer heat kicked in. I worked outside during the day and chatted with neighbors at night. I got to know the neighbors fairly well. But I also spent quite a bit of time being miserably hot and sweating like a pig. </p> <p>At the beginning of August I moved across town to a house with air-con, but no porch and I still haven't met the neighbors. </p> <p>I'm not trying to say life before air conditioning was better, just that, as with every modern convenience there's always a downside — the porch culture that the south was once famous for is largely gone, though other things like the automobile have also contributed to its demise.</p> <p>The Mental Floss article linked below has a fascinating look at what life was like before air conditioning and is chock full of interesting links for further reading. Enjoy.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T07:50:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1020, "fields": {"title": "20 Great Nuggets of Personal Finance Advice", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/08/22/20-pieces-of-great-personal-finance-advice/", "description": "<p>Some great financial advice as always from the Get Rich Slowly blog. Here's the top five:</p> <blockquote> <p>Be humble. \"When you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — that is knowledge.\" -- Confucius</p> <p>Take calculated risks. \"He that is overcautious will accomplish little.\" — Friedrich von Schiller [accompanying graphic]</p> <p>Have an emergency fund. \"For age and want, save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.\" — Benjamin Franklin</p> <p>Mix it up. \"It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.\" — Miguel de Cervantes</p> <p>It's the portfolio, stupid. \"Asset allocation'is the overwhelmingly dominant contributor to total return.\" — Gary Brinson, Brian Singer, and Gilbert Beebower</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T10:42:41", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1021, "fields": {"title": "Museum Gottwaldianum", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/08/museum-gottwaldianum.html", "description": "<p>Another Bibliodyssey post. That guy/girl has some amazing stuff, I need to figure out where they find it all. Anyway, this one has a bit of a natural history bent to it. </p> <blockquote> <p>\"Christoph Gottwald(t) (1636-1700) was a German physician in Danzig and created one of the largest cabinets of curiosities of his time. His collection was purchased by Tsar Peter the Great together with the famous collections of Seba and Ruysch. Like more of Gottwald's works, publication was realized long after the author's death when the publisher Raspe purchased the manuscripts.\"</p> <p>Gottwald commissioned the Polish baroque painter, Daniel Schultz the Younger, to render drawings he made himself of the contents of his wunderkammer into engravings, which was undertaken in about 1665. A handwritten inventory of the shells, anatomical specimens and marine creatures accompanied the engravings in a 1714 compendium of which only three copies were made. The copper plates were obtained by Raspe, a conchology enthusiast, and a German version of the 'Museum Gottwaldianum' first appeared in 1782.</p> <p>The illustrations above come from one of the original 1714 prints and are online at the University of Strasbourg (huge images available). There are perhaps forty further plates - many of them shells or anatomical deformities. There is little in the way of background information online. </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T10:40:11", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1022, "fields": {"title": "Biking Across Eurasia", "url": "http://fueledbyrice.org/index.html", "description": "<p>A great project and one of those epic adventures everyone dreams about (for similar stuff try digging up torrents for the travel channel's series about the couple that walked the length of Africa -- amazing stuff). And I do love that a group of \"recent graduates\" from some prestigious sounding universities in England managed to misspell university in the opening sentence of the homepage of their site. Kids today.</p> <blockquote> <p>We are five recent grads from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's Unviersity (sic) looking for adventure and a more intimate acquaintance with the people of the world.</p> <p>September 16th of this year we biked out of Beijing, and began a trek across what will hopefully be Asia and perhaps Europe.</p> <p>Along the way we are biking through rural areas and playing music in villages. We feel that the people in these areas have a lot to teach us, and that this bike trip is an excellent opportunity for spreading international good will on the local level. We are also advocating reducing carbon emissions and living slower-paced, more enjoyable lives.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T10:36:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1023, "fields": {"title": "Gray Skies with Drama - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog", "url": "http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/09/gray_skies_with_drama.html", "description": "Improving cloud drama in lightroom. nicely written, though it involves \"shooting for photoshop\" which is a kind of laziness I try to avoid. Still, there's times when it's the only option.", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T10:29:54", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1024, "fields": {"title": "Map of Humanity", "url": "http://slgcomic.com/product-exec/product_id/589/nm/Map_of_Humanity", "description": "<p>The Map of Humanity by Rex Libris and Nil creator James Tuner is a giant atlas listing human emotions, states of mind, characters and such, placing real and fictional locations in their (mostly) appropriate territories.</p> <blockquote> <p>This giant 24x36 Map of Humanity by Rex Libris and Nil creator James Turner is printed to order on our 12 color large format printer using archival quality inks. The Map of Humanity is printed on Heavyweight Coated Paper and is suitable for framing. Shipped rolled in a tube. Keep an eye open for paper upgrades. The thumbnail image and even the larger image on this page does not do justice to the work James Turner put into this piece. Click the See larger Image link to get a big version of this to look at (it's big, so be patient).</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T10:28:14", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1025, "fields": {"title": "The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders", "url": "http://www.kottke.org/07/09/the-braindead-megaphone", "description": "<p>George Saunders has a new one out entitled <cite>The Braindead Megaphone</cite>. Doesn't take much to imagine what that's referring to. Jason Kottke put up this excerpt from the title essay:</p> <blockquote> <p>Last night on the local news I watched a young reporter standing in front of our mall, obviously freezing his ass off. The essence of his report was: Malls Tend to Get Busier at Christmas! Then he reported the local implications of his investigation: (1) This Also True At Our Mall! (2) When Our Mall More Busy, More Cars Present (3) The More Cars, the Longer it Takes Shoppers to Park! and (shockingly): (4) Yet People Still Are Shopping, Due to, it is Christmas!</p> <p>It sounded like information, basically. He signed off crisply, nobody back at NewsCenter8 or wherever laughed at him. And across our fair city, people sat there and took it, and I believe that, generally, they weren't laughing at him either. They, like us in our house, were used to it, and consented to the idea that Informing had just occurred. Although what we had been told, we already knew, although it had been told in banal language, revved up with that strange TV news emphasis (\"cold WEATHer leads SOME motorISTS to drive less, CARrie!\"), we took it and, I would say, it did something to us: made us dumber and more accepting of slop.</p> <p>Furthermore, I suspect, it subtly degraded our ability to make bold, meaningful sentences, or laugh at stupid, ill-considered ones. The next time we feel tempted to say something like, \"Wow, at Christmas the malls sure do get busier due to more people shop at Christmas because at Christmas so many people go out to buy things at malls due to Christmas being a holiday on which gifts are given by some to others\" — we might actually say it, this sentiment having been elevated by our having seen it all dressed-up on television, in its fancy faux-informational clothing.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T10:26:28", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1026, "fields": {"title": "Baroque Fables", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/09/baroque-fables.html", "description": "<p>Another nice find from Bibliodyssey, this time some illustrations from a Baroque era book of fables:</p> <blockquote> <p>Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1766) was a German painter, engraver, draughtsman and publisher. His training included depictions of animals, especially horses, as well as copies of earlier masters. He spent a three-year period in Regensburg where he made many visits to the riding school, which proved decisive for his development. After 1723, he founded an art publishing house, selling prints that he himself designed and engraved: series on hunting, definitions of breeds of horses, illustrated lessons for riding and war-horses, depictions of wild animals and of zoological abnormalities.</p> <p>Ridinger produced at least 1,600 engraved, etched and scratched sheets showing the characteristic postures of animals in the landscape. In 1759 Ridinger became director of the Augsburg Stadtakademie (school of art). After his death his sons continued to run the publishing house. His most popular series—such as this one— continued to be reprinted until well into the 19th Century, and were also adapted to other media, such as wall decoration, porcelain and ceramics</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T10:19:19", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1027, "fields": {"title": "The Guardian Unlimited Talks To Dave Eggers", "url": "http://books.guardian.co.uk/interviews/story/0,,2169276,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10", "description": "<p>Dave Eggers on generosity, charity and giving it away:</p> <blockquote> <p>Dave Eggers has made an empire out of generosity, and on the cheap as well. The earliest issues of McSweeney's, his eccentric literary quarterly, look today as if they were printed on paper bags. His 826 Valencia (www.826valencia.org) writing lab, a charitable venture to develop literacy among six to 18-year-olds in San Francisco, was staffed by volunteers.</p> <p>After six years, though, there are now six \"chapters\" of the 826 writing lab - from Seattle to Brooklyn - and Eggers' publishing projects grow bigger and ever more complicated (one issue of McSweeneys included a comb).</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-23T13:15:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1028, "fields": {"title": "British Library Books Go Digital", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7018210.stm", "description": "<p>Good news from the British Library System, finally, some rare books are set to be available in digital form. From the BBC:</p> <blockquote> <p>More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitization program at the British Library. The program focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown as few were reprinted after first editions.</p> <p>The first 25 million pages are expected to take two years to complete. Texts which are hard to get hold of will particularly benefit from the digitization.</p> <p>For example, authors who were only ever published outside the great centers of literary life have tended not to remain in print and have often been forgotten. Now, these authors will have a second chance to reach a readership.</p> <p>\"By digitizing the whole collection, we give access to the books without the filter of later judgments, whether based on taste or on the economics of printing and publishing,\" Dr Jensen said.</p> <p>Approximately 30 terabytes of storage will be required to accommodate the project's output.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-09-30T15:49:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1029, "fields": {"title": "The Octopus in the Cathedral of Salt", "url": "http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/fall/robertson-octopus-cathedral-salt/", "description": "<p>A short and brutal history of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita). From the Virginia Quarterly Review:</p> <blockquote> <p>By the twenties, United Fruit also had transformed small villages such as Santa Marta, along Colombia's Caribbean coast, into booming industrial centers. Workers flooded into Santa Marta from distant places at a time when paying jobs were scarce. By the decade's end, however, newly elected liberal representatives and labor leaders criticized the company and the tax-free export deal it had brokered with the government. In 1928 workers went on strike, paralyzing the company. In response, the right-wing government of Miguel Abadia Mendez called out the army, which promptly sealed off the streets to a plaza full of assembled civilians in Cianaga and opened fire. It was a massacre that Gabriel Garcia Marquez would immortalize in One Hundred Years of Solitude.</p> </blockquote> <p>And what of the Chiquita company funding right wind guerillas in Colombia and allowing shipments of cocaine on it's freighters? Former head of the UAC Salvatore Mancuso:</p> <blockquote> <p>\"What must also be clearly understood is the historical context that existed at that time. What were the pressures [Chiquita] faced, what was happening with them in that area. The part of Uraba where they had their banana investments was completely dominated by the guerrillas. The Colombian state was precarious there. They had to do what the guerrillas told them. In fact, they were thinking of selling their property and leaving the country at that time. When we entered the area and confronted the guerrilla phenomenon, we told [Chiquita], 'Look, you are the best generators of jobs, of labor, of stability in the area. Stay here, don't leave, keep investing. We'll provide you with protection, but in exchange for that we want you to pay a tax.'\" On the central question of drug exports from the Banadex port, Mancuso said in his clear, educated Spanish, \"In the specific case of Chiquita, I don't know. But surely they must have loaded up a lot of ships there. Now, I don't know if Chiquita had its own fleet or not. I think that they didn't have one, that the ships that came in were from the shipping line, and surely those boats were used and loaded with drugs.\"</p> <p>The company will no doubt say that if there were any drugs shipped on its freighters when the AUC controlled its port, it did not know about them. But over the years, people did find out about it and were either intimidated or paid to stay silent. This export scheme was the exact mechanism that allowed the AUC to grow and to commit crimes on a vast scale. To acquire weapons it had to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe, so it looked for an export channel. Simple. In Uraba, AUC was merely a symbiont on the body of a larger corporation that happened to share its interests. It, too, was a kind of corporation. They fed off each other.</p> </blockquote> <p> For even more see <a href=\"http://www.metafilter.com/65003/The-Octopus-in-the-Cathedral-of-Salt-an-investigative-essay-on-the-link-between-the-Chiquita-banana-company-and-Colombian-paramilitary-organization-AUC\">Metafilter</a>.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-09-30T17:49:34", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1030, "fields": {"title": "God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule", "url": "http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28151", "description": "<p>Best Onion headline and article in a while:</p> <blockquote> <p>Responding to recent events on Earth, God, the omniscient creator-deity worshipped by billions of followers of various faiths for more than 6,000 years, angrily clarified His longtime stance against humans killing each other Monday.</p> <p>\"Look, I don't know, maybe I haven't made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again,\" said the Lord, His divine face betraying visible emotion during a press conference near the site of the fallen Twin Towers. \"Somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to kill their neighbor. Well, I don't. And to be honest, I'm really getting sick and tired of it. Get it straight. Not only do I not want anybody to kill anyone, but I specifically commanded you not to, in really simple terms that anybody ought to be able to understand.\" </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-10-01T16:36:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1031, "fields": {"title": "Video of Brutal Crackdown in Myanmar", "url": "http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=73b_1191374174", "description": "<p>Video smuggled out a Myanmar shows protesters arrested and beaten by police. Given that Myanmar's regime is largely backed with Chinese money and weapons, until someone convinces China to stop supplying the government, there's little that's going to be accomplished. Unfortunately, not to be cynical, but with China already holding sway over the falling U.S. dollar, it's unlikely the U.S. is going to do much to stop what's happening in Myanmar. </p> <p><embed src=\"http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf\" width=\"450\" height=\"370\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\" flashvars=\"autostart=false&token=73b_1191374174\" scale=\"showall\" name=\"index\"></embed></p>", "pub_date": "2007-10-03T08:34:49", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1032, "fields": {"title": "Make Sure Your Money Isn't Supporting Genocide In Sudan", "url": "http://freeworldnow.blogspot.com/2004/09/darfur-southern-sudan-and-moral.html", "description": "<p>I've been trying to follow the new in Sudan ever since I wrote about it for Wired, but it isn't easy. Mainstream media seems to still ignore Africa, doubly so in the United States, but I did run across this post recently on a blog. If it weren't such a sober topic I'd be tempted to find some wit in the word \"genocidaires,\" but the truth is people like you and I are enabling these bastards to make money off of a genocide.</p> <blockquote> <p>The National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum seized power by military coup in 1989, deposing an elected government in order to abort the most promising peace process since Sudan's independence in 1956. Since the 1989 coup, the regime has ruled by means of tyranny, a ruthlessly efficient network of security services, and a brutal domestic policy that includes serial genocide. This illegitimate cabal of genocidaires, largely unchanged since 1989, could not survive long without the economic and personal financial benefits that derive directly from foreign investment.</p> <p>Consequently, as genocide continues to unfold in Darfur, and a final peace agreement between Khartoum and southern Sudan remains in diplomatic limbo, a number of observers have begun to argue that there can be no moral justification for holding equity investments in the many European and Asian companies that are now propping up the Khartoum regime by means of large commercial investments and capital projects.</p> <p>Perhaps surprisingly to many Americans, a number of these European and Asian companies list their shares on the New York Stock Exchange and are held in many mutual funds and pension funds. Others list on the London Stock Exchange or exchanges in other countries. Still others seek to enter the US bond market (debt market) in order to raise American capital to support their enterprises in Khartoum and northern Sudan. </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-10-10T14:00:32", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1033, "fields": {"title": "Eagle Creek Voyage 65L", "url": "http://www.eaglecreek.com/include/popup_multipleViews.php?id=10051&item=4", "description": "Eagle Creek is the leading manufacturers of travel gear and adventure luggage for any adventure around the world, outfitting all types of travelers since 1974, found in stores like Ebags, REI, Sonoma Outfitters, Magellans, Backcountry Store, Le Travel Store, Changes In Latitude, Summit Hut The smaller of the two travel bags I'm considering. Not crazy about the added backpack, probably leave that a home, but otherwise I like it. Smaller bag means you can't bring as much -- travel light my friends.", "pub_date": "2007-10-10T14:34:43", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1034, "fields": {"title": "Eagle Creek Meridian 55L", "url": "http://www.eaglecreek.com/include/popup_multipleViews.php?id=10052&item=2", "description": "Eagle Creek is the leading manufacturers of travel gear and adventure luggage for any adventure around the world, outfitting all types of travelers since 1974, found in stores like Ebags, REI, Sonoma Outfitters, Magellans, Backcountry Store, Le Travel Store, Changes In Latitude, Summit Hut this is the larger capacity of the two I like.", "pub_date": "2007-10-10T14:33:23", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1035, "fields": {"title": "The Whirling Dervish: Performance at The Relax Pub", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B8qH_MCJEQ", "description": "My friend Bill's band, The Whirling Dervish, performance at The Relax Pub earlier this year. It's YouTube, but the picture and sound are actually not bad. You'll love it, trust me. <object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/-B8qH_MCJEQ\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/-B8qH_MCJEQ\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"></embed></object>", "pub_date": "2007-10-10T14:32:04", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1036, "fields": {"title": "On Torture and American Values", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/opinion/07sun1.html?ex=1349409600&en=6a6eebe7ac82d611&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>It's not often that I agree with the op/eds from the New York Times, but this one is right on. This exactly why I'm embarrassed to be an American right now. If you think the dollar is at an all time low, you out to see where our moral stock is with the rest of the world. It's time to stop lowering and bar, it's pretty much on the ground anyway. That's my one form of hope: at least it can't get much worse.</p> <blockquote> <p>Once upon a time, it was the United States that urged all nations to obey the letter and the spirit of international treaties and protect human rights and liberties. American leaders denounced secret prisons where people were held without charges, tortured and killed. And the people in much of the world, if not their governments, respected the United States for its values.</p> <p>The Bush administration has dishonored that history and squandered that respect. As an article on this newspaper's front page last week laid out in disturbing detail, President Bush and his aides have not only condoned torture and abuse at secret prisons, but they have conducted a systematic campaign to mislead Congress, the American people and the world about those policies.</p> </blockquote> <p>Here's a link to the article the editorial mentions: <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/washington/04interrogate.html\">Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations</a></p>", "pub_date": "2007-10-10T14:27:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1037, "fields": {"title": "Death of an Adventure Traveler", "url": "http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article09260701.aspx", "description": "<p>A great little ruminative essay from Rolf Potts (of <a href=\"http://www.vagabonding.net/\">Vagabonding.net fame</a>) about a burmese refuge, travel writing and a good bit more. I'd never heard of this site before, but it's actually quite good, I might have to submit something one of these days.</p> <blockquote> <p>Of all the places in the world where I'd lived for more than a couple of months, Ranong was by far the most obscure. A frumpy border town of 30,000 people in the rainiest part of Thailand's isthmus, it held little appeal for tourists — apart from its proximity to the southern tip of Burma, where backpackers enamored with the country's meditation retreats and full-moon parties could get a cheap re-entry visa in a couple of hours. Besides fishing and tin mining, timber poaching and amphetamine smuggling seemed to be Ranong's principal industries, and scores of refugees from Burma's repressive dictatorship lived in squalid huts at the edges of town. </p> <p>...</p> <p>The other reason I'd returned to Ranong was to find some isolation so I could finish a magazine article that was weeks overdue. The adventure stories I'd written two years earlier for the Major American Luxury-Travel Magazine had attracted the attention of a Major American Adventure-Travel Magazine, and I'd been discussing possible assignments with an editor for months. Unfortunately, no story I proposed — exploring fishing villages along the upper Cambodian Mekong, mountaineering in Turkish Kurdistan, visiting the isolated tribesmen of the Andaman Islands — seemed quite right for him. We'd finally settled on a how-to feature about \"classic adventures\" in Asia. I'd spent much of the previous three years adventuring through the distant corners of the Asian continent, but this experience had put me at a weird disadvantage in reporting the story. \"You're giving us too much geography,\" my editor would tell me every time I submitted a new list of destination summaries. Readers of Major American Adventure-Travel Magazines, he told me, didn't want to read about journeys that were obscure or complicated; they wanted exotic challenges wherein they might test — or, at least, imagine themselves testing — the extremes of human experience.</p> <p>Ezio teased me about my latest magazine assignment as he stood in the kitchen, his hulking mass bent over a tiny espresso pot. \"These American magazines don't even know what adventure is,\" he said. \"They want you to write about camping toys and sports vacations. They want you to make people think adventure is something that costs $8,000 and lasts as long as a Christmas holiday. They want you to make rich people feel good for being rich.\"</p> <p>...</p> <p>I stayed on at the Lotus Guesthouse and struggled with my article for the Major American Adventure-Travel Magazine. Every time I researched some upscale mountain trek in the Nepal Himalayas or two-week scuba diving excursion off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I couldn't help but ponder how pointless it all was. I began to e-mail my editor pointed questions about how one should define the \"extremes of human experience.\" How was kayaking a remote Chinese river, I asked, more notable than surviving on its shores for a lifetime? How did risking frostbite on a helicopter-supported journey to arctic Siberia constitute more of an \"adventure\" than risking frostbite on a winter road-crew in Upper Peninsula Michigan? Did anyone else think it was telling that bored British aristocrats — not the peoples of the Himalayas — were the ones who first deemed it important to climb Mount Everest? My editor's replies were understandably terse. </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-10-10T14:15:39", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1038, "fields": {"title": "Through a Lens, Darkly", "url": "http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/09/littlerock200709?printable=true&currentPage=all", "description": "<p>A very long and well written Vanity Fair piece about the legacy and personal toll on the children who were part of the \"Little Rock Nine,\" the first African American children to attend desegregated schools in Little Rock Arkansas.</p> <blockquote> <p>During the historic 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, 26-year-old journalist Will Counts took a photograph that gave an iconic face to the passions at the center of the civil-rights movement -- two faces, actually: those of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford on her first day of school, and her most recognizable tormentor, Hazel Bryan. The story of how these two women struggled to reconcile and move on from the event is a remarkable journey through the last half-century of race relations in America.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-10-10T14:03:14", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1039, "fields": {"title": "Scotch Maverick Reinvents a Once-Conservative Drink", "url": "http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/10/compassbox?currentPage=all", "description": "The always excellent Paul Adams on some new scotch technology, from Wired: >Halfway through our interview, John Glaser walks away from the table, leaving me alone with the tools of his trade: graduated cylinders, conical measures, tasting glasses, water and several flasks of Scotch whisky. At his urging, I'm going to create my own personal Scotch. I measure out 10-milliliter working tastes of each whisky, dilute them precisely from cask proof to 40 percent strength, and take a stab. Glaser makes it sound easy, but I'm not so sure. Maybe a few exploratory tastes will loosen me up. >It's a beautiful, sunny afternoon in Chiswick, London. The energetic Glaser, a forty-something Minnesotan whose ready grin mitigates his piercing gaze, is the sole whiskymaker of Compass Box, the boutique company he founded in 2000 after quitting his job as a marketing director for Johnnie Walker. At Compass Box, he's introduced some of the first innovations in decades to the craft of making and blending Scotch -- and in so doing, has won both accolades and brickbats from the conservative guardians of the whisky industry. >Although the brand sells only some 6,000 cases yearly, Compass Box's independent ways have made an impression on the whisky world. The blends have won a disproportionate number of awards, but also raised the hackles of the Scotch establishment.", "pub_date": "2007-10-15T13:36:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1040, "fields": {"title": "How Does It Feel to Die?", "url": "http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626252.800", "description": "<p>Here's a special treat for all of you out there that suffer from anxiety attacks, from the New Scientist:</p> <blockquote> <p>Is it distressing to experience consciousness slipping away or something people can accept with equanimity? Are there any surprises in store as our existence draws to a close? These are questions that have plagued philosophers and scientists for centuries, and chances are you've pondered them too occasionally.</p> <p>None of us can know the answers for sure until our own time comes, but the few individuals who have their brush with death interrupted by a last-minute reprieve can offer some intriguing insights. Advances in medical science, too, have led to a better understanding of what goes on as the body gives up the ghost.</p> <p>Death comes in many guises, but one way or another it is usually a lack of oxygen to the brain that delivers the coup de grace. Whether as a result of a heart attack, drowning or suffocation, for example, people ultimately die because their neurons are deprived of oxygen, leading to cessation of electrical activity in the brain - the modern definition of biological death.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-10-15T13:34:08", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1041, "fields": {"title": "Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/world/11cnd-nobel.html?ex=1349755200&en=d55bc54e10025ba4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss", "description": "<p>Finally. From the New York Times:</p> <blockquote> <p>Ms. Lessing learned of the news from a group of reporters camped on her doorstep as she returned from a visit to the hospital with her son. \"I was a bit surprised because I had forgotten about it actually,\" she said. \"My name has been on the short list for such a long time.\"</p> <p>As the persistent sound of her phone ringing came from inside the house, Ms. Lessing said that on second thought, she was not as surprised \"because this has been going on for something like 40 years,\" referring to the number of times she has been mentioned as a likely honoree. \"Either they were going to give it to me sometime before I popped off or not at all.\"</p> <p>After a few moments, Ms. Lessing, who is stout, sharp and a bit hard of hearing, excused herself to go inside. \"Now I'm going to go in to answer my telephone,\" she said. \"I swear I'm going upstairs to find some suitable sentences, which I will be using from now on.\" </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-10-15T13:31:50", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1042, "fields": {"title": "Dealing with Chromatic Aberration Part II - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog", "url": "http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/10/dealing_with_chromatic_aberrat.html", "description": "Last week a few readers said it would be nice to see a few examples of Chromatic Aberration and how it was removed. I didn't include any with the last post because chromatic aberration is different in every image. But...", "pub_date": "2007-10-17T19:51:29", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1043, "fields": {"title": "Vanishing Point: How to Disappear in America Without a Trace", "url": "http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/vanish.htm#Section3", "description": "<p>This is by far the most comprehensive, paranoid and occasionally illegal guide to disappearing I've ever run across, but it speaks to the extreme lengths one might have to go to \"live off the grid\" as it were, in modern America.</p> <p>Probably easier to swim over to Cuba.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-10-17T19:47:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1044, "fields": {"title": "Read Your Own DHS Travel Dossier", "url": "http://www.unsecureflight.com/request.html", "description": "<p>In its efforts to combat terrorism, fight human trafficking, and bust drug dealers, the Department of Homeland Security is compiling a large database of where you go, who you travel with, what you read and more. </p> <p>Should you decide you'd like to see what all they've got on you, you can request a copy of your file under the Freedom Of Information Act. The site linked above hosts two form letters for submitting this request, along with instructions for doing so.</p> <p>At some point Wired asked me to do this for a story someone was doing, but I don't know if it ever happened. I'd be interested to see what mine says given that I've been to several countries on the State Department's watch list (Nepal, Laos).</p>", "pub_date": "2007-10-17T19:30:37", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1045, "fields": {"title": "Dealing with Chromatic Aberration", "url": "http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/10/dealing_with_chromatic_aberrat_1.html", "description": "Chromatic Aberration is one of those topics that rarely gets discussed but is a huge concern when processing digital images. Chromatic Aberration is caused by a differing refractive index for each wavelength of light - hence red refracts at a...", "pub_date": "2007-10-17T19:26:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1046, "fields": {"title": "Find the Latitude and Longitude of a Point on a Map", "url": "http://www.getlatlon.com/", "description": "<p>Simon Willison got fed up of hunting around for simple latitude/longitude tools when messing around with mapping APIs, so he built his own with a memorable URL. Handy tool if you do a lot of mapping.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-10-17T19:18:51", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1047, "fields": {"title": "Languages Racing to Extinction", "url": "http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070918-languages-extinct.html", "description": "<p>This really depresses me. Especially when America is so xenophobic at the moment. I am however somewhat fascinated by the idea of a language that's spoken by only one person, which is incredibly counter intuitive — do they talk to themselves? National Geographic reports:</p> <blockquote> <p>From Alaska to Australia, hundreds of languages around the world are teetering on the brink of extinction — some being spoken only by a single person, according to a new study.</p> <p>The research has revealed five hotspots where languages are vanishing most rapidly: eastern Siberia, northern Australia, central South America, Oklahoma, and the U.S. Pacific Northwest (see map of the hotspots).</p> <p>\"Languages are undergoing a global extinction crisis that greatly exceeds the pace of species extinction,\" said David Harrison, a linguistics professor at Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-10-17T19:15:08", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1048, "fields": {"title": "Bluelounge - Cableyoyo", "url": "http://www.bluelounge.com/cableyoyo.php", "description": "<p>I've tried a few cable coiling systems before and have never really found anything that worked — most just ended up a tangled mess. And nothing irks me more than trying to untangle all the various cords I have to lug around. I haven't tried these so I can't vouch for them, but they're only five bucks so it's not like you're out much if you don't like them.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-10-17T19:10:56", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1049, "fields": {"title": "Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/09/25/banker-to-the-poor-micro-lending-and-the-battle-against-world-poverty/", "description": "<p>Micro-lending is something I've posted about before, but lately I've been considering actually doing it. It interests me because its a chance to invest in something on the community scale. Investing in large corporations makes me uncomfortable on a number of levels — I started thinking about it one night and realized if corporations are legal entities granted person-hood, that the stock market is essentially a collection of zombies feeding on your money. Where's the actual benefit for the person next to you? Investing on that level is at heart incredibly impersonal — like flipping a quarter in a tattered coffee cup as you walk on by.</p> <p>On the other hand micro-lending is money that goes to real people and those people are part of a community and that community fits in the larger human sphere and so on. In short it's much more tangible and therefore appealing to me.</p> <p>If you're not familiar with the concept, Get Rich Slowly has a nice review of Muhammad Yunus' book Banker to the Poor. Yanus won the Nobel Peace prize last year for his work in helping create the micro-lending network that exists today and Get Rich Slowly has some nice quotes from the book and a video that explains the concept.</p> <p>I haven't decided yet if I'll actually do it, but I think it's worth considering at least, if you're looking to invest your spare money in something.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-10-17T19:04:50", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1050, "fields": {"title": "The World's (Un)Luckiest Man", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/17/the-worlds-unluckiest-man/", "description": "<p>This a quite simply one of the most amazing stories I've ever heard. A Croatian music teacher named Frane Selak has managed to survive a simply remarkable number of accidents and near death incidents, including falling out of a plane.</p> <blockquote> <p>The train carrying Selak in 1962 inexplicably jumped the tracks and plunged into an icy river, killing 17 passengers. Selak managed to swim back to shore, suffering hypothermia, shock, bruises, and a broken arm, but very happy to be alive.</p> <p>One year later, Selak was on a plane traveling from Zagreb to Rijeka when a door blew off the plane and he was sucked out of the aircraft. A few minutes later the plane crashed; 19 people were killed. But Selak woke up in a hospital - he'd been found in a haystack and had only minor injuries.</p> <p>In 1966 he was riding on a bus that went off the road and into a river. Four people were killed - but not Selak. He suffered only cuts and bruises.</p> <p>In 1970 he was driving along when his car suddenly caught fire. He managed to stop and get out just before the fuel tank exploded and engulfed the car in flames.</p> </blockquote> <p>Believe it or not, there's more, quite a bit more.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-10-18T18:44:14", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1051, "fields": {"title": "The Southern Foodways Alliance", "url": "http://www.southernfoodways.com/index.shtml", "description": "<p>One of Corrinne's friends works for the organization, which is apparently quite well known, though it was new to me. Essentially they collect and preserve southern cooking culture. They did a whole bunch of stuff trying to help folks after Katrina. They could use a new website, but otherwise...</p> <blockquote> <p>The Southern Foodways Alliance documents and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the American South. We set a common table where black and white, rich and poor — all who gather — may consider our history and our future in a spirit of reconciliation.</p> <p>We stage symposia on food culture, produce documentary films, publish compendiums of great writing, and — perhaps most important — preserve, promote, and chronicle our region's culinary standard bearers. We're talking white tablecloth chefs and fried chicken cooks, barbecue pitmasters and peanut farmers.</p> <p>The SFA is a member-supported organization of more than 800 people. Chefs and academics, writers and eaters: all are active participants. Though we are a lean and efficient organization with a three-person staff, our work has great impact. In the Atlantic Monthly, Corby Kummer dubbed the SFA \"this country's most intellectually engaged food society.\"</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-10-18T18:39:34", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1052, "fields": {"title": "Ethnic Minority Music of Southern Laos", "url": "http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/item.asp?Item_id=39&t=Ethnic-Minority-Music-of-Southern-Laos", "description": "<p>A must have for me. I was a bit sketched out by the low-budget look of the site at first, but it turns out that the owners are friends of friends, so don't let it bother you, should you want to put in your CC number.</p> <blockquote> <p>This is a collection of landmark recordings by Laurent Jeanneau documenting music created by the Harak and various Brao ethnic groups in Southern Laos. Here you can hear the true historic roots of Molam music (now a venerable popular music style in Laos and Thailand) played on the Khaen along with vocal styles from this region. Also featured here are Gong ensembles, various stringed instruments, cymbals, drums, and sung poetry all captured live on location with the ambient sounds of the surrounding villages. These recordings were made in Xekong, Champasak and Attapeu provinces and because much of this music is unknown, this is probably the first time recordings have ever been released of indigenous music from these remote areas of Southern Laos. This is the second release in a series of spectacular field recordings from some of the more remote ethnic minority communities in Southeast Asia. Features insightful liner notes by Laurent Jeanneau and extended track listing with added information about each track recorded.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-10-18T18:35:12", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1053, "fields": {"title": "Travelling In America, Where Everyone's A Suspect", "url": "http://www.episcopalcafe.com/daily/war_and_peace/every_day_diplomacy.php", "description": "<p>Filed \"we gotta get out of this place.\" Here's the story of what it's like to be a foreign traveller visiting the United States. Contrasting this with my own experiences abroad is downright frightening. Nepal, for instance, may have a shady human rights record, but frankly they wouldn't dream of treating foreign nationals this way.</p> <p>Scary stuff, from of all places a blog called the Daily Episcopalian, via the always astute <a href=\"http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/taking_pictures.html\">Bruce Schneier</a>.</p> <blockquote> <p>The train is a half hour west of New Haven when the conductor, having finished her original rounds, reappears. She moves down the aisle, looks, stops between our seats, faces the person taking pictures. \"Sir, in the interest of national security, we do not allow pictures to be taken of or from this train.\" He starts, \"I...\" but, without English, his response trails off into silence. The conductor, speaking louder, forcefully: \"Sir, I will confiscate that camera if you don't put it away.\" Again, little response. \"Sir, this is a security matter! We cannot allow pictures.\" She turns away abruptly and, as she moves down the aisle, calls over her shoulder, in a very loud voice, \"Put. It. Away!\" He packs his camera.</p> <p>Within a minute after our arrival in New Haven, two armed police officers entered the car, approached my neighbor's seat. \"Sir, we're removing you from this train.\" \"I...;\" \"I...\" \"Sir, you have breached security regulations. We must remove you from this train.\" \"I..,\" \"I...\" \"Sir, we are not going to delay this train because of you. You will get off, or we will remove you physically.\" \"I...\"</p> <p>Nearby passengers stir. One says, \"It's obvious he doesn't speak English. There are people here who speak more than one language. Perhaps we can help.\" Different ones ask about the traveler's language; learn he speaks Japanese. For me, a sudden flash of memory — a student at International Christian University in Japan, I took countless pictures without arousing suspicion.</p> <p>The police speak through the interpreter, with the impatience of authority. \"The conductor asked this man three times to discontinue. We must remove him from the train.\" The traveler hears the translation, is befuddled. Hidden beneath the commotion is a cross-cultural drama. With the appearance of police officers, this quiet visitor is embarrassed to find he is the center of attention. The officers explain, \"After we remove him from the train, when we are through our investigation, we will put him on the next train.\" The woman translates. The passenger replies, \"I'm meeting relatives in Boston. They cannot be reached by phone. They expect me and will be worried when I do not arrive on schedule.\" \"Our task,\" the police repeat, \"is to remove you from this train. If necessary, we will do so by force. After we have finished the investigation, we'll put you on another train.\" The woman translates. The traveler gathers his belongings and departs.</p> </blockquote> <p>Follow the link to read more.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-11-08T12:49:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1054, "fields": {"title": "BibliOdyssey: Dagbok East India Trading Company", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/11/dagbok-east-india-trading-company.html", "description": "<p>BibliOdyssey has dug up another stellar set of illustrations. And there's going to be BibliOdyssey book, so the nerdery can live on the coffee table, not just the computer screen. Anyway these great natural history illustrations are from the Swedish East India Company (I guess everybody had an East India Company, who knew?)</p> <blockquote> <p>The Swedish East India Company was formed under Royal Charter in 1731 and granted exclusive national trading rights with Asia, mostly through the port of Canton ( near Hong Kong). Round-trip voyages from the company's headquarters in Goteborg took around eighteen months and the major commodities transported back were tea, silk, porcelain and spices.</p> <p>In all, there were 127 voyages undertaken prior to the company's becoming insolvent in 1813 due to reduced profits during the Napoleonic years. Eight major sailing vessels were either lost or partially destroyed while the company was operating, including the 'Gotheborg', which famously sank on return to the harbour in Goteborg in 1745. In the 1990s, marine archaeologists were able to salvage some of the original ship, and after a ten year rebuilding project, a to-scale replica undertook a nineteen month voyage from Sweden to China and back, returning to Goteborg in June 2007.</p> </blockquote> <p>The images on the site come from the diary of a cartographer named Carl Johan Gethe.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-11-08T12:37:55", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1055, "fields": {"title": "Geocoding Your Photos with Lightroom and HoudahGeo", "url": "http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/11/geocoding_your_photos_with_lig.html", "description": "been looking for a way to geocode in lightroom. this certainly looks like one option. if lightroom adds the rumored SDK and a Flickr exporter can leverage this data that would be awesome.", "pub_date": "2007-11-08T12:31:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1056, "fields": {"title": "Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century", "url": "http://mustachesofthenineteenthcentury.blogspot.com/", "description": "<p>Just when you think the internet might have actually overlooked a thing or two, you stumble across something like this: Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century. And don't forget the subhead: A Daily Celebration of The Golden Age of Upper Lip Hair.</p> <p>Although somewhat tongue in cheek, there actually appears to be an audience for this. I found it while trying to research turn of the century fashion in Budapest, so clearly Google knows it's around. </p> <p>From the homepage:</p> <blockquote> <p>Dear Gentle Reader,<br /> Many of the following pages have graphic and clear images of the masculine mustache in all its forms, both sublime and grotesque. My intent is not to shock or titillate, but merely to inform on the subject. The Nineteenth Century gave us many things, but above all it was a hotbed of facial hair experimentation and this is but a poor sampling of those many lost forms.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-11-08T12:29:47", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1057, "fields": {"title": "Man Booker Prize Shortlist To Be Free Downloads", "url": "http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2681255.ece", "description": "<p>Frankly I'm surprised they got the publishers to agree to do this, given that industry's consistent lack of understand of digital media. Of course I've never really met a Man Booker novel I actually liked, but hey maybe the shortlist has some worthy candidates that got over looked. From the Times Online:</p> <blockquote> <p>The Man Booker Prize has been criticized over the years for selecting dark, unreadable and worthy tomes unlike the winners of other more populist literary prizes.</p> <p>Now, in the week that Anne Enright became its 2007 winner, it is shaking off criticisms of being elitist and out of touch by taking the radical step of placing all its shortlisted novels online, available free to anyone worldwide.</p> <p>Negotiations are under way with the British Council and publishers over digitizing the novels and reaching parts — particularly in Africa and Asia — that the actual books would not otherwise reach. </p> </blockquote> <p>No word on when or where these mysterious downloads will appear.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-11-08T12:25:34", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1058, "fields": {"title": "django-registration - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-registration/", "description": "generic wrappers and forms for setting up django user registration", "pub_date": "2007-11-08T15:45:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1059, "fields": {"title": "Imperial Deer Slip On Slippers by L.B. Evans", "url": "http://www.onlyslippers.com/mens-slippers/slip-on/imperialdeersliponslippersbylbevans.cfm", "description": "Imperial Deer Slip On Slippers by L.B. Evans - Sleek styling and resilient design make the Imperial Deer quality casual footwear. Pile-lined deerskin and sturdy soles enhance the lasting quality.", "pub_date": "2007-11-10T09:31:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1060, "fields": {"title": "ajax_shop_basket - Django Code - Trac", "url": "http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ajax_shop_basket", "description": "", "pub_date": "2007-11-14T19:01:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1061, "fields": {"title": "HOWTO: Using reCAPTCHA with Python (and Django)", "url": "http://k0001.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/using-recaptcha-with-python-and-django/", "description": "I'll show you today how can you use reCAPTCHA your Python and Django web apps. I'm sure you know what a captcha is right? (if you don't, it is that distorted set of numbers or letters you have to fill whenever you are singing up in a new forum, site, etc.) Well, reCAPTCHA is not only an API providing captcha generation/validation so you can use it in your sites, but also, you are helping to digitalize books, while you do it. The full explanation is here.", "pub_date": "2007-11-15T18:26:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1062, "fields": {"title": "Coast To A Writing Career", "url": "http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/valleywag/full/~3/181084921/how-to-coast-to-a-writing-career-319758.php", "description": "<p>Hilarious bit from my former Wired editor Paul Boutin. Sarcastic and tongue in cheek as this may be, there's an element of truth in it and somewhat mirrors my own career. Hey Paul, wanna give me the hookup at the Times?</p>", "pub_date": "2007-12-06T19:05:34", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1063, "fields": {"title": "Sorl Thumbnail", "url": "http://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/27/thumbnail/", "description": "nice app for a generic thumbnailing service", "pub_date": "2007-12-06T19:02:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1064, "fields": {"title": "Django Basic", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-basic-people/", "description": "nice app for handling people outside django's user framework", "pub_date": "2007-12-06T19:00:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1065, "fields": {"title": "Buried Treasure Mystery: The Money Pit at Oak Island", "url": "http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/12/the-last-great-buried-treasure-mystery-the-money-pit-at-oak-island/", "description": "<p>There's really nothing that takes you back to childhood like the romance of searching for pirate treasure. Well, maybe that depends on your childhood, but for me that's what happens when I read about buried treasure, which admittedly isn't often. And that's largely because most treasure is underwater, difficult to find and expensive to retrieve. Like the treasure that may or may not be on Oak Island:</p> <blockquote> <p>In 1795, a teenager named Daniel McGinnis discovered an unusual, saucer-shaped depression on Oak Island, a tiny island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Next to the hole was an ancient oak tree with sawed off limbs. And, according to legend, a ship's tackle hung from the tree directly over the depression — as if it had been used to lower something very heavy into the hole. </p> <p>McGinnis was certain he had found buried pirate treasure, and with the help of two friends he began digging for it. Within minutes they hit rock — which turned out to be a flagstone buried two feet below surface. They hit another barrier made of oak logs at 10 feet deep; another at 20 feet, and a third at 30 feet. McGinnis and his friends kept digging — but they never found any treasure and eventually gave up. Still, word of their discovery spread.</p> <p>In 1803, a wealthy man named Simeon Lynds took up the search. The diggers he hired found another platform at 40 feet, and found several more deeper down. Finally, at 90 feet, the workers found a large stone with strange symbols carved into it. No one could decipher what the stone said, but the workers were convinced they were close to treasure and kept digging. (The stone was later stolen.) At 98 feet deep, their shovels struck what felt like a wooden chest. But the sun was going down, so they stopped for the night.</p> </blockquote> <p>The long and short of it is that no one has found anything yet, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything down there.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-12-14T14:15:50", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1066, "fields": {"title": "Anthony Bourdain on how to Find Good Food Anywhere", "url": "http://rob-donoghue.livejournal.com/275931.html", "description": "<p>Anthony Bourdain's tip for finding good food wherever you're headed: provoke the nerds.</p> <blockquote> <p>The question at hand was how to find good restaurants, and his answer was to take the city you want to go to and just google up some restaurant names that serve the dish you're after. Then got to chowhound or another foodie site, and rather than asking about restaurants, you put up an enthusiastic post talking about how you just had the best whatever you're looking for at one of these restaurants.</p> <p>At that point, the nerdfury will begin. Posters will show up from nowhere to shower you with disdain, tell you how that place used to be good but has now totally sold out and - most important to your quest - will tell you where you would have gone if you were not some sort of mouth breathing water buffalo.</p> </blockquote> <p>Actually a damn fine idea and shows that Bourdain understands the internet. I've done similar things in my work. The best way to find a good program is post a glowing a review of one and wait for the angry users to tell you about their favorite (and it goes without saying, much better) alternative. I've never faked a review to provoke them since that would be unethical, but on site like Chow, hey, why not?</p>", "pub_date": "2007-12-14T20:08:02", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1067, "fields": {"title": "Fixing sequence problems in PostgreSQL", "url": "http://simonwillison.net/2004/Apr/21/postgres/", "description": "Got bit by this a bunch of times when I moved data from mysql to postgresql, luckily the fix is easy.", "pub_date": "2007-12-14T20:15:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1068, "fields": {"title": "Migrate your site from MySQL to PostgreSQL", "url": "http://www.sitepoint.com/article/site-mysql-postgresql-1/", "description": "Recently switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL -- This piece has some handy tips on how to convert data from a MySQL database to PostgreSQL. It's not too hard, but there's a few gotchas.", "pub_date": "2007-12-14T20:13:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1069, "fields": {"title": "The 53 Places to Go in 2008", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/travel/09where.html?pagewanted=all", "description": "<p>The Times bills this with the line: \"From Laos to Lisbon, the travel choices for global nomads have never been more varied.\" Yes, Laos is number one, very disappointing, but luckily only 6 percent of Americans actually have passports so there's little chance it will be overrun. However, just to be on the safe side I would study this list as a handy guide of places to avoid unless you really like crowds.</p> <p>What's more revealing about not only the Times, but author and the travel industry/media as well, is that almost every single one of the entries in the list has recently built some sort of luxury resort. Coincidence or press release? You decide.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-12-14T20:23:55", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1070, "fields": {"title": "Tombs of the Grand Masters of the Knights of Malta", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2007/11/tombs-of-grand-masters-of-knights-of.html", "description": "<p>Nothing gets the conspiracy fan tongues wagging like the Knights of Malta (the Knights Templar might be the one exception to that rule), but in this case these are just really cool and somewhat macabre watercolor sketches of their tombs.</p> <blockquote> <p>In 1523, after a continual onslaught by the Ottoman forces, the Order was ejected from Rhodes and in 1530, under a Spanish Crown/Papal edict, were granted the island of Malta as a perpetual fiefdom in exchange for an annual fee of a Maltese falcon (yes, that's where the Dashiell Hammet plot element comes from). Of particular note during their tenure on Malta (in addition to their role as a slave trading hub), the Order, comprising less than 10,000 men under Grand Master Jean de la Valette, managed to withstand a three month siege by 40,000 Ottoman Turks. When it came time to rebuild the damaged cities, the capital was renamed Valetta in honor of their victorious leader.</p> <p>It should be noted that the tendrils of influence and operation of the Knights of Malta always exceeded their nominal homelands. They had varying holdings across Europe and members of the Order had significant roles in the Russian and pre-Revolutionary French navies as well as a presence in Caribbean affairs. The greatest blow to their organization occurred in 1798 with the invasion and occupation by the forces of Napoleon who used Malta as a launching pad for an assault on Egypt. There followed an ejection of the Knights who were effectively dispersed and their headquarters was moved around Italy until in 1834, the current sovereign-state location was established in Palazzo Malta in Rome.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-12-14T20:33:54", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1071, "fields": {"title": "Stunning Temples Secretly Carved Out Below Ground", "url": "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=495538&in_page_id=1811", "description": "<p>Next time you think your hobby is occupying too much of your free time, consider this guy's project, which is most likely a bit larger in scope and goals:</p> <blockquote> <p>Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. Peppered with medieval villages, the hillside scenery is certainly picturesque.</p> <p>Here, 100ft down and hidden from public view, lies an astonishing secret - one that has drawn comparisons with the fabled city of Atlantis and has been dubbed 'the Eighth Wonder of the World' by the Italian government.</p> <p>For weaving their way underneath the hillside are nine ornate temples, on five levels, whose scale and opulence take the breath away.</p> <p>Constructed like a three-dimensional book, narrating the history of humanity, they are linked by hundreds of metres of richly decorated tunnels and occupy almost 300,000 cubic feet - Big Ben is 15,000 cubic feet. </p> <p>But the 'Temples of Damanhur' are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2007-12-15T08:09:00", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1072, "fields": {"title": "Hieronymus Bosch Action Figures", "url": "http://www.yourdailyawesome.com/2007/05/27/hieronymus-bosch-action-figures/", "description": "<p>Must have.. now... must have... now...</p> <p>I had to create a whole new \"awesomeness\" tag just to classify this find. If you've been wondering what to get me for my birthday/christmas now you know. Actually last time I tried the links to purchase led to a 404 page otherwise I'd already have these scattered all over my desk.</p> <p>I strongly recommend clicking through to the site below. The entry prior to this one is entitled \"Werner Herzog, Midgets, and Ghostriding the Whip\" and frankly, I don't see how you could go wrong with that combo.</p>", "pub_date": "2007-12-18T20:19:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1073, "fields": {"title": "ING DIRECT", "url": "https://secure.ingdirect.com/myaccount/InitialINGDirect.html?command=displayLogin&device=web&locale=en_US&userType=Client", "description": "orange account login page", "pub_date": "2007-12-19T19:49:11", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1074, "fields": {"title": "Creating a Pownce Widget with Django", "url": "http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/creating-pownce-widget-using-django/", "description": "Nice tutorial on how to make a widget powered by Django. I've always leaned more toward just storing data gathered with an API, but I guess sometimes there might not be a reason to store it in which case this seems like a good approach.", "pub_date": "2007-12-21T06:26:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1075, "fields": {"title": "Integrating Geocoding with Django Models", "url": "http://kenkeiter.com/2007/11/20/integrating-geocoding-with-django-models/", "description": "Nice write up on Geopy which I'm going to use in the next iteration of luxagraf", "pub_date": "2007-12-21T06:18:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1076, "fields": {"title": "HTMLCalendar", "url": "http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/htmlcalendar.html", "description": "Python library for outputting an html calendar with event links.", "pub_date": "2007-12-21T06:16:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1077, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: Link Models to Google Calendar", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/322/", "description": "Somewhat complex method of linking an events model to Google Calendar for two-syncing. Not perfect, but better than trying to display a calendar in the Django admin.", "pub_date": "2007-12-21T06:15:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1078, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: Ordering Models in Django Site administration screen", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/359/", "description": "Nice and reasonably clean way to order apps without resorting to cut and paste in the admin templates.", "pub_date": "2007-12-21T06:13:14", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1079, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: bigger textfields in admin panel", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/427/", "description": "It's always frustrated me that I can't prioritize django admin text fields by size, but now I can with a bit of template hacking.", "pub_date": "2007-12-21T06:10:59", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1080, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: Calendar template-tag", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/129/", "description": "Nice django template tag for outputting a calendar from an \"events\" model", "pub_date": "2007-12-21T06:09:49", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1081, "fields": {"title": "django-atompub - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-atompub/", "description": "\r\n\r\n<p>adding atom feeds to django. haven't done it since I use Feedburner anyway, but good to know it's out there.\r\n\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-04T18:48:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1082, "fields": {"title": "Bookworm Interview with David Foster Wallace ('96)", "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20040606041906/www.andbutso.com/~mark/bookworm96/", "description": "\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2007-12-23T11:31:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1083, "fields": {"title": "Photo of Babe Ruth with the Red Sox", "url": "http://www.shorpy.com/node/1874?size=_original", "description": "\r\n\r\n<p>Awesome old glass plate photo of Babe Ruth, Bill Carrigan, Jack Barry and Del Gainer of the Boston Red Sox in 1916.\r\n\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-04T19:07:14", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1084, "fields": {"title": "24 ways: Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery", "url": "http://24ways.org/2007/unobtrusively-mapping-microformats-with-jquery", "description": "\r\n\r\n<p>Simon Willison on using jQuery to do some interesting things with Microformats. Makes me wish I was better with Javascript.\r\n\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-04T19:04:57", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1085, "fields": {"title": "Python Code: pymaps", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/pymaps/source", "description": "\r\n\r\n<p>Nice looking python library for interacting with Geo services.\r\n\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-04T18:54:58", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1086, "fields": {"title": "Python Code: markdown2", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/python-markdown2/source", "description": "\r\n\r\n<p>Haven't switched over to this yet, but I plan to since the version I'm using doesn't appear to be actively under development anymore.\r\n\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-04T18:54:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1087, "fields": {"title": "Woolgathering...", "url": "http://woolgathering-sf.blogspot.com/", "description": "<p>My friend Lee just started blogging. If you're looking for "well-fed white guy stuff" (his words not mine, but come to think of it that's basically what you're getting here too so you must like it) check out <a href=\"http://woolgathering-sf.blogspot.com/\">Woolgathering</a>, looks like good stuff (and he's using the old song-lyrics-as-titles trick so you know I'm into it).</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Lee works in a pirate store for kids, which, I hate to say it, is most likely far cooler than anything you do. And you should listen to him or he'll make you walk the plank or something. In Lee's words:</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <p>i take everything very seriously and at the same time nothing seriously at all. also i use a lot of commas. </p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n</blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Note to Lee: check out the beta version of Blogger and turn on the OpenID commenting feature. That way those of us without Blogger accounts can leave some thoughts behind.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-05T07:12:02", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1088, "fields": {"title": "Dapper: The Data Mapper", "url": "http://www.dapper.net/", "description": "\r\n\r\n<p>Great tool for scraping websites and creating RSS feeds, Google Maps, all kinds of things.\r\n\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-05T07:36:30", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1089, "fields": {"title": "How to Shoot Light Trails", "url": "http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-shoot-light-trails/", "description": "<p>Very nice guide to shooting light trails. I'll have to put this to use in my photo of the day project.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <p>There is not just one particular type of camera and kit that you'll need to capture light trails - however it is important to have a camera that allows you to have some control over exposure settings - particularly those that allow you to choose longer shutter speeds. This means you need a camera that has the ability to shoot in either full manual mode and/or shutter priority mode (something that all DSLRs and manypoint and shoot cameras have).</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <p>You'll also need a tripod (or some other way to making your camera completely still) as you'll be shooting with long shutter speeds which will make shooting handheld pretty much impossible.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <p>Not essential but helpful to have with you are lens hoods (to help block lens flare from ambient lights), remote shutter release cables or wireless remote controls, patience and some warm clothes if you're going out on a chilly night. </p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n</blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-08T19:41:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1090, "fields": {"title": "Babies Gravitate Toward Good Samaritans", "url": "http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071212/ts_csm/ababy", "description": "<p>So does this mean we get more gullible and less astute in our observations as we age? I know this news is a bit old, but it's worth linking too anyway: </p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <p>Six- and 10-month-old babies are much more capable judges of character than previously thought. Not only can infants pick out a good Samaritan, they tend to identify with them, according to a Yale University study published in the journal Nature. </p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <p>The study released last month presented babies with a diorama-like display of an anthropomorphic circle struggling to make it up a hill. Just when it appeared that all hope was lost, a heroic triangle appeared, and pushed the circle to the top. The round climber bounces, clearly elated to have reached the summit. The same scenario is played out again, only this time a square appears at the top of the hill and pushes the circle to the bottom. </p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <p>The babies were then asked to pick a toy — the helper or the hinderer, as scientists called them. One hundred percent of 6-month-olds and 87.5 percent of 10-month-olds chose the helper. The results were consistent even when the triangle and the square swapped places as good guy and bad guy. In several other iterations of the experiment, the helper, regardless of shape or color, won out. </p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <p>"Babies are very competent socially," says Kiley Hamlin, lead author of the study. "They can figure this kind of stuff out without people explicitly teaching what's nice and not nice and who's nice and who's not nice."</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n</blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-08T19:38:16", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1091, "fields": {"title": "Abandoned Wonders of America", "url": "http://weburbanist.com/2008/01/06/7-more-abandoned-wonders-of-america-from-military-islands-to-mental-institutions/", "description": "<p>I have a friend who is obsessed with the \"lost\" city that supposedly exists beneath New York City. While that's not on this particular list, it might as well be, these are no less fascinating though.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <p>Imagine entire islands and vast building complexes eerily abandoned virtually in your own back yard. This seemingly far-fetched scenario might be more real than you realize. Complexes of more than 150 buildings and even small islands are located near the heart of major cities such as Houston and Washington DC. You may know these 70 Wonders of the Ancient World but few consider how such 'wonders' become abandoned at all. From insane asylums to military bases, hotels to theme parks and seminaries to silos here are 7 more abandoned wonders of America.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n</blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-08T19:29:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1092, "fields": {"title": "The 61 Year Old Farmer Who Won the World's Toughest Race", "url": "http://elitefeet.com/2007/12/30/the-legend-of-cliff-young-the-61-year-old-farmer-that-won-the-worlds-toughest-race/", "description": "\r\n\r\n<p>I wish I knew more stories like this one:</p> <blockquote> <p>Every year, Australia hosts an 875-kilometer endurance racing from Sydney to Melbourne - considered to be the world's longest and toughest ultra-marathon. It's a long, tough race that takes five days and normally participated by world-class athletes who train specially for the event. Backed by big names in sports like Nike, these athletes are mostly less than 30 years old men and women equipped with the most expensive sponsored training outfits and shoes.</p> <p>In 1983, these top class runners were in for a surprise. On the day of the race, a guy named Cliff Young showed up. At first, no one cared about him since everybody thought he was there to watch the event. After all, he was 61 years old, showed up in overalls and galoshes over his work boots.</p> <p>He finished the 875-kilometre race in 5 days, 15 hours and 4 minutes. Not knowing that he was supposed to sleep during the race, he said when running throughout the race, he imagined that he was chasing sheep and trying to outrun a storm.</p> <p>He kept running. Every night he got just a little bit closer to the leading pack. By the last night, he passed all of the world-class athletes. By the last day, he was way in front of them. Not only did he run the Melbourne to Sydney race at age 61, without dying; he won first place, breaking the race record by 9 hours and became a national hero! The nation fell in love with the 61-year-old potato farmer who came out of nowhere to defeat the world's best long distance runners.</p> <p>When Cliff was awarded the first prize of $10,000, he said he did not know there was a prize and insisted that he had not entered for the money. He said, \"There're five other runners still out there doing it tougher than me,\" and he gave them $2,000 each. He did not keep a single cent for himself. That act endeared him to all of Australia. Cliff was a humble, average man, who undertook an extraordinary feat and became a national sensation.</p> </blockquote> <p>The saga continues at the site below, believe it or not there's quite a bit more to the story and well worth the read.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-01-08T19:24:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1094, "fields": {"title": "Dengue Fever Threatens Continental US", "url": "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/09/dengue_fever/", "description": "<p>This is never what you want to hear:</p> <blockquote> <p>According to Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and his senior scientific adviser, Dr David Morens, cases of dengue have already been reported in Texas, which \"may be the beginning of a new trend\".</p> <p>The pair cautioned in the Journal of the American Medical Association: \"Widespread appearance of dengue in the continental United States is a real possibility. Worldwide, dengue is among the most important reemerging infectious diseases, with an estimated 50 to 100 million annual cases, 500,000 hospitalizations and, by World Health Organization estimates, 22,000 deaths, mostly in children.\"</p> <p>Dengue fever is transmitted by Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito, first seen in the US in 1985), or more commonly by the ubiquitous Aedes aegypti.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2008-01-09T18:38:11", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1095, "fields": {"title": "django-threadedcomments", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-threadedcomments/", "description": "Nice looking threaded comments module for Django. Not much in the way of documentation, but the code is well commented and it seems to emulate the contrib.comments module pretty closely.", "pub_date": "2008-01-16T14:09:11", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1096, "fields": {"title": "CSS Text Wrapper", "url": "http://www.csstextwrap.com/", "description": "The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to generate HTML and CSS to wrap text on your website into any shape.", "pub_date": "2008-01-16T14:30:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1097, "fields": {"title": "Django Mashups :: KML + Google Maps API", "url": "http://dizzydizzy.info/2008/01/13/django-mashups-kml-google-maps-api/", "description": "Our content folks do an amazing job with stretching the tools they have. Especially so when looking at data and thinking news, or more specifically, seeing", "pub_date": "2008-01-16T14:29:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1098, "fields": {"title": "django-geo - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-geo/source", "description": "Eventually I plan to move luxagraf's geodata over to this system or something based on this one, but for now that's more than I can face. Still, very nice looking basic django geodata app for those that don't need something as heavy duty as the Geo Django branch.", "pub_date": "2008-01-16T14:21:29", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1099, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: Getting dynamic model choices in newforms", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/26/", "description": "Solves a problem I ran into last weekend with populating a form choicefield when the choices are a dynamic m2m relationship. Slick code", "pub_date": "2008-01-16T14:19:58", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1100, "fields": {"title": "searchengine - Django Code", "url": "http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/searchengine", "description": "Integrating a python search module with Django to create a search engine. Haven't looked closely yet, but I think you could modify this to use one of Google's custom search engines.", "pub_date": "2008-01-16T14:18:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1101, "fields": {"title": "exiftool Application Documentation", "url": "http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool_pod.html#writing_examples", "description": "Nice set of Perl scripts for editing/adding EXIF metadata on your images", "pub_date": "2008-01-19T07:26:53", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1102, "fields": {"title": "How to Create Professional HDR Images", "url": "http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html", "description": "Nice tutorial for HDR images.", "pub_date": "2008-01-19T07:25:40", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1103, "fields": {"title": "The Return of the Airship", "url": "http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4242974.html", "description": "<p>I used to think it was just me, but glancing through the <a href=\"http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/06/0710259\">Slashdot thread</a> that led me to this article shows I'm not alone — the people wants us some airships. </p> <p>I'm not quite sure what the appeal is exactly, but there's a kind romance associated with blimps and dirigibles doesn't exist with other forms of transport. For me it has nothing to do with that \"streampunk\" nonsense or Jules Verne, I think it's more the idea of sailing in and through air currents that intrigues me — the sky as an ocean. </p> <p>As it turns out some people are taking the idea of building airships seriously again. From Popular Mechanics:</p> <blockquote> <p>Always on the verge of a comeback, airships are back in the spotlight. DARPA recently announced funding for innovative, ballast-free tech. Can other companies keep up with designs that promise a new era of lighter-than-air transportation?</p> </blockquote> <p>Oh, and for those who immediately think of the Hindenburg, here's a couple things to keep in mind: 1)It was most likely the Hindenburg's paint job that made it go up in flames, not the hydrogen and 2) if we judged airplanes by their initial failures we'd be a hell of a lot more afraid of them than airships.</p> <p>Check out Wikipedia for more on what <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster\">might have happened with the Hindenburg</a>.</p>", "pub_date": "2008-02-05T14:39:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1104, "fields": {"title": "django-googlemap - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-googlemap/", "description": "django component helper for googlemap api. undocumented, but looks pretty well written", "pub_date": "2008-02-08T12:05:49", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1105, "fields": {"title": "Google Maps Clusterer", "url": "http://www.acme.com/javascript/#Clusterer", "description": "Very nice looking library for handling large datasets in Google Maps", "pub_date": "2008-02-08T12:02:47", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1106, "fields": {"title": "Installing Django for Leopard with MySQL Support", "url": "http://projectmouse.org/2013/InstallingDjangoforLeopardwithMySQLSupport", "description": "closest I've seen to solving the problems I had", "pub_date": "2008-02-08T12:01:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1107, "fields": {"title": "Huntington Beach, CA Now Officially 'Surf City USA'", "url": "http://www.worldhum.com/weblog/item/huntington_beach_thy_name_should_not_be_surf_city_usa_20080129/#When:12:41:00Z", "description": "<p>Thanks to a recent court settlement, the city of Huntington Beach CA (near where I grew up) can officially call itself \"Surf City USA.\"</p> <p>The dispute arose when the city became aware that of a surf shop owner in Santa Cruz, CA had been selling \"Surf City USA\" T-shirts. Huntington Beach had the audacity to fire off a cease-and-desist order, claiming it had trademarked the \"Surf City USA\" moniker. In response, the shop owner sued Huntington Beach. Unfortunately the owner lost the case.</p> <p>As the author of the World Hum article linked here says, \"but really, in a true 'Surf City USA,' attorneys would be so stoked after surfing the city's tasty waves each morning they'd forget about such petty disputes. How about this one: 'Huntington Beach: Most Litigious Surf City USA.'\"</p> <p>I have a better one, which is what those of us who grew up around it call it anyway, \"Huntington Beach: Skinhead City USA.\"</p>", "pub_date": "2008-02-08T11:57:22", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1108, "fields": {"title": "Woman Does Own Caesarean Section to Give Birth", "url": "http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/01/1086037758224.html?from=storyrhs", "description": "<p>This isn't exactly breaking news, but it's so incredibly shocking I think it bears repeating. Ines Ramirez, of sourthern Mexico is the only woman known to have performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself:</p> <blockquote> <p>The sun had set hours ago. The nearest clinic was 80km away over rough roads, and her husband, her only assistant during a half-dozen previous births, was drinking at a cantina. She had no phone and neither did the cantina.</p> <p>So at midnight, after 12 hours of constant pain, the petite, 40-year-old mother of six sat down on a low wooden bench. She took several gulps from a bottle of rubbing alcohol, grabbed a 15-cm knife and began to cut.</p> <p>By the light of a single dim bulb, Ramirez sawed through skin, fat and muscle before reaching inside her uterus and pulling out her baby boy. She says she cut his umbilical cord with a pair of scissors, then passed out.</p> <p>That was March 5, 2000. Today the baby she delivered, Orlando Ruiz Ramirez, is a rambunctious 4-year-old. And Ines Ramirez is recognised internationally as a modern miracle: She is believed to be the only woman known to have performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself.</p> </blockquote> <p>Think of the Mother's Day pressure on that kid (who is now 7, given that this story was posted a few years back.</p>", "pub_date": "2008-02-08T11:49:11", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1110, "fields": {"title": "The Ancient Indus Valley", "url": "http://www.harappa.com/index.html", "description": "<p>This is great site for anyone interested in seeing what south Asia looked like circa 1900-1920. Actually it's a good bit more than that, but since I happen to be writing about that area, at that time, that's what I've been drawn to — photos and film of pre-1930 India. </p> <p>But really that's selling the site a bit short, it covers a huge swath of history. In addition to the archival photos and film footage, there's a a ton of other media, most of it dating from before independence in India and Pakistan.</p> <p>Most of us in the west, myself included, don't know a whole lot about the ancient Indus Valley and this site offers a fascinating glimpse at the history, culture and art of the people in the region. Highly recommended reading/viewing.</p>", "pub_date": "2008-02-10T17:52:12", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1111, "fields": {"title": "Automate Repetitive Typing with Snippits", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/351285/automate-repetitive-typing-with-snippits", "description": "TextExpander for Gnome basically. Can't live without it.", "pub_date": "2008-02-10T17:44:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1115, "fields": {"title": "The Amazing and True Story of Charles Fawcett", "url": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/02/09/db0901.xml", "description": "<p>The amazing and true story of Charles Fawcett, who died in London on February 3 at the age of 92. His unlikely — some would say unbelievable — life seems to have been a healthy mix of careless lunacy and incredible luck, balanced with a love of the underdog and the never-ending adventure. </p> <p>Some snippets from the Telegraph obituary:</p> <blockquote> <p>Gifted with an artistic talent and a musical ear, he received tips on playing jazz trumpet from Louis Armstrong, and on grappling from a professional wrestler, with the result that Fawcett, still restless, spent a year in eastern Europe earning a living by fighting in back-street theatres.</p> <p>In Paris Fawcett also took part in the rescue of a group of British prisoners-of-war who had been placed under French guard in a hospital ward by the Germans. By impersonating a German ambulance crew, Fawcett and a comrade marched in at 4am and ordered the French nurses to usher the PoWs out into the yard. \"Gentlemen,\" he announced as he drove them away, \"consider yourself liberated.\"</p> <p>\"You're a Yank,\" said a British voice.</p> <p>\"Never,\" came Fawcett's lilting southern burr, \"confuse a Virginian with a Yankee.\"</p> <p>In three months at the end of the war, Fawcett married six Jewish women who had been trapped in concentration camps, a procedure that entitled them to leave France with an automatic American visa.</p> <p>In 1956 he spent three months helping to rescue refugees from the Hungarian uprising and, following riots in the Belgian Congo in 1959, joined a friend with a private plane in missions to rescue people who had become trapped and unable to escape the fighting.</p> <p>In June 1979, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, he announced that he was leaving for that country to pass on to the Afghan resistance fighters tactics he had learned in the Foreign Legion.</p> </blockquote> <p>Naturally there's a good bit more.</p>", "pub_date": "2008-02-12T18:10:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1116, "fields": {"title": "Ubuntu Customize your Titlebar", "url": "http://fosswire.com/2008/02/08/customize-your-titlebar/", "description": "Coming from a Mac background I'm used to the toolbar buttons being in the left corner. Of course Gnome is uber-configurable, but sorting out where exactly you change things isn't easy. This one shows where and how to customize the titlebar (and the changes apply to Compiz as well)", "pub_date": "2008-02-12T17:45:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1117, "fields": {"title": "A Data Point on Every Block", "url": "http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-3860.cfm", "description": "<p>This is a fantastic interview with Adrian Holovaty, who's something of a personal hero. His new venture, a hyper-local news site by the name of <a href=\"http://www.everyblock.com/\">EveryBlock</a>, is absolutely stunning in the amount of data to puts at your fingertips. Unfortunately it only covers San Francisco, Chicago and New york. A fair bit of my time lately has been devoted to exploring the possibility of putting something similar together for Athens, GA.</p> <p>After reading this interview though I've come to realize that there's just no way for one person (and certainly not me) to pull that off. Which doesn't mean I won't try — stay tuned, I'm hoping to launch something in the next couple of months.</p> <p>Anyway, if you're interested in local news and how the internet has the potential to change how you look at your neighborhood, check out <a href=\"http://www.everyblock.com/\">EveryBlock</a> and read the interview.</p> <blockquote> <p>It's fascinating to follow address-specific breaking news/events on our site. For example, a couple of weeks ago, a water main broke on the north side of Chicago. Afterward, on the relevant EveryBlock pages — for example, Ravenswood or the 1800 block of W. Montrose — you could see a bunch of assorted news items about the incident: newspaper articles from the Trib and Sun-Times, TV station reports and Flickr photos of the torn-up street that were taken by some people who happen to live nearby. Each of those \"raw\" chunks of information was displayed in the timeline of news for that block.</p> <p>We've seen a similar thing happen with trendy new restaurants. First you see the business license, then (possibly) the liquor license application a few days later, then the restaurant inspection, then a Yelp review or two, then a write-up by the newspaper's dining critic. The story slowly unfolds over time.</p> <p>On a completely different note, it's been a challenge to acquire data from governments. We (namely Dan, our People Person) have been working since July to request formal data feeds from various agencies, and we've run into many roadblocks there, from the political to the technical. We expected that, of course, but the expectation doesn't make it any less of a challenge.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2008-02-15T19:31:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1118, "fields": {"title": "Skull-A-Day", "url": "http://skulladay.blogspot.com/", "description": "<p>I never pretended that my photo of the day project was original, but I never realized how many people have some kind of __________ of the day thing going on. It's something like the phenomena that happens when you buy a new car and suddenly you notice that car everywhere you go. Same thing for me with the photo of day. Somehow or other I stumbled across Noah Scalin, who is making a skull everyday. </p> <p>I'll admit I'm not a big skull-art fan, but some of his stuff is very cool and incredibly creative (I love the hotel sheets skull — brilliant). Anyway, check out the video below and have a look at the site for more skulls.</p> <object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/_3VDNaikh1w&rel=1\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/_3VDNaikh1w&rel=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"></embed></object>", "pub_date": "2008-02-15T19:29:55", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1119, "fields": {"title": "Tom Coates on the One Laptop Per Child Project", "url": "http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2008/02/on_the_olpc_movement/", "description": "<p>By far the best piece of writing on the <a href=\"http://laptop.org/\">One Laptop Per Child</a> project that I've run across (my own included). I've been following this project for over a year now (partly because of my job at Wired, but also partly because I just think it's a great idea) and watched it take flack from just about every corner of the world, which is a bit sad, if predictable. Of course that isn't to say I think that the OLPC is perfect, but it certainly hasn't deserved the fierce criticism it's endured.</p> <p>By Tom Coates (an edited version appears in Icon magazine):</p> <blockquote> <p>When I read a review of the XO I expect to stumble across some fairly standard positions. I expect the article to question whether the developing world really needs a laptop. I expect them to talk about the ecological impact of these laptops. I expect them to decry the project as (at best) utopianist folly and (at worst) some form of western naive semi-colonial oppression. Most of these arguments make no sense to me at all.</p> <p>The first position seems to be based on the assumption that the people of the developing world be better off gradually developing their economies through farming to manufacturing and ending up gradually in high technology industries. I personally think this ideology dooms these countries to always playing catch-up to the west. If there's any chance of them leap-frogging great swathes of industrialisation to create a working and creative population that can compete on a world stage, then I don't understand how any of us could stand up in good conscience and decry it.</p> <p>Environmental damage through a proliferation of laptops seems to me to be probably indisputable, but what's the alternative? Is it fair for rich countries to consume vast amounts of resources but stop poor countries having access to the same services 'for the good of the world'? Can we really in good conscience deny other people what we take for granted? Perhaps if we were sending out hundreds of millions of Macs or PCs there might be an argument here, but the XOs are massively less damaging to the world than any of those devices.</p> <p>The utopian accusation may have some truth to it. It's difficult to know precisely how much chance a project like this has of success. And it's difficult to know whether the technologists behind it are busily projecting their own ideologies onto developing countries in defiance of what those countries actually want. Probably the only way we'll find out for sure would be to provide the machines to a few disparate groups of young people across the world and see how they develop—see what opportunities it opens up for them. Personally, I find the arguments convincing. I think there is a net benefit to come out of this. I think it will help. But it's pretty tricky to distinguish your own beliefs from your prejudices. I wouldn't blame anyone for not being so confident.</p> <p>For me, it comes down to the way we want to operate in the world. It's extremely easy to adopt a pose of scepticism and cynicism about any attempt to change things or push them forwards. I've said before about a particularly aggravating tech commentator that naysaying is a sure-fire way to look sensible and intelligent without any of the effort of actually having to think. I stand by that, and I think the OLPC project has had its fair share of this kind of thinking.</p> <p>Personally though, I believe that it's possible to work for the good of all and improve the world. I think it's a decent and honourable thing to apply whatever means you have at your disposal to raising the aspirations and possibilities of one of the planet's most squandered resources—its residents. And I do buy the geek rhetoric that access to information, communication and education cannot but help people. As such, I'm prepared to give this project and others like it, the benefit of the doubt. And that's why I decided to write this article in this particular style. I hope you enjoy it:</p> </blockquote> <p>High five to <a href=\"http://snackfight.tumblr.com/\">snackfight</a>.</p>", "pub_date": "2008-02-20T21:14:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1120, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: widget to capture a geographic Point", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/615/", "description": "Great snippet for a form widget to capture geo data in django.", "pub_date": "2008-02-26T11:18:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1121, "fields": {"title": "Beautiful Soup documentation", "url": "http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html", "description": "My new best friend. A great python library for scraping badly designed websites and extracting usable bits of data.", "pub_date": "2008-02-26T11:16:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1122, "fields": {"title": "Debunking 'Third-World' Myths", "url": "http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92", "description": "<p>A fantastic talk by Hans Rosling from the TED conference archives. Rosling does a nice job of debunks some myths about the so-called \"developing world.\" But really what carries the point home is the stunning animation software developed by Rosling's <a href=\"http://www.gapminder.org/\">Gapminder Foundation</a>. The software was recently acquired by Google, so expect to see more soon, but the Gapminder site also has some more videos of it in action.</p> <p>It's difficult to explain, but well worth watching — you've never seen such complex data made so simple to understand.</p> <p>On a separate note I find it hilarious/sad that a conference dedicated to \"open\" tech and \"big\" ideas can't even offer a simple chunk of code to embed the movie (there's a free download I could repost, but come on, this is 2008).</p>", "pub_date": "2008-02-26T11:15:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1123, "fields": {"title": "Fuel Efficiency: The Opel T1 Got 377mpg in 1973", "url": "http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/351903_needle20.html", "description": "<p>Stick that in your hybrid and smoke it. I looked into hybrids a bit and realized the gas mileage isn't much better than traditional engines, the key to hybrid's success is, to my mind, best explained by the sense of guilt free superiority it lends their owners. </p> <p>Still, I'm not cynical about gas mileage or hybrids, I just think that hybrids out to get a hell of lot better mileage, especially when I stumble across articles like this on in the Seattle PI:</p> <blockquote> <p>...how does 376.59 miles per gallon sound? Makes your Honda Civic hybrid look Hummeresque, doesn't it?</p> <p>That number doesn't come from some manta ray-shaped, wind tunnel-vetted carbon fiber space car. No, it's from a chop-top, steel-frame 1959 Opel T-1 (think melting jelly bean, but uglier). And the record was set in 1973 in a contest sponsored by Shell Oil Co.</p> <p>To be sure, the Opel isn't much on looks, luxury or performance. The team that built it stripped the interior of everything but a seat, chopped the top to lower its wind resistance. They narrowed the rear axle, used super-hard low-friction tires and a chain drive to save weight.</p> <p>The mileage from the mostly stock four-cylinder came from heating and insulating the fuel line so the gas entered the engine as lean vapor. Then they drove the car on a closed course at a steady 30 mph.</p> <p>So some of that wouldn't work in the street, McMullen concedes. But if the car were made more drivable and lost 200 mpg — it still would get 176 mpg.</p> <p>\"Here's a car that was 20 years old at the time of the contest that was the project of a couple of guys in a garage,\" he said. \"You can't tell me we can't do better than this with cars today.\"</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2008-02-28T19:12:46", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1124, "fields": {"title": "clapton - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/clapton/source/browse/trunk/apps/events/models.py", "description": "various apps that comprise a \"media oriented\" cms. whatever that means.", "pub_date": "2008-03-02T12:51:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1125, "fields": {"title": "django: liveblogging - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-liveblogging/source/browse/trunk/models.py", "description": "Has some nice code that makes it easy to rapidly update a single entry with new events -- i.e. live blogging. Not sure why I would ever need this, but worth saving just in case.", "pub_date": "2008-03-02T12:43:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1126, "fields": {"title": "django-sms - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-sms/", "description": "Django SMS gateways, including most major international providers, post db-syncing, Django admin-ready, Django model for SMS fields, newforms widget", "pub_date": "2008-03-02T12:37:53", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1127, "fields": {"title": "Django: admin-uploads - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-admin-uploads/", "description": "Looks like an interesting alternative to the tiny_mce/filebrowser thing I have going at the moment.", "pub_date": "2008-03-02T12:35:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1128, "fields": {"title": "django-dns blocker - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-dnsbl/source/browse", "description": "middleware to block requests by DNS. Sadly, I'll probably need this one day.", "pub_date": "2008-03-02T12:34:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1129, "fields": {"title": "django: webmail - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-webmail/", "description": "Webmail app using django. Doubt it will go anywhere, but it'd be cool if it did.", "pub_date": "2008-03-02T12:33:24", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1130, "fields": {"title": "Django: tinymce-gzip - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-tinymce-gzip/", "description": "Django-based GZip compressor for the TinyMCE rich-editing component.", "pub_date": "2008-03-02T12:32:23", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1131, "fields": {"title": "Django: mobileadmin: Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-mobileadmin/", "description": "Django admin optimized for the iPhone", "pub_date": "2008-03-02T12:31:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1132, "fields": {"title": "CSS Mania", "url": "http://cssmania.com/", "description": "CSSmania, the most updated css showcase all over the globe. A lot of it's crap, but there's a few gems the filter through. css showcase sort of thing.", "pub_date": "2008-03-03T20:19:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1133, "fields": {"title": "django-openid-auth - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-openid-auth/", "description": "I've probably marked this before, but just in case, openid with the django auth framework...", "pub_date": "2008-03-03T20:16:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1134, "fields": {"title": "django-syncr - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-syncr/source/browse/trunk/flickr/models.py", "description": "Interesting take on synchronizing with web apis. Can't decide if I like it better than what I already have though", "pub_date": "2008-03-03T20:15:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1135, "fields": {"title": "Micros Bottom Pants: Urgent Gear Inc", "url": "http://www.urgentgear.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MZTX-495&Category_Code=MCBOTT-P&Product_Count=5", "description": "Urgent Gear Inc. Great pants, but they don't seem to be for sale anywhere.", "pub_date": "2008-03-03T19:52:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1136, "fields": {"title": "Create Your Own Cross-Platform Backup Server", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/362062/create-your-own-cross+platform-backup-server", "description": "Backing up your data on a regular basis is important, and turning a spare computer into a backup server is often the best way to make sure it gets done. But most methods require either a good deal of command-line learning or serve only one operating system. Not with Restore, a free, open-source backup system that can install or run from a live CD, work with any OS, and operate through a simple browser-based interface. Today I'll demonstrate backing up a Windows laptop to an older desktop, but you'll see how Restore can be easily molded to fit just about any home backup needs.", "pub_date": "2008-03-03T19:51:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1137, "fields": {"title": "Creating Excel Files with Python and Django", "url": "http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3727616", "description": "Dumping data to Excel through a web interface saves everyone a lot of time. Find out how to do this quickly with Python and the Django web framework.", "pub_date": "2008-03-03T19:49:53", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1138, "fields": {"title": "Two Finger Scrolling on Ubuntu", "url": "http://lucumr.pocoo.org/cogitations/2007/11/13/two-finger-scrolling-on-ubuntu/", "description": "more on two finger scrolling. works great so long as you have a newer trackpad.", "pub_date": "2008-03-04T14:18:23", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1139, "fields": {"title": "MacBook - Community Ubuntu Documentation", "url": "https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook#head-06000b97c2bbdd05dcaf39162b168f36a2e534fd", "description": "Great tips for two finger trackpad scrolling and very mac-like font rendering in ubuntu. Solves my two biggest aesthetic gripes with Ubuntu. Now I just need someone to donate one of those slick new thinkpads to the cause.", "pub_date": "2008-03-04T14:17:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1140, "fields": {"title": "Installing Emacs with Hinted Fonts on Gobuntu: Understanding", "url": "http://understandinglimited.com/2007/10/15/pretty-emacs/", "description": "Installing Emacs with Hinted Fonts on Gobuntu: Thanks to the most excellent Alexandre Vassalotti, Emacs is available with hinting for all version of Ubuntu, including Gobuntu. It can be installed quickly with the following commands: sudo -secho", "pub_date": "2008-03-04T19:53:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1141, "fields": {"title": "Alexandre Vassalotti Emacs", "url": "http://peadrop.com/blog/category/computers/emacs/", "description": "much better looking fonts in emacs (under ubuntu primarily, but other distros as well)", "pub_date": "2008-03-04T19:19:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1142, "fields": {"title": "gnome-menu-file-browser-applet - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/gnome-menu-file-browser-applet/issues/detail?id=19", "description": "nice additional to your gnome panel", "pub_date": "2008-03-06T20:44:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1143, "fields": {"title": "Python FlickrAPI", "url": "http://flickrapi.sourceforge.net/documentation.html", "description": "the best of the three available libraries", "pub_date": "2008-03-09T19:21:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1144, "fields": {"title": "Django XMLRPC", "url": "http://www.allyourpixel.com/post/metaweblog-38-django/", "description": "Intro on how to set up a metaweblog API interface through django.", "pub_date": "2008-03-09T19:12:56", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1145, "fields": {"title": "Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley", "url": "http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/", "description": "Very slick and boldly designed four column site, with some funky typography. Parts of it don't work for me, but kudos to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley for having the guts to do it.", "pub_date": "2008-03-11T09:01:59", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1146, "fields": {"title": "Grid and Column Designs", "url": "http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/grid-and-column-designs/all-comments/#comments", "description": "Showcase of grid and column designs, mostly newspaper and faux newspaper sites, but there's a few other examples as well.", "pub_date": "2008-03-11T09:00:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1147, "fields": {"title": "Justin Kropp", "url": "http://www.justinkropp.com/", "description": "very nice four column grid layout.", "pub_date": "2008-03-11T08:59:39", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1148, "fields": {"title": "Man, 101, to Run London Marathon", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7275861.stm", "description": "<p>And you thought you were in good shape. </p> <blockquote> <p>A 101-year-old man has his sights on the London Marathon in a bid to become the world's oldest competitive runner.</p> <p>Working plumber Buster Martin ran Sunday's Roding Valley half marathon in Essex in five hours 13 minutes, and is now focusing on London's 26-mile event.</p> <p>On finishing the run, the first words of the ex-member of rock band The Zimmers were: \"Where's my beer?\"</p> <p>Mr Martin, who has 17 children, started work at Pimlico Plumbers in London three years ago because he was bored.</p> <p>He drank a tankard of ale before signing autographs and chatting to fans near the finish line of the Essex race. </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2008-03-11T09:08:03", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1149, "fields": {"title": "Best Web Gallery - CSS & Flash Design Inspiration", "url": "http://bestwebgallery.com/", "description": "yes. another css gallery site.", "pub_date": "2008-03-11T09:02:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1150, "fields": {"title": "GnomeDo/Plugins - Ubuntu Wiki", "url": "https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo/Plugins", "description": "A how to for gnome do plugins. very handy quicksilver-like app for Linux (Gnome).", "pub_date": "2008-03-12T07:41:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1151, "fields": {"title": "Markdownify: The HTML to Markdown converter for PHP", "url": "http://milianw.de/projects/markdownify/demo.php", "description": "Go from HTML to Markdown. Written for PHP, but otherwise very nice and could come in handy.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T07:46:53", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1152, "fields": {"title": "HTML2PDF converter written in Python", "url": "http://www.htmltopdf.org/content/501/pisa3.html?_=CvakMvnNEdyeTwAZ2_l1KA", "description": "HTML/XML/CSS to PDF converter written in pure Python and therefore platform independent.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T07:45:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1153, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: TemplateTag to Split a List into Uniform Chunks", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/660/", "description": "Very nice way to break up a dynamic list into equal size chunks for column display.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T07:44:41", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1154, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: URL based breadcrumbs", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/656/", "description": "Create breadcrumbs automatically based on the current URL.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T07:43:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1155, "fields": {"title": "Twittering from the Command Line", "url": "http://www.fsckin.com/2008/03/19/twittering-from-the-command-line/", "description": "Nice shell script to post Twitter updates from the command line.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T07:40:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1156, "fields": {"title": "Generic Calendar App", "url": "http://justinlilly.com/articles/2008/02/24/generic-calendar-ap", "description": "Reasonably useful calendar app for django. Doesn't fit every scenario and it has a few functionality gaps, but it's a nice starting point for hacking up something more complete.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T07:38:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1157, "fields": {"title": "Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/367714/run-windows-apps-seamlessly-inside-linux", "description": "Nice guide to setting up VirtualBox on Ubuntu for those times when you need a Windows app, but don't want to switch partitions with a reboot. This is how I run the Adobe CS3 Suite in Ubuntu.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T07:36:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1158, "fields": {"title": "How To Install Gnome-Do Plugins : Ubuntu Tutorials", "url": "http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/03/06/how-to-install-gnome-do-plugins/", "description": "Add some functionality to what it one of my favorite Linux apps, the Gnome-Do application launcher/other stuff.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T07:34:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1159, "fields": {"title": "How to Fake Cross-Processing in Photoshop (And Why You'd Want To)", "url": "http://photojojo.com/content/post-processing/cross-processing-photoshop-tutorial/", "description": "Nice guide to reviving some old film techniques using photoshop.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T07:33:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1160, "fields": {"title": "Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions", "url": "http://www.andyrutledge.com/bad-layout-conventions.php", "description": "Nice collection of layout design critiques, especially why the centered three column look is a bad idea.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T22:00:39", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1161, "fields": {"title": "django-syncr - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-syncr/", "description": "an app to sync django with a variety of web services like youtube or twitter.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T21:59:29", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1162, "fields": {"title": "pygooglecalendar - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/pygooglecalendar/", "description": "An alternative library for interacting with Google Calendar in python.", "pub_date": "2008-03-25T21:58:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1163, "fields": {"title": "Unicode Tutorial list", "url": "http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001084.html", "description": "nice collection of unicode resources and tutorials.", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:49:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1164, "fields": {"title": "Python Geo Resources", "url": "http://jetfar.com/python-geo-resources/", "description": "A list of Geo programming resources for Python.", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:48:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1165, "fields": {"title": "Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine", "url": "http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/26/grid-based-design-six-creative-column-techniques/", "description": "by Sean Hodge Grid systems bring visual structure and balance to site design. As a tool grids are useful for organizing presenting information. Used properly, they can enhance the user experience creating predictable patterns users", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:47:11", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1166, "fields": {"title": "Setup mod_wsgi for Django and Shared Hosting", "url": "http://www.davidcramer.net/code/django/108/setup-mod_wsgi-for-django-and-shared-hosting.html", "description": "One of these days I need to branch out and try mod_wsgi. I like mod_python, but it's rare in the shared hosting world.", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:46:04", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1167, "fields": {"title": "Use rsync for a simple incremental backup of a folder", "url": "http://fosswire.com/2008/03/23/use-rsync-for-a-simple-incremental-backup-of-a-folder/", "description": "Who needs fancy backup software when there's Rsync (and really who need Rsync when there's Subversion, but for music and such Rsync is handy)", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:44:52", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1168, "fields": {"title": "Mediatyping", "url": "http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2008/03/18/mediatyping/", "description": "Media typing and delivering great mobile sites.", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:43:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1169, "fields": {"title": "Feature: Wire Your Living Room Over Wi-Fi with a Bridge", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/368094/wire-your-living-room-over-wi+fi-with-a-bridge", "description": "More devices in your living room have Ethernet ports than ever before but you can't plug them into the network. High on the list of things I've been meaning to do...", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:42:05", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1170, "fields": {"title": "Saving: How To Save A Million Dollars At Any Age", "url": "http://consumerist.com/353338/how-to-save-a-million-dollars-at-any-age", "description": "The February issue of Kiplinger's has advice for how to save a million dollars at any age from - The", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:40:56", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1171, "fields": {"title": "The New York Times Rent vs. Buy Calculator", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/11/05/the-new-york-times-rent-vs-buy-calculator/", "description": "None", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:40:05", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1172, "fields": {"title": "Six-Word Travel Memoirs", "url": "http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/", "description": "<p>Condense your entire thoughts on a life of travel into six words... a writer's nightmare, an editor's dream.</p> <p>My personal favorite:</p> <blockquote> <p>All my stuff is in storage. </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2008-03-28T20:39:27", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1173, "fields": {"title": "Saving jpeg files with optimization", "url": "http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/1999-August/000816.html", "description": "Can't tell you how many times this one has bitten me. The fix is easy, just set ImageFile.MAXBLOCK = 1000000 (default is 64k) which should handle all but the largest of images.", "pub_date": "2008-04-23T12:30:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1174, "fields": {"title": "Django Pluggables -- Projects", "url": "http://www.djangoplugables.com/projects/", "description": "drop-in django apps comprehensively listed.", "pub_date": "2008-04-23T12:29:04", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1175, "fields": {"title": "Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself", "url": "http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/5/5bryan.html", "description": "<blockquote> <p>Me know. Me have problem.</p> <p>Me love cookies. Me tend to get out of control when me see cookies. Me know it not natural to react so strongly to cookies, but me have weakness. Me know me do wrong. Me know it isn't normal. Me see disapproving looks. Me see stares. Me hurt inside.</p> <p>When me get back to apartment, after cookie binge, me can't stand looking in mirror—fur matted with chocolate-chip smears and infested with crumbs. Me try but me never able to wash all of them out. Me don't think me is monster. Me just furry blue person who love cookies too much. Me no ask for it. Me just born that way. </p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2008-04-23T11:52:41", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1176, "fields": {"title": "Tom Waits Press Conference", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrG1r3S6ZA", "description": "<p>Tom Waits announces his new tour Glitter and Doom. \"How is your mother?\" Apparently there's going to be a show in Atlanta, going to have to try to get tickets to that.</p> <p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/EOrG1r3S6ZA&hl=en\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/EOrG1r3S6ZA&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"></embed></object></p>", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T13:04:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1177, "fields": {"title": "I Love the World", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5BxymuiAxQ", "description": "<p>Yeah, it's a commercial, but it's a pretty cool commercial. Not sure how the guy shooting a rocket at a building really fits with the \"I love the world\" theme, but not bad for television.</p> <p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/V5BxymuiAxQ&hl=en\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/V5BxymuiAxQ&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"></embed></object></p>", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T13:03:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1178, "fields": {"title": "Quick image resizing with python « Pandemonium Illusion", "url": "http://pandemoniumillusion.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/quick-image-resizing-with-python/", "description": "Nice tips for handling image in python/django", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T13:01:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1179, "fields": {"title": "Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow", "url": "http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fromlittlethings", "description": "Nice article in ALA about growing communities online, from one of the founders of Flickr.", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T13:00:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1180, "fields": {"title": "More advanced wget usage", "url": "http://fosswire.com/2008/04/23/more-advanced-wget-usage/", "description": "Handy tips on tackling some of wget's more esoteric aspects.", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T12:59:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1181, "fields": {"title": "Django performance tips", "url": "http://www.jacobian.org/writing/2005/dec/12/django-performance-tips/#c2417", "description": "Old, but still good stuff.", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T12:58:52", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1182, "fields": {"title": "Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides", "url": "http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/02/improving-code-readability-with-css-styleguides/", "description": "Something I'm terrible about -- keeping CSS organized and readable.", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T12:57:39", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1183, "fields": {"title": "Twitter Clients for Linux", "url": "http://www.fsckin.com/2008/03/31/twitter-clients-for-linux/", "description": "Nice review of all your Twitter options for Linux. Personally I use Twitux.", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T12:42:47", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1184, "fields": {"title": "GNOME Do", "url": "http://fosswire.com/2008/04/10/gnome-do/", "description": "Nice guide to installing GNOME Do a Quicksilver clone for GNOME.", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T12:18:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1185, "fields": {"title": "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus", "url": "http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html", "description": "<p>Transcript of Clay Shirky's recent talk at the Web 2.0 conference. Fascinating read.</p> <blockquote> <p>I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.</p> <p>The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing— there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.</p> <p>And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders—a lot of things we like—didn't happen until having all of those people together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an asset.</p> <p>It wasn't until people started thinking of this as a vast civic surplus, one they could design for rather than just dissipate, that we started to get what we think of now as an industrial society.</p> <p>If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole series of things happened—rising GDP per capita, rising educational attainment, rising life expectancy and, critically, a rising number of people who were working five-day work weeks. For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before—free time.</p> <p>And what did we do with that free time? Well, mostly we spent it watching TV.</p> </blockquote>", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T12:12:24", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1186, "fields": {"title": "YouTube - Speaking Picture Book", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nYA-TxWsTM", "description": "<p>An antique children's story book with integrated animal sounds — presumably, the sounds accompany the story. The nine available noises are produced by small air bellows and paper cones. Pretty cool.</p> <p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6nYA-TxWsTM&hl=en\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/6nYA-TxWsTM&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"></embed></object></p>", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T12:05:23", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1187, "fields": {"title": "Howto: Install a brand new Dock with expandable menu's for Ubuntu", "url": "http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/howto-install-brand-new-dock-with.html", "description": "A nice looking alternative to AWN, haven't tested it though.", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T11:59:40", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1188, "fields": {"title": "Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/387380/turn-your-point+and+shoot-into-a-super+camera", "description": "<p>If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features like RAW images. Canon Hacker's Development Kit (CHDK) is a firmware enhancement that supports an impressive array of Canon digital cameras. </p> <p>It's also totally non-destructive — meaning it makes no permanent changes to your camera — and certainly makes some of the cheep point-n-shoot Canons into much more capable cameras.</p> <p>I personally love my Panasonic, but a lot of Canons run on normal AA batteries which is a serious advantage when you're traveling.</p>", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T11:56:52", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1189, "fields": {"title": "django-yslow (GitHub)", "url": "http://github.com/mallipeddi/django-yslow/wikis/home", "description": "Django project to integrate some things YSlow recommends for speeding up page load times.", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T11:49:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1190, "fields": {"title": "Get a KDE Look For Gnome with Oxy-Gnome Icons", "url": "http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/get-kde-look-for-gnome-with-oxy-gnome.html", "description": "The new look is a big part of KDE 4's appeal, here's a KDe 4 ripoff theme for Gnome. Now if gnome would just add a column view to Nautilus. Another nice theme <a href=\"http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/elementary-icon-theme.html\">here</a>.", "pub_date": "2008-05-09T11:46:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1191, "fields": {"title": "CSS Rounded Corners Revisited", "url": "http://www.dave-woods.co.uk/?p=150", "description": "Nice trick to get rounded corner boxes from a single image.", "pub_date": "2008-05-21T13:40:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1192, "fields": {"title": "CSS Creator", "url": "http://csscreator.com/tools/generate", "description": "A decent CSS generator. Good for quick prototyping and mockups.", "pub_date": "2008-05-21T13:39:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1194, "fields": {"title": "CSS Hack:Getting Safari to behave", "url": "http://dustinbrewer.com/css-hackgetting-safari-to-behave/", "description": "I haven't needed to target Safari specifically very often but sometime safaris line-height rendering seems a little wacky to me so this could help.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:03:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1195, "fields": {"title": "Debugging Django", "url": "http://simonwillison.net/2008/May/22/debugging/", "description": "How to debug django.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:01:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1196, "fields": {"title": "django-newcomments - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-newcomments/", "description": "Never been entirely happy with my rewrite of Django's comment app. Haven't tried this version but it's nice to know others are working on the same idea.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:01:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1197, "fields": {"title": "Debugging Django, a slidecast", "url": "http://simonwillison.net/2008/May/25/debugging/", "description": "Very nice collection of debugging tips and techniques from Simon Willison's recent talk on the subject.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:00:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1198, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: Scan uploaded file for viruses with clamav", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/774/", "description": "nice for public facing upload forms...", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T09:59:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1199, "fields": {"title": "Use arpspoof, webmitm, and ssldump to effectively sniff passwords", "url": "http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/howto-use-arpspoof-webmitm-and-ssldump.html", "description": "nefarious, but potentially useful to understand what's going on and stop others from doing it to you.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:17:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1200, "fields": {"title": "Create Split .Rar Files in Ubuntu Linux", "url": "http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/howto-create-split-rar-files-in-ubuntu.html", "description": "I hate rar, but this also covers how to deal with the occasional RAR files you download.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:16:05", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1201, "fields": {"title": "Tweak your Internet connection and maximize your bandwidth in Ubuntu", "url": "http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/howto-tweak-your-internet-connection.html", "description": "Haven't actually tried this, but if you connection is lagging it might help.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:15:14", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1202, "fields": {"title": "Extract Mac Font Files (.dfont) into .ttf Files", "url": "http://fosswire.com/2008/05/20/extract-mac-font-files-dfont-into-ttf-files/", "description": "Get you Mac fonts working in Linux", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:14:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1203, "fields": {"title": "How to Find Local Twitter Users From Your City", "url": "http://lifestreamblog.com/how-to-find-local-twitter-users-from-your-city/", "description": "Twitterlocal.net is a site that lets you find local Twitter users based on proximity to a given location. They got mentioned quite a bit on Twitter today due to a newly created leader board that shows a breakdown of locations with the most tweets over the last 24 hours.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:38:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1204, "fields": {"title": "Demographic Data on Your Neighborhood", "url": "http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/policymap_api.php", "description": "PolicyMap is a new website that offers more than 4,000 points of data about any location in the United States, including demographics, real estate markets, crime, schools, housing... Could be useful for my intoAthens project.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:38:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1205, "fields": {"title": "Crossdomain.xml Invites Cross-site Mayhem", "url": "http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2008/05/crossdomainxml-invites-cross-site.html", "description": "Via Simon Willison who says: useful reminder that crossdomain.xml files should be treated with extreme caution. Allowing access from * makes it impossible to protect your site against CSRF attacks, and even allowing from a “circle of trust” of domains can be fatal if just one of those domains has an XSS hole.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:37:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1206, "fields": {"title": "Byteflow Blog Engine", "url": "http://byteflow.su/", "description": "interesting looking django blog project.", "pub_date": "2008-05-27T10:37:33", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1207, "fields": {"title": "Summize Conversational Search", "url": "http://summize.com/", "description": "Search Twitter conversations in realtime - discover what people are doing right now.", "pub_date": "2008-05-31T08:17:39", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1208, "fields": {"title": "WhatTheFont", "url": "http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/", "description": "Upload an image and it'll try to guess what font is in use.", "pub_date": "2008-05-31T15:29:59", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1209, "fields": {"title": "Applying Divine Proportion To Web Designs", "url": "http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/29/applying-divine-proportion-to-web-design/", "description": "Not a bad overview of some things like the golden ratio etc.", "pub_date": "2008-05-31T15:29:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1210, "fields": {"title": "Cross-Fade Anything", "url": "http://www.millstream.com.au/view/code/cross-fade-anything", "description": "<p>Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. Generic and handy (uses scriptalicious).</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>[Update: This one had IE7 issues, but luckily I found a <a href=\"http://luxagraf.net/link/1211/\">JQuery-based crossfade script</a>, which works like a charm]</p>", "pub_date": "2008-06-09T20:09:58", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1211, "fields": {"title": "Cross-Fade Anything (This Time For Real)", "url": "http://medienfreunde.com/deutsch/weblog/aus_der_praxis.html?nid=162", "description": "<p>Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. This one uses JQuery and has by far the best browser support I've been able to find.</p>", "pub_date": "2008-06-10T21:07:44", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1212, "fields": {"title": "The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala", "url": "http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/06/orchidaceae-of-mexico-and-guatemala.html", "description": "<p>\"Those who have ever received a case of Orchidaceæ from the Tropics, know full well that the opening of it is attended with the most intense and feverish excitement: and those who have not been so fortunate, will be glad to gather some notion of such stirring scenes from the accompanying Vignette...\"</p>", "pub_date": "2008-06-13T21:57:40", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1213, "fields": {"title": "Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers", "url": "http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/07/21/080721sh_shouts_brenner", "description": "<p>Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers -- it sounds like something McSweeney's would print, but no, it's The New Yorker. And unlike most New Yorker pieces this one is actually hilarious.</p> <p>Two personal favorites:</p> <ul> <li><p>7. Have you ever noticed how sun-dried tomatoes and top-grade peyote look exactly the same? Not a suggestion, really. Just saying.</p></li> <li><p>8. Another one for the vegetarians. If they think they like tofu, wait until they sample your delicious mock tofu -- all you need is chicken fat, pureed pork loin, and five cups of piping-hot tallow. Cheryl will never know the difference.</p></li> </ul> <p>Almost makes me want to renew my log-expired subscription. Almost.</p>", "pub_date": "2008-07-20T18:26:43", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1215, "fields": {"title": "Django FriendFeed integration", "url": "http://blog.clintecker.com/2008/jul/14/site-converted-to-django-friendly-friendfeed-integ/", "description": "Should need ever arise, a nice django friendly python lib for interacting with FriendFeed.", "pub_date": "2008-08-11T18:55:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1227, "fields": {"title": "django-chunks", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-chunks/", "description": "Pretty cool reusable app that create an interface for editing what amounts to template includes in the Django admin.", "pub_date": "2008-08-11T19:34:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1228, "fields": {"title": "Simple Top-Down Parsing in\u00a0Python", "url": "http://effbot.org/zone/simple-top-down-parsing.htm", "description": "Way way over my head, but perhaps someday I'll understand what's going on in this article/tutorial. Seems like it could be handy for sniffing out say location clues in an untagged article text.", "pub_date": "2008-08-11T19:33:11", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1229, "fields": {"title": "How to Travel by Cargo Ship", "url": "http://thetravelersnotebook.com/how-to/how-to-travel-by-cargo-ship/?source=rss", "description": "<p>Who hasn't wanted to travel by ship? Some battered leather trunks, lounging in deck chairs on a steamer bound for Africa with a captain talking to tigers from his cafeteria tray. Okay maybe the last bit is confined to Neutral Milk Hotel songs. Actually, for the most part, all of that image is confined to songs, Conrad novels and other bygones.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>But if you don't require steamers and bring your own deck chairs, it is definitely still possible to travel by ship. If you're thinking hey, there's a cool way to save some money, think again. Short of becoming crew, booking passage on a freighter or other large vessel bound overseas is generally about double, sometimes more, what it would be to fly to same place.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Of course that may be changing with the way airfare is skyrocketing.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>So if the mood hits, this Traveler's Notebook piece has the general outline of how to go about booking passage on a freighter and what to expect once you step on board.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-11T19:30:26", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1230, "fields": {"title": "An Interview with Adrian Holovaty", "url": "http://42topics.com/blog/2008/06/an-interview-with-adrian-holovaty/", "description": "Great interview with Django creator Adrian Holovarty.", "pub_date": "2008-08-11T19:21:52", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1231, "fields": {"title": "django-yslow (GitHub)", "url": "http://github.com/mallipeddi/django-yslow/wikis", "description": "Django project to incorporate some of the recommendations from Yahoo's YSlow firefox add-on.", "pub_date": "2008-08-11T19:21:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1232, "fields": {"title": "Swimmingholes.org", "url": "http://www.swimmingholes.org/", "description": "<p>Because summer isn't over yet. Because swimming holes are fun. Pretty decent list for a nation-wide site. Even had one here in Athens that I wasn't familiar with (though doesn't list two that I am familiar with). The listings are quite detailed and author always lets you know if he's actually been there to \"test\" it.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-11T18:59:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1233, "fields": {"title": "Django Screencasts", "url": "http://eflorenzano.com/blog/post/first-two-django-screencasts/#using-django-pagination", "description": "Eric Florenzano put up a couple of very nice screencasts -- particularly like the first one on setting up a development environment. My own is a little different, but I like his ideas and they made me tweak a couple of things in my system.", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T08:23:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1234, "fields": {"title": "Semantic Django -- Tools for semantic stuff in Django", "url": "http://semanticdjango.org/", "description": "<p>A collection of semantic resources in order to ease the implementation of semantic Django web apps. Allows you to store, manipulate and give access to your data in a standard way so you'll be able to interact with other websites.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Covers OAuth, OpenID, Microformats, FOAF data and more.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T08:33:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1235, "fields": {"title": "JeffCroft.com: \u201cDefault\u201d templates in Django", "url": "http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2008/aug/05/default-templates-django/", "description": "<p>Jeff Croft on using Django's template inheritance tools to quickly \"reskin\" a site.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T08:35:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1236, "fields": {"title": "How to create user-specific admins in Django | patrickbeeson.com", "url": "http://patrickbeeson.com/blog/2008/aug/11/how-create-user-specific-admin-Django/", "description": "<p>Nice looking tutorial on creating user-specific admins in Django using the tools in the recently merged newForms branch.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T08:44:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1237, "fields": {"title": "Pinax -- Reuseable Django apps", "url": "http://pinaxproject.com/", "description": "<p>Pinax is an open-source collection of re-usable apps for the Django Web Framework.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>While our initial development is focused around a demo social networking site, we are also working on number of editions tailored to intranets, learning management, software project management and more.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T08:42:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1238, "fields": {"title": "Adding search to a Django site in a snap", "url": "http://www.julienphalip.com/blog/2008/08/16/adding-search-django-site-snap/", "description": "<p>Couple of decent code snippets to add basic search functions to a Django-based site. </p>\r\n\r\n<p>There are some other projects around: djangosearch, django-search, django-sphinx. But if you want something quick and simple, this code will do the trick.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T08:41:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1239, "fields": {"title": "Creating a basic API with Django", "url": "http://playgroundblues.com/posts/2008/aug/11/creating-basic-api-django/", "description": "<p>How to set up a publicly accessible API for your Django site:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Creating a simple public API for your site is a lot easier than you may think with Django. You’re basically just creating another view and serving it as XML or JSON instead of HTML.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T08:38:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1240, "fields": {"title": "django-stdimage", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-stdimage/", "description": "<p>Very nice looking Google Code project that allows you to create thumbnails and more for your image upload fields.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T08:37:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1241, "fields": {"title": "django-search-app", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-search-app/", "description": "<p>Speaking of search and DJango, here's something that might one day be handy. For now, just a teaser thought.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T10:02:37", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1242, "fields": {"title": "Brain will be battlefield of future, warns report", "url": "http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/13/military.neuroscience", "description": "<p>Very creepy stuff:</p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n <p>The human brain could become a battlefield in future wars, a new report predicts, including 'pharmacological land mines' and drones directed by mind control</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T15:48:07", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1244, "fields": {"title": "Django: Inserting and Positioning Images", "url": "http://www.omh.cc/2008/aug/18/django-inserting-and-positioning-images/", "description": "<p>Interesting way to add images to a post using markdown and some regex. I tend to just do things the old fashion way, upload via FTP and hand code the link, but this would be a better way to manage images in a blog.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Even better is something like the \"inlines\" concept in Django Basic Apps (see Google Code project)</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T16:16:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1245, "fields": {"title": "How-To: Automatically back up your computer", "url": "http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/21/how-to-automatically-back-up-your-computer/", "description": "<p>And old how-to from Engadget to inspire me to actually use, rather than just writing about back up solutions. Even now, a week after my hard drive crashed, do I have any good backups? No. Because I am an idiot. Soon I promise.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T16:12:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1246, "fields": {"title": "The Photography of Miroslav Tich\u00fd.", "url": "http://www.tichyocean.ch/", "description": "<p>Czech artist Miroslav Tichy made cameras out of cardboard tubes, thread spools, rubber bands, and other odds and ends, and then photographed public scenes in his small hometown. </p>\r\n\r\n<p>Lacking a darkroom, he developed the negatives in a bucket at night.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The results are awesome, definitely worth perusing the site. [via <a href=\"http://www.kottke.org/08/08/photographer-miroslav-tichy\">Kottke</a>]</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-24T16:22:16", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1247, "fields": {"title": "Gas Goes Up, People Stop Driving. Jerry Brown was Right.", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/business/23oil.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss", "description": "<p>From November to June, American driving dropped by 53.2 billion miles. Think about that. 53.2 billion fewer miles. That's crazy. And kinda cool.</p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n <p>Gasoline prices, which rose to a nationwide average of $4.11 a gallon last month, now average $3.69 a gallon, according to AAA, the automobile group. The prices have forced many consumers to cut their spending on other items.</p>\r\n \r\n <p>Americans drove 12.2 billion fewer miles in June than in June 2007, a drop of 4.7 percent, according to the Department of Transportation. Between November and June, total miles driven dropped by 53.2 billion, the steepest decline registered in a century of data collection, said Doug Hecox, a spokesman for the department. </p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-29T20:57:46", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1248, "fields": {"title": "Wikipedia on the Roma, aka Gypsies", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_people", "description": "<p>Some of the book I'm working on involves gypsies and this Wikipedia page is a surprisingly good overview of the books I've been reading on the subject.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-30T14:34:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1249, "fields": {"title": "Minimalist Fitness: How to Get In Lean Shape With Little or No Equipment", "url": "http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/minimalist-fitness-how-to-get-in-lean-shape-with-little-or-no-equipment/", "description": "<p>Some good, I hate the gym ideas for working out at home. And I hate the gym, so that works out well.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-30T14:31:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1250, "fields": {"title": "django-admin-uploads", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-admin-uploads/source/browse/#svn/wiki", "description": "<p>It hasn't been updated in ages, but I like the theory behind this project, which attempts to deliver selectable inline thumbnails for the django admin.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-30T14:29:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1251, "fields": {"title": "Free Money Finance: Why I Like Index Funds, Part 3", "url": "http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2007/03/why_i_like_inde.html", "description": "<p>I don't really understand investing. Like at all. But I've been doing some research on the internets and index funds seem like pretty good way to go, at least for beginners. Now I just need some money to invest....</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-30T14:40:14", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1252, "fields": {"title": "So You Want to Sail Around the World...", "url": "http://www.webmoxie.com/seawind/dream/index.htm#sails", "description": "<p>Why, yes, I do. I just need a boat. And a few sailing lessons. And some extra cash. And, well, probably a whole bunch of things I haven't even thought of yet. But this article makes it sound pretty damn good.</p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n <p>So you want to sail around the world? Or sail to fabulous Tahiti? Or to the glamorous West Indies? Do you dream of following puffy cottonballs of tradewind clouds for day after day over seas of unbelievable colors with the wind always astern and always just right for reeling off 100 or more miles a day? Would you like to pit your wit and stamina against the sea, and emerge triumphant and yet strangely humble before the mighty forces previously raging? Do you dream of snug, palm-lined anchorages where you can fall of the boat, swim ashore and bask on white coral sands? All of this can be yours as seen by the long voyages taken but people of all backgrounds and training in a surprising variety of small boats.</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-08-30T14:37:58", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1253, "fields": {"title": "django-batchadmin", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-batchadmin/", "description": "<p>Awesome code to add batch delete to the django admin. Must-have.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-09-27T06:14:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1254, "fields": {"title": "django-html", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-html/", "description": "<p>Some nice template tags for getting django forms to output valid html instead of the default xhtml. Nice for sites where you're working with html 4.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-09-27T06:08:43", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1255, "fields": {"title": "Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar", "url": "http://rob.cogit8.org/blog/2008/Sep/19/introducing-django-debug-toolbar/", "description": "<p>Very cool debugging tool for Django</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-09-27T06:24:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1256, "fields": {"title": "Getting started with Pinax", "url": "http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/sep/18/getting-started-pinax/", "description": "<p>intro to the django pinax project.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-09-27T06:23:48", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1257, "fields": {"title": "GeoDjango Documentation", "url": "http://geodjango.org/docs/index.html", "description": "<p></p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-09-27T06:21:37", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1258, "fields": {"title": "MacBook Casing Defect: Prevalent Cracking", "url": "http://brianford.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/27/1393716-macbook-casing-defect-prevalent-cracking", "description": "<p>follow-up link for the last one, more people with Macbook case problems. Seems that Apple is, unofficially at least, replacing these top units, sometimes even if they're outside warranty.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-09-27T07:34:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1259, "fields": {"title": "Cracked Palm rest and other casing issues", "url": "http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1389259&tstart=0", "description": "<p>My Macbook is falling apart at the seams, literally. And it seems I'm not alone. Lesson: Don't buy plastic products from Apple.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-09-27T07:33:53", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1260, "fields": {"title": "Literature Map", "url": "http://www.literature-map.com/", "description": "<p>Very cool \"map\" that clusters authors by some sort of algorithm. Pretty impressive results and I found quite a few authors I'd never heard of that sound like they'd be worth a look. I wish it had some links to learn a little more info (Wikipedia page would be nice), but you can always cut-and-paste over to Google.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-10-13T17:42:08", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1261, "fields": {"title": "Make Finder sort by type with Folders at top", "url": "http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=208068", "description": "<p>A fix for my number one OS X gripe -- folder sorting.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-10-22T18:59:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1262, "fields": {"title": "1949 Classical Lands of the Mediterranean Map", "url": "http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/product/889/4793/703.html", "description": "<p>1949 Classical Lands of the Mediterranean Map - Celebrates the magnificent history of the Greek, Roman, and Phoenician civilizations.</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-10-25T12:24:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1263, "fields": {"title": "Daily Travel Photo - Rennell, Solomon Islands", "url": "http://everything-everywhere.com/2008/10/29/daily-travel-photo-rennell-solomon-islands-2", "description": "<p>Very intrigued by this description of Rennell in the Solomon Islands:</p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n <p>One of the most beautiful things I’ve seen on my trip was Kangava Bay on Rennell in the Solomon Islands. This beautiful bay, which would be a packed with tourists if it were anywhere else on Earth, had only a few families with small wooden houses living near it... because of its remote location, Rennell attracts only a few visitors every year.</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Worthwhile travel blog as well, add it to your RSS reader (or just visit it every so often if you're old school like that).</p>\r\n", "pub_date": "2008-11-05T19:33:58", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1274, "fields": {"title": "News Without the Paper", "url": "http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/12/news_without_the_paper.php", "description": "<blockquote>\n <p>The problem newspapers are having with online isn't that the readers won't pay, it's that the advertisers won't pay... Probably once physical newspapers all disappear, ad rates for news websites will go up somewhat merely because ad buyers won't have as many options. But I think it's plausible that even when everything shakes out online advertising revenue still won't support the volume of staff that print advertising revenue once did.</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T07:22:04", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1275, "fields": {"title": "Some others like us", "url": "http://www.vagablogging.net/some-others-like-us.html", "description": "<p>Handy links to some apartment swaps, caretaker positions and more. Good, cheap ways to travel</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T10:14:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1276, "fields": {"title": "What does geography have to do with personality?", "url": "http://www.vagablogging.net/what-does-geography-have-to-do-with-personality.html", "description": "<p>I've always been fascinated with geography's affect on people. I never felt quite right until I got out of Los Angeles and ever since I've been trying to figure out why. This study is kind of interesting.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>It's also a wake-up call for proud residents of the great state of wherever — some of whom aren't fond of the findings. Mr. Rentfrow said he's had to help some of them feel better. Yes, North Dakota and Wyoming rank quite low in openness to new ideas. But why label them narrow-minded and insular? Say, instead, he suggests, that they value tradition. New York may be neurotic, but he offers another way to put it: \"It's a state in touch with its feelings.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T10:19:31", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1277, "fields": {"title": "django-schedule Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-schedule/", "description": "<p>nice events model</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T10:23:47", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1278, "fields": {"title": "Using Paypal with Django", "url": "http://uswaretech.com/blog/2008/11/using-paypal-with-django/", "description": "<p></p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T10:22:40", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1279, "fields": {"title": "An autocomplete widget for django-tagging form fields", "url": "http://jannisleidel.com/2008/11/autocomplete-widget-for-django-tagging-form-fields/", "description": "<p>very slick and easy to implement auto-complete widget for the django admin (uses JQuery)</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T10:22:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1280, "fields": {"title": "Vanguard's Best Funds", "url": "http://www.fool.com/investing/mutual-funds/2007/05/07/vanguards-best-index-funds.aspx", "description": "<p>The Motley Fool - Which index funds should you have in your portfolio?</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T17:59:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1281, "fields": {"title": "Investing in a Bear Market", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/10/13/investing-in-a-bear-market/", "description": "<p>thoughts on investing in scary times.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T17:59:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1282, "fields": {"title": "EE Insider", "url": "http://eeinsider.com/", "description": "<p>Expression Engine is the only PHP tool I've ever seen that looks worth investigating (Wordpress is nice and all, but pretty limited in the end, the DiSo project notwithstanding)</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T10:29:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1283, "fields": {"title": "django-mailer", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-mailer/", "description": "<p>mail queuing and management for Django.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:10:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1284, "fields": {"title": "Custom fields and widgets for Django forms", "url": "http://joshourisman.com/2008/11/19/custom-fields-and-widgets-django-forms/", "description": "<p>nice example widget that splits month and year fields.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:09:05", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1285, "fields": {"title": "Making the Most of Your Checking Account", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/11/17/making-the-most-of-your-checking-account/", "description": "<p>Good links to interest-earning checking accounts. </p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:06:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1286, "fields": {"title": "The Best Way to Tether Your iPhone to Your Laptop (for Free)", "url": "http://lifehacker.com/5086490/the-best-way-to-tether-your-iphone-to-your-laptop-for-free", "description": "<p>One of these days I'll jailbreak my iPhone.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:02:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1287, "fields": {"title": "Integrating Yahoo BOSS Search in a Django site in 5 easy steps", "url": "http://www.peterkrantz.com/2008/yahoo-boss-in-django/", "description": "<p>Nice guide. Though I'm not impressed with Yahoo's search results.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:22:53", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1288, "fields": {"title": "Integrating Facebook Connect with Django in 15 minutes", "url": "http://nyquistrate.com/django/facebook-connect/", "description": "<p>very nice tutorial that does a good job of demystifying the Facebook Connect API</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:21:53", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1289, "fields": {"title": "YQL - converting the web to JSON with mock SQL", "url": "http://ajaxian.com/archives/yql-converting-the-web-to-json-with-mock-sql", "description": "<p>QL is a SQL-style language to get information from all kind of web services, and - using oAuth - even Yahoo's social graph.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:20:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1290, "fields": {"title": "ETags And Modification Times In Django", "url": "http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2008/12/13/etags-and-modification-times-django/", "description": "<p></p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:19:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1291, "fields": {"title": "django-chat", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-chat/", "description": "<p>a private chat client to embed in your django pages</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:17:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1292, "fields": {"title": "Another take on content negotiation (django)", "url": "http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/nov/29/multiresponse/", "description": "<p>write a single view which returns any of several types of responses (e.g., HTML, JSON, XML) according to the incoming HTTP Accept header. handy for building an API</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:16:14", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1293, "fields": {"title": "New Comment Notification by E-mail", "url": "http://www.codekoala.com/blog/2008/nov/30/new-comment-notification-e-mail/", "description": "<p>Send comment notifications using the new Django signals framework.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:14:41", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1294, "fields": {"title": "django-trackback", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-trackback/", "description": "<p>A generic trackback and pingback app for Django</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-10T18:13:53", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1295, "fields": {"title": "Cappadocia, Turkey | Curious Expeditions", "url": "http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=416", "description": "<p>Cappadocia, Turkey is official on my short list of places to go:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>The landscape was so strange, the architecture so fantastical, the geography so alien it was difficult to take in. With its frothy spikes of rock, spires straining for lift-off, and entire fields that look like waves frozen in time, you could have mistaken it for Mars.</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-11T07:39:30", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1296, "fields": {"title": "The Minimalist - The Latest Must-Haves for the Pantry", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/dining/07mini.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all", "description": "<p>Most people keep way to much food on hand. While throwing it away is stupid, cutting back on buying more isn't. </p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-11T07:35:33", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1297, "fields": {"title": "Otalo - The Vacation Rental Search Engine", "url": "http://www.otalo.com/", "description": "<p>cross-site searching for vacation rentals. Looks like a nice attempt to pull the world of online house rentals out of 1996. Listings are a little limited, but if it catches on it could be a great resource.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-11T07:33:59", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1298, "fields": {"title": "Track Every Penny You Spend", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/09/22/track-every-penny-you-spend/", "description": "<p>The number one way to make sure that you spend less than you earn (which, if it isn't obvious, is the only way to get rich).</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-11T07:26:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1299, "fields": {"title": "9 Methods for Mastering Your Money in 2009", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/01/05/9-methods-for-mastering-your-money-in-2009/", "description": "<p>2009 has the potential to be financially ugly, this has some tips to stave off disaster.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-11T07:25:11", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1300, "fields": {"title": "django-email-confirmation", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-email-confirmation/", "description": "<p>This simple app is for cases where you don't want to require an email address to signup on your website but you do still want to ask for an email address and be able to confirm it for use in optional parts of your website.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-11T07:17:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1301, "fields": {"title": "How I (finally) got OpenID and Django working together", "url": "http://linuxuser.at/how-i-finally-got-openid-and-django-working-together", "description": "<p>good tutorial on openid within a django site</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-11T07:16:40", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1302, "fields": {"title": "Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility", "url": "http://gem.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gam/index.htm", "description": "<p>Amazing almost heat-map, or perhaps light-map, way of visualizing the world's most remote areas. Which as it turns out are the poles, the Sahara, the Amazon and the Himalayas.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-11T19:25:59", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1303, "fields": {"title": "Australia offers 'best job in world' on paradise island", "url": "http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090113/od_afp/lifestyleaustraliatourismoffbeat_20090113032028", "description": "<p>An Australian state is offering internationally what it calls \"the best job in the world\" -- earning a top salary for lazing around a beautiful tropical island for six months. Seriously.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-13T19:16:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1304, "fields": {"title": "Tax Cuts for Teachers", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11friedman.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all", "description": "<p>Quite a few of my friends are teachers and while I think tax breaks for teachers is a good idea, it's going to take a hell of a lot more than that to fix education in this country (I also think the idea of an \"education stimulus plan\" is great, would probably tip the balance for me -- give me $5000 and I'd go get a masters degree).</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-15T07:40:05", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1305, "fields": {"title": "newsmixer - Google Code", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/newsmixer/", "description": "<p>Nice collection of django apps to run a news aggregating site.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-19T08:30:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1307, "fields": {"title": "Frost Dates for Georgia", "url": "http://www.victoryseeds.com/frost/ga.html", "description": "<p>Average Frost dates for Georgia.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-19T10:02:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1308, "fields": {"title": "Totally Tomatoes - Home", "url": "http://www.totallytomato.com/", "description": "<p>good source of quality tomato seeds.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-19T10:04:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1309, "fields": {"title": "You are being lied to about pirates", "url": "http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html", "description": "<p>This might be a bit overly-optimistic, but if you honestly thought that all the piracy is the Somalia area was just a bunch of really lucky, well-armed thugs, well, you're not paying attention. There's always a story behind the story. Piracy (whether digital or on the high seas) has nearly always been and nearly always will be, a response to monopoly.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawling...</p>\n \n <p>Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied – and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively, without torture. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls \"one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century\".</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-19T10:12:02", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1310, "fields": {"title": "Anyone grow blueberries in GA?", "url": "http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/gagarden/msg021305177740.html", "description": "<p>This forum is for the discussion of gardening in the state of Georgia, covering topics like growing conditions, where to shop for plants, favorite public gardens, etc., and to arrange exchanges of plants and seeds.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-19T10:12:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1311, "fields": {"title": "How to move a boat without an engine, paddles or sails", "url": "http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/37596", "description": "<blockquote>\n <p>Researchers say technology they have developed would let boats or small aquatic robots glide through the water without the need for an engine, sails or paddles.</p>\n \n <p>A University of Pittsburgh research team has designed a propulsion system that uses the natural surface tension that is present on the water's surface and an electric pulse to move the boat or robot, researchers said. The Pitt system has no moving parts and the low-energy electrode that emits the pulse could be powered by batteries, radio waves, or solar power, researchers said in a statement.</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-22T14:12:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1312, "fields": {"title": "ochs", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/ochs/", "description": "<p>A django CMS for news sites. Wouldn't use it part and parcel, but there are definitely some good ideas worth taking.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-25T08:08:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1313, "fields": {"title": "django-recommender", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-recommender/", "description": "<p>A recommendation engine. Requires (and works off) django-tagging and django-voting.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-01-25T08:06:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1315, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: Ping All Search Engines", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1308/", "description": "<p>Django script to ping the popular search engines, Google, Yahoo, ASK, and Windows Live, to let them know that you have updated your site's sitemap. Returns successfully pinged servers.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-02-11T23:41:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1316, "fields": {"title": "Fluid 960 Grid System", "url": "http://designinfluences.com/fluid960gs/", "description": "<p>nice-looking CSS framework with fluid-width support. never done a fluid width site, but handy if I need to.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-02-12T20:04:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1317, "fields": {"title": "django-batchimport", "url": "http://code.google.com/p/django-batchimport/", "description": "<blockquote>\n <p>allows you to provide your users with a way to select a model for import, upload an Excel file containing multiple instances of your data (multiple Poll objects, for example) and then either have the system \"guess\" which column in your spreadsheet goes to which field in your model or have the user select the mapping of column to field, including support for foreign keys.</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "pub_date": "2009-02-12T20:03:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1318, "fields": {"title": "Full-text searching in Django with PostgreSQL and tsearch2", "url": "http://www.rossp.org/blog/2009/jan/28/django-postgresql-fulltext/", "description": "<p>If you're going to roll your own search, this seems like a good way to go.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-02-12T20:02:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1319, "fields": {"title": "Current CD Rates at Online Banks", "url": "http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/03/02/cd-certificate-of-deposit-rates-current-cd-rates-at-online-banks/", "description": "<p>Depressing.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T17:32:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1320, "fields": {"title": "A List Apart: In Defense of Readers", "url": "http://www.alistapart.com/articles/indefenseofreaders", "description": "<p>Nice article on reading on the web. Similar to some things I was thinking about when I cut most of the content off my own site.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T17:31:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1321, "fields": {"title": "Mysterious number 6174", "url": "http://plus.maths.org/issue38/features/nishiyama/", "description": "<p>It just keeps coming back.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T17:28:45", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1322, "fields": {"title": "Django: Changelist-Filter as Drop-Down", "url": "http://www.arnebrodowski.de/blog/django-changelist-filter-dropdown.html", "description": "<p>nice hack to change the django admin filters to drop down lists. Site's in German, but the code isn't hard to figure out.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T18:01:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1323, "fields": {"title": "Readability", "url": "http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/", "description": "<p>Awesome bookmarklet that makes a complex page oh so much easier to read by reformatting the text, changing fonts, column width and so on.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T17:59:41", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1324, "fields": {"title": "Automatically backup mysql database to Amazon S3 using django", "url": "http://uswaretech.com/blog/2009/02/automatically-backup-mysql-database-to-amazon-s3-using-django-python-script/", "description": "<p>Nice tutorial and not hard to adapt to PostGRE, though not sure how PostGIS would complicate that...</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T17:53:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1325, "fields": {"title": "How to build a Facebook app in Django", "url": "http://uswaretech.com/blog/2009/02/how-to-build-a-facebook-app-in-django/", "description": "<p>Very nice tutorial on Django and Facebook working together.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T17:50:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1326, "fields": {"title": "Open Source - The Washington Times", "url": "http://opensource.washingtontimes.com/blog/post/coordt/2009/02/washington-times-releases-open-source-projects/", "description": "<p>The Washington Times open sources some of their django codebase</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T17:45:43", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1327, "fields": {"title": "Google Maps and Django", "url": "http://www.lonelycode.com/2008/12/04/google-maps-and-django/", "description": "<p>Using pymaps with django...</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T17:44:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1328, "fields": {"title": "django-filter", "url": "http://github.com/alex/django-filter/tree/master", "description": "<p>A generic system for filtering Django QuerySets based on user selections</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-05T17:43:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1329, "fields": {"title": "Our world may be a giant hologram", "url": "http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true", "description": "<p></p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-09T16:25:59", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1330, "fields": {"title": "The Universe as a Hologram", "url": "http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html", "description": "<p></p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-09T16:25:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1331, "fields": {"title": "Wood Finishing & Wood Staining", "url": "http://www.craftsman-style.info/finishing/", "description": "<p></p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-09T16:24:54", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1332, "fields": {"title": "Finishing Solid Pine", "url": "http://www.sankey.ws/pine.html", "description": "<p></p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-09T16:24:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1333, "fields": {"title": "How the Crash Will Reshape America", "url": "http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200903/meltdown-geography", "description": "<blockquote>\n <p>If there is one constant in the history of capitalist development, it is the ever-more-intensive use of space. Today, we need to begin making smarter use of both our urban spaces and the suburban rings that surround them—packing in more people, more affordably, while at the same time improving their quality of life. That means liberal zoning and building codes within cities to allow more residential development, more mixed-use development in suburbs and cities alike, the in-filling of suburban cores near rail links, new investment in rail, and congestion pricing for travel on our roads. Not everyone wants to live in city centers, and the suburbs are not about to disappear. But we can do a much better job of connecting suburbs to cities and to each other, and allowing regions to grow bigger and denser without losing their velocity.</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-11T15:33:18", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1334, "fields": {"title": "Finding the Charm of Cross-Country Rail Travel", "url": "http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/travel/08amtrak.html?ref=travel", "description": "<p>Pretty good piece on cross country train travel. Worth a bookmark for the links at the end of the article which highlight some famous train trips around the world.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-11T15:56:29", "status": 1}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1335, "fields": {"title": "How To: Totally Rebuild a Love Seat", "url": "http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/how-to/how-to-totally-rebuild-a-love-seat-lizs-february-jumpstart-project-2009-077692", "description": "<p>Never tried rebuilding furniture, but now that i've priced new couches, I'm all for it. Also some nice pics of flickr to go with this tutorial: http://www.flickr.com/photos/99142476@N00/3316656662/in/set-72157614476220565/</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-11T21:50:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1336, "fields": {"title": "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable", "url": "http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/", "description": "<p></p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-16T15:46:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1337, "fields": {"title": "django-twitter-oauth", "url": "http://github.com/henriklied/django-twitter-oauth/tree/master", "description": "<p>nice way of making your Django app work with Twitter via the new Twitter OAuth beta tools.</p>\n", "pub_date": "2009-03-18T15:58:47", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1338, "fields": {"title": "Django snippets: Smart {% if %} template tag", "url": "http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1350/", "description": "<p>Save this as smart_if.py in the templatetags folder of one of your apps. 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Created in the 1930s, Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education), is an awesome looking way to display visual data. 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When you start to use an information network to concentrate information and therefore power, you benefit from a first arrival effect, and from some other common network effects that make it very hard for other people to come and grab your position. And this gets a little detailed, but it was very hard for somebody else to copy Wal-Mart once Wal-Mart had gathered all the information, because once they have the whole world aligned by the information in their server, they created essentially an expense or a risk for anybody to jump out of that system. That was very hard. In a similar way, once you are a customer of Google's ad network, the moment that you stop bidding for your keyword, you're guaranteeing that your closest competitor will get it. It's no longer just, \"Well, I don't know if I want this slot in the abstract, and who knows if a competitor or some entirely unrelated party will get it.\" Instead, you have to hold on to your ground because suddenly every decision becomes strategic for you, and immediately. It creates a new kind of glue, or a new kind of stickiness. Exactly the same thing happens whenever somebody concentrates power using a big global network. And the thing about that is that you can rise to power so quickly in the way that something like Facebook rises quickly. The network effects can be so powerful that you cease being a local player. An example of this is Wal-Mart removing so many jobs from their own customers that they start to lose profitability, and suddenly upscale players, like Target, are doing better. Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. The finance industry kept on thinking they could eject waste out into the general system, but they became the system. You become global instead of local so that the system breaks. Insurance companies in America, by trying to only insure people who didn't need insurance, ejected risk into the general system away from themselves, but they became so big that they were no longer local players, and there wasn't some giant vastness to absorb this risk that they'd ejected, and so therefore the system breaks. You see this again and again and again. It's not sustainable.", "pub_date": "2011-10-03T05:39:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1908, "fields": {"title": "Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS", "url": "http://smacss.com/book/", "description": "An evolving guide to CSS architecture for sites small and large. I've long lost count of how many web sites I've built. You'd think after having built a few hundred of them I'd have discovered the \"one true way\" of doing it. 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The signal was said to emanate from the grounds of a voyenni gorodok (mini military city) near the village of Povarovo, and very rarely, perhaps once every few weeks, the monotony was broken by a male voice reciting brief sequences of numbers and words, often strings of Russian names: “Anna, Nikolai, Ivan, Tatyana, Roman.” But the balance of the airtime was filled by a steady, almost maddening, series of inexplicable tones.", "pub_date": "2011-10-05T21:50:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1912, "fields": {"title": "Steve Jobs", "url": "http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs/single-page/", "description": " The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a marvellous and instant indicator of a fool. For those who perceive a separation between the two have either not lived, thought, read or experienced the world with any degree of insight, imagination or connective intelligence. It may have been Leclerc Buffon who first said “le style c’est l’homme – the style is the man” but it is an observation that anyone with sense had understood centuries before, Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance. If the unprecedented and phenomenal success of Steve Jobs at Apple proves anything it is that those commentators and tech-bloggers and “experts” who sneered at him for producing sleek, shiny, well-designed products or who denigrated the man because he was not an inventor or originator of technology himself missed the point in such a fantastically stupid way that any employer would surely question the purpose of having such people on their payroll, writing for their magazines or indeed making any decisions on which lives, destinies or fortunes depended.", "pub_date": "2011-10-08T15:06:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1913, "fields": {"title": "The Final Frontier \u2014 Part 2 - Cringely on technology", "url": "http://www.cringely.com/2011/10/the-final-frontier-part-2/?", "description": "Additive manufacturing is currently exemplified in 3D printing, where prototype devices emerge from plastic baths, sintered by lasers, only at my little company we make things of titanium. 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Vim also has “adjectives” like “inside” and “around” (i and a) that let you craft sentences like “change inside parenthesis” (ci( or cib). 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We have made a fetish out of finance, against which proper regulation gets derided as the comedy of mere mortals—not just difficult but absurd. Nearly fifty years ago, Marshall McLuhan wrote about our tendency to become fascinated by our inventions, which are, ultimately, extensions of ourselves. As McLuhan tells it, the death of Narcissus had to do not only with his reflection but with his inability to see himself in it. Just as the words “narcosis” and “narcotics” derive from his name, Narcissus was numb; he treated his image as an object of courtship, and he willingly became its slave. McLuhan, ever alert to the perverse urge to lose our uncomfortable selves, described how Narcissus died so that we could live. 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This makes for raised garden beds loaded with organic material, nutrients, air pockets for the roots of what you plant, etc. As the years pass, the deep soil of your raised garden bed becomes incredibly rich and loaded with soil life. As the wood shrinks, it makes more tiny air pockets - so your hugelkultur becomes sort of self tilling. The first few years, the composting process will slightly warm your soil giving you a slightly longer growing season. The woody matter helps to keep nutrient excess from passing into the ground water - and then refeeding that to your garden plants later. Plus, by holding SO much water, hugelkultur could be part of a system for growing garden crops in the desert with no irrigation.", "pub_date": "2011-11-03T14:37:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1936, "fields": {"title": "hugelkultur (Permaculture Forums: permaculture)", "url": "http://www.permies.com/bb/index.php?PHPSESSIONID=6fd3acc874ea7620f67b34f56db7eec3&topic=17.240", "description": "I guess I should have qualified that as ...relatively inexpensive. Considering that there is about 4000 to 7500 feet per roll depending on type - tons of types and flows. Compared to buying lots of mini-sprinklers, drippers etc, it is cheap. I have about 300 feet of drip tape in 2 garden beds - six inch spacing - that is 600 emitters I would have had to buy and hours punching holes and installing them or suffer poor irrigation. My drip tape is about 2.5 liters per hour per hundred feet - great for poor clay soil and low water availability - my well is 1 gpm and is pumped with solar power. I pump around 700 gallons per day. I likely have enough drip tape on one roll to last me 10 years. I got mine from a near local big irrigation supply. http://www.landmarkirrigation.com/ A few cents a foot but had to be purchased in a big roll for around $150 as I recall. Do-it-best has the timers as do many other hardware stores. I like the pictured one best as the digital ones are enough trouble to re-program that you may avoid it. 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There are a number of well-known techniques for doing this—all of the classic surrealist techniques, for instance, especially the game called exquisite corpse, where you pass a folded piece of paper around the room and write a line of poetry or a single word and fold it again and then the next person blindly adds to it. Sometimes it produces total gibberish, but it can be spookily apt. A lot of what I had to learn to do was play a game of exquisite-corpse solitaire.", "pub_date": "2011-11-08T01:39:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1940, "fields": {"title": "Ground Lamb and Peas in Yogurt Recipe - Saveur.com", "url": "http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Ground-Lamb-and-Peas-in-Yogurt", "description": "Put garlic, sliced ginger, 2 tsp. garam masala, turmeric, and 1⁄2 cup water into a blender and purée to a wet paste. Set spice paste aside. 2. Heat the ghee in a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add the coriander, cumin, chiles, and bay leaf; stir until fragrant and beginning to brown, about 1 minute. Stir in the onion, season with salt and pepper, and cook until lightly golden, 6–7 minutes. Add the reserved spice paste and tomato paste and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture is caramelized, 3–4 minutes. Add lamb (or beef, if using) and cook, stirring and breaking it up into small pieces, until browned and cooked through, about 5 minutes. Add the plum tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 3 minutes more", "pub_date": "2011-11-10T00:40:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1942, "fields": {"title": "Ebooks, you\u2019re doing it wrong - Blog | Thomas Rhiel", "url": "http://blog.thomasrhiel.com/post/6014862098/ebooks-youre-doing-it-wrong", "description": "After having read several ebooks in the very popular and enthusiastically marketed Kindle and iBook formats, I can vouch for the claim that ebook typography is terrible. Dashes do indeed become hyphens. Section headings are indeed stripped of their boldfacedness. Etc. These are minor irritants, yes. The world has more pressing concerns. But ebooks, while less expensive than their paper and ink counterparts, still aren’t cheap, and it’s obnoxious to pay twelve bucks for something, crack it open — “crack it open” — and find mistakes that could have been corrected by a Knopf intern taught how to make regular text bold.", "pub_date": "2011-11-21T18:17:37", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1943, "fields": {"title": "Omega 6 and 3 in nuts, oils, meat and fish. Tools to get it right.", "url": "http://paleozonenutrition.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/omega-6-and-3-in-nuts-oils-meat-and-fish-tools-to-get-it-right/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2011-11-22T18:17:04", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1944, "fields": {"title": "Confessions of a Long-Distance sailor", "url": "http://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html", "description": "An account of an around-the-world solo sail in a 31-foot boat, 1988-1991", "pub_date": "2011-11-22T20:12:03", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1945, "fields": {"title": "3 Meat 5 Alarm Chili", "url": "http://paleograd.blogspot.com/2011/03/3-meat-5-alarm-chili.html", "description": "3 Meat 5 Alarm Chili -1 lb bacon ends (or regular bacon), sliced -1 lb ground pork -1 lb ground beef -1 onion, chopped -3 cloves (or 1.5 tsp) garlic, diced -2 or 3 hot peppers (I used serrano), chopped -2 sweet potatoes, diced -2 bay leaves -1/4 c chili powder -1 tbsp oregano -2 tsp black pepper -2 tsp salt (or to taste) -2 tsp cayenne pepper -1 tsp cinnamon or allspice (or both--that's what I did) -1 tsp cumin -1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes -1 15 oz can diced tomatoes -1 8 oz can El Pato jalapeño salsa", "pub_date": "2011-11-23T17:27:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1946, "fields": {"title": "Kale Chips | Paleo Diet Lifestyle", "url": "http://paleodietlifestyle.com/kale-chips/", "description": "Kale chips recipe Serves about 4, as a snack Ingredients 1 big bunch kale; 2 tbsp cooking fat, melted; 1 tbsp lemon juice; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste;", "pub_date": "2011-11-23T17:29:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1947, "fields": {"title": "Calepin", "url": "http://calepin.co/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2011-11-24T02:30:24", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1949, "fields": {"title": "Roasting a chicken - how to prepare a chicken to roast including cleaning, seasoning and trussing plus roasting times.", "url": "http://www.helpwithcooking.com/cooking-poultry/roast-chicken.html#roasting-temp-time", "description": "", "pub_date": "2011-11-29T13:25:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1950, "fields": {"title": "U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Randolph (CV 15)", "url": "http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=32", "description": "", "pub_date": "2011-11-29T13:27:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1952, "fields": {"title": "Contents Magazine | a new magazine for new-school editorial", "url": "http://contentsmagazine.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2011-11-30T18:55:19", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1953, "fields": {"title": "Vim Reference Document", "url": "http://www.jasondrury.com/ref_vim.php#navigate", "description": "", "pub_date": "2011-11-30T18:55:52", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1954, "fields": {"title": "\u201cMobile first\u201d CSS and getting Sass to help with legacy IE \u2013 Nicolas Gallagher", "url": "http://nicolasgallagher.com/mobile-first-css-sass-and-ie/", "description": "Peter Wilson", "pub_date": "2011-12-01T16:44:05", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1955, "fields": {"title": "\u00bb What I would teach children about savings Early Retirement Extreme: \u2014 Becoming debt-free is the first step to building a better world. Financial independence is the second.", "url": "http://earlyretirementextreme.com/what-i-would-teach-a-child-about-savings.html", "description": " So here it the one savings/investment rule, I would teach to my hypothetical children. Always save and invest 50% of your income. If this idea is implanted early on, the person will hopefully always adjust his or her lifestyle so that the cost of living does not exceed 50%", "pub_date": "2011-12-02T02:52:37", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1956, "fields": {"title": "10 steps to better blogging \u2013 SplatF", "url": "http://www.splatf.com/2011/12/better-blogging/", "description": "Write the site that you want to read. That covers story selection, length, frequency, style, vocabulary, attitude, humor, level of sensationalism, and more. Don’t publish anything you’re not proud of. Be yourself. Be more skeptical. Companies and people have no interest in telling any side of the story but their own. Often, that side is flawed, invalid, or incorrect. Let someone else be the gullible one who looks silly later: Always question everything. (But don’t let it turn you into too much of a conspiracy theorist.) Attribute well — the way you’d want to be attributed. Use names, link prominently, never plagiarize. Quote or paraphrase the part of an article that you need to make your point, but always with the goal of sending readers to the original site for the full story. (Some credit here to Henry Blodget, for Business Insider’s original excerpting policy in 2009. And to John Gruber, whose attribution activism is good for the web.) Aim to become as big of a traffic referrer as you possibly can — not only is that good policy, but it’s a great business asset.", "pub_date": "2011-12-05T14:53:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1957, "fields": {"title": "Granite Gear Blaze A.C. 60 Pack - Free Shipping at REI.com", "url": "http://www.rei.com/product/824361/granite-gear-blaze-ac-60-pack", "description": "My favorite Backpack! after loading it with about 30 lbs and scrambling up some pretty steep hills and switchbacks I nearly forgot I was wearing it. I have had a couple other packs that weren't quite as adjustable so this one was surprisingly comfortable once I got everything dialed in. It is less comfort driven than other bags as far as the lack of sleeping bag zipper and exterior pockets with secure zippers and such but its a good trade off for the weight... the only thing I didn't really like was the lack of lid for trail snacks and camera as a result the side pockets were packed to capacity but that was easily remedied with my recent purchase of the lid. All the compression straps are your everyday 550 cord and easily replaced if need be. i made the top two cords on the sides longer so i could secure my sleeping pad to the top of my bag although with the lid on my pack now they proved to be unnecessary so shortened them again. Ill in all I'd say its a well thought out pack and worth every penny for sure.", "pub_date": "2011-12-05T18:58:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1958, "fields": {"title": "Ian MacKenzie | If We Get Occupy Right, We Get Everything Right", "url": "http://www.ianmack.com/if-we-get-occupy-right-we-get-everything-right/", "description": "What if the Occupy Movement truly is the latest manifestation of the paradigm shift that is rippling around the planet, what Paul Hawken calls “the blessed unrest”? What if this shift is characterized by a new recognition of the self, one that no longer betrays ourselves as separate beings in an indifferent universe, but realizes we are conditional upon all the relationships we share? I am because you are. What if we experimented and perfected this alternative model of being, and deployed it along the vast global information network already encircling the globe? What if this model allowed us to grasp the array of crises plaguing our lives and the planet as actually interconnected – and to truly understand one was to understand and change them all? What if we called this shift of inter-being by its true name?", "pub_date": "2011-12-06T02:33:45", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1959, "fields": {"title": "Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy", "url": "http://www.richsoil.com/lawn-care.jsp", "description": "Lawn care in a nutshell: Must do: Set your mower as high as it will go (3 to 4 inches). Water only when your grass shows signs of drought stress and then water deeply (put a cup in your sprinkler zone and make sure it gets at least an inch of water). Optional: Fertilize with an organic fertilizer in the fall and spring. I recommend the Ringer brand. Have the pH of your soil professionally tested. Add lime if it is below 6.0 and gardener's sulfur if it is above 7.0. How much top soil do you have? See how deep a shovel will go into the soil. How deep can you dig a hole in one minute? Four inches of topsoil will make for an okay lawn. Eight or more inches of topsoil will make for a great lawn.", "pub_date": "2011-12-06T02:35:29", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1960, "fields": {"title": "Libraries: Where It All Went Wrong", "url": "http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/2011/11/23/libraries-where-it-all-went-wrong/", "description": "For libraries, the Internet is your collection, it’s your reading room, it’s your catalogue, it’s your interloan, it’s your helpdesk, it’s your opportunity to reclaim relevance. And I’m afraid to say, you’re the pointy end of the digital redefinition of culture and heritage institutions and public services, because text is small and the first to go digital. E-books? Next are e-music, e-movies, e-ephemera, e-maps, e-paintings, e-sculpture, and who knows what e-lse. Every archiving institution will face your problems, some are already grappling with them (e.g., the Powerhouse Museum). Online search? Online helpdesk? Online loans? Every public-facing organisation will face your problems. At least you can take comfort from the fact that you won’t be the only ones disrupted by this change. Finally, let’s consider Microsoft. Nobody wants to be in their place: 15 years after discovering the Internet, they’re still tipping money into it with little success.", "pub_date": "2011-12-06T02:37:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1962, "fields": {"title": "Responsive embeds \u2013 Anders M. Andersen", "url": "http://amobil.se/2011/11/responsive-embeds/", "description": "This article shows examples of how to embed video and other iframes in a responsive web design and has examples with YouTube, Vimeo and Slideshare.", "pub_date": "2011-12-06T20:31:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1963, "fields": {"title": "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race", "url": "http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html", "description": "Besides malnutrition, starvation, and epidemic diseases, farming helped bring another curse upon humanity: deep class divisions. Hunter-gatherers have little or no stored food, and no concentrated food sources, like an orchard or a herd of cows: they live off the wild plants and animals they obtain each day. Therefore, there can be no kings, no class of social parasites who grow fat on food seized from others. Only in a farming population could a healthy, non-producing elite set itself above the disease-ridden masses. Skeletons from Greek tombs at Mycenae c. 1500 B. C. suggest that royals enjoyed a better diet than commoners, since the royal skeletons were two or three inches taller and had better teeth (on the average, one instead of six cavities or missing teeth). Among Chilean mummies from c. A. D. 1000, the elite were distinguished not only by ornaments and gold hair clips but also by a fourfold lower rate of bone lesions caused by disease.", "pub_date": "2011-12-07T01:19:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1964, "fields": {"title": "Companion for Okra?", "url": "http://forums.permaculture.org.au/archive/index.php/t-8735.html?s=3bc249c84fcb99cb69dcd869fd6aa818", "description": "OKRA: (Hibiscus esculentus ) Plant lettuce around your okra plants and they will shade the lettuce in the summer giving you some more growing time. Okra also does well with peppers and eggplants as it helps protect these brittle stemmed plants from high winds. It also gets along with basil, cucumbers, melons, and black eyed peas. For planting with the peas plant your Okra first. When the okra is up and established plant the peas around the edges of the okra planting. You may find that the peas are far less bothered by aphids when near okra.", "pub_date": "2011-12-07T02:04:43", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1965, "fields": {"title": "Organic Compost Tumbler. World's Best Composter.", "url": "http://www.organic-compost-tumbler.com/", "description": "Of course the benefits do not stop there. The larger 9 cubic feet model is made of 100% recycled food grade plastic (BPA Free), which is great for mother nature. Then of course the fact that it spins on a vertical axis means that the opening can be both high, for easy filling when dumping in, and low for easy dumping when the compost is done. This is in contrast to horizontal based tumblers that require you to shovel in materials and shovel out compost, ours is dump in and dump out. Nothing could be easier.", "pub_date": "2011-12-07T02:06:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1967, "fields": {"title": "Yield Thought, Setting up an iPad+Linode", "url": "http://yieldthought.com/post/12638596672/setting-up-an-ipad-linode#disqus_thread", "description": "Last week I promised to share all the details about my cloud development setup - this is how I did it, in ten soul-crushing liberating steps: Step 1: Get a Linode I chose a Linode 512, which has been perfect for my needs. You get all phenomenal CPU power and an itty-bitty RAM. Surprisingly, this is enough as we’ll be doing most of our work on the command-line; you can always upgrade it later. I also turned on the $5 a month backups. Zero-effort data safety for less than the price of a hot chocolate? Yes, please!", "pub_date": "2011-12-13T02:39:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1968, "fields": {"title": "How-To: Proper Overhead Press Technique | Mark's Daily Apple", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-proper-overhead-press-technique/", "description": "It is simple fact that pressing heavy things overhead is a fundamental movement that builds strength and improves our ability to function in the real world. Variations of the shoulder press pushup gives everyone, of all strength and fitness levels, the ability to train that plane of movement without the need for equipment. It sounds easy, and the first couple reps might be, but you’d be surprised at how complete a workout the shoulder press pushup can put your upper body through. ", "pub_date": "2011-12-13T03:21:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1969, "fields": {"title": "How-To: Proper Plank Technique | Mark's Daily Apple", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-proper-plank-technique/", "description": "The plank is a far more useful core exercise. The key to success with it is right there in the name: you’re forming an immovable, stiff plank with your entire body. From toes to head, you must be firm, not flaccid. How to Do the Basic Plank Get in the pushup position, only put your forearms on the ground instead of your hands. Your elbows should line up directly underneath your shoulders. Toes on the ground. Squeeze your glutes and tighten your abdominals. Keep a neutral neck and spine. Create a straight, strong line from head to toes – a plank, if you will. Hold that position.", "pub_date": "2011-12-13T03:23:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1971, "fields": {"title": "Kowloon-Cross-section-low.jpg", "url": "http://www.deconcrete.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Kowloon-Cross-section-low.jpg", "description": "Amazingly detail cross-section sketch of Kowloon", "pub_date": "2011-12-27T16:47:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1972, "fields": {"title": "400 Free Online Courses from Top Universities | Open Culture", "url": "http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses", "description": "Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 250 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player.", "pub_date": "2011-12-27T16:58:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1973, "fields": {"title": "Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Courses & More | Open Culture", "url": "http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/fill_your_new_kindle_ipad_iphone_with_free_ebooks_movies_audio_books_courses_more.html", "description": "Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Courses & More", "pub_date": "2011-12-27T17:00:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1974, "fields": {"title": "Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices | Electronic Frontier Foundation", "url": "https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-travelers-carrying-digital-devices", "description": "", "pub_date": "2011-12-29T17:41:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1975, "fields": {"title": "Learn to speak vim \u2013 verbs, nouns, and modifiers! \u2013 Yan Pritzker", "url": "http://yanpritzker.com/2011/12/16/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-nouns-and-modifiers/", "description": "Using vim is like talking to your editor in ‘verb modifier object’ sentences, turned into acronyms learn some verbs: v (visual), c (change), d (delete), y (yank/copy). these are the most important. there are others learn some modifiers: i (inside), a (around), t (till..finds a character), f (find..like till except including the char), / (search..find a string/regex) learn some text objects: w (word), s (sentence) p (paragraph) b (block/parentheses), t (tag, works for html/xml) there are others", "pub_date": "2011-12-29T17:58:03", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1976, "fields": {"title": "Vim for prose, what are your tips? : vim", "url": "http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/ni0c2/vim_for_prose_what_are_your_tips/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2011-12-29T17:59:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1978, "fields": {"title": "24 ways: Getting the Most Out of Google Analytics", "url": "http://24ways.org/2011/getting-the-most-out-of-google-analytics", "description": "Look at the conversion rate by landing page for any traffic source that feels significantly different to what’s expected. Check bounce rates, drill down to likely landing pages and check search keyword or referral site to see if it’s a particular subset of visitor. You can do this by clicking Secondary Dimension and choosing Keyword or Source. If it’s direct, choose Visitor Type to break down by new or returning visitor. Content → Site Content → Landing Pages I then tend to flip into Content Drilldown to see what the next clicks were from those landing pages, and whether they changed significantly to the date I’m comparing with. If they have, that’s usually an indicator of changed content (or its relevancy). Remember, if a bunch of people have found their way to your page via a method you’re not expecting (such as a mention on a Spanish radio station – this actually happened to me once), while the content hasn’t changed, the relevancy of it to the audience may have. Content → Site Content → Content Drilldown", "pub_date": "2011-12-30T02:53:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1980, "fields": {"title": "Sacrificing too much for early retirement? Early Retirement Extreme", "url": "http://earlyretirementextreme.com/sacrificing-too-much-for-early-retirement.html", "description": "I found Jacob’s book to be helpful in this respect because of the way it articulates a coherent philosophy and addresses the question of “why ERE?” Admittedly, the first steps of ERE may be a bit frustrating as one tries new things, perhaps unsuccessfully at first, that they have outsourced their entire life: cooking from scratch, entertainment, etc. On the one hand it’s sad that we, ourselves, quite literally don’t know how to live; we only know how to make money outlays in exchange for our living. (Hence the need to “make a living.”) On the other hand, there is tremendous reward and fulfillment in stopping the outsourcing and taking your life back.", "pub_date": "2012-01-09T03:01:41", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1982, "fields": {"title": "John Horgan on erasing war from the human condition - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News", "url": "http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/books/john-horgan-on-erasing-war-from-the-human-condition-1.402084", "description": "I was eligible for the draft when I was in high school, when the Vietnam war was still raging. So I was thinking about the justice or injustice of that war and the insanity of the cold war, and the possibility of nuclear annihilation. War seems not just immoral to me, but also really stupid, and absurd. And I never really lost that feeling. ", "pub_date": "2012-01-18T04:16:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1983, "fields": {"title": "How to Eat Enough Protein | Mark's Daily Apple", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/protein-amounts-in-food/", "description": "The numbers come from The Harvard School of Public Health and Northwestern University. Meats Beef (6 oz.) – 54 grams Turkey, breast (6 oz.) – 51.4 grams Pork Chop (6 oz.) 49 grams Turkey, dark meat (6 oz.) – 48.6 grams Hamburger (6 oz.) – 48.6 grams Chicken, dark meat (6 oz.) – 47.2 grams Tuna (6 oz.) – 40.1 grams Broiled Beefsteak (6 oz.) – 38.6 grams Chicken, breast (6 oz.) – 37.8 grams Ham (6 oz.) – 35.4 grams Salmon (6 oz.) – 33.6 grams Dairy/Eggs Cottage cheese (1 cup) – 28.1 grams Yogurt, low fat (1 cup) – 10.7 grams Skim milk (1 cup) – 8.3 grams Whole milk (1 cup) – 8 grams American cheese (1 oz.) – 7 grams Soymilk (6 oz.) – 6.7 grams Egg (1 large) – 6.3 grams Meat Substitutes, Beans and Legumes, Nuts Veggie Burger (6 oz.) – 51.4 grams Tofu (6 oz.) – 13.8 grams Peanut Butter (2 Tbsp.) – 8.1 grams Almond Butter (2 Tbsp.) – 7 grams Lentils (1/2 cup) – 9 grams Split Peas (1/2 cup) – 8.1 grams Kidney Beans (1/2 cup) – 7.6 grams Sesame Seeds (1 oz.) – 7.5 grams Black Beans (1/2 cup) – 7.5 grams Garbanzo Beans (1/2 cup) – 7.3 grams Green Peas (1/2 cup) – 4.1 grams Fruits and Vegetables Orange (large) – 1.7 grams Banana (medium) – 1.2 grams Green Beans (1/2 cup) – 1 gram Carrots (1/2 cup) – .8 gram Apple (large) – 0 grams", "pub_date": "2012-01-18T19:19:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1985, "fields": {"title": "Vanilla JavaScript FTW", "url": "http://sharedfil.es/js-48hIfQE4XK.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2012-01-19T19:43:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1986, "fields": {"title": "Backups, Networks and a Digital Home | Mark Boulton", "url": "http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/backups-networks-and-a-digital-home", "description": "Interesting home media setup", "pub_date": "2012-01-19T19:44:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1987, "fields": {"title": "Cars Kill Cities \u00ab Progressive Transit", "url": "http://progressivetransit.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/cars-kill-cities/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2012-01-26T18:35:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1990, "fields": {"title": "Back to Work - 3: The Second Arrow", "url": "http://pcast.me/shownotes/get/b/instapaper", "description": "Sent via Instacast", "pub_date": "2012-01-27T23:14:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1991, "fields": {"title": "Decline in Style \u00ab Z\u00f3calo Public Square", "url": "http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/27/decline-in-style/read/inside-out/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2012-01-28T15:25:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 1992, "fields": {"title": "Graphene: Supermaterial goes superpermeable", "url": "http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120126100639.htm", "description": "ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) — Wonder material graphene has revealed another of its extraordinary properties -- University of Manchester researchers have found that it is superpermeable with respect to water. Graphene is one of the wonders of the science world, with the potential to create foldaway mobile phones, wallpaper-thin lighting panels and the next generation of aircraft. The new finding at the University of Manchester gives graphene's potential a most surprising dimension -- graphene can also be used for distilling alcohol. In a report published in Science, a team led by Professor Sir Andre Geim shows that graphene-based membranes are impermeable to all gases and liquids (vacuum-tight). However, water evaporates through them as quickly as if the membranes were not there at all. This newly-found property can now be added to the already long list of superlatives describing graphene. It is the thinnest known material in the universe and the strongest ever measured. It conducts electricity and heat better than any other material. It is the stiffest one too and, at the same time, it is the most ductile. Demonstrating its remarkable properties won University of Manchester academics the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. Now the University of Manchester scientists have studied membranes from a chemical derivative of graphene called graphene oxide. Graphene oxide is the same graphene sheet but it is randomly covered with other molecules such as hydroxyl groups OH-. Graphene oxide sheets stack on top of each other and form a laminate. The researchers prepared such laminates that were hundreds times thinner than a human hair but remained strong, flexible and were easy to handle. When a metal container was sealed with such a film, even the most sensitive equipment was unable to detect air or any other gas, including helium, to leak through. It came as a complete surprise that, when the researchers tried the same with ordinary water, they found that it evaporates without noticing the graphene seal. Water molecules diffused through the graphene-oxide membranes with such a great speed that the evaporation rate was the same independently whether the container was sealed or completely open. Dr Rahul Nair, who was leading the experimental work, offers the following explanation: \"Graphene oxide sheets arrange in such a way that between them there is room for exactly one layer of water molecules. They arrange themselves in one molecule thick sheets of ice which slide along the graphene surface with practically no friction. \"If another atom or molecule tries the same trick, it finds that graphene capillaries either shrink in low humidity or get clogged with water molecules.\" \"Helium gas is hard to stop. It slowly leaks even through a millimetre -thick window glass but our ultra-thin films completely block it. At the same time, water evaporates through them unimpeded. Materials cannot behave any stranger,\" comments Professor Geim. \"You cannot help wondering what else graphene has in store for us.\" \"This unique property can be used in situations where one needs to remove water from a mixture or a container, while keeping in all the other ingredients,\" says Dr Irina Grigorieva who also participated in the research. \"Just for a laugh, we sealed a bottle of vodka with our membranes and found that the distilled solution became stronger and stronger with time. Neither of us drinks vodka but it was great fun to do the experiment,\" adds Dr Nair. The Manchester researchers report this experiment in their Science paper, too, but they say they do not envisage use of graphene in distilleries, nor offer any immediate ideas for applications. 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Remove from the pot, and turn the heat down to medium. Add the onion and cook for about five minutes or until they begin to soften. Add the ginger and garlic, and cook for another couple of minutes, being careful to stir them gently so that they don’t burn. Add the bone broth or stock and the browned meat to the pot, and bring to a simmer on low. Cover tightly and cook for 15 minutes, making sure to keep it at a simmer. Add the butternut squash, cinnamon, and sea salt and simmer covered another 15 minutes. Now add the pears and simmer for another 30 minutes, or until the meat and squash are both tender. In a small skillet, heat the rest of the coconut oil on high heat and cook the mushrooms for about 5 minutes, or until browned and tender. 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Generously season beef with sea salt and black pepper. Heat 2 tablespoons ghee in a large dutch oven (an ovenproof pot with a lid) over medium-high. Add half of the meat and cook for 2 minutes, until the bottom is browned. Using a pair of tongs, turn over each piece of meat and cook until browned on the second side, about 2 minutes. Place beef in a large bowl (the meat will not be cooked through). Repeat with remaining ghee and beef. Reduce heat to medium and add onions to now-empty pot and sauté, stirring frequently until onions release their liquid, about 10 minutes. (If the bottom of the pot begins to brown too much, push the onions aside with a spoon, pour a small amount of water and scrape up the brown bits.) Continue to cook until the onions caramelize, about 15 minutes. Stir in coconut flour and cook for 1 minute. Make a well in the center of the pot and add garlic and thyme. Stir in the middle of the pan until fragrant. 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Every archive has an intended logic, a day logic, with well-defined topics, alphabetical orderings, hierarchical taxonomies, or cross-referenced indexes. At night we see less of what is intended and more of what is there. We notice that the butterfly specimen cases ended up next to the drawers of pressed flowers. The minutes of the astronomy club are on the highest shelves, and some papers of Francis Bacon the essayist got in among papers of Francis Bacon the painter. Nothing can be as crowded with meaning as an archive and not earn its own dream logic of short circuits and coincidences. I looked up this person who had appeared twice in one night. Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a Bengali writer. And I closed that tab.", "pub_date": "2013-05-01T13:48:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 2671, "fields": {"title": "E. coli enters the energy game, could pump out petroleum | Ars Technica", "url": "http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/e-coli-enters-the-energy-game-could-pump-out-petroleum/", "description": "Also: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_281715_en.html", "pub_date": "2013-05-01T14:12:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 2673, "fields": {"title": "Cross-Browser Inline-Block \u00ab Mozilla Web Development", "url": "https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2009/02/20/cross-browser-inline-block/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-04-03T17:52:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 2674, "fields": {"title": "404: Page Not Found", "url": "http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/22.0a1/auroranotes/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-04-05T11:52:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 2675, "fields": {"title": "FESS your CSS", "url": "http://www.fess.me/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-04-08T02:53:05", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 2676, "fields": {"title": "Advanced cross-browser flexbox - Dev.Opera", "url": "http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/advanced-cross-browser-flexbox/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-04-13T00:43:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 2677, "fields": {"title": "jrnl", "url": "http://maebert.github.io/jrnl/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-04-19T15:53:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 2678, "fields": {"title": "On Crime and Access to Knowledge", "url": "https://public.resource.org/crime/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-04-27T02:03:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 2679, "fields": {"title": "The fiction of Matt Ruff: Cult classic | The Economist", "url": "http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/03/fiction-matt-ruff", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-04-27T03:07:56", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3045, "fields": {"title": "Upgrades : SanJuanSufficiency.com", "url": "http://sanjuansufficiency.com/upgrades/", "description": "Icebox\n\nFiberglass Ice Box\n\nI used my cordless drill and a grinding bit to remove strips of gelcoat from the sides of the fiberglass ice box. I then glassed in 1/2\u2033 wood strips to create tracks for a removable separator.\nI spent a good deal of time this winter pondering the problem of refrigeration on board the boat. I\u2019m not opposed to going without, so if I was going to have it, the solution needed to be elegantly simple and inexpensive.\n\nMy icebox is a vertical, fiberglass tub common to boats made in the mid 80\u2019s. It has a drain down to the bilge. It wouldn\u2019t convert easily to additional storage so I figured I might as well keep it as-is. I also didn\u2019t want to attempt to install a refrigeration unit into it. It\u2019s small enough as it is, and in tight quarters. I also doubt my ability to service a refrigeration unit in the field.\n\nSomewhere along the line I learned of the next-generation yuppie appliance: portable ice makers. Ostentatious in a home, I thought it just might provide a great deal of utility aboard my boat. I learned they consume less than 200 watts and can make a pound of ice per hour. Because of my bad-ass off-grid power system, I knew I could run it easily.\n\nIce Box Separator\n\nThe separator is just a piece of plastic board that slides in-between the tracks I glassed in. It keeps the ice separate from the food. This insulates the ice and makes it last longer. I also designed it to fit a block of ice if I need to buy ice while traveling.\nI scooped up a Black Friday left-over from Walmart for a cool $100. While I don\u2019t condone shopping at Walmart, the low price and ability to quickly return it if I didn\u2019t like it won me over. I also picked up a three-year warranty, which I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll use due to the almost constant use I\u2019ll subject it to when connected to shore power.\n\nLong-story short: It worked really well and now I can have the advantages of a perpetually stocked ice box without having to pay for ice. This week I made another upgrade by glassing in a removable separator to keep the ice on one side and everything else on the other. It\u2019s all fiberglass and plastic, so I shouldn\u2019t ever have to worry about mold or rot. I constructed it the same way as all the other fiberglass tutorials I\u2019ve written.", "pub_date": "2015-07-27T14:14:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3046, "fields": {"title": "Amazon.com : Sea Dog 671100-1 Gear Hammock : Camping Hammocks : Sports & Outdoors", "url": "http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Dog-671100-1-Gear-Hammock/dp/B000XBEPOS/ref=pd_sim_468_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=18QHBTEHJBEXFY66BP6E", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-24T12:35:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3047, "fields": {"title": "Amazon.com: LUNATEC Self-cleaning Travel Washcloth. ", "url": "http://www.amazon.com/Self-cleaning-Washcloth-backpacking-Outstanding-compliment/dp/B004KSL96C/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-24T12:34:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3048, "fields": {"title": "Do you really understand ERE?", "url": "http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?p=74349#p74349", "description": "When I want or need to use goods and those aren't automatically provided to me, I define that as \"work\" (for the purpose of this discussion). If I have goods that go unused, I define that as \"pollution\".\r\n\r\nAt its most fundamental level, ERE is about designing one's world so as to eliminate work (the kind that is required to satisfy needs and wants, not the fun kind that done voluntarily) and pollution (wasted effort, wasted goods, ...). When things are optimally designed goods will flow through me with little effort and waste.\r\n\r\nIn this way ERE is very similar to permaculture. It's a way of setting up a system that requires little maintenance. Compare to a conventional garden where deficiencies must be supplied by the gardener (work) and pollution must be carried away be the gardener with more work.\r\n\r\nHuman living is more complicated than nature because while the latter seeks to evolve towards a steady state, human living is a dynamical process. Therefore ERE also contains a substantial focus on the future. Specifically contingencies and backups. So the difference between ERE and permaculture is that ERE pays more attention to the time component and the probability space.\r\n\r\nThis, I would say, is how I understand ERE. It has two parts: Eliminating work and pollution and considering human living as a dynamic time and probability dependent process.\r\n\r\nNow, there are standard solutions or designs. The live close to the job, in a small space with less stuff, exercise to work (walk/bike), and earn money to invest for passive income all have the goal of reducing \"work\" and \"pollution\". Having interesting/useful hobbies and making connections and staying active all have the goal of considering the time/probability components.\r\n\r\nThere are other solutions as well.", "pub_date": "2015-07-24T12:29:54", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3049, "fields": {"title": "LUNATEC Odor-Free Dishcloths", "url": "http://www.amazon.com/LUNATEC%C2%AE-Odor-Free-Dishcloths-scrubber-scouring/dp/B00P9WERCQ/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-24T12:29:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3050, "fields": {"title": "Amazon.com: Engel MT35F-U1 AC/DC Fridge/Freezer 34 Qt: Appliances", "url": "http://www.amazon.com/Engel-MT35F-U1-AC-Fridge-Freezer/dp/B00042JXKW/ref=pd_sbs_265_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=09ADAMHJE9ZWG9XYXQJK", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-24T12:28:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3051, "fields": {"title": "Cheap RV Living.com -Entrances to Yellowstone NP: Gardiner, MT at North Entrance", "url": "http://www.cheaprvliving.com/blog/entrances-to-yellowstone-np-gardiner-mt-at-north-entrance/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-23T01:55:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3052, "fields": {"title": "Using an Ice Box for Food Storage", "url": "http://theboatgalley.com/ice-box-cooler-food-storage/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-23T01:54:56", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3053, "fields": {"title": "DIY Fridge", "url": "http://longlucas.bravesites.com/diy-fridge", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-23T01:44:40", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3054, "fields": {"title": "Products | Clever Crates", "url": "http://www.clevercrates.com/collections/all", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-23T00:20:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3055, "fields": {"title": "Help! How to camp longer than 2 days without fridge - Fiberglass RV", "url": "http://www.fiberglassrv.com/forums/f55/help-how-to-camp-longer-than-2-days-without-fridge-39092.html", "description": "Okay, I can chime in here, having lived in the tropics on a boat with only an ice box. I will say that the first thing that crossed our minds when making landfall was \"Ice!\"\r\n\r\nWhile a 'fridge is nice, it does make for more weight, complication, and expense. An icebox is dead simple.\r\n\r\nFirst of all, I would consider adding or improving the insulation around the box. I wouldnt be surprised to see nothing but a few wisps of fiberglass insulation, and you can do MUCH better now with materials like extruded polystyrene (your basic blue or pink board insulation in 4' x 8' sheets from Home Depot). The more the merrier. If you can get three or four inches all the way around, you'll be in great shape. Stagger the corner joints and tape things together. A layer of foil in there somewhere is good also.\r\n\r\nAnother thing that helps is to have something like a space blanket, or a piece of Reflectix that drapes over the front of the food, so that when you open the door all the cold doesn't immediately \"sink\" out of the door. In fact, boat iceboxes have a top opening lid for this very reason. Also, plan your \"moves\" in your mind before you ever open the door. \"Okay, I'm going to reach in, over to the left, and get the cheese.\" Etc. With good insulation one can go ten days or so with a couple of good ice blocks, if you're careful about opening it (at least in a top loader).\r\n\r\nThe next component is the ice. It's getting very hard to find good block ice in the U.S. anymore. It's usually either cubes or what I call \"fake blocks,\" which are blocks made of cubes pressed together. They're useless. So you are right to make your own. The bigger they are and the colder you can freeze them, the longer they will last. One larger block is better than two smaller. A dishpan is a handy size, and I've asked shopkeepers and restaurant folks if they would freeze a block in one for me overnight, at times. Closed containers like milk jugs are less messy, but smaller.\r\n\r\nAlso, the ice should not sit in water (I imagine your ice box drains but it may not). Rig up a drain, and make sure there is a water-trapping loop in the drain along the way. This is important to keep the cold from rushing out the drain through only air. Depending on how this is set up, you may be able to use the meltwater to cool, or to pre-cool beverages. You can also start out with much of your food cold or frozen, if you are leaving from home.\r\n\r\nIf you find yourself going in and out of the box a lot for beverages, or certain snacks, you might consider a separate small free-standing cooler, just for those items. Maybe one you can collapse after it's done.\r\n\r\nThen there is (as Gina mentioned) the fact that people in the U.S. tend to refrigerate a lot of items that really don't need it. It's just become habit. For example, even mayo will keep fine unrefrigerated, as long as you never put a contaminated knife in it. The squeeze tubes make this easy. Also, I've had eggs last for months even in the tropics. You just need to keep air from migrating through the shell. The easiest way is to simply turn them over (the whole carton) once every day or two (there are other methods also). Eggs that have never been refrigerated or washed keep vastly better; I used to ask a farmer to set some aside for me that way. I could go on and on about the foods, but I'll stop unless you have specific questions\r\n\r\nI hope this helps - just give a holler if there's anything I can clarify.\r\n", "pub_date": "2015-07-22T12:32:39", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3056, "fields": {"title": "Dodge Chassis Tips \u00bb dodgetravcos.com - Long Lasting Dodges", "url": "http://www.dodgetravcos.com/index.php?p=1_28_dodge-chassis-tips", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-20T20:01:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3057, "fields": {"title": "TravcoForum.com \u2022 View topic - Wiring nightmare!", "url": "http://www.travcoforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=632", "description": "Are you decent at 12 volt circuits? That will help for sure. Let me offer a description of the way it works...\r\n\r\nThe alternator charges both the engine battery and house batteries through the battery isolator. The isolator prevents the engine and house batteries from connecting to each other so as to prevent drain or damage issues.\r\nThe converter charges the house batteries when the shore cord is plugged into an AC source (such as the generator).\r\n\r\nKnowing this information, you should have a charge wire from the alternator to the isolator. Then a charge wire from each side of the isolator to each battery bank. The engine battery will then feed to the starter relay and the house batteries will feed to the DC panel.", "pub_date": "2015-07-20T20:00:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3058, "fields": {"title": "How To Set Up uWSGI and Nginx to Serve Python Apps on CentOS 7 | DigitalOcean", "url": "https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-uwsgi-and-nginx-to-serve-python-apps-on-centos-7", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-20T15:16:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3059, "fields": {"title": "How to Make Thai Sticky Rice (so it's fluffy and moist!)", "url": "http://www.eatingthaifood.com/2015/02/how-to-make-thai-sticky-rice/", "description": "This is a recipe for how to make Thai sticky rice (\u0e27\u0e34\u0e18\u0e35\u0e17\u0e33 \u0e02\u0e49\u0e32\u0e27\u0e40\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e35\u0e22\u0e27). The best way to make it, is to soak raw sticky rice in water overnight, allow it to sit, then steam it for about 15 minutes. You'll have beautiful fluffy and delicious sticky rice. Read the recipe below, and watch the video here.\r\nAuthor: Mark Wiens (eatingthaifood.com)\r\nRecipe type: How to make sticky rice (Thai style)\r\nCuisine: Thai, Laos\r\nServes: 1 kilo\r\nIngredients\r\nwater to soak rice\r\n1 kg. sticky rice (or however much you want to make)\r\nInstructions\r\nThe night before you want to cook sticky rice, take your raw sticky rice, place it into a bowl or plastic tub, submerge in water, and allow to soak room temperature overnight. Alternatively, you can soak for at least 4 - 5 hours, but overnight is best.\r\nTake the sticky rice out of the water (and the grains should be softer and a little swollen), and place into a bamboo steamer, or any type of steamer. Cover the steamer with either a lid, or you can do what I did and cover the basket with a cloth, then a metal lid - just to keep all the steam within the rice.\r\nAdd water to a pot with the steamer over the pot (just make sure the water doesn\u2019t touch the sticky rice), and once the water comes to a boil, steam for 15 - 20 minutes (usually 15 minutes for me is perfect) on a medium heat.\r\nAfter 15 minutes take off the lid carefully, because it will be very hot, and just grab a taste test of the sticky rice to make sure it\u2019s soft and fluffy. If it\u2019s still a little crunchy, steam for a few more minutes, but if it\u2019s good to go, turn off the heat and either eat immediately, or transfer to some sort of airtight container or basket to hold until you\u2019re ready to eat.\r\nEnjoy Thai sticky rice while it's hot and fresh.", "pub_date": "2015-07-18T20:58:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3060, "fields": {"title": "Authentic Thai Grilled Chicken Recipe (Gai Yang \u0e44\u0e01\u0e48\u0e22\u0e48\u0e32\u0e07)", "url": "http://www.eatingthaifood.com/2014/03/authentic-thai-grilled-chicken-recipe-gai-yang/", "description": "Thai grilled chicken recipe (gai yang \u0e1b\u0e25\u0e32\u0e40\u0e1c\u0e32)\nTime: About 1.5 hours to grill (should marinate the day before)\nRecipe size: 2 whole chicken\nUtensils: Grill\nFlavors: Salty, smokey\nEat it with: Gai yang (\u0e1b\u0e25\u0e32\u0e40\u0e1c\u0e32) is very common to eat in Thailand along with som tam (green papaya salad) and sticky rice. But really, it goes just as well with any kind of rice as well, or just as pure delicious chicken protein.\n\nBe sure to check out more of our recipes here.\n5.0 from 6 reviews\nAuthentic Thai Grilled Chicken Recipe (Gai Yang \u0e44\u0e01\u0e48\u0e22\u0e48\u0e32\u0e07)\n \n\nPrep time\n30 mins\nCook time\n1 hour 30 mins\nTotal time\n2 hours\n \nIf you're looking for a delicious way to make grilled chicken, look no further than Thai style grilled chicken known as gai yang (\u0e44\u0e01\u0e48\u0e22\u0e48\u0e32\u0e07). The chicken is marinated in heaps of garlic, black pepper, lemongrass, palm sugar, and some soy sauce for saltiness. Thai grilled chicken is juicy and full of amazing flavor! Here's the full video recipe: http://youtu.be/3l9omsiaO2M which you should watch before anything else. Also, for more authentic Thai recipes, click here. Enjoy!\nAuthor: Mark Wiens (http://www.eatingthaifood.com/)\nRecipe type: Grilled Chicken\nCuisine: Thai\nServes: 4\nIngredients\n2 whole chickens (mine were 1.8 kilos each)\nBamboo sticks or skewers\nCharcoal\nGrill\nMarinade\n4 tablespoons soy sauce\n1 tablespoon fish sauce\n2 tablespoons palm sugar\n1 tablespoon dark soy sauce\n8 tablespoons water\n4 heads garlic (30 - 40 cloves)\n2 stalks lemongrass\n2.5 tablespoons black pepper corns\n8 coriander roots (optional)\nGai Yang Sauce\n1.5 tablespoons khao kua (see method here)\n1.5 tablespoons chili flakes\n1 tablespoon of sugar\n3 tablespoons fish sauce\n8 tablespoons tamarind juice (you can add more or less according to how strong it is and how sweet and sour you want your sauce)\nFew sprigs of cilantro\nInstructions\nFor this recipe, I\u2019m going to cook 2 full chickens, together weighing in at 3.6 kilos. If you wanted, you could also make this recipe with 3 - 4 kilos of chicken pieces, or really, however much chicken you want.\nFor this gai yang (\u0e44\u0e01\u0e48\u0e22\u0e48\u0e32\u0e07) to be at its finest, it\u2019s best to marinate the chicken overnight and grill it the next day, but if you don't have the time, marinate the chicken for at least a few hours.\nChicken marinade\nPeel about 4 bulbs of garlic, which should be about 30 - 40 cloves in all.\nThinly slice 2 stalks of lemongrass and cut off the roots of 8 stalks of coriander.\nNow comes the hard part, pounding everything using a mortar and pestle (If you don\u2019t have a mortar and pestle you can blend the ingredients in a food processor (but I\u2019d really recommend you invest in a Thai style mortar and pestle).\nAdd small amounts of garlic, lemongrass, black peppercorns, and coriander roots to the mortar and pestle and pound them until the oils come out, and you have a coarse paste. Keep pounding until all the marinade ingredients are finished. You\u2019ll probably need to load the mortar a few times.\nPut all the pounded marinade ingredients in a mixing bowl, stir them up, and add 4 tablespoons of light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, and 2 tablespoons of palm sugar. Mix everything together while adding about 8 tablespoons of water to the mixture. You should end up with a potent marinade that looks like a chunky garlicky sauce.\nIf you\u2019re using whole chickens, you'll want to butterfly cut them starting from the breast side down to the butt. Flatten the chickens out. This is going to prepare it for the grill (Watch the video to see how to do it).\nIn a big pan or mixing bowl start to rub the marinade on the chicken, making sure the garlic, herbs, and soy sauce go into all parts of the chicken. Rub down both chickens using all the marinade.\nCover the chickens and allow them to rest overnight. You might stir them a couple of times if you remember.\nGrilling\nThe next day, take out your chicken, and the first step is to light your charcoal. You want a low even heat, coals that aren't too hot, but a low and even.\nPut the chicken on the grill and begin cooking!\nWait about 20 minutes or so (but monitoring them to make sure they don't burn), before making your first flip. You can baste the chicken with the extra marinade.\nCook the chicken on low heat for about 1.5 hours, until the chicken is cooked through to the bone and the skin is golden dark brown on the outside.\nTake the chicken off the grill, and dismantle the bamboo supports.\nIf you have a Chinese cleaver, first cut the chicken in half from the neck to the butt, and from there cut off the drumstick, wing, and chop the rest of the chicken into strips.\nGai yang sauce (Nam jim jaew \u0e19\u0e49\u0e33\u0e08\u0e34\u0e49\u0e21\u0e41\u0e08\u0e48\u0e27)\nSemi-dried tamarind pulp can usually be bought at the supermarket in a small block. To rehydrate it, get a couple tablespoons of hot water and start to work the tamarind into the hot water. This should turn it into a nice tamarind water sauce.\nIn a bowl, mix 1.5 tablespoons of khao kua (toasted sticky rice, recipe here), 1.5 tablespoons of chili flakes, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 3 tablespoons of fish sauce, and 8 tablespoons of tamarind juice.\nMix all of the ingredients together.\nAfter mixing up the sauce, make sure you taste test. You're looking for the perfect sweet, sour, and salty combination. You might need to add more tamarind juice, more sugar, or more fish sauce to balance it out.\nTop off your gai yang sauce with some chopped up cilantro.\nHappy eating!", "pub_date": "2015-07-18T20:44:49", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3061, "fields": {"title": "Anyone can learn to be a polymath \u2013 Robert Twigger \u2013 Aeon", "url": "http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/anyone-can-learn-to-be-a-polymath/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-16T19:34:59", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3062, "fields": {"title": "Google Web Fonts Typographic Project", "url": "http://femmebot.github.io/google-type/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-07-16T01:22:45", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3063, "fields": {"title": "Setting up Django and your web server with uWSGI and nginx \u2014 uWSGI 2.0 documentation", "url": "http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html", "description": "/usr/local/bin/uwsgi --emperor /etc/uwsgi/vassals --uid www-data --gid www-data", "pub_date": "2015-07-15T03:59:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3064, "fields": {"title": "Apricot and Orange Pork Skewers with Garlic and Rosemary", "url": "http://www.cookingandbeer.com/2015/05/apricot-and-orange-pork-skewers/", "description": "1 cup apricot preserves or jam\r\n1/4 cup olive oil\r\n3 tablespoons honey\r\n3 tablespoons honey dijon mustard\r\n1 tablespoon soy sauce\r\n1 tablespoon orange juice\r\n6 finely minced garlic cloves\r\n4 rosemary sprigs, plus extra for garnish\r\nsalt and black pepper\r\n1 1/2 pounds pork tenderloin, cut into 1 inch pieces\r\n16 cloves of garlic\r\nInstructions\r\n\r\nIn a medium bowl, whisk together the preserves, olive oil, honey, mustard, soy sauce, orange juice, minced garlic, rosemary and a dash of salt and black pepper. Add the pork tenderloin pieces and toss to combine. Cover and place in the fridge to marinate for at least one hour or up to overnight.\r\nOnce the pork has marinated, remove from the fridge. Discard the rosemary and drain the pork. Preheat your grill or grill pan over medium-high heat.\r\nUsing metal or wooden skewers (that have been soaked in water for 30 minutes), alternate skewering the pork and whole garlic cloves. Grew the skewers for about 15 minutes, turning them every 2 minutes or so until cooked through and brown. Remove from heat and serve immediately. 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Please contact us for those state-specific recommendations!", "pub_date": "2015-07-05T02:13:29", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3068, "fields": {"title": "Creamy Plantain and Squash Ground Beef Mash", "url": "http://thehealthyfoodie.com/creamy-plantain-and-squash-ground-beef-mash/", "description": "INGREDIENTS\r\n\r\n1 large onion, chopped\r\n2 cloves garlic, minced\r\n\u00bd tsp Himalayan salt\r\n\u00bd tsp freshly cracked black pepper\r\n450g (1lb) grass-fed lean ground beef\r\n1 dried birds eye chili pepper, chopped\r\n1 tsp Dijon mustard\r\n1 tbsp coconut aminos\r\n\u00bc tsp ground Ceylon cinnamon\r\n\u00bc tsp ground allspice\r\n1 yellow plantain, sliced\r\n1 cup pureed buttercup squash\r\n1\u00bd cup water\r\nINSTRUCTIONS\r\n\r\nIn a heavy skillet set over medium high heat melt a little bit of cooking fat (lard, ghee or coconut oil preferred). When fat is nice and hot, add onions, garlic, salt and pepper and cook until the veggies are fragrant and softened, about 2-3 minutes.\r\nAdd ground beef, chili pepper, cinnamon and allspice and continue cooking until the beef is no longer pink.\r\nStir in the Dijon mustard and coconut aminos, then add the plantain and continue cooking until it becomes really soft and only a few visible pieces remain. It might help to smoosh it with your spoon to better break it down.\r\nAdd squash puree and water and continue cooking until well combined, creamy and heated through.\r\nServe piping hot", "pub_date": "2015-06-30T21:19:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3069, "fields": {"title": "RV Glass Solutions. The Glass Experts, in Eugene, Oregon", "url": "http://www.rvglassexperts.com/rv_windshields.html", "description": "This is the company that did Myrtle", "pub_date": "2015-06-30T14:48:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3070, "fields": {"title": "iOverlander | Find your next destination", "url": "http://www.ioverlander.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-06-27T01:46:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3071, "fields": {"title": "ResponsiveImagesCG/wp-tevko-responsive-images \u00b7 GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/ResponsiveImagesCG/wp-tevko-responsive-images", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-06-20T11:23:56", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3072, "fields": {"title": "Lost in translation? Here\u2019s my top 10 foreign novels | Alison Flood | Comment is free | The Guardian", "url": "http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/11/translation-foreign-novels-edinburgh-book-festival", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-06-18T13:30:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3073, "fields": {"title": "Using Zep to restore oxidized fiberglass - Fiberglass RV", "url": "http://www.fiberglassrv.com/forums/f54/using-zep-to-restore-oxidized-fiberglass-56598.html", "description": "A while back I read on the forum recomendations to use Zep. I just bought a gallon jug and the instructions \" which are for floors\" recommend using 1 or 2 coats of Zep Commercial Stain resistant floor sealer prior to using the Wet Look Finish. Has anyone done this prep on their RV.? Is it necessary, does it prolong the life of the finish?\r\nAll replies and recommendations would be gratefully recieved.", "pub_date": "2015-06-16T13:57:59", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3074, "fields": {"title": "Myrtle - The 1964 Travco Motorhome: Wax on, Wax off - the secrets to shiny fibreglass", "url": "http://myrtleandme.blogspot.ca/2014/08/wax-on-wax-off-secrets-to-shiny.html", "description": "Essentially we first washed Myrtle really, really, really well and used the\u00a0Bar Keepers friend\u00a0powdered cleanser to remove stains, and rinsed it really well. Then we used 6 coats of Zep High Traffic Floor Finish, which goes on much easier than car wax!. Going forward we anticipate just using one coat each year. A week later the results are still terrific! (Note it does not repair crazing, fill in cracks etc but it did bring out the colour of the fibreglass gelcoat and make it nice and shiny).", "pub_date": "2015-06-16T13:57:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3075, "fields": {"title": "How to Make Flour Without a Grain Mill", "url": "http://dontwastethecrumbs.com/2013/06/how-to-make-flour-without-a-grain-mill-giveaway/", "description": "STEP 1\r\n\r\nPour 1/2 cup of whole berries into the coffee grinder.\r\n\r\nAdjust the settings of the grinder to maximum cup and finest grind.\u00a0 This ensures the grains will be ground for as long as possible, as fine as possible.\r\n\r\nGrind the berries through two cycles on the coffee grinder.\u00a0 (My coffee grinder has an auto-timer and shuts off when the cycle is complete.\u00a0 If yours does not shut off automatically, grind for 45 seconds and then repeat.)\r\n\r\nNote:\u00a0 If your grinder is a bit aged like mine, you may notice it getting a bit warm during the process.\u00a0 Apparently the grinder wasn\u2019t designed for those who enjoy multiple pots of freshly ground coffee throughout the morning\u2026 just take your time, letting it rest and cool as necessary.\u00a0 If you know you\u2019ll be needing the flour immediately, you may want to grind it a day or two ahead of time.\u00a0 See tips below on proper storage.\r\n\r\nSTEP 2\r\n\r\nPour ground flour into a small food processor.\u00a0 (Something like the Black Friday $10 processor would do the trick).\r\n\r\nProcess the flour for one full minute.\r\n\r\nPour ground flour into a bowl or bag, to be measured from for the recipe.", "pub_date": "2015-06-16T13:56:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3076, "fields": {"title": "Route 12: The Journey Through Time Scenic ByWay", "url": "http://www.cheaprvliving.com/blog/visiting-bryce-canyon-np-through-route-12-the-journey-through-time-scenic-byway/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-06-15T18:55:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3077, "fields": {"title": "Steamed Collard Greens - Thyroid Diet Coach", "url": "https://www.thyroiddietcoach.com/steamed-collard-green/", "description": "Steamed Collard Greens\r\n\r\n\r\nThis is so fast to make and it is so nutritious, you have to love me for this. No other way. Turns out, collard greens beat even broccoli, chards and brussel sprouts when it comes to overall health benefits. Collard greens excel at : (a) detoxing the body, (b) adding antioxidants, and (c) lowering the inflammatory conditions of our body.\r\n\r\nYou do NOT want to overcook the collard greens as they will then smell of sulfur. So, keep the steaming to no more than 5 min.\r\n\r\nPrep time: 10 min\r\nCooking time: 5 min\r\nMakes: 2-3 servings\r\nThe Ingredients\r\n\r\nOne bunch of collard greens\r\n1/8 cup olive oil\r\n1 lemon, juice of\r\n1 tbsp of sesame seeds\r\nsalt and pepper\r\nSeaweed, like wakame (optional)\r\nThe Making\r\n\r\nWash and cut the collard greens into 1.5 inch ribbons (cut out the stem)\r\nPlace in a steam basket and steam for no more than 5 min\r\nIf using wakame seaweed, soak it for 5-10 min (follow instructions)\r\nCombine olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper into a dressing\r\nToast sesame seeds on a pan, careful not to burn them\r\nPour dressing over collard greens and add the sesame seeds and seaweed.", "pub_date": "2015-06-13T21:00:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3078, "fields": {"title": "Gelatin, stress, longevity", "url": "http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/gelatin.shtml", "description": "If a person eats a large serving of meat, it's probably helpful to have 5 or 10 grams of gelatin at approximately the same time, so that the amino acids enter the blood stream in balance.", "pub_date": "2015-05-25T12:58:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3081, "fields": {"title": "The Hidden Wonders Of The United States You Need To Visit", "url": "http://all-that-is-interesting.com/hidden-wonders#23", "description": "Features some of my photos and some other very cool looking places I'd never heard of...", "pub_date": "2015-04-12T02:25:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3082, "fields": {"title": "WordPress Custom Post Type Code Generator", "url": "http://themergency.com/generators/wordpress-custom-post-types/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-04-10T17:26:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3083, "fields": {"title": "The Oysterman \u2014 THE BITTER SOUTHERNER", "url": "http://bittersoutherner.com/the-oysterman", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-04-10T00:37:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3084, "fields": {"title": "Historical Badass: Mountaineer and Guide Miriam O\u2019Brien Underhill | adventure journal", "url": "http://www.adventure-journal.com/2015/04/historical-badass-mountaineer-and-guide-miriam-obrien-underhill/", "description": "Her essay, Manless Alpine Climbing: The First Woman to Scale the Gr\u00e9pon, the Matterhorn, and Other Famous Peaks Without Masculine Support Relates Her Adventures, was published in National Geographic in 1934. No doubt, that essay and her memoir, Give Me the Hills, have provided inspiration for generations of outdoor athletes who have pushed their sports\u2019 boundaries \u2013 whether women or men. While she proved that men are neither a required, nor particularly necessary, component of adventure, her outdoor legacy is more layered than simply the blasting of prevailing cultural norms. At her very roots, O\u2019Brien was both grounded and encouraged by the simple joy of being in the mountains.", "pub_date": "2015-04-10T00:37:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3085, "fields": {"title": "Backcountry Baby", "url": "http://blog.theclymb.com/passions/camp/backcountry-baby/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-03-30T01:00:14", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3086, "fields": {"title": "THE ABOLITION OF WORK", "url": "http://deoxy.org/endwork.htm", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-03-29T00:35:56", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3087, "fields": {"title": "The Definitive Guide to Nuts | Mark's Daily Apple", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-definitive-guide-to-nuts/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-03-18T14:33:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3088, "fields": {"title": "Thoughts on Pagination", "url": "https://nolancaudill.com/2012/03/24/pagination/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-03-16T20:24:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3089, "fields": {"title": "Seattle \u2014 PaulStamatiou.com", "url": "http://paulstamatiou.com/photos/seattle/", "description": "Really like the javascript that autosizes smaller images to fit 2 or 3 across and then adds a zoom function. Want that for luxagraf.", "pub_date": "2015-03-16T19:46:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3090, "fields": {"title": "What Does My Site Cost?", "url": "http://whatdoesmysitecost.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-03-15T17:01:58", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3091, "fields": {"title": "Sell It Now! How to make money on eBay in just 37 minutes", "url": "http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/how-to-make-money-on-ebay/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-03-13T14:13:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3095, "fields": {"title": "ardour - the digital audio workstation", "url": "http://ardour.org/", "description": "Record, Edit, and Mix\r\non Linux and OS X", "pub_date": "2015-03-11T00:28:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3096, "fields": {"title": "Bulgogi \u2013 Korean Beef BBQ", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20141029234911/http://kimchimari.com/2010/12/06/bulgogi-korean-beef-bbq/", "description": "3 T soy sauce (Kikoman)\n2 T sugar\n1 T honey [ 2 t sugar is also ok ]\n2 T rice cooking wine [sake or leftover red wine is also ok]\n1 T sesame oil\n2 T minced garlic\n1 t ground black pepper\n2 t toasted sesame seeds\n1 T chopped green onion\n2 T pear puree [ pear is a tenderizer - 1 T chopped kiwi or 3 T minced onion will also work] Another emergency fix is to add 2 T or so of diet coke if you find that the meat is too tough. Always good to cook a little piece beforehand and see how it tastes.\nOptional veggie ingredients \u2013 traditionally, Koreans just have the beef by itself but you can add some sliced onions, mushrooms (shitake, white, oyster), bell peppers and even sliced carrots as you cook the meat.", "pub_date": "2015-03-10T17:25:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3097, "fields": {"title": "How to transfer digital assets upon one's unexpected passing", "url": "http://www.dafacto.com/how-to-transfer-confidential-data-upon-ones-passing/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-03-05T14:02:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3098, "fields": {"title": "Rsnapshot on OSX | Rayed's Real Life", "url": "https://rayed.com/wordpress/?p=1693", "description": "Rsnapshot on OSX\r\n\r\nRsnapshot is a backup solution for Unix machines including Linux and OSX, it supports many great features including full backups with the size of only incremental backup, it also support backing up local and remote machines.", "pub_date": "2015-03-04T16:21:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3099, "fields": {"title": "RSnapshot", "url": "http://www.rsnapshot.org/", "description": "rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. 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Thinking of myself as a rebel also doesn\u2019t align very well with the truth of why I made certain decisions in the first place.\r\n\r\nAnother way to frame these same decisions is that I\u2019m being more responsible. I\u2019m honoring and obeying values that are important to me. I\u2019m not actually rebelling against anything. 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Among the world\u2019s first female climbers, she had summited peaks in Ecuador, Norway, and Canada\u2019s Selkirks. In 1909 and 1910, in her late thirties, she spent two months in the high Alps, climbing Mount Blanc, the Matterhorn, and eight others. 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Season with a generous sprinkle of kosher salt & freshly ground pepper. Heat 2 tablespoons of canola oil in a large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Cook the beef in batches, until browned on all sides {about 8 minutes total}. Transfer to a slow cooker. Continue until all the beef is browned & add more oil to the skillet, if necessary.\r\nAdd the remaining tablespoon of oil to the same skillet & add in the onions. Cook until softened & beginning to brown, about 5 minutes. Add in the chicken broth, 1 1/2 cups Guinness, light brown sugar, thyme, chocolate & bay leaves. Bring to a boil & using a wooden spoon, scrape up any brown bits from the bottom of the skillet. Transfer to the slow cooker.\r\nAdd the carrots, parsnips & potatoes to the slow cooker. Cook on low heat for 9-10 hours {or on high for 6-7 hours}.\r\nAt the end of the cooking time, turn the slow cooker up to high. Whisk the flour & remaining 1/4 cup of Guinness until smooth. Then stir the mixture into the stew. Cover & cook an additional 15 minutes, or until the sauce thickens. Stir in the parsley, discard the bay leaves & season with salt & pepper.\r\nYou can brown the beef & prepare the onion mixture the night before & add to the slow cooker in the morning, if desired.\r\nClick here for the printable recipe.", "pub_date": "2015-01-29T12:38:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3117, "fields": {"title": "Luminosity Masks in Darktable | darktable", "url": "http://www.darktable.org/2015/01/luminosity-masks-in-darktable/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-01-26T15:58:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3119, "fields": {"title": "Ledger: Command-Line Accounting", "url": "http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-01-02T14:37:52", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3120, "fields": {"title": "Mayfly Chair - Shop | Alite Designs", "url": "http://shop.alitedesigns.com/mayfly-chair.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-12-30T19:10:33", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3125, "fields": {"title": "Heroines of Frugality and Related Topics Reading List - Early Retirement Extreme Forums", "url": "http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=5750", "description": "reorganizing my library and decided this should be a shelf. Seeking further recommendations or reminders.\r\n\r\nAmy Dacyczyn - \"The Tightwad Gazette\"\r\n\r\nCarol Deppe- \"The Resilient Gardener\"\r\n\r\nAnneli Rufus- \"The Scavenger's Manifesto\" (co-author)\r\n\r\nMargaret Lobenstine- \"The Renaissance Soul\"\r\n\r\nDolly Freed- \"Possum Living\"\r\n\r\nAnna Johnson - \"Savvy Chic\"\r\n\r\nBarbara Sher -\"It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now\" \r\n\r\nVicki Robin - \"Your Money or Your Life\" (co-author)\r\n\r\nCheryl Mendelson - \"Home Comforts\"\r\n\r\nHeather Flores- \"Food Not Lawns\"", "pub_date": "2014-12-30T18:45:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3126, "fields": {"title": "63mph \u2014 Stories \u00b7 from Portland, OR \u00b7 496 days...", "url": "http://63mph.com/post/94534670378/stories-from-portland-or-496-days", "description": "Rural Camping\r\n\r\nThe single most important step to finding (great) free camping is deciding to stop paying for camping. Since there are so many convenient, paid campsites, if you\u2019re not committed to finding free(dom), you won\u2019t find it.\u00a0\r\n\r\n1) Get your mind right. Hunting for free camping with great views and ample resources (water & wood) is work. Think of the hunt as equal to the energy required to cook a good meal or have a thoughtful conversation. If you don\u2019t go into the hunt with these energy expectations, frustration will certainly ensue.\u00a0", "pub_date": "2014-12-27T13:36:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3127, "fields": {"title": "The Ultimate Blueberry Muffins \u2014 Zoe Bakes", "url": "http://zoebakes.com/2013/03/04/the-ultimate-blueberry-muffins/", "description": "Blueberry Muffins with Crumb Topping:\r\n\r\n1 1/2 cups self raising flour or (1 1/2 cups AP, plus 2 teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt)\r\n\r\n1/4 teaspoon nutmeg\r\n\r\n1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted\r\n\r\n3/4 cup brown sugar\r\n\r\n1 egg, lightly beaten\r\n\r\n1/3 cup buttermilk\r\n\r\n1 teaspoon vanilla\r\n\r\n1/8 teaspoon freshly grated ginger (or 1/4 teaspoon lemon zest)\r\n\r\n1 cup frozen or fresh blueberries (if using frozen berries, keep them frozen when you stir them in the batter)\r\n\r\nTopping:\r\n\r\n3 tablespoons all-purpose flour\r\n\r\n1/4 cup sugar\r\n\r\n1 teaspoons cinnamon\r\n\r\n1/8 teaspoon salt\r\n\r\n2 tablespoons butter, chilled\r\n\r\nTo make the muffins:\r\n\r\nPreheat oven to 400\u00b0F (the higher temperature insures a crunchy top. Be sure to bake in the center of the oven.)\r\n\r\nPrepare a muffin pan with 6 Giant Muffin Cups\u00a0or 12 normal sized papers.\r\n\r\nIn a large bowl whisk together the self raising flour and nutmeg. In a separate bowl combine the melted butter, sugar, egg, buttermilk, vanilla and ginger. Gently stir the wet into the dry ingredients only until barely combined. Gently fold in the blueberries. If using frozen berries do this in as few stirs as possible, or the batter will turn purple.", "pub_date": "2014-12-27T13:35:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3128, "fields": {"title": "The Gospel of Consumption", "url": "https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-gospel-of-consumption/", "description": "PRIVATE CARS WERE RELATIVELY SCARCE in 1919 and horse-drawn conveyances were still common. In residential districts, electric streetlights had not yet replaced many of the old gaslights. And within the home, electricity remained largely a luxury item for the wealthy.\r\n\r\nJust ten years later things looked very different. Cars dominated the streets and most urban homes had electric lights, electric flat irons, and vacuum cleaners. In upper-middle-class houses, washing machines, refrigerators, toasters, curling irons, percolators, heating pads, and popcorn poppers were becoming commonplace. And although the first commercial radio station didn't begin broadcasting until 1920, the American public, with an adult population of about 122 million people, bought 4,438,000 radios in the year 1929 alone.\r\n\r\nBut despite the apparent tidal wave of new consumer goods and what appeared to be a healthy appetite for their consumption among the well-to-do, industrialists were worried. They feared that the frugal habits maintained by most American families would be difficult to break. Perhaps even more threatening was the fact that the industrial capacity for turning out goods seemed to be increasing at a pace greater than people's sense that they needed them.\r\n\r\nIt was this latter concern that led Charles Kettering, director of General Motors Research, to write a 1929 magazine article called \"Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied.\" He wasn't suggesting that manufacturers produce shoddy products. Along with many of his corporate cohorts, he was defining a strategic shift for American industry \u2014 from fulfilling basic human needs to creating new ones.\r\n\r\nIn a 1927 interview with the magazine _Nation's Business_, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis provided some numbers to illustrate a problem that the _New York Times_ called \"need saturation.\" Davis noted that \"the textile mills of this country can produce all the cloth needed in six months' operation each year\" and that 14 percent of the American shoe factories could produce a year's supply of footwear. The magazine went on to suggest, \"It may be that the world's needs ultimately will be produced by three days' work a week.\"\r\n\r\nBusiness leaders were less than enthusiastic about the prospect of a society no longer centered on the production of goods. For them, the new \"labor-saving\" machinery presented not a vision of liberation but a threat to their position at the center of power. John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, typified their response when he declared: \"I am for everything that will make work happier but against everything that will further subordinate its importance. The emphasis should be put on work \u2014 more work and better work.\" \"Nothing,\" he claimed, \"breeds radicalism more than unhappiness unless it is leisure.\"\r\n\r\nBy the late 1920s, America's business and political elite had found a way to defuse the dual threat of stagnating economic growth and a radicalized working class in what one industrial consultant called \"the gospel of consumption\" \u2014 the notion that people could be convinced that however much they have, it isn't enough. President Herbert Hoover's 1929 Committee on Recent Economic Changes observed in glowing terms the results: \"By advertising and other promotional devices . . . a measurable pull on production has been created which releases capital otherwise tied up.\" They celebrated the conceptual breakthrough: \"Economically we have a boundless field before us; that there are new wants which will make way endlessly for newer wants, as fast as they are satisfied.\"\r\n\r\nToday \"work and more work\" is the accepted way of doing things. If anything, improvements to the labor-saving machinery since the 1920s have intensified the trend. Machines _can_ save labor, but only if they go idle when we possess enough of what they can produce. In other words, the machinery offers us an opportunity to work less, an opportunity that as a society we have chosen not to take. Instead, we have allowed the owners of those machines to define their purpose: not reduction of labor, but \"higher productivity\" \u2014 and with it the imperative to consume virtually everything that the machinery can possibly produce.\r\n\r\nFROM THE EARLIEST DAYS of the Age of Consumerism there were critics. One of the most influential was Arthur Dahlberg, whose 1932 book _Jobs, Machines, and Capitalism_ was well known to policymakers and elected officials in Washington. Dahlberg declared that \"failure to shorten the length of the working day . . . is the primary cause of our rationing of opportunity, our excess industrial plant, our enormous wastes of competition, our high pressure advertising, [and] our economic imperialism.\" Since much of what industry produced was no longer aimed at satisfying human physical needs, a four-hour workday, he claimed, was necessary to prevent society from becoming disastrously materialistic. \"By not shortening the working day when all the wood is in,\" he suggested, the profit motive becomes \"both the creator and satisfier of spiritual needs.\" For when the profit motive can turn nowhere else, \"it wraps our soap in pretty boxes and tries to convince us that that is solace to our souls.\"\r\n\r\nThere was, for a time, a visionary alternative. In 1930 Kellogg Company, the world's leading producer of ready-to-eat cereal, announced that all of its nearly fifteen hundred workers would move from an eight-hour to a six-hour workday. Company president Lewis Brown and owner W. K. Kellogg noted that if the company ran \"four six-hour shifts . . . instead of three eight-hour shifts, this will give work and paychecks to the heads of three hundred more families in Battle Creek.\"\r\n\r\nThis was welcome news to workers at a time when the country was rapidly descending into the Great Depression. But as Benjamin Hunnicutt explains in his book _Kellogg's Six-Hour Day_, Brown and Kellogg wanted to do more than save jobs. They hoped to show that the \"free exchange of goods, services, and labor in the free market would not have to mean mindless consumerism or eternal exploitation of people and natural resources.\" Instead \"workers would be liberated by increasingly higher wages and shorter hours for the final freedom promised by the Declaration of Independence \u2014 the pursuit of happiness.\"\r\n\r\nTo be sure, Kellogg did not intend to stop making a profit. But the company leaders argued that men and women would work more efficiently on shorter shifts, and with more people employed, the overall purchasing power of the community would increase, thus allowing for more purchases of goods, including cereals.\r\n\r\nA shorter workday did entail a cut in overall pay for workers. But Kellogg raised the hourly rate to partially offset the loss and provided for production bonuses to encourage people to work hard. The company eliminated time off for lunch, assuming that workers would rather work their shorter shift and leave as soon as possible. In a \"personal letter\" to employees, Brown pointed to the \"mental income\" of \"the enjoyment of the surroundings of your home, the place you work, your neighbors, the other pleasures you have [that are] harder to translate into dollars and cents.\" Greater leisure, he hoped, would lead to \"higher standards in school and civic . . . life\" that would benefit the company by allowing it to \"draw its workers from a community where good homes predominate.\"\r\n\r\nIt was an attractive vision, and it worked. Not only did Kellogg prosper, but journalists from magazines such as _Forbes_ and _BusinessWeek_ reported that the great majority of company employees embraced the shorter workday. One reporter described \"a lot of gardening and community beautification, athletics and hobbies . . . libraries well patronized and the mental background of these fortunate workers . . . becoming richer.\"\r\n\r\nA U.S. Department of Labor survey taken at the time, as well as interviews Hunnicutt conducted with former workers, confirm this picture. The government interviewers noted that \"little dissatisfaction with lower earnings resulting from the decrease in hours was expressed, although in the majority of cases very real decreases had resulted.\" One man spoke of \"more time at home with the family.\" Another remembered: \"I could go home and have time to work in my garden.\" A woman noted that the six-hour shift allowed her husband to \"be with 4 boys at ages it was important.\"\r\n\r\nThose extra hours away from work also enabled some people to accomplish things that they might never have been able to do otherwise. Hunnicutt describes how at the end of her interview an eighty-year-old woman began talking about ping-pong. \"We'd get together. We had a ping-pong table and all my relatives would come for dinner and things and we'd all play ping-pong by the hour.\" Eventually she went on to win the state championship.\r\n\r\nMany women used the extra time for housework. But even then, they often chose work that drew in the entire family, such as canning. One recalled how canning food at home became \"a family project\" that \"we all enjoyed,\" including her sons, who \"opened up to talk freely.\" As Hunnicutt puts it, canning became the \"medium for something more important than preserving food. Stories, jokes, teasing, quarreling, practical instruction, songs, griefs, and problems were shared. The modern discipline of alienated work was left behind for an older . . . more convivial kind of working together.\"\r\n\r\nThis was the stuff of a human ecology in which thousands of small, almost invisible, interactions between family members, friends, and neighbors create an intricate structure that supports social life in much the same way as topsoil supports our biological existence. When we allow either one to become impoverished, whether out of greed or intemperance, we put our long-term survival at risk.\r\n\r\nOur modern predicament is a case in point. By 2005 per capita household spending (in inflation-adjusted dollars) was twelve times what it had been in 1929, while per capita spending for durable goods \u2014 the big stuff such as cars and appliances \u2014 was thirty-two times higher. Meanwhile, by 2000 the average married couple with children was working almost five hundred hours a year more than in 1979. And according to reports by the Federal Reserve Bank in 2004 and 2005, over 40 percent of American families spend more than they earn. The average household carries $18,654 in debt, not including home-mortgage debt, and the ratio of household debt to income is at record levels, having roughly doubled over the last two decades. We are quite literally working ourselves into a frenzy just so we can consume all that our machines can produce.\r\n\r\nYet we could work and spend a lot less and still live quite comfortably. By 1991 the amount of goods and services produced for each hour of labor was double what it had been in 1948. By 2006 that figure had risen another 30 percent. In other words, if as a society we made a collective decision to get by on the amount we produced and consumed seventeen years ago, we could cut back from the standard forty-hour week to 5.3 hours per day \u2014 or 2.7 hours if we were willing to return to the 1948 level. We were already the richest country on the planet in 1948 and most of the world has not yet caught up to where we were then.\r\n\r\nRather than realizing the enriched social life that Kellogg's vision offered us, we have impoverished our human communities with a form of materialism that leaves us in relative isolation from family, friends, and neighbors. We simply don't have time for them. Unlike our great-grandparents who passed the time, we spend it. An outside observer might conclude that we are in the grip of some strange curse, like a modern-day King Midas whose touch turns everything into a product built around a microchip.\r\n\r\nOf course not everybody has been able to take part in the buying spree on equal terms. Millions of Americans work long hours at poverty wages while many others can find no work at all. However, as advertisers well know, poverty does not render one immune to the gospel of consumption.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, the influence of the gospel has spread far beyond the land of its origin. Most of the clothes, video players, furniture, toys, and other goods Americans buy today are made in distant countries, often by underpaid people working in sweatshop conditions. The raw material for many of those products comes from clearcutting or strip mining or other disastrous means of extraction. Here at home, business activity is centered on designing those products, financing their manufacture, marketing them \u2014 and counting the profits.\r\n\r\nKELLOGG'S VISION, DESPITE ITS POPULARITY with his employees, had little support among his fellow business leaders. But Dahlberg's book had a major influence on Senator (and future Supreme Court justice) Hugo Black who, in 1933, introduced legislation requiring a thirty-hour workweek. Although Roosevelt at first appeared to support Black's bill, he soon sided with the majority of businessmen who opposed it. Instead, Roosevelt went on to launch a series of policy initiatives that led to the forty-hour standard that we more or less observe today.\r\n\r\nBy the time the Black bill came before Congress, the prophets of the gospel of consumption had been developing their tactics and techniques for at least a decade. However, as the Great Depression deepened, the public mood was uncertain, at best, about the proper role of the large corporation. Labor unions were gaining in both public support and legal legitimacy, and the Roosevelt administration, under its New Deal program, was implementing government regulation of industry on an unprecedented scale. Many corporate leaders saw the New Deal as a serious threat. James A. Emery, general counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), issued a \"call to arms\" against the \"shackles of irrational regulation\" and the \"back-breaking burdens of taxation,\" characterizing the New Deal doctrines as \"alien invaders of our national thought.\"\r\n\r\nIn response, the industrial elite represented by NAM, including General Motors, the big steel companies, General Foods, DuPont, and others, decided to create their own propaganda. An internal NAM memo called for \"re-selling all of the individual Joe Doakes on the advantages and benefits he enjoys under a competitive economy.\" NAM launched a massive public relations campaign it called the \"American Way.\" As the minutes of a NAM meeting described it, the purpose of the campaign was to link \"free enterprise in the public consciousness with free speech, free press and free religion as integral parts of democracy.\"\r\n\r\nConsumption was not only the linchpin of the campaign; it was also recast in political terms. A campaign booklet put out by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency told readers that under \"private capitalism, the _Consumer_, the _Citizen_ is boss,\" and \"he doesn't have to wait for election day to vote or for the Court to convene before handing down his verdict. The consumer 'votes' each time he buys one article and rejects another.\"\r\n\r\nAccording to Edward Bernays, one of the founders of the field of public relations and a principal architect of the American Way, the choices available in the polling booth are akin to those at the department store; both should consist of a limited set of offerings that are carefully determined by what Bernays called an \"invisible government\" of public-relations experts and advertisers working on behalf of business leaders. Bernays claimed that in a \"democratic society\" we are and should be \"governed, our minds . . . molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.\"\r\n\r\nNAM formed a national network of groups to ensure that the booklet from J. Walter Thompson and similar material appeared in libraries and school curricula across the country. The campaign also placed favorable articles in newspapers (often citing \"independent\" scholars who were paid secretly) and created popular magazines and film shorts directed to children and adults with such titles as \"Building Better Americans,\" \"The Business of America's People Is Selling,\" and \"America Marching On.\"\r\n\r\nPerhaps the biggest public relations success for the American Way campaign was the 1939 New York World's Fair. The fair's director of public relations called it \"the greatest public relations program in industrial history,\" one that would battle what he called the \"New Deal propaganda.\" The fair's motto was \"Building the World of Tomorrow,\" and it was indeed a forum in which American corporations literally modeled the future they were determined to create. The most famous of the exhibits was General Motors' 35,000-square-foot Futurama, where visitors toured Democracity, a metropolis of multilane highways that took its citizens from their countryside homes to their jobs in the skyscraper-packed central city.\r\n\r\nFor all of its intensity and spectacle, the campaign for the American Way did not create immediate, widespread, enthusiastic support for American corporations or the corporate vision of the future. But it did lay the ideological groundwork for changes that came after the Second World War, changes that established what is still commonly called our post-war society.\r\n\r\nThe war had put people back to work in numbers that the New Deal had never approached, and there was considerable fear that unemployment would return when the war ended. Kellogg workers had been working forty-eight-hour weeks during the war and the majority of them were ready to return to a six-hour day and thirty-hour week. Most of them were able to do so, for a while. But W. K. Kellogg and Lewis Brown had turned the company over to new managers in 1937.\r\n\r\nThe new managers saw only costs and no benefits to the six-hour day, and almost immediately after the end of the war they began a campaign to undermine shorter hours. Management offered workers a tempting set of financial incentives if they would accept an eight-hour day. Yet in a vote taken in 1946, 77 percent of the men and 87 percent of the women wanted to return to a thirty-hour week rather than a forty-hour one. In making that choice, they also chose a fairly dramatic drop in earnings from artificially high wartime levels.\r\n\r\nThe company responded with a strategy of attrition, offering special deals on a department-by-department basis where eight hours had pockets of support, typically among highly skilled male workers. In the culture of a post-war, post-Depression U.S., that strategy was largely successful. But not everyone went along. Within Kellogg there was a substantial, albeit slowly dwindling group of people Hunnicutt calls the \"mavericks,\" who resisted longer work hours. They clustered in a few departments that had managed to preserve the six-hour day until the company eliminated it once and for all in 1985.\r\n\r\nThe mavericks rejected the claims made by the company, the union, and many of their co-workers that the extra money they could earn on an eight-hour shift was worth it. Despite the enormous difference in societal wealth between the 1930s and the 1980s, the language the mavericks used to explain their preference for a six-hour workday was almost identical to that used by Kellogg workers fifty years earlier. One woman, worried about the long hours worked by her son, said, \"He has no time to live, to visit and spend time with his family, and to do the other things he really loves to do.\"\r\n\r\nSeveral people commented on the link between longer work hours and consumerism. One man said, \"I was getting along real good, so there was no use in me working any more time than I had to.\" He added, \"Everybody thought they were going to get rich when they got that eight-hour deal and it really didn't make a big difference. . . . Some went out and bought automobiles right quick and they didn't gain much on that because the car took the extra money they had.\"\r\n\r\nThe mavericks, well aware that longer work hours meant fewer jobs, called those who wanted eight-hour shifts plus overtime \"work hogs.\" \"Kellogg's was laying off people,\" one woman commented, \"while some of the men were working really fantastic amounts of overtime \u2014 that's just not fair.\" Another quoted the historian Arnold Toynbee, who said, \"We will either share the work, or take care of people who don't have work.\"\r\n\r\nPEOPLE IN THE DEPRESSION-WRACKED 1930s, with what seems to us today to be a very low level of material goods, readily chose fewer work hours for the same reasons as some of their children and grandchildren did in the 1980s: to have more time for themselves and their families. We could, as a society, make a similar choice today.\r\n\r\nBut we cannot do it as individuals. The mavericks at Kellogg held out against company and social pressure for years, but in the end the marketplace didn't offer them a choice to work less and consume less. The reason is simple: that choice is at odds with the foundations of the marketplace itself \u2014 at least as it is currently constructed. The men and women who masterminded the creation of the consumerist society understood that theirs was a political undertaking, and it will take a powerful political movement to change course today.\r\n\r\nBernays's version of a \"democratic society,\" in which political decisions are marketed to consumers, has many modern proponents. Consider a comment by Andrew Card, George W. Bush's former chief of staff. When asked why the administration waited several months before making its case for war against Iraq, Card replied, \"You don't roll out a new product in August.\" And in 2004, one of the leading legal theorists in the United States, federal judge Richard Posner, declared that \"representative democracy . . . involves a division between rulers and ruled,\" with the former being \"a governing class,\" and the rest of us exercising a form of \"consumer sovereignty\" in the political sphere with \"the power not to buy a particular product, a power to choose though not to create.\"\r\n\r\nSometimes an even more blatant antidemocratic stance appears in the working papers of elite think tanks. One such example is the prominent Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington's 1975 contribution to a Trilateral Commission report on \"The Crisis of Democracy.\" Huntington warns against an \"excess of democracy,\" declaring that \"a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and noninvolvement on the part of some individuals and groups.\" Huntington notes that \"marginal social groups, as in the case of the blacks, are now becoming full participants in the political system\" and thus present the \"danger of overloading the political system\" and undermining its authority.\r\n\r\nAccording to this elite view, the people are too unstable and ignorant for self-rule. \"Commoners,\" who are viewed as factors of production at work and as consumers at home, must adhere to their proper roles in order to maintain social stability. Posner, for example, disparaged a proposal for a national day of deliberation as \"a small but not trivial reduction in the amount of productive work.\" Thus he appears to be an ideological descendant of the business leader who warned that relaxing the imperative for \"more work and better work\" breeds \"radicalism.\"\r\n\r\nAs far back as 1835, Boston workingmen striking for shorter hours declared that they needed time away from work to be good citizens: \"We have rights, and we have duties to perform as American citizens and members of society.\" As those workers well understood, any meaningful democracy requires citizens who are empowered to create and re-create their government, rather than a mass of marginalized voters who merely choose from what is offered by an \"invisible\" government. Citizenship requires a commitment of time and attention, a commitment people cannot make if they are lost to themselves in an ever-accelerating cycle of work and consumption.\r\n\r\nWe can break that cycle by turning off our machines when they have created enough of what we need. Doing so will give us an opportunity to re-create the kind of healthy communities that were beginning to emerge with Kellogg's six-hour day, communities in which human welfare is the overriding concern rather than subservience to machines and those who own them. We can create a society where people have time to play together as well as work together, time to act politically in their common interests, and time even to argue over what those common interests might be. That fertile mix of human relationships is necessary for healthy human societies, which in turn are necessary for sustaining a healthy planet.\r\n\r\nIf we want to save the Earth, we must also save ourselves from ourselves. We can start by sharing the work _and_ the wealth. We may just find that there is plenty of both to go around.\r\n\r\n_This article, along with other landmark _Orion_ essays about transformative action, are collected in a new anthology, _Change Everything Now_. Order your copy [here][1]._\r\n\r\n[1]: http://www.orionmagazine.org/books\r\n", "pub_date": "2014-12-18T20:09:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3129, "fields": {"title": "Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies Recipe", "url": "http://www.marthastewart.com/333938/old-fashioned-sugar-cookies", "description": "INGREDIENTS\n\n3 cups all-purpose flour\n1 teaspoon baking soda\n1/4 teaspoon salt\n1 3/4 cups granulated sugar\n1/4 cup packed light-brown sugar\n1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest, plus 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice\n1 cup unsalted butter, (2 sticks), softened\n2 large eggs\nSanding sugar, for sprinkling\nDIRECTIONS\n\nPreheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl; set aside.\n\nPut sugars and lemon zest in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed 30 seconds. Add butter; mix until pale and fluffy, about 1 minute. Mix in eggs, 1 at a time, and then the lemon juice. Reduce speed; gradually add flour mixture, and mix until just combined.\n\nScoop dough using a 2-inch ice cream scoop; space cookies 2 inches apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Flatten cookies slightly with a spatula. Sprinkle tops with sanding sugar, then lightly brush with a wet pastry brush; sprinkle with more sanding sugar.\nBake cookies until golden, about 15 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks using a spatula; let cool completely. Cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days.", "pub_date": "2014-12-14T13:48:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3130, "fields": {"title": "PsycNET - Display Record", "url": "http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/xge/143/5/1980/", "description": "Connecting with others increases happiness, but strangers in close proximity routinely ignore each other. Why? Two reasons seem likely: Either solitude is a more positive experience than interacting with strangers, or people misunderstand the consequences of distant social connections. To examine the experience of connecting to strangers, we instructed commuters on trains and buses to connect with a stranger near them, to remain disconnected, or to commute as normal (Experiments 1a and 2a). In both contexts, participants reported a more positive (and no less productive) experience when they connected than when they did not. Separate participants in each context, however, expected precisely the opposite outcome, predicting a more positive experience in solitude (Experiments 1b and 2b). This mistaken preference for solitude stems partly from underestimating others\u2019 interest in connecting (Experiments 3a and 3b), which in turn keeps people from learning the actual consequences of social interaction (Experiments 4a and 4b). The pleasure of connection seems contagious: In a laboratory waiting room, participants who were talked to had equally positive experiences as those instructed to talk (Experiment 5). Human beings are social animals. Those who misunderstand the consequences of social interactions may not, in at least some contexts, be social enough for their own well-being. 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Can you tell me about him or her?\r\nWhat was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?\r\nWho has been the biggest influence on your life? What lessons did that person teach you?\r\nWho has been the kindest to you in your life?\r\nWhat are the most important lessons you\u2019ve learned in life?\r\nWhat is your earliest memory?", "pub_date": "2014-11-13T15:15:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3150, "fields": {"title": "Plan Your Escape! Part 2: Good Intentions | New Escapologist", "url": "http://newescapologist.co.uk/2014/11/05/plan-your-escape-part-2/", "description": "The importance of this exercise can\u2019t be overstated: a clear aim gives us a sense of purpose that informs and guides the remainder of our planning effort, as well as our subsequent execution of said plan.\r\n\r\nOur aim is the \u201cwhere am I going? (and why)\u201d portion of \u201cwhere am I? where am I going? how do I get there?\u201d\r\n\r\n...\r\n\r\nThe key is to get beyond\u2013or rather beneath\u2013the material, status-based, or situational outcomes that you have\u00a0in mind. A healthy dose of skepticism comes in handy, and you might just conclude that\u00a0you\u2019ve led yourself astray. The first\u00a0time my wife and I really did this, we sold our\u00a0house. Why? Because a house in the suburbs simply didn\u2019t jibe with the\u00a0attributes that we saw in our desired future: financial flexibility, maximum leisure, minimum\u00a0stress.", "pub_date": "2014-11-11T17:19:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3151, "fields": {"title": "Bash image tools for web designers - BrettTerpstra.com", "url": "http://brettterpstra.com/2013/07/24/bash-image-tools-for-web-designers/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-04-21T18:41:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3152, "fields": {"title": "Some command line tips for the web developer", "url": "http://tosbourn.com/some-command-line-tips-for-the-web-developer/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-04-21T18:40:43", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3153, "fields": {"title": "How I paid off $15,000 in 9 months by selling my \u2018Stuff\u2019 on Ebay", "url": "http://manvsdebt.com/sell-stuff-on-ebay/", "description": "I started listing about 10 items a week on eBay (and a few larger items on Craigslist). \u00a0Some weeks when I had a few extra hours I\u2019d list more and other weeks I didn\u2019t have time to list anything.\r\n\r\nI kept at it, though, and slowly but surely things started to sell.\u00a0 Every time my Paypal account reached $500 or $1000 I transferred it over to put an additional payment towards my student loan balance. \u00a0Little by little the amount owed kept going down. When I got it under $10,000, I was stoked and motivated.\u00a0 Over the next few months, I saw it decrease to only $5,000, then $1,000, and then before I knew it\u2026 $0.", "pub_date": "2015-03-13T14:12:05", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3154, "fields": {"title": "Not Earning Enough? Curl That Bicep and Flex Your Hustle Muscle | Afford Anything", "url": "http://affordanything.com/2014/11/24/flex-your-hustle-muscle-side-hustle-ideas/", "description": "Most people who are new to the world of personal finance will immediately turn their focus to cost-cutting, because it provides immediate gratification and instant payoff. Chop your cable bill, declare a two-week moratorium on dining out, and voila \u2014 you now have an extra $150 per month in your budget.\r\n\r\nBut cost-cutting has its limits. You can\u2019t frugal your way to wealth. If you\u2019re earning $30,000 per year, taking home $26,000 after taxes, and living on half \u2014 $13,000 \u2014 while you eat Ramen noodles in grandma\u2019s basement, you are living an extra-extra-frugal life by anyone\u2019s definition. But the $13,000 that you save annually won\u2019t even come close to maxing out your 401k. And you probably don\u2019t want to continue this $13,000 lifestyle forever.\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s why earning more is powerful. The more you earn, the easier it is to save \u2014 and to widen that gap.", "pub_date": "2015-03-13T14:09:54", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3155, "fields": {"title": "Oliver | An Introduction to Unix", "url": "http://www.oliverelliott.org/article/computing/tut_unix/#100UsefulUnixCommands", "description": "As we navigate through the filesystem, there are some conventions. The current working directory (cwd)\u2014whatever directory we happen to be in at the moment\u2014is specified by a dot:\r\n.", "pub_date": "2015-03-13T14:08:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3156, "fields": {"title": "From Desire to Reality: Why Setting Goals Is Critical for Success | Mark's Daily Apple", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/from-desire-to-reality-why-setting-goals-is-critical-for-success/", "description": "From desire to reality, a five-step approach:\r\n\r\nDream away! I am serious, the best way to stay motivated with your goals is to create ones that are based on values, needs and desires that are current and relevant to you. So dreaming about what you would like your life to look like is an excellent way to get started with your goals.\r\nDefine the dream (creating objectives): Once you have an idea of what you desire, take the time to define it in real terms. For example, you might dream of being healthier, but what does that mean? It probably means eating healthier, moving more, reducing your stress, and maybe even eradicating any current health problems you have. By creating a definition of your dream you have your objectives and the starting point for setting goals.\r\nLet\u2019s pause here for a second. Step 2 is where most people stop, because what they defined feels like a plan, but it is very important you understand that these are just starting goals, and not even great ones at that because they are vague, so there is a bit more work to do.\r\n\r\nDescribe your outcome (creating specific goals): In research they speak of operationalizing goals, which means concretely describing what one expects to happen. Going back to the example above, one of the definitions of being healthier was \u201cmoving more.\u201d In order to operationalize that goal the question you would want to ask is \u201cwhat does moving more look like to me?\u201d It might mean working out three times a week, getting up from your desk and moving for 15 minutes or more at lunch, giving in to your best-friend\u2019s insistent requests to join her for yoga once a week. With these concrete elements not only do you know what your outcome is going to look like, but you can also create a plan of action that will specifically address your needs.\r\nPlan, plan and plan: With step 3 you are WAY ahead of the pack. You have a vision of what you want based on current desires, you have a larger objective and you have specific goals that will allow you to reach that objective. Now all that is left is to plan your journey. Plans need to be realistic, achievable and structured.\r\nFirst things first you have to decide which objectives or goals you will be focusing on. Don\u2019t try to work on more than two or three goals at a time. You can do this by either focusing on goals that belong to a same objective, or selecting introductory goals from different objectives.\r\nExamine each goal and identify what you need to put the new behavior in place \u2013 these can be concrete things like gym clothes, the right kinds of foods, a resource like the Primal Blueprint book, or more abstract things such as a friend to go to the gym with, moral support, a shift in your evening schedule to allow time for the gym, etc.\r\nPut it in the books: Set a specific date and time when you are going to start implementing your plan. Also, make sure you carve out time to actively carry out your plan.\r\nAnticipate roadblocks: Another mistake people often make is failing to anticipate barriers to change. Barriers can be:\r\nsituational: a party with a whole bunch of your trigger foods, a meeting that runs over into your gym time, getting sick\r\ncognitive: any assumption you have that will make it harder for you to carry out your plan\r\nemotional: fear is the biggest emotional barrier most people face.\r\nWhatever your barriers, you have to know them so you can recognize and outsmart them.", "pub_date": "2015-02-16T21:04:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3159, "fields": {"title": "Life on the Command Line", "url": "http://stephenramsay.us/2011/04/09/life-on-the-command-line/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-12-30T18:58:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3160, "fields": {"title": "Invaluable command line tools for web developers", "url": "http://www.coderholic.com/invaluable-command-line-tools-for-web-developers/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-12-30T18:57:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3161, "fields": {"title": "A very basic introduction to the Command Line, Terminal, and Shell. | Matt Wilcox", "url": "https://mattwilcox.net/archives/a-very-basic-introduction-to-the-command-line-terminal-and-shell/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-12-30T18:57:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3162, "fields": {"title": "A Whirlwind Tour of Web Developer Tools: Command Line Utilities - Wern Ancheta", "url": "http://wern-ancheta.com/blog/2014/03/08/a-whirlwind-tour-of-web-developer-tools-command-line-utilities/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-12-30T18:57:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3163, "fields": {"title": "Record recently sold homes from your zip code in Google Drive by trackif - IFTTT", "url": "https://ifttt.com/recipes/222002-record-recently-sold-homes-from-your-zip-code-in-google-drive", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-12-04T11:50:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3164, "fields": {"title": "We Bought House #4! Check it Out! | Afford Anything", "url": "http://affordanything.com/2013/07/18/rental-income-percentage-of-purchase-price/", "description": "Why is the One Percent Rule so critical?\r\n\r\nIf the monthly rent is 1 percent of the purchase price, then the yearly rent is 12 percent of the purchase price. Your GROSS return is 12 percent annually.\r\n\r\nBut vacancies, maintenance, repairs, taxes, insurance, and management will take a huge bite out of your gross profits. Let\u2019s assume two scenarios:\r\n\r\n#1: You live in a state with massive property taxes. You have pricey insurance. You get overloaded with repairs, maintenance and vacancies. These costs consume 50 percent of your gross rent.\r\n\r\nYou\u2019re left with a 6 percent cash flow return. Plus, the house appreciates at the rate of inflation, 3 percent.\r\n\r\nTotal return = 9 percent annually.", "pub_date": "2014-11-24T01:20:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3165, "fields": {"title": "What I Wish I Knew Before Buying Rental Property - The Simple Dollar", "url": "http://www.thesimpledollar.com/what-i-wish-we-knew-before-buying-rental-property/", "description": "Your Property Taxes Might Explode\n\nRenters Can Do More Damage Than You Realize\n\nGood Tenants are Worth Their Weight In Gold\n\nRepairs Will Be Expensive and Unexpected", "pub_date": "2014-11-24T00:50:03", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3166, "fields": {"title": "Plan Your Escape! Part 1: Why Bother? | New Escapologist", "url": "http://newescapologist.co.uk/2014/10/29/plan-your-escape-part-1/", "description": "The Combat Estimate, which I learned about during my military service. The Estimate is comprised of four steps:\r\n\r\n1) Aim.\r\n\r\n2) Factors.\r\n\r\n3) Courses.\r\n\r\n4) Plan.\r\n\r\nHere at New Escapologist, however,\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0interested in a project\u00a0that\u2019s so much more appealing\u00a0than mortal combat: life, and how to live it well.\r\n\r\n1) Aim. What does it mean (for you) to live well?\u00a0Are you sure about that?\r\n\r\n2) Factors. What aspects about\u00a0your own character\u00a0and your situation\u00a0do\u00a0you need to consider, and how do they inform and shape your\u00a0solution?\r\n\r\n3) Courses. What avenues are realistically available to you?\r\n\r\n4) Plan. Among the options available, which path grants you the greatest probability of achieving the good life?", "pub_date": "2014-11-11T17:18:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3167, "fields": {"title": "The Story of Place on Vimeo", "url": "http://vimeo.com/109092069", "description": "\u201cWhat is this place worth in oil? Where do we want to steer our civilization? What do we want left when we\u2019re done? \u2014 Craig Childs, The Story of Place\r\nCanyonlands National Park, and the lands that border it are part of a complex tale of political horse-trading, pressures for resource extraction and recreational opportunities. Above all, this land is the true Wild West, a rugged and vastly untouched landscape, a place where we can find our true human spirit.", "pub_date": "2014-11-11T16:43:24", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3168, "fields": {"title": "Pricing", "url": "https://memberful.com/pricing/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-11-11T15:31:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3169, "fields": {"title": "10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server", "url": "https://ewan.im/900/10-million-hits-a-day-with-wordpress-using-a-15-server", "description": "# 10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server | Ewan's Blog on IT and stuff10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server\r\n\r\n[**Update 2] \u2013 It seems W3 Total Cache support has been silently discontinued \u2013 it's not been updated for over 12 months now, and has allegedly got some security issues. Because of this, I would recommend not installing W3 Total Cache as part of these instructions, everything else should run fine. [/Update] \r\n**\r\n\r\n[**Update] \u2013 I've tested this using the new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Edition, and the settings all appear to work correctly without modification. Let me know if you find a problem [/Update]**\r\n\r\n[**Update September 2013] \u2013 I've recently moved my own blog hosting to a $10 a month VPS from [Digital Ocean][1] (that link gets you a $10 discount via an affiliate link) and have been very happy with them, including the performance of the blog. \r\n** \r\nThese instructions are the rather verbose, but hopefully easy enough to follow, steps to build a new Linux server using Varnish, Nginx, W3 Total Cache, and WordPress, to build a WordPress blog on a Amazon Micro server (or equivalent), all costing under $15 a month, capable of [sustaining 10 million hits per day][2], as measured by [blitz.io][3].\r\n\r\n**10 Million hits per day with WordPress on a $15 virtual server**\r\n\r\nInstall Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) on a new virtual private server- it needs to be 11.10 for all the packages that I'm going to list to work out of the box, but it's all possible to do with other distributions.\r\n\r\nI used Amazon EC2 to build my test server, but Linode are also very good. **As of September 2013, this blog is now hosted on [Digital Ocean][4]**\r\n\r\nFor the purpose of the documentation, my server details were as follows, yours will be different:\r\n\r\nPublic DNS Name: ec2-23-20-235-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com \r\nPublic IP Address: 23.20.235.223\r\n\r\n**Login to the server and become root \r\n**\r\n\r\nlogin as ubuntu via ssh, then run the sudo -i command to become root\r\n\r\n> ssh ubuntu@ec2-23-20-235-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com \r\nsudo -i\r\n\r\n**Configure a firewall first \r\n**\r\n\r\nSince we're going to be installing various network services which by default listen on all interfaces, it's important to configure a firewall.\r\n\r\nFor Ubuntu, this is nice and easy, simply use the ufw package.\r\n\r\nExecute the following commands to configure it:\r\n\r\n> ufw allow ssh \r\nufw allow http \r\nufw logging off \r\nufw enable\r\n\r\nOnce this is done, your server has a relatively secure firewall, though it's worth looking at fail2ban to prevent brute force password attacks.\r\n\r\nIf you're using Amazon EC2, you'll also need to open the Security Group to allow traffic on port 80. You can do this using the [AWS Security Groups Console][5], you might need to change the region. Select the security group you used when you started the instance, and then click \"Inbound\", then select \"HTTP\" from the drop down menu, then finally click \"Add Rule\". You don't need to restart the instance for it to take effect.\r\n\r\n**Install and Configure MySQL \r\n**\r\n\r\n> apt-get update \r\napt-get install mysql-server\r\n\r\nWhen prompted, set a mysql \"root\" user password\r\n\r\n> mysql -u root -p\r\n\r\nWhen prompted, enter your newly set root password\r\n\r\nAt the mysql> prompt, run the following 4 commands, replacing ENTER_A_PASSWORD with a password of your own\r\n\r\n> CREATE DATABASE wordpress; \r\nGRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO \"wp_user\"@\"localhost\" IDENTIFIED BY \"ENTER_A_PASSWORD\"; \r\nFLUSH PRIVILEGES; \r\nEXIT\r\n\r\nThat's MySQL installed, ready for the PHP and Web server installation (nginx).\r\n\r\n**Install and configure PHP \r\n**\r\n\r\nWe need to install not just PHP, but the PHP FPM system, APC, and the MySQL module\r\n\r\n> apt-get install php5-fpm php-pear php5-common php5-mysql php-apc php5-gd\r\n\r\n**Edit /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini and add these lines at the bottom:**\r\n\r\n> [apc] \r\napc.write_lock = 1 \r\napc.slam_defense = 0\r\n\r\n**Edit /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf**\r\n\r\nReplace\r\n\r\n> listen = 127.0.0.1:9000\r\n\r\nwith\r\n\r\n> listen = /dev/shm/php-fpm-www.sock\r\n\r\nBelow that, insert these 3 lines\r\n\r\n> listen.owner = nginx \r\nlisten.group = nginx \r\nlisten.mode = 0660\r\n\r\nThen, further down in the same file, replace these 2 lines\r\n\r\n> user = www-data \r\ngroup = www-data\r\n\r\nwith\r\n\r\n> user = nginx \r\ngroup = nginx\r\n\r\nSave the file, PHP FPM is now complete, but it won't work until we install nginx, so don't worry about starting it now.\r\n\r\n**Install and Configure Nginx \r\n**\r\n\r\nInstructions based on the [Nginx website][6].\r\n\r\nDownload the nginx secure key to verify the package\r\n\r\n> cd /tmp/ \r\nwget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key \r\napt-key add /tmp/nginx_signing.key\r\n\r\nAdd the sources to the APT sources file by running these 2 commands (the >> is important!)\r\n\r\n> echo \"deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ lucid nginx\" >> /etc/apt/sources.list \r\necho \"deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ lucid nginx\" >> /etc/apt/sources.list\r\n\r\nDownload and install nginx by running\r\n\r\n> apt-get update \r\napt-get install nginx\r\n\r\nWhen that completes, nginx will be installed, but needs configuring for WordPress.\r\n\r\nnginx configuration files are in /etc/nginx\r\n\r\n**First, edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf**\r\n\r\nInside the http section , insert the following lines so that when you later add varnish in front, things don't break all over the place, and so varnish caches compressed files:\r\n\r\n> port_in_redirect off; \r\ngzip on; \r\ngzip_types text/css text/xml text/javascript application/x-javascript; \r\ngzip_vary on;\r\n\r\n**Next, cd to /etc/nginx/conf.d and create a new file, /etc/nginx/conf.d/drop** with the contents of the [drop file from GitHub][7]\r\n\r\n**Then, replace /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf** with the contents of the [github default.conf file][8] changing all entries for domainname.com with your own domain name (there's 3 entries, including 1 near the bottom)\r\n\r\nMake a directory, /var/www/ and set the ownership:\r\n\r\n> mkdir -p /var/www/ \r\nchown nginx:nginx /var/www/ \r\nchmod 775 /var/www\r\n\r\nThat's nginx configured, restart it and the PHP FPM service by running:\r\n\r\n> service nginx restart \r\nservice php5-fpm restart\r\n\r\n**Now, you're actually ready to install WordPress! \r\n**\r\n\r\nThis is pretty simple, run:\r\n\r\n> cd /tmp \r\nwget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz \r\ntar zxvf latest.tar.gz \r\ncd wordpress \r\nmv * /var/www/ \r\nchown -R nginx:nginx /var/www\r\n\r\nTo configure WordPress, run:\r\n\r\n> cp /var/www/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/wp-config.php \r\nchown nginx:nginx /var/www/wp-config.php\r\n\r\nIn a web browser, visit and copy the results\r\n\r\n**Edit /var/www/wp-config.php**\r\n\r\nand scroll down to fine the AUTH_KEY line down to NONCE_SALT, and replace them with the values you copied from the api.wordpress.org site\r\n\r\nThen, replace the default values with the MySQL ones you chose earlier (not the root user):\r\n\r\n> define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here'); \r\ndefine('DB_USER', 'username_here'); \r\ndefine('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');\r\n\r\nAnd once it's done, if you've not had any errors and your domain name is pointing at the right IP (this is important!), then you'll be able to visit your domain and see the WordPress configuration page at http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin/install.php\r\n\r\nGo through install questions, choose a sensible username and password (it's highly recommended you change the admin user from \"admin\" to something else.\r\n\r\nGo to settings then select permalinks, and choose \"Custom Structure\", and paste in the value below (including the % symbols)\r\n\r\n> /%post_id%/%postname%\r\n\r\nThen hit \"Save Changes\"\r\n\r\nIt's time to create a test post, so click on \"Posts\" then \"Add New\"\r\n\r\nEnter a title and body, then hit \"Post\", and make a note of it's friendly URL.\r\n\r\n**Run a blitz.io test to see how we're doing**\r\n\r\n100 users, 60 seconds. Timeouts, low hit rates, errors, etc. CPU flat out, seems to be the initial bottleneck.\r\n\r\nThis rush generated 632 successful hits in 1.0 min and we transferred 1.76 MB of data in and out of your app. The average hit rate of 9.81/second translates to about 847,776 hits/day.\r\n\r\nYou got bigger problems though: 34.91% of the users during this rush experienced timeouts or errors!\r\n\r\nSo the server is running, but it's still too slow!\r\n\r\n**Next, we will enable the WordPress caching systems**\r\n\r\nGo to the wordpress admin page, then plugins, and click install new plugin.\r\n\r\n**Update Skip the W3 Total Cache plugin if you're following this as a tutorial, it's not been updated in ages. I'll update this post in the future with [W3 Super Cache][9] instructions instead, but everything else should work as it is for now** \r\nSearch for \"W3 Total Cache\", then click \"Install Now\" when the search results return. When installation is complete, click \"Activate Plugin\".\r\n\r\nGo to the new \"Performance\" section in the menu at the left side of the page.\r\n\r\nScroll through the cache options, selecting \"PHP APC\" at each opportunity and enabling the following 2 sections:\r\n\r\n> Database Cache \r\nObject Cache\r\n\r\nHit \"Save All Settings\" then hit \"Deploy\"\r\n\r\n**Rerun the blitz.io test again, performance should be much improved**\r\n\r\nThis rush generated 2,902 successful hits in 1.0 min and we transferred 27.59 MB of data in and out of your app. The average hit rate of 46/second translates to about 4,006,008 hits/day.\r\n\r\nIf we then up the blitz.io run from 100 users to 250 users, there are still problems we need to fix:\r\n\r\nThis rush generated 4,733 successful hits in 1.0 min and we transferred 36.20 MB of data in and out of your app. The average hit rate of 72/second translates to about 6,297,653 hits/day.\r\n\r\nYou got bigger problems though: 5.49% of the users during this rush experienced timeouts or errors!\r\n\r\nYou can see the Blitz results from the [Nginx And APC configuration in this PDF][10].\r\n\r\n**So still not perfect \u2013 Time to install varnish 3!**\r\n\r\n> apt-get install varnish\r\n\r\n**Edit /etc/varnish/default.vcl** replace the contents with the file [default.vcl file from github][11].\r\n\r\n**Edit /etc/default/varnish**\r\n\r\nChange the section\r\n\r\n> DAEMON_OPTS=\"-a :6081 \r\n-T localhost:6082 \r\n-f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \r\n-S /etc/varnish/secret \r\n-s malloc,256m\"\r\n\r\nto\r\n\r\n> DAEMON_OPTS=\"-a :80 \r\n-T localhost:6082 \r\n-f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \r\n-S /etc/varnish/secret \r\n-s malloc,64m\"\r\n\r\nNext, we need to edit the nginx configuration to listen on port 8080, instead of port 80 \u2013 Varnish is going to be running on port 80 instead.\r\n\r\n**Edit /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf and replace **\r\n\r\n> listen 80;\r\n\r\nwith\r\n\r\n> listen 8080;\r\n\r\nSave the file, then run\r\n\r\n> service nginx restart \r\nservice varnish restart\r\n\r\n**Re-run the blitz.io test with 100 users \r\n** \r\nAlmost no CPU usage, should get perfect results\r\n\r\nThis rush generated 2,959 successful hits in 1.0 min and we transferred 28.36 MB of data in and out of your app. The average hit rate of 47/second translates to about 4,093,000 hits/day.\r\n\r\n**Re-run the blitz with 250 users \r\n** \r\nThis rush generated 7,342 successful hits in 1.0 min and we transferred 70.38 MB of data in and out of your app. The average hit rate of 117/second translates to about 10,134,627 hits/day.\r\n\r\nYou can see the [full final run blitz performance details in this PDF][2].\r\n\r\n**There it is, 10 million hits per day using WordPress on a box costing less than $20 a month, all thanks to varnish and nginx, easy!**\r\n\r\nRemember to get your [$10 discount from Digital Ocean][1].\r\n\r\n[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=95d12c834ef9\r\n[2]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1503901/Blitz%20-%20final%20graphs.pdf\r\n[3]: http://blitz.io/gcjpnes2ck4pL\r\n[4]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=95d12c834ef9\r\n[5]: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#s=SecurityGroups\r\n[6]: http://nginx.org/en/download.html\r\n[7]: https://github.com/ewanleith/Wordpress-Server-Configuration-Files/blob/master/drop\r\n[8]: https://github.com/ewanleith/Wordpress-Server-Configuration-Files/blob/master/default.conf\r\n[9]: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/\r\n[10]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1503901/Blitz%20-%20nginx%20and%20APC%20graphs.pdf\r\n[11]: https://github.com/ewanleith/Wordpress-Server-Configuration-Files/blob/master/default.vcl\r\n \r\n", "pub_date": "2014-11-11T15:30:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3170, "fields": {"title": "Tim Jackson: An economic reality check", "url": "http://toogl.es/#/view/NZsp_EdO2Xk", "description": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZsp_EdO2Xk\r\n\r\n\"We spend money we don\u2019t have on things we don\u2019t need to create impressions that won\u2019t last to people we don\u2019t care about\"", "pub_date": "2014-10-29T16:57:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3171, "fields": {"title": "Historical Badass: \u2018Accidental Adventurer\u2019 Barbara Washburn | adventure journal", "url": "http://www.adventure-journal.com/2014/10/historical-badass-accidental-adventurer-barbara-washburn/", "description": "\u201cI said, \u2018Who cares a rip? I don\u2019t care \u2014 I\u2019m perfectly happy being number two here,\u2019 \u201d she told an interviewer in 2010. But he insisted, so Washburn took the rope and led her team up the remaining steps to the summit. She later wrote, \u201cI had no real feeling about being a pioneering woman on a serious Alaskan expedition. I only knew that as the only woman, I had to measure up.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cI sometimes wonder why I didn\u2019t question him then about what kind of life he expected me to lead,\u201d she wrote in her 2001 memoir, The Accidental Adventurer. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t ask, and he didn\u2019t bring up the subject. He must have already gotten a glimpse of my sense of adventure.\u201d", "pub_date": "2014-10-29T15:21:40", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3172, "fields": {"title": "Wildean Escapology | New Escapologist", "url": "http://newescapologist.co.uk/2014/10/16/wildean-escapology/", "description": "Minimalism comes up in the form of Wilde\u2019s argument against private property. Not that it\u2019s immoral per se but that it\u2019s a pain in the arse.\r\n\r\nThe possession of private property is very often extremely demoralising, and that is, of course, one of the reasons why Socialism wants to get rid of the institution. In fact, property is really a nuisance.", "pub_date": "2014-10-29T15:20:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3173, "fields": {"title": "Beautiful Maps", "url": "http://mapsdesign.tumblr.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-10-28T17:00:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3174, "fields": {"title": "We Are All Confident Idiots - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society", "url": "http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/confident-idiots-92793/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-10-28T16:58:24", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3175, "fields": {"title": "\u00bb \u201cI Don\u2019t Know\u201d * G. Jason Head", "url": "http://www.jasonhead.com/i-dont-know/", "description": "Because when it comes to web development \u2013 we can\u2019t know everything. I\u2019ve been working as a front-end web dev for close to 20 years. (Oh man, that explains my demeanor I guess!) Every single project I work on \u2013 yes: every one \u2013 has some part that I have to learn something new on. This is simply the life of a web developer. We are used to it. Our job is basically putting together puzzles and doing brainteasers all day. Our industry moves so darn fast that we have to step into the unknown every time we open up our code editors.", "pub_date": "2014-10-24T14:16:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3176, "fields": {"title": "Adactio: Journal\u2014Be progressive", "url": "https://adactio.com/journal/7706", "description": "Here\u2019s the harsh truth: building websites with progressive enhancement is not convenient.\r\nBuilding a client-side web thang that requires JavaScript to work is convenient, especially if you\u2019re using a framework like Angular or Ember. In fact, that\u2019s the main selling point of those frameworks: developer convenience.\r\nThe trade-off is that to get that level of developer convenience, you have to sacrifice the universal reach that the web provides, and limit your audience to the browsers that can run a pre-determined level of JavaScript. Many developers are quite willing to make that trade-off.\r\nDeveloper convenience is a very powerful and important force. I wish that progressive enhancement could provide the same level of developer convenience offered by Angular and Ember, but right now, it doesn\u2019t. Instead, its benefits are focused on the end user, often at the expense of the developer.\r\nPersonally, I\u2019m willing to take that hit. I\u2019ve always maintained that, given the choice between making something my problem, and making something the user\u2019s problem, I\u2019ll choose to make it my problem every time. But I absolutely understand the mindset of developers who choose otherwise.\r\nBut perhaps there\u2019s a way to cut this Gordian knot. What if you didn\u2019t need to write your code twice? What if you could write code for the server and then run the very same code on the client?\r\nThis is the promise of isomorphic JavaScript. It\u2019s a terrible name for a great idea.", "pub_date": "2014-10-23T23:50:52", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3177, "fields": {"title": "A Taste of Peru - Lomo Saltado Recipe", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120312231634/http://www.atasteofperu.com/recipes-lomosaltado.asp", "description": "Lomo Saltado\r\n\r\nPeruvian Stir-Fried Beef\r\nThe soy sauce and the stir-frying technique used for this dish, reflect the strong Chinese Influences on Peru .\r\n\r\nPotato Fries\r\n\r\n2 Lb. russet potatoes\r\nsalt\r\nVegetable oil for deep frying, about 1 quart\r\nBeef Stir Fry\r\n\r\n2 lbs. beef tenderloin.\r\n2 teaspoon ground cumin\r\npinch of Chinese cinnamon\r\n1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper\r\nCanola or vegetable oil for stir frying\r\n1 Tbs. minced garlic\r\n1-2 thai red chile, seeded and finely minced (for milder flavor use red fresno chili)\r\nsalt\r\n1 tsp. Red wine vinegar\r\n2 medium red onions, halved lengthwise and sliced crosswise \u00bd inch thick\r\n1 \u00bd Lb. plum tomatoes halved, seeded and cut into sixths\r\n3 peruvian yellow hot peppers (ajies), seeded and finely sliced (reserve 1 for garnish)\r\n6 Tbs. soy sauce\r\n4 Tbs. freshly chopped cilantro\r\nPotatoes Fries\r\n\r\nPeel potatoes. To prevent darkening, immerse peeled potatoes in a bowl of cold water until ready to cut. Cut potatoes into \u00bd inch strips. Return strips to cold water.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile chop all your ingredients for your beef stir-fry.\r\n\r\nSlice the meat into \u00bc inch thick and cut into \u00bd inch wide strips. In a large bowl, toss the beef with pepper, cinnamon and cumin and 1 Tbs. of soy sauce.\r\n\r\nHeat enough oil to cover the base of a large pan or wok and , over medium heat, saute garlic and thai or fresno chile for 2 minutes. Raise the heat to high heat and working in batches, add beef strips and stir fry until browned, about 2 minutes per batch. Season with salt. Transfer the beef along with pan juice , garlic and chile to a bowl. Reserve.\r\n\r\nAdd a little more oil to the pan or wok if necessary and stir fry onion, until barely soft, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper. Add a few drops of vinegar and continue stir -frying until it has evaporated, about another minute. The onion should still have some bite. Remove onion from the pan , set aside and repeat procedure with tomato.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile in a heavy deep , straight-sided pot , heat oil to 375 F . To prevent splattering, pat potatoes dry. Using a spoon, carefully add potato strips, a few at a time, to hot oil. Fry for 5 to 6 minutes or till crisp and golden brown, turning once.\r\n\r\nUsing a slotted spoon, carefully remove potatoes from hot oil. Drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with salt. Keep potatoes warm in a 300 F oven while frying remaining potatoes and continue the beef stir- fry.\r\n\r\nReturn beef, onion and tomato to the pan. Add 2 peruvian ajies, 5 Tbs. soy sauce and cook for \u00bd minute. Add 2 tablespoon of the chopped cilantro and the potato fries and toss gently .Transfer to a warmed platter, garnish with the rest of the cilantro, the reserved aji and serve immediately, accompanied with white rice.\r\n\r\nServes 6\r\n", "pub_date": "2014-10-16T18:05:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3178, "fields": {"title": "Trouble at the Koolaid Point \u2014 Serious Pony", "url": "http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point", "description": "We can do this. I know we can. And many of you \u2014 especially you javaranchers \u2014 you know why I\u2019m so certain. You\u2019ve seen a million visitors a month in a male-dominated community year after year after year maintain a culture defined by a single TOS: be nice. You\u2019ve seen how learning thrives in an environment where you can be fearless with questions and generous with answers. If millions of programmers can maintain one of the largest and most vibrant developer communities online, for 15 years, without harassment of any kind, then anyone can. Good luck trying to convince me it can\u2019t be done. Because I have something the trolls do not\u2014 evidence.", "pub_date": "2014-10-08T14:18:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3179, "fields": {"title": "The Wheaton Eco Scale", "url": "http://www.permies.com/t/3069/toxin-ectomy/Wheaton-Eco-Scale", "description": "The time has come for me to more formally define this. I have eluded to this rough idea in the past with some numbers I pulled out of my butt. I now flush those numbers and clearly define these new numbers. \r\n\r\nFurther, while in the shower this morning, I decided that I am obnoxious and arrogant enough to come up with something and put my name to it. I also give everybody else licence to come up with their own scales for whatever they want. I just need to express myself, so I need ..... SOMETHING! \r\n\r\nwheaton eco level 0: about 5 billion people \r\nwheaton eco level 1: about a billion people \r\nwheaton eco level 2: about 100 million people \r\nwheaton eco level 3: about 10 million people \r\nwheaton eco level 4: about a million people \r\nwheaton eco level 5: about 100,000 people \r\nwheaton eco level 6: about 10,000 people \r\nwheaton eco level 7: about a thousand people \r\nwheaton eco level 8: about 100 people \r\nwheaton eco level 9: about 10 people \r\nwheaton eco level 10: Sepp Holzer \r\n\r\nObservation 1: most people find folks one or two levels up took pretty cool. People three levels up look a bit nutty. People four of five levels up look downright crazy. People six levels up should probably be institutionalized. I find the latter reactions to be inappropriate. \r\n\r\nObservations 2: most people find folks one level back are ignorant. Two levels back are assholes. Any further back and they should be shot on sight for the betterment of society as a whole. I find that all of these reactions are innapropriate. \r\n\r\nFinally: I can put whoever I want at the spot of eco level 10. I choose the mighty Sepp Holzer and I don't give a damn if you think somebody else should sit in that spot on my scale! \r\n\r\nHere are some possible attributes of people on the scale \r\n\r\nLevel 1: is thinking about the environment. Bought fluorescent light bulbs. Is trying to do a good job of recycling. Reads an article or two. Buys some organic food. Their power bill is less than average. \r\n\r\nLevel 2: 30% of purchased food is organic \r\n\r\nLevel 3: Has an organic garden and 80% of purchased food is organic \r\n\r\nLevel 4: Grow 40% of their own food. Studying permaculture. Got rid of all fluorescent light bulbs \r\n\r\nLevel 5: has taken a PDC and/or grows 90% of their own food \r\n\r\nLevel 6: Living a footprint that is 10 times lighter than average. Maybe living in community. Maybe living in something very small. \r\n\r\nLevel 7: Permaculture teacher \r\n\r\nLevel 8: Doing things that are currently improving the world in big ways \r\n\r\nLevel 9: masanobu fukuoka, paul stamets, art ludwig, bill mollison, ianto evans .... \r\n\r\nLevel 10: the mighty, the glorious, the amazing Sepp Holzer ", "pub_date": "2014-10-07T17:03:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3180, "fields": {"title": "The Incredible Edible Tigernut | Free The Animal", "url": "http://freetheanimal.com/2014/09/incredible-edible-tigernut.html", "description": "So, Tigernuts are more nutritious\u2014in 56% of nutrients\u2014over red meat (beef liver is a different story\u2014Tigernuts being more nutritious in only 22% of nutrients). I remind you, folks: we're talking about a plant here, a starchy tuber: more nutritious in vitamins and minerals than red meat generally. And, did I mention? It's a starchy tuber. Moreover, it's more reliable and far easier to harvest than just about anything you can hunt or fish.", "pub_date": "2014-10-02T18:15:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3181, "fields": {"title": "Tigernuts A Nutty Tuber", "url": "http://freetheanimal.com/2014/01/tigernuts-tuber-tubery.html", "description": "Tiger nut tubers have a low glycemic index and its starch grains have Resistant Starch properties that is similar to that of maize, which is ideal for a tuber that is safe to consume raw for energy. If the RS content of tiger nuts were higher, it would be more difficult to extract energy from the tuber. But with twice the starch of a potato, it would appear that Paleo man consumed a healthy portion of Resistant Starch while eating tiger nuts.", "pub_date": "2014-10-02T18:11:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3182, "fields": {"title": "The Tyranny of Stuctureless", "url": "http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm", "description": "Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved. The very fact that we are individuals, with different talents, predispositions, and backgrounds makes this inevitable. Only if we refused to relate or interact on any basis whatsoever could we approximate structurelessness -- and that is not the nature of a human group.", "pub_date": "2014-10-02T18:05:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3183, "fields": {"title": "Fixed mindset vs Growth mindset | Derek Sivers", "url": "http://sivers.org/mindset", "description": "In a fixed mindset, you want to hide your flaws so you\u2019re not judged or labeled a failure.\r\n\r\nIn a growth mindset, your flaws are just a TO-DO list of things to improve.\r\n\r\nIn a fixed mindset, you stick with what you know to keep up your confidence.\r\n\r\nIn a growth mindset, you keep up your confidence by always pushing into the unfamiliar, to make sure you\u2019re always learning.\r\n\r\nIn a fixed mindset, you look inside yourself to find your true passion and purpose, as if this is a hidden inherent thing.\r\n\r\nIn a growth mindset, you commit to mastering valuable skills regardless of mood, knowing passion and purpose come from doing great work, which comes from expertise and experience.", "pub_date": "2014-10-02T17:59:14", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3184, "fields": {"title": "Vanity Fair\u2019s Bryan Burrough on writing narrative: \u201cpeople are dying to put down your article\u201d - Nieman Storyboard", "url": "http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/vanity-fair-bryan-burrough-mayborn-conference-narrative-journalism/", "description": "\u2019m talking about a story, as we used to say at the Journal, that\u2019s beginning-middle-end. It\u2019s not an analysis of the Federal Reserve or anything else. It typically starts with a real-time lede, an anecdotal lede. It breaks out into a part that at the Journal we used to call the \u201cnut graf\u201d; at Time magazine I think they always called it the \u201cbillboard,\u201d which is essentially a quick one or two paragraphs saying \u201cthis is what the story is,\u201d a section where you say \u201cthis is why the story matters.\u201d\u00a0And then you get out of the way and get into the story and tell it as fast as possible.\r\nI\u2019ve been writing the same story for 25 years. They pay me to write the same story. Well, I don\u2019t do the same story; I do the same structure. That\u2019s the structure I\u2019ve always gone with, and it works beautifully for me. I am stunned that more people in our profession don\u2019t write narrative stuff. If you\u2019re a daily reporter at your local newspaper, this is the way you get noticed. If you want to get something in a magazine, this is the way to get noticed: telling stories, whatever story matters to you.", "pub_date": "2014-10-02T17:58:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3185, "fields": {"title": "Emergent", "url": "http://www.emergent.info/", "description": "Emergent is a real-time rumor tracker. ", "pub_date": "2014-10-02T16:51:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3186, "fields": {"title": "Use xrandr to set a screen resolution | Shadows of epiphany", "url": "http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/use-xrandr-to-set-a-screen-resolution/", "description": "lxrandr is a part of the lxde and is lightweight and fast, but does not have all of the xrandr options available.\r\n\r\nWith openbox, add the xrandr command to ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh.", "pub_date": "2014-08-27T19:26:04", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3187, "fields": {"title": "LightSweep - Free & Open-Source HDR Tutorial", "url": "http://lightsweep.co.uk/free-hdr-tutorial", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-08-06T14:15:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3188, "fields": {"title": "Darktable Videos Robert Hutton - YouTube", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/user/rhutton86/videos", "description": "Great series of videos on using Darktable. By Robert Hutton.", "pub_date": "2014-08-06T14:07:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3191, "fields": {"title": "cmod/ahab \u00b7 GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/cmod/ahab", "description": "This template is meant to get you from thinking about publishing a piece of text you have to actually publishing it on Kindle Direct Publishing. If you have a long-form blog post composed mainly of text, I suspect you could convert it to a proper .mobi file using this template in fifteen minutes. Obviously, more complex texts (and cover production, etc) take more time.\r\n\r\nSo this template is mainly about minimizing friction.", "pub_date": "2014-07-27T17:10:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3193, "fields": {"title": "Nanobatteries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobatteries", "description": "Nanobatteries are fabricated batteries employing technology at the nanoscale, a scale of minuscule particles that measure less than 100 nanometers or 100x10\u22129 meters. In comparison, traditional Li-Ion technology uses active materials, such as cobalt-oxide or manganese oxide, with particles that range in size between 5 and 20 micrometers (5000 and 20000 nanometers - over 100 times nanoscale). It is hoped that nano-engineering will improve many of the shortcomings of present battery technology, such as recharging time and battery 'memory'.\r\n\r\nSeveral companies are researching and developing these technologies. In March 2005, Toshiba announced[1] that they had a new Lithium-Ion battery with a nanostructured lattice at the cathode and anode that allowed the battery to recharge a surprising eighty times faster than previously. Prototype models were able to charge to eighty percent capacity in one minute, and were one hundred percent recharged after 10 minutes.\r\n\r\nWhen a traditional lithium-ion battery is charged too quickly, it creates a bottleneck in which the lithium moving through electrolyte liquid from the negative electrode to the positive backs up on the surface of the liquid. Under slower charging conditions, the lithium \"hides\" in void space and does not cause a problem.", "pub_date": "2014-07-20T11:30:41", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3194, "fields": {"title": "Bourbon Pecan Toffee Bark", "url": "http://www.nwedible.com/2013/12/bourbon-pecan-toffee-bark.html", "description": "Bourbon Pecan Toffee Bark Recipe\r\n\r\nIngredients\r\n4 oz. (8 tablespoons) butter\r\n1/2 cup bourbon (I used Jim Beam)\r\n1 cup sugar\r\n1/2 tsp. fine sea salt\r\n1 1/2 cup (6 ounces) pecans, chopped fine and divided into 3, 1/2 cup portions.\r\n12 oz. semisweet chocolate, chips or chopped bars\r\nInstructions\r\nMake Toffee\r\nHave everything ready before you start. Toffee waits for no one.\r\nLine a 9\u00d713 pan smoothly with foil; use enough foil so that foil runs up the edges of the pans and makes handles. Grease the foil with vegetable oil or butter.\r\nHeat the butter and bourbon in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat until the butter is melted.\r\nPour the sugar and salt into the center of the saucepan like a little mountain. Gently push the sugar down into the bourbon mixture but don\u2019t get any sugar on the edges of the pan.\r\nCook sugar without stirring until it\u2019s a light golden color and measures 300-degrees F on an instant read thermometer.\r\nAt this point sugar will darken quickly, so reduce heat to medium, watch carefully and swirl pan to ensure toffee cooks evenly. When toffee is medium-amber in color and measured 325-degrees F, pull it off the heat and stir in 1/2 cup chopped pecans.\r\nImmediately pour toffee into foil-lined, prepared pan and smooth. Chill until firm, about 15 minutes.\r\nChocolate Coat The Toffee\r\nMelt chocolate in the microwave at 50% power, stirring frequently, or in a double boiler set over simmering water.\r\nPour half of the chocolate over the hard toffee, smoothing with a small offset spatula. Sprinkle 1/2 cup pecans over chocolate and gently pat down. Pop the toffee back into the fridge for 5 minutes or so, just to set.\r\nPlace a piece of parchment or greased foil over the chocolate-coated toffee and carefully invert the toffee onto a sheetpan or cutting board.\r\nPeel away the bottom layer of foil to reveal the uncoated side of the toffee.\r\nWarm remaining chocolate if necessary and spread over the second side of the toffee. Sprinkle with the final 1/2 cup pecans and pat down. Return toffee to the fridge, unwrapped, until fully set, about 15 minutes.\r\nBreak (don\u2019t cut) the toffee into generous pieces. Store in a cool, dry place in an airtight container for a week or two.", "pub_date": "2014-07-20T11:18:58", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3195, "fields": {"title": "A web-focused Git workflow | Joe Maller", "url": "http://joemaller.com/990/a-web-focused-git-workflow/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-07-18T10:59:41", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3196, "fields": {"title": "You\u2019re probably using the wrong dictionary \u00ab the jsomers.net blog", "url": "http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary", "description": "Better package installer for os x:\r\n\r\nhttp://dictionary.parksdigital.com/Webster%27s%20Unabridged%20Dictionary.pkg\r\n\r\nfollow the instructions at the end of the install and you'll have webster's 1913 dictionary installed on your mac.", "pub_date": "2014-07-18T10:58:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3197, "fields": {"title": "Beautiful web type \u2014 the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory", "url": "http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-07-13T15:02:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3198, "fields": {"title": "Salted Mexican Chocolate Ganache Tarts | Slim Palate", "url": "http://slimpalate.com/salted-mexican-chocolate-ganache-tarts/", "description": "Ingredients\r\nFor The Tart Shells:\r\n2 cups almond flour\r\n1 tablespoon coconut flour\r\n2 tablespoons coconut oil melted plus more unmelted for greasing\r\n1 egg\r\n2 teaspoons honey\r\npinch of salt\r\nFor The Ganache:\r\n1 cup coconut milk\r\n3 tablespoons coconut oil softened\r\n8 ounces dark chocolate chopped(70 percent or higher but preferably something in between 70 and 75 percent)\r\n2 cinnamon sticks\r\n1 dried guajjillo chile\r\noptional: \u00bc teaspoon cayenne pepper\r\n\u00bc teaspoon cinnamon\r\nflakey or coarse sea salt for sprinkling\r\nInstructions\r\nMake the Tart Shells:\r\nPreheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease 4 - 4 inch tart pans with unmelted coconut oil. In a medium sized bowl combine almond flour, coconut flour, salt, and stir to combine. In a small bowl shisk together egg, honey, and melted coconut oil then pour wet into dry ingredients and stir until thorougly incorporated and there are no clumps remaining.\r\nDivide and press the dough amongst the tart shells and bake them for 10 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Pull out of the oven and allow to cool slightly.\r\nMake the Ganache:\r\nWhile wearing gloves snip the stem off the guajillo chile and shake out most of the seeds. Chop the chocolate finely and place into a medium sized bowl along with the coconut oil.\r\nIn a small sauce pot heat coconut milk until hot and steaming then add guajjilo chile, cinnamon sticks, cinnamon, and if using, cayenne pepper. Turn off the heat, cover and let steep for 10 minutes then with kitchen shears snip the cinnamon sticks and guajjilo chile into pieces, stir, and reheat until hot again then turn off the heat, cover, and let steep for 20 more minutes.\r\nRemove the lid and reheat the coconut milk mixture once more until hot and steaming then pour the hot coconut milk through a mesh strainer over the chocolate while pressing the cinnamon and chili against the strainer. Let the hot coconut milk and chocolate sit for 1 minute then gently whisk until completely smooth.\r\nPour chocolate ganache into cooled tart shells, shape with a spatula, sprinkle with sea salt and place in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes to harden. If you are not serving them the same day then salt them when serving otherwise the salt will dissolve into the ganache over time.", "pub_date": "2014-06-28T18:37:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3199, "fields": {"title": "The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why", "url": "http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html", "description": "Depending on where The Great Filter occurs, we\u2019re left with three possible realities: We\u2019re rare, we\u2019re first, or we\u2019re fucked.", "pub_date": "2014-06-27T14:59:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3200, "fields": {"title": "Character Codes -- HTML Codes, Hexadecimal Codes & HTML Names", "url": "http://character-code.com/", "description": "HTML Code, Hexadecimal Code and HTML Entity for ASCII characters. This list is ordered in an alphabetical kind of way. Don't strain your face by using the other ascii table reference sites.", "pub_date": "2014-06-18T14:50:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3201, "fields": {"title": "Journal of Physiological Anthropology | Full text | Fermented foods, microbiota, and mental health: ancient practice meets nutritional psychiatry", "url": "http://www.jphysiolanthropol.com/content/33/1/2", "description": "The purposeful application of fermentation in food and beverage preparation, as a means to provide palatability, nutritional value, preservative, and medicinal properties, is an ancient practice. Fermented foods and beverages continue to make a significant contribution to the overall patterns of traditional dietary practices. As our knowledge of the human microbiome increases, including its connection to mental health (for example, anxiety and depression), it is becoming increasingly clear that there are untold connections between our resident microbes and many aspects of physiology. Of relevance to this research are new findings concerning the ways in which fermentation alters dietary items pre-consumption, and in turn, the ways in which fermentation-enriched chemicals (for example, lactoferrin, bioactive peptides) and newly formed phytochemicals (for example, unique flavonoids) may act upon our own intestinal microbiota profile. Here, we argue that the consumption of fermented foods may be particularly relevant to the emerging research linking traditional dietary practices and positive mental health. The extent to which traditional dietary items may mitigate inflammation and oxidative stress may be controlled, at least to some degree, by microbiota. It is our contention that properly controlled fermentation may often amplify the specific nutrient and phytochemical content of foods, the ultimate value of which may associated with mental health; furthermore, we also argue that the microbes (for example, Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria species) associated with fermented foods may also influence brain health via direct and indirect pathways.", "pub_date": "2014-06-18T14:08:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3202, "fields": {"title": "Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free", "url": "https://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free", "description": "Why you should bother doing the same:\r\n\r\nSSL's not perfect, but we need to make surveillance as expensive as possible\r\nFor privacy not to be suspicious, privacy should be on by default\r\nAnd hey, bonus: more complete referrer information for people visiting from sites already using HTTPS (like Hacker News)\r\nThis post shows how to do your part in building a surveillance-resistant Internet by switching your site to HTTPS. Though it takes a bunch of steps, each one is very simple, and you should be able to finish this in under an hour.", "pub_date": "2014-06-18T13:31:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3204, "fields": {"title": "Voice of the Tribe \u2014 Daniel Vitalis", "url": "http://www.danielvitalis.com/blog/voice-of-the-tribe-rewilding-my-garden", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-06-08T15:31:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3205, "fields": {"title": "How to Make a Turmeric Bug", "url": "http://justso.co/how-to-make-a-turmeric-bug-by-andrea-fabry/", "description": "Turmeric Bug (or Ginger Bug)\r\n\r\n\r\nA simple way to ferment turmeric. Ginger may be added or substituted if not using for your skin.\r\n\r\nIngredients\r\n1 Tablespoon Turmeric root, ginger root, powdered turmeric and/or powdered ginger. Grated coarsely if using the root.\r\n1 Tablespoon Sugar Refined or unrefined\r\n3/4 Cup Filtered water Dechlorinated water is optimal.\r\nInstructions\r\nPlace freshly grated turmeric root, turmeric powder, or ginger root in bottom of wide mouth quart jar. Add sugar. (If using powdered turmeric, consider adding a bit of apple peel to encourage the fermentation process.)\r\nAdd water and stir.\r\nCover with cloth and rubber band. Place on shelf out of direct sunlight.\r\nAfter 24 hours add 1 Tablespoon grated turmeric, 1 Tablespoon powdered turmeric, OR 1 Tablespoon grated ginger. Add 1 Tablespoon sugar. Stir well. Replace cloth cover and leave on shelf.\r\nEvery 24 hours add 1 Tablespoon turmeric or ginger, and 1 Tablespoon sugar until you see bubbles on the surface of the water. This generally takes several days.\r\nStrain and use in recipes or store in refrigerator. ", "pub_date": "2014-05-19T14:32:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3206, "fields": {"title": "Everything You Know About Fitness Is a Lie", "url": "http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/everything-you-know-about-fitness-is-a-lie-20120504", "description": "One book in particular, Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, inspired me to start with the very first of the Fundamental Four: strength. I liked the clarity of the word, and I liked the idea of keeping life simple, learning one aptitude at a time. Many pros will tell you that strength is the place to start, because once you've built pure strength, you'll have no trouble adding power, size, and endurance. I decided to just follow Rippetoe's bare-bones old-school program.\n\nThe next six months turned out to be among the strangest and most liberating of my athletic life. On day one, I did like you're supposed to, starting with light loads in the squat, dead lift, and bench, doing five reps, adding weight, doing five more, and so on, until I'd reached the highest weight I could do five times. Then I quit, came back two days later, and made sure to work up to a slightly higher final weight. Week after week, and for the first time in all my years, I got steadily stronger. On a given Monday, I'd squat 135 for three sets of five; Wednesday, I'd hit 145; Friday, 155; the next Monday, 165. No drugs, no steroids, no whey-protein isolate. Before Starting Strength, I didn't even know what a dead lift was, but my dead lift went from 135 pounds to 335. My bench press went well over my body weight. At age 42 \u2013 6-foot-2 and gangly and 20 years into complaining about a bad back and bum knees, and right when any doctor or physical therapist would have told me it was time to embrace the low-impact elliptical \u2013 my back squat hit 275, going below parallel. My thighs got so big I couldn't fit into most of my jeans, and I had to start shopping for new T-shirts.", "pub_date": "2014-05-19T00:05:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3207, "fields": {"title": "Beef Shanks with Vietnamese Spiced Glaze (Gluten Free, Soy Free) - Gutsy By Nature", "url": "http://gutsybynature.com/2014/02/23/beef-shanks-vietnamese-spiced-glaze-gluten-free-soy-free/", "description": "Ingredients\r\n1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder (for AIP substitution, see note)\r\n1 tablespoon sweet paprika (omit for AIP)\r\n2 teaspoons salt\r\n1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper\r\n1 teaspoon coconut sugar (optional)\r\nBeef shanks (3-4 pounds)\r\n2 tablespoons coconut oil, pastured lard, tallow, or other paleo-friendly cooking fat\r\n2 medium onions, diced\r\n3 garlic cloves, minced or crushed\r\n1 tablespoon ginger, minced\r\n3 cups beef bone broth (preferably homemade)\r\n2 tablespoons fish sauce\r\n\u00bc cup rice vinegar\r\n1 tablespoon coconut aminos\r\n2 medjool dates, finely chopped\r\n1 whole star anise\r\nInstructions\r\nMix five-spice powder, paprik, salt, black pepper, and optional coconut sugar. Rub all over surface of beef shanks, cover and refrigerate for 8-24 hours.\r\nIn a dutch oven over medium heat, melt the cooking fat, then sear the shanks on all sides (about 3 minutes per side). Remove to a plate and set aside. Do not clean the pan.\r\nAdd the onions to the pan and cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic and ginger and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.\r\nAdd the bone broth, fish sauce, rice vinegar, coconut aminos, dates, and star anise. Bring to a boil.\r\nReturn the beef shanks to the pan, reduce heat to low and cover.\r\nAllow to braise at a low simmer for 2-3 hours or until very tender and almost falling apart, checking every 30 minutes or so to make sure the pan has not boiled dry (add more broth or water if it has) and to turn the shanks over.\r\nRemove shanks from pan and set aside. Turn heat up to high and boil the sauce until very thick and reduced to a glaze.\r\nMeanwhile, remove meat from the bones (which you can save for making future bone broth). You may also wish to remove the connective tissue and save for broth making if it is not appealing to you or your dinner guests.\r\nReturn the meat to the pan and turn to coat with glaze.\r\nServe with rice or cauliflower rice.", "pub_date": "2014-05-10T11:34:58", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3208, "fields": {"title": "Tribute To The Top 100 Hardest Body Weight Exercises Of All Time | Body Weight Exercises & Workouts", "url": "http://ashotofadrenaline.net/hardest-body-weight-exercises-of-all-time/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-05-05T11:10:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3209, "fields": {"title": "A more Git-friendly WordPress | Joe Maller", "url": "http://joemaller.com/3304/a-more-git-friendly-wordpress/", "description": "My favorite, as described here by David Winter, is the ability to move the wp-content directory out of the standard WordPress hierarchy. Aside from the database, wp-content holds basically everything which makes a site unique; themes, plugins, uploads, etc. With those out of the way, all of the core WordPress application code can be removed from the site\u2019s git repo and stored as a submodule (pulling from the WordPress GitHub mirror), making version control a lot cleaner and easier and giving me one less thing to think about.\r\n\r\nThis directory layout should really be the default. The WordPress folder ought be a sacrosanct library, only changing when the application is upgraded. The ability to move wp-content was added back in version 2.6 released in July of 2008. I wish I\u2019d learned about this sooner.\r\n\r\nI\u2019m also doing something inspired by Mark Jaquith\u2019s WordPress local dev tips which also allows me to also keep my wp-config.php file versioned and outside of the wordpress directory.\r\n\r\nBecause it\u2019s a really bad idea to keep password files in version control, I created a wp-config-db-sample.php file containing placeholders for the database login information:", "pub_date": "2014-04-28T02:36:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3210, "fields": {"title": "Homemade, Fermented Ketchup | The Domestic Man", "url": "http://thedomesticman.com/2014/03/25/paleo-homemade-fermented-ketchup/#more-6569", "description": "1/3 cup hot water\r\n1/3 cup honey\r\n2 6oz cans tomato paste\r\n2 tbsp whey (the clear liquid at top of yogurt) or sauerkraut juice\r\n1 tbsp apple cider vinegar\r\n1 tbsp fish sauce\r\n1 dash (1/8 tsp) cinnamon\r\n1 dash (1/8 tsp) ground cloves\r\n1 dash (1/8 tsp) garlic powder\r\n1 dash (1/8 tsp) black pepper\r\n1 dash (1/8 tsp) sea salt, more to taste\r\n\r\n1. Combine the hot water and honey, stirring until dissolved, then set aside to cool.\r\n\r\n2. Combine the honey water and the rest of the ingredients. Add salt to taste.\r\n\r\n3. Place in a quart-sized jar, cover, and let set at room temperature until fizzy and delicious. It should take 2-5 days. After the second day, be sure to burp the lid daily to prevent gas buildup. Taste it every day after the second day to see how you like it; once it tastes perfect, throw it in the fridge. It should keep for about 1 month.\r\n", "pub_date": "2014-04-27T12:48:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3211, "fields": {"title": "Mounting AFP File shares with Ubuntu Linux and Debian 6 | Geek.Like.Todd", "url": "http://blog.geekliketodd.com/archives/900", "description": "I\u2019m moving things from one machine to another and I setup an AFP share and not an SMB share on a mac where I need to transfer my files.. I could just turn on SMB.. but whats the fun in that?\r\n\r\nTo install AFP support for Ubuntu you must first install these packages:\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install libfuse-dev libreadline-dev libgcrypt-dev libgmp3-dev\r\n\r\nThen you need to download the AfpFs-Ng source files from sourceforge and compile them.\r\n\r\nhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/afpfs-ng/\r\n\r\nyou unzip those files into a directory, and cd into it, then type::\r\n./configure\r\nmake\r\nsudo make install\r\nsudo ldconfig\r\n\r\nThen to mount your share you type, as a regular user:\r\n\r\nmount_afp 'afp://user:password@servername/sharename' /placewhereyouwannamountit/\r\n\r\nTo unmount you type:\r\n\r\nafp_client unmount /mountname/", "pub_date": "2014-04-20T00:06:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3212, "fields": {"title": "Frosting Glass with CSS Filters | CSS-Tricks", "url": "http://css-tricks.com/frosting-glass-css-filters/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-04-10T14:39:56", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3214, "fields": {"title": "Whats the Closest Google Font?", "url": "http://joelcrawfordsmith.com/new/", "description": "I have asked myself \"What's the closest Google font to...\"\u00a0so many times that I have made an answer. \u00a0Save yourself the hours of looking through hundreds\u00a0of Google fonts. \u00a0Enjoy!\r\n\r\nExample: Avenir \u2248 Nunuto font", "pub_date": "2014-04-10T13:13:37", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3215, "fields": {"title": "himedlooff/project-timeline \u00b7 GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/himedlooff/project-timeline", "description": "Jeykll based project timelines", "pub_date": "2014-04-10T13:12:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3216, "fields": {"title": "Showcase | SVGeneration", "url": "http://svgeneration.com/", "description": "Progressive Enhancement means that every visitor should at minimum be able to see your content, but if the user has a newer browser they will see more features and effects. This means that if your visitors do not support SVG graphics, then they will simply not see the graphic. Most of the css generated on SVGeneration.com includes a \"background-color: \" rule. This background color is all that will be displayed on older browsers such as Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8.", "pub_date": "2014-04-10T12:41:04", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3218, "fields": {"title": "Animal Pharm: My n=1 Pre- and Post-Microbiome, Digestion, SCFA, Fat Malabsorption, Pancreatic Insufficiency, Leanness F:B Ratio, and How I Healed SIBO and the Gut-HPA-Gonad Axis", "url": "http://drbganimalpharm.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-n1-pre-and-post-microbiome-digestion.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-04-03T01:47:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3219, "fields": {"title": "Crunchbang with debian testing", "url": "http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=310553", "description": "/etc/apt/preferences and it would need to look like this:\nPackage: *\nPin: release a=waldorf\nPin-Priority: 1001\n\nPackage: *\nPin: release a=jessie\nPin-Priority: 500\nAnd your /etc/apt/sources.list file would need to be something like this:\n## CRUNCHBANG\n## Compatible with Debian Wheezy, but use at your own risk.\ndeb http://packages.crunchbang.org/waldorf waldorf main\n#deb-src http://packages.crunchbang.org/waldorf waldorf main\n\n## DEBIAN\ndeb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free\n#deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free\n\n## DEBIAN SECURITY\ndeb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main\n#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main\n", "pub_date": "2014-03-28T13:46:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3220, "fields": {"title": "How To Use Analytics To Build A Smarter Mobile Website", "url": "http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/03/03/how-to-use-analytics-to-build-a-smarter-mobile-website/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-03-27T11:40:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3221, "fields": {"title": "Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art: Art Boericke, Barry Shapiro: 9780891040019: Amazon.com: Books", "url": "http://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Houses-Guide-Woodbutchers-Art/dp/0891040013", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-03-23T15:26:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3222, "fields": {"title": "shannan click & dan martensen \u00ab the selby", "url": "http://theselby.com/galleries/shannan-click-dan-martensen-2/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-03-23T15:25:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3223, "fields": {"title": "Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Prescript-Assist Broad Spectrum Probiotic Prebiotic Complex 60 Capsules", "url": "http://www.amazon.com/Prescript-Assist-Spectrum-Probiotic-Prebiotic-Capsules/product-reviews/B0049NW9UI/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-03-18T01:29:23", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3224, "fields": {"title": "Boxes That Fill Height (Or More) (and Don\u2019t Squish)", "url": "http://css-tricks.com/boxes-fill-height-dont-squish/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-03-16T12:00:41", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3225, "fields": {"title": "codelucas/newspaper \u00b7 GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper", "description": "News extraction, article extraction and content curation in python. Built with multithreading, 10+ languages, NLP, ML, and more! \nhttp://newspaper.readthedocs.org\n", "pub_date": "2014-03-16T11:59:54", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3226, "fields": {"title": "Toxin Free DIY Citrus Cleaner", "url": "http://www.nwedible.com/2014/01/citrus-cleaner.html", "description": "Get a big jar. I use a half-gallon mason jar for this. Enjoy your yummy organic citrus and toss the peels in the jar. You can use grapefruit, orange, lemon, mandarin, a combo \u2013 whatever you have.\n\nIf you have some rosemary or sage or mint in the garden, throw that in the jar too. Exact measurements aren\u2019t that important.\n\nFill the jar up with plain white vinegar.\n\nLet It Sit\n\nLid your jar and stick it somewhere out of the way for at least two weeks, and up to two months. When the vinegar has taken on a golden color and a nice citrus scent, strain the cleaner through a sieve lined with a coffee filter or a piece of clean, loose-weave cloth.", "pub_date": "2014-03-16T11:59:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3227, "fields": {"title": "Usable PAR20 LED bulbs", "url": "http://www.marco.org/2014/01/11/useful-par20-leds", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-03-16T11:57:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3231, "fields": {"title": "Best brand of fish, oyster, and hoison sauce? - Paleohacks", "url": "http://paleohacks.com/questions/114268/best-brand-of-fish-oyster-and-hoison-sauce.html", "description": "If you want a sweet fermented seafood sauce (like oyster sauce) I'd suggest buying fermented shrimp paste (this one has no additives: http://www.amazon.com/Lee-Kum-Fine-Shrimp-Sauce/dp/B0000CNU5Q/ref=sr_1_7?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1330686215&sr=1-7) and adding wheat-free tamari/coconut aminos for umami flavour, and some raw honey (which has been shown to not have the same negative effects on metabolism as artificially-extracted syrups) for sweetness. You could even use stevia if you don't want to use honey, or cannot find a good raw brand. ", "pub_date": "2014-03-03T12:08:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3233, "fields": {"title": "Typsettings A Sass Type Toolkit", "url": "http://ianrose.me/typesettings/", "description": "A Sass Type Toolkit\r\n\r\nSet your type in Ems with modular scale, vertical rhythm, and responsive ratio based headlines using Sass. Why create another type toolkit in Sass? I wanted to and I couldn\u2019t find exactly what I was looking for. Typesettings uses techniques from many different amazing tools while trying to keep it simple. ", "pub_date": "2014-02-28T18:09:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3236, "fields": {"title": "Aptik Lets You Quickly Restore Your Favourite Apps, PPAs On a Fresh Ubuntu Install", "url": "http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/reinstall-apps-on-ubuntu-fresh-install", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-02-23T01:34:39", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3237, "fields": {"title": "Roasted Carrots with Feta and Parsley", "url": "http://www.nwedible.com/2014/01/roasted-carrots-with-feta-and-parsley.html", "description": "Ingredients\n\n* 6 to 8 large carrots\n* 2 tablespoons olive oil\n* Kosher salt to taste.\n* Zest and juice of one lemon\n* 2 oz. good feta cheese.\n* Several stems Italian flat leaf parsley, rough chopped.\n\nInstructions\n\n* Preheat oven to 475-degrees.\n* Scrub and peel carrots, then slice each carrot into large matchsticks by cutting each carrot in half lengthwise, and cutting each half into quarters lengthwise.\n* Toss the carrot sticks with the olive oil, salt, and the zest of the lemon until evenly coated. Slice the lemon in half and set aside for later.\n* Scatter the carrots in an even layer on a parchment-lined sheet pan.\n* Roast the carrots for 15-25 minutes depending on the size of your carrot sticks. The carrots should be tender all the way through but not mushy, and should be nicely caramelized where they were sitting on the sheet pan.\n* Squeeze the juice of half the reserved lemon over the hot roasted carrots and transfer to a wide serving bowl. Crumble the feta over the carrots and sprinkle with chopped parsley.\n* Serve right away.", "pub_date": "2014-02-23T01:34:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3239, "fields": {"title": "GIMP: Get Photoshop Like Keyboard Shortcuts, Toolbox Icons And More ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog", "url": "http://www.webupd8.org/2014/02/gimp-get-photoshop-like-keyboard.html", "description": "To help those who are used to Photoshop, +Martin Owens has created a collection of GIMP 2.8 tweaks that make it more like Adobe Photoshop.\r\n\r\nGimp photohsop tweaks\r\n\r\nThe tweaks include Photoshop like toolbox icons, keyboard shortcuts, modified dockable dialogs and even a tweaked background color to match Photoshop.", "pub_date": "2014-02-20T05:09:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3240, "fields": {"title": "Better Font Rendering In Linux With Infinality ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog", "url": "http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/better-font-rendering-in-linux-with.html", "description": "Infinality is a set of Freetype patches that try to provide an improved font rendering for Linux and also, to allow easy customization so the users can adjust the settings to their taste. Using it, you can easily set the font style to emulate OSX, OSX2, Windows 98, WIndows XP or Windows 7 or you can use the \"Linux\" or \"Infinality\" (default) styles.", "pub_date": "2014-02-19T04:19:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3241, "fields": {"title": "Fluid Style web apps for Linux | Nuclear Tuxedo", "url": "http://nucleartuxedo.com/linux/fluid-style-web-apps-for-linux/", "description": "Click on File -> Create Application Shortcuts\u2026 and check the boxes for whichever types of launchers you want. I usually just go with \u201cApplications Menu\u201d. Then click \u201cCreate\u201d. This will get you halfway there. Now you\u2019ll have a launcher, and by default the icon will be a stretched out, blurry version of the Favicon for the site. Also, this application will not be running in it\u2019s own separate config environment. So, for example, if you launch your fancy new GMail application, then in your normal browser, you go to gmail and log out or change accounts, your application will be logged out or have it\u2019s account switched as well.", "pub_date": "2014-02-12T13:29:37", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3242, "fields": {"title": "Inconsolation", "url": "http://inconsolation.wordpress.com/index/", "description": "Adventures with lightweight and minimalist software for Linux. \n\nThis blog is intended as a quick look at terminal-based applications available in Linux, and in some similar operating systems. Not only are these ideal for modern, low-power and space-saving computers, but they go a long way toward invigorating out-of-date hardware.", "pub_date": "2014-01-19T17:26:14", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3243, "fields": {"title": "HIGH-INTENSITY CIRCUIT TRAINING USING BODY WEIGHT", "url": "http://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/Fulltext/2013/05000/HIGH_INTENSITY_CIRCUIT_TRAINING_USING_BODY_WEIGHT_.5.aspx", "description": "Time and access to facility constraints can be a concern when it comes to getting people to exercise. High-intensity circuit training seems to deliver numerous health benefits in less time than more traditional programs that are recommended. Furthermore, body weight can be used as resistance, eliminating the need for specialized facilities or equipment.", "pub_date": "2014-01-19T00:52:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3244, "fields": {"title": "Flexbox for forms - German for black", "url": "http://germanforblack.com/post/73295576875/flexbox-for-forms", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-01-17T01:32:37", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3245, "fields": {"title": "kimono : Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds", "url": "http://www.kimonolabs.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-01-17T01:32:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3246, "fields": {"title": "A Dive Into Plain JavaScript", "url": "http://blog.adtile.me/2014/01/16/a-dive-into-plain-javascript/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-01-17T01:31:41", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3247, "fields": {"title": "Tod Mun Chicken Cakes with Cucumber Relish", "url": "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15779529/WellFed2_TodMunChickenCake.pdf", "description": "Chicken Cakes:\n2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts and thighs 6 scallions, trimmed and cut in thirds\n1 bunch chives, trimmed and cut in thirds\n1 cup fresh cilantro leaves\n1 jalape\u00f1o, seeds removed, minced (about 2 tablespoons) 1 tablespoon lime juice\n3 tablespoons red curry paste\n2 large eggs\n2 tablespoons fish sauce (I like Red Boat.) 1/4 teaspoon baking soda\n1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar\ncoconut oil for cooking\n\nCut the chicken into 3-inch chunks and place them in the bowl of a food processor. Process on high until the chicken is chopped and beginning to form a paste. Remove from the food processor and place in a large mixing bowl.\nTo the food processor, add the scallions, chives, cilantro, jalape\u00f1o, lime juice, curry paste, eggs, fish sauce, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Process on high until it\u2019s pur\u00e9ed, then pour into the bowl with the chicken. Mix the chicken and herb pur\u00e9e until combined, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.\n\nfor nightshadeless curry paste:\n3 stalks lemongrass, chopped (bottom only not the green leaves)\n4 tablespoons galangal, chopped\nzest of one kaffir lime\n3 kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced\n1/4 cup garlic chopped\n1 teaspoon sea salt\n1 tablespoon shrimp paste\n3 tablespoons shallots, chopped\n2 tablespoons coriander seeds, crushed\n1/2 tablespoon white peppercorns\n\nFor relish:\n1 large seedless cucumber, very thinly sliced\nsalt\n1/4 medium red onion, very thinly sliced (about 1/4 cup) \n1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves, chopped (about 2 tablespoons) \n1 tablespoon lime juice\n3 tablespoons orange juice\na few healthy splashes of fish sauce or coconut aminos\n2 tablespoons cashews, finely chopped\n\nToss the cucumber slices with a generous amount of salt and let them sit for 20-30 minutes in a colander to remove excess moisture. Rinse with running water, drain, and pat dry. Place in a large mixing bowl, along with the onion, cilantro, lime juice, orange juice, and fish sauce. Toss with two wooden spoons until the vegetables are coated with dressing. Allow flavors to meld and add chopped cashews just before serving.", "pub_date": "2014-01-17T01:30:11", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3248, "fields": {"title": "Substitution for red curry paste?", "url": "http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/394052", "description": "3 stalks lemongrass, chopped (bottom only not the green leaves)\n4 tablespoons galangal, chopped\nzest of one kaffir lime\n3 kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced\n1/4 cup garlic chopped\n16 dried Thai chili peppers\n1 teaspoon sea salt\n1 tablespoon shrimp paste\n3 tablespoons shallots, chopped\n2 tablespoons coriander seeds, crushed\n1/2 tablespoon white peppercorns", "pub_date": "2014-01-17T01:29:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3250, "fields": {"title": "Frank Chimero \u00d7 Blog", "url": "http://frankchimero.com/blog/", "description": "Sometimes in the excitement of making new things, it becomes easy to lose sight of how it will mature. How will it look in six months? What will happen to it as the world around it changes? Does it have any true reason for existing? Often, doing nothing is better than the wrong thing. ", "pub_date": "2014-01-11T17:29:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3251, "fields": {"title": "Web Developer Checklist", "url": "http://webdevchecklist.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-01-11T17:01:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3252, "fields": {"title": "The Builder\u2019s High \u2013 Rands in Repose", "url": "http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-builders-high/", "description": "You\u2019re fucking swimming in everyone else\u2019s moments, likes, and tweets and during these moments of consumption you are coming to believe that their brief interestingness to others makes it somehow relevant to you and worth your time.\n\nThe fact that the frequency of these interesting moments appears to be ever-growing and increasingly easy to find does not change the fact that your attention is finite. Each one you experience, each one you consume, is a moment of your life that you\u2019ve spent forever.\n\nThese are other people\u2019s moments.\n...\nFor me, the act of writing creates the builder\u2019s high. Most pieces are 1000+ words. They involve three to five hours of writing, during which I\u2019ll both hate and love the emerging piece. This is followed by another hour of editing and tweaking before I\u2019ll publish the piece, and the high is always the same. I hit publish and I grin. That smile is my brain chemically reminding me, Hey, you just added something new to the world.", "pub_date": "2014-01-11T16:57:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3253, "fields": {"title": "Fluid App Tricks", "url": "http://www.macdrifter.com/2014/01/fluid-crib-sheets-for-cheaters.html", "description": "Choose the Pin to Status Bar option to convert from a standard application with a floating window to something more like a menu bar application.", "pub_date": "2014-01-11T16:55:39", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3254, "fields": {"title": "Middle Class Decline & American Power", "url": "http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=4613&p=65591#p65591", "description": " the average person has been rendering vulnerable by specialization and consumerism-dependence. This is thanks to technology, mass-advertising (psychology), and a overly complicated legal/contract system. People are no longer beholden to themselves but to a complicated system that they are largely clueless towards dealing with. Because of that, it's now very hard for the average person to defend against lay-offs. The consumer can't walk away from a bad situation, due to lack of assets, nor can he attack due to lack of alternatives and lack of wherewithal to do so, only considering a \"job\" to be a solution. This lack of power to be free is being sold as \"safety\" but it's a sucker move meant to consolidate power back to the asset side. The safety really exist on the corporate side rather than the consumer side who are anything but. ", "pub_date": "2014-01-11T16:37:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3255, "fields": {"title": "Resolve and Betterment", "url": "http://www.macdrifter.com/2014/01/resolve-and-betterment.html", "description": "Don't Be a Dick and Don't Bother with Those Who Are\r\nOne thing I've noticed is that I am very curt and easily provoked online. It wasn't always this way, but after blogging for nearly 8 years I've fallen victim to trolls. That's a small victory for the worst part of the Internet. So this year my plan is to be more judicious and contemplative with my interactions. I've made great acquaintances through Twitter and the comments on Macdrifter. Some of those have become friendships and born fruit unachievable on my own.\r\n\r\nMy plan to overcome this cultivated defect:\r\n\r\nBe kind as I would want a stranger to be kind to my family online\r\nBlock, mute and delete without comment. There's a lot of fish in the sea. There's no sense struggling with one or two\r\nTalk to people I like more than people I don't enjoy\r\nMake time to respond to every good intention\r\nComplete More Stuff I'm Proud Of\r\nMy second least favorite part of me is that I meander more than I'd like. I'm a big proponent of fiddling. All of my favorite things came out of fiddling. But I'd like to fiddle more constructively and actually finish things more often than not. I'm too easily excited and frustrated.\r\n\r\nMy plan to overcome this cultivated defect:\r\n\r\nMake a plan before spending more than 10 minutes on an idea\r\nWrite down the goal before making a plan\r\nWork on the plan every day for a week (if it takes that long)\r\nAvoid scope creep and stick to the plan\r\nChoose the projects wisely and review them often", "pub_date": "2014-01-11T16:32:23", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3257, "fields": {"title": "16 things I know are true but haven\u2019t quite learned yet", "url": "http://www.raptitude.com/2013/12/16-things-i-know-are-true-but-havent-quite-learned-yet/", "description": "1) The sooner you do something, the more of your life you get to spend with that thing done \u2014 even though it takes less effort (or at least no more) than it will later. It\u2019s the ultimate sure-thing investment and I pass it up all the time.\n\n2) I never regret working out. I can\u2019t count the number of times I\u2019ve negotiated with myself to work out the next day instead of today because I\u2019m worried it will be a \u201cbad workout.\u201d I seldom have a bad day on a day that I work out.\n\n3) Whenever I\u2019m playing with my phone I am only shortening my life. A smartphone is useful if you have a specific thing you want to do, but ninety per cent of the time the thing I want to do is avoid doing something harder than surfing Reddit. During those minutes or hours, all I\u2019m doing is dying.\n\n4) Nothing makes me more productive and in-the-moment than a clean house. There is mind-clearing magic in cleanliness. Waking up in a house where everything is put away is a glorious feeling. There seem to be more possibilities in the air, and all my things seem more useful.", "pub_date": "2014-01-11T16:13:58", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3259, "fields": {"title": "douglas-harding", "url": "http://headless.org/douglas-harding.htm", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-01-09T02:32:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3260, "fields": {"title": "Why Personalizing Your Diet and Lifestyle Is the Key to Success | Mark's Daily Apple", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-personalizing-your-diet-lifestyle-key-success/", "description": "One reason is that these dietary approaches aren\u2019t consistent with what evolutionary biology has taught us about optimal human nutrition. Studies of the fossil record as well as contemporary hunter-gatherers following their traditional ways have revealed the following facts:\r\n\r\nHuman beings evolved on a diet of meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, and starchy tubers.\r\nHumans can tolerate (and even thrive on) a wide variety of macronutrient ratios.\r\nAnimal products made up a significant percentage of our ancestors\u2019 diet, and we know of no traditional hunter-gatherer cultures that followed a vegetarian or vegan diet.\r\n\r\nWe share a lot in common as human beings, but we also have important differences. We have different genes, gene expression, lifestyles, activity levels, health status, and goals. Each of these factors will determine what is optimal for a given individual. What\u2019s more, they can change over time, which means that what\u2019s optimal for you now may not be in a year or a decade.", "pub_date": "2014-01-07T14:21:04", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3261, "fields": {"title": "luckyBackup - backup and sync utility", "url": "http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2014-01-01T01:06:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3262, "fields": {"title": "Primal Spaghetti Squash Gratin", "url": "http://paleospirit.com/2012/spaghetti-squash-gratin-primal-gluten-free/", "description": "Primal Spaghetti Squash Gratin\r\n\r\nIngredients\r\n\r\n1 spaghetti squash\r\n2 tablespoons butter\r\n1 medium onion, finely diced\r\n3/4 cup plain Greek yogurt\r\n1 1/4 cup grated Gruy\u00e8re cheese (divided)\r\n1 1/2 \u2013 2 teaspoons sea salt (to taste)\r\n1/2 teaspoon black pepper\r\n1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg\r\n;\r\n\r\nInstructions\r\n\r\nPreheat oven to 375 degrees F.\r\nCut it in half lengthwise and place rind side up on a baking sheet. (If you have trouble cutting the squash you might consider microwaving for a couple of minutes just to soften a bit before baking.) Pour enough water in the pan to come up about 1/4\u201d. Bake for 45 minutes and allow to cool.\r\nScoop out the seeds and membranes from each side of the squash. (I find it easier to do after baking but some people do it before)\r\nUse a fork to \u201cshred\u201d the flesh of the spaghetti squash -set aside.\r\nHeat butter in a medium/large pan. Mmmm butter\u2026.\r\nAdd the finely diced onions to the pan and saut\u00e9 until translucent (approximately 12 minutes). Stir in the salt, pepper and nutmeg.\r\nAdd the Greek yogurt, spaghetti squash and 3/4 cup of the Gruy\u00e8re to the pan, stirring to combine, and heat for a couple of minutes on medium.\r\nPour the mixture into a baking dish and spread it evenly.\r\nTop with the remaining 1/2 cup of grated cheese and bake for 30 minutes until hot and bubbling. If the top is not browned you can broil on high for a few minutes until the Gruy\u00e8re cheese is nicely toasted.", "pub_date": "2013-12-31T22:06:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3263, "fields": {"title": "Paleo Monkey Bread for GFE\u2019s Home for the Holidays | Paleo Parents", "url": "http://paleoparents.com/2011/paleo-monkey-bread-for-gfes-home-for-the-holidays/", "description": "Monkey Bread\nIngredients\n2/3 C fresh medjool dates, pureed\n1/2 C coconut oil\n2 Tbsp honey\n1 Tbsp vanilla\n2 1/2 C (divided) almond flour\n1 C tapioca flour\n3 Tbsp arrowroot powder\n1 tsp baking soda\n1/4 tsp cream of tartar\n1/4 tsp salt\n3 egg whites*\n1/3 C chopped walnuts\n6 Tbsp (divided) palm shortening or butter\n3 Tbsp (divided) unrefined granulated sugar\n1/2 C unrefined granulated sugar\n1 T cinnamon\nInstructions\n\u2665 Puree together dates, oil, honey and vanilla until combined\n\u2665 In a separate bowl, sift dry ingredients together, reserving 1 C almond flour, and stir to evenly distribute\n\u2665 Add dry ingredients to wet and whisk until thick batter is formed (this will be very dry, that\u2019s OK), set aside\n\u2665 Whip egg whites to soft peaks\nGently fold egg whites into batter until incorporated\n\u2665 Gently mix in remaining almond flour, 1/4 C at a time, until a very sticky dough forms\n\u2665 In bottom of greased bundt pan, sprinkle in walnuts, 1 1/2 Tbsp palm shortening and 3 Tbsp sugar\n\u2665 With a fork in a shallow bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon\n\u2665 Drop tablespoons of batter into sugar and shake bowl to coat; add \u201cdropped sugared biscuit\u201d into bundt pan\n\u2665 When dough is all in pan, sprinkle top with remaining shortening and sugar\nBake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes\nWhen done, allow to cool for at least 20 minutes, turn out onto serving platter, enjoy warm", "pub_date": "2013-12-25T21:54:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3264, "fields": {"title": "The Hardiest Vegetables For Winter Gardening (Why I Love Overwintering Cauliflower)", "url": "http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NorthwestEdibleLife/~3/cCRwPI0NKNQ/winter-plant-hardiness.html", "description": "Overwintering cauliflower is right up there with giant kohlrabi as one of my favorite cool-season crops. I just want to share a quick before and after to show you how my overwintering cauli\u2019s survived the recent Seattle cold snap. Now, keep in mind I am a Zone 7 gardener \u2013 cold is relative. In my ", "pub_date": "2013-12-18T17:23:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3265, "fields": {"title": "The Internet Classics Archive | Letter to Menoeceus by Epicurus", "url": "http://classics.mit.edu/Epicurus/menoec.html", "description": "For this reason we call pleasure the alpha and omega of a happy life. Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting-point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing. And since pleasure is our first and native good, for that reason we do not choose every pleasure whatever, but often pass over many pleasures when a greater annoyance ensues from them. And often we consider pains superior to pleasures when submission to the pains for a long time brings us as a consequence a greater pleasure. While therefore all pleasure because it is naturally akin to us is good, not all pleasure is worthy of choice, just as all pain is an evil and yet not all pain is to be shunned. It is, however, by measuring one against another, and by looking at the conveniences and inconveniences, teat all these matters must be judged.", "pub_date": "2013-12-15T17:02:48", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3266, "fields": {"title": "Damn\u2026that Was Awesome. \u2013 Duct Tape Then Beer", "url": "http://www.ducttapethenbeer.com/damn-that-was-awesome/", "description": "After all these years, I refuse to believe joy costs something, or we have to get on a plane to find it, that it has to happen on our vacation, and that dreams can\u2019t come true on a Tuesday. \r\n\r\nI don\u2019t know what I want to be, but I don\u2019t think it involves spreadsheets and e-mails and big paychecks. I know what I\u2019d give thanks to. \r\n\r\nI love spicy food and tipping big and getting up when it\u2019s still dark. \r\n\r\nI give thanks to vehicles we call homes, living off other people\u2019s leftovers, and for evolving as a person. \r\n\r\nThis is one is for getting soaked by rainstorms, for cereal and Saturday morning cartoons as a kid and three legged dogs that still play fetch. \r\n\r\nWalking on rocky mountain ridgelines, stones that skip all the way to the deepest part of the lake and watching the golden light of the last hour of the day turn the desert into a soft, glowing place. \r\n\r\nAnd when I reach that final minute, that final day, I won\u2019t think about shitty bosses or what happened on Facebook. I\u2019ll remember riding my bike through the city streets at night, gravel roads that stretch on forever and all the highs and lows of family. \r\n\r\nStanding in the middle of icy rivers wondering what it\u2019s like to be a fish. Making pretty girls laugh. And friends. Of course my friends. \r\n\r\nI try to collect moments. I step back and watch the movie that is my life for just a second, because it\u2019s easy to miss the good stuff, the magic, when it happens. But I try not to. I try really hard to realize it when it\u2019s amazing, and even when it\u2019s not. ", "pub_date": "2013-12-15T16:53:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3267, "fields": {"title": "Lifestyle Questions \u2022 Re: On the futulity of minimalism.", "url": "http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=4518&p=64477#p64477", "description": "So many \"re-\u201cs, refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, reorganize, reconsider, rearrange, redesign", "pub_date": "2013-12-14T02:25:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3268, "fields": {"title": "How To Make and Use Caramelized Onions (The Pro Method)", "url": "http://www.nwedible.com/2013/12/caramelized-onions.html", "description": "Ingredients\n8 lbs yellow onions\n3-4 tablespoons olive oil\n1 tablespoon Kosher salt.\n6-10 sprigs fresh thyme, tied in a tight bundle with kitchen string\n\u00bd cup red wine vinegar\n\u00bd cup dry red wine\n\u00bd cup sugar\nSalt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste.\nInstructions\nPeel, core and halve onions.\nSlice onions in a food processor fitted with a 4 mm slicing disk.\nCoat the bottom of a large, tall stockpot with a thin layer of olive oil.\nTransfer the sliced onions to the stockpot. As you add the onions, sprinkle layers of onions with the Kosher salt to help draw out the moisture from the onions.\nWhen all the onions are sliced, turn the heat under the stockpot to medium low and cook, covered, until the onions start to release their moisture. Periodically lift the lid and stir the onions to ensure the onions do not brown or stick.\nAfter an hour or so, the onions should have deflated and reduced by about a third.\nWhen the level of moisture in the pot is about equal with the top of the onions, remove the lid and add the tied bundle of thyme to the pot. Use your spoon to push it into the mass on onions. Leave the lid off and allow the onions to slowly reduce and caramelize. This can take several hours. Adjust heat as needed and stir periodically so the onions do not burn but continue to darken. The entire mass of onions should slowly and uniformly take on color, getting progressively darker as the onions reduce.\nWhen the onions are reduced by half or more, are no longer soupy, have taken on a light golden color and mound up when lifted with a spoon, add in the red wine vinegar, red wine and sugar.\nIncrease the heat to medium and finish caramelizing the onions. Stir often \u2013 at this stage the onions can scorch quickly \u2013 and cook until the onions are a rich dark caramel color and look moist but not at all liquidy.\nRemove from heat, fish out the bunch of thyme and discard, and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.\nLadle the caramelized onions into clean half-pint jars. Lid and transfer to the refrigerator.\nOnions will keep for a week or so in the fridge, and for 3-6 months frozen.", "pub_date": "2013-12-14T02:07:48", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3269, "fields": {"title": "Death, Taxes, Estate Plans, Probate and Prob8", "url": "http://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/11/25/death-taxes-estate-plans-probate-and-prob8/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-12-14T02:06:47", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3270, "fields": {"title": "The Four Horsemen of Writer\u2019s Block (and how to defeat them)", "url": "http://www.raptitude.com/2013/11/the-four-horsemen-of-writers-block-and-how-to-defeat-them/", "description": "_This article was originally about writer's block \u2014 a particular kind of procrastination \u2014 but as some readers have pointed out, it applies to anything you've been avoiding. Writing is my example here; you know better what it is you're avoiding right now._\r\n\r\nGetting myself writing used to feel something like trying to start an old lawn mower. Occasionally I'd get it running right away, but most of the time it would take at least a few rips at the cord, and I was always aware that I might not get it to turn over at all that day.\r\n\r\nThis made it feel like there were days I could write and couldn't write, and I could never do much more than hope it was the right kind of day. Some time in the last year I lost most of my fear of writing, or at least by now I've experienced enough of that fear that I can see it has a rather simple and predictable structure.\r\n\r\nI'm not saying I've defeated it, only that I understand it enough that I can always get myself to the point where I actually write something. I still encounter creative fear every day, but it arrives in only a few predictable forms and I know what to do for each one.\r\n\r\nThere are four forms, and almost every day they ride out to confront me in the same order. I call them the Four Horsemen of Writer's Block, but they are undoubtedly the same evil forces that stifle creators of all types.\r\n\r\nInitially they come in disguise, seducing travelers away from the creative path. Often they defeat you without your even knowing it. Once you know their names and their strategies, you begin to see your encounters with them as an everyday part of your job that need cause you little trouble. But be careful. Even if you've defeated them a hundred times they will still be capable of tricking you \u2014 in fact, my overconfidence allowed the first one to outsmart me yesterday on the piece you're reading.\r\n\r\nKnow which you're dealing with and what to do for each. \r\n\r\n## **1\\. Tomorrow**\r\n\r\nThe first horseman is responsible for the greatest number of casualties. Usually he alone is enough to defeat a given person. His persistence is the primary reason there are people who believe they have no creative ability at all. He keeps the majority of the population from ever even beginning to do their best work.\r\n\r\nHis name is Tomorrow and his first arrow is so sudden and penetrating that it can slay your creative spirit for the day before you even notice his arrival. Every subsequent day he attacks from farther away, until each assault can kill weeks, months and years of your creative life.\r\n\r\nAcross his breastplate his mantra is etched: \"Now is not the time.\"\r\n\r\n**His strategy:** He wants today to look spoiled to you, so that tomorrow, next week, or next year seems like a vastly better time to get to work. When you notice it's 11:17 and you've got nothing down, you begin to think that today's energies might be better invested in laundry or errand-running. This is his deathblow, and it is so insidious it feels good.\r\n\r\n**His weakness:** Tomorrow needs you to regard future days as your most fertile creative periods, making today look comparatively unsuitable for working. When you recognize that [it is actually impossible to do work tomorrow][2], then you know to stay with your work until something starts to take form. Today is the only day you can ever work, and once you see this truth, he is defeated.\r\n\r\n## **2\\. Later**\r\n\r\nThe second horseman arrives in the quiet hours of the morning, when you still feel the abundance of a whole day ahead of you. He's most effective when Tomorrow defeated you yesterday and you're determined to work today, but still rattled. The prospect of creating is slightly scarier to you today than it was yesterday and it is this scent of blood that attracts your next enemy.\r\n\r\nLater is well-dressed and generous, and the inexperienced traveler is drawn to him. He flatters you for your commitment and industriousness, and extols the principles of emotional preparation and the rejuvenating effect of play. The moment he senses your anxiousness about getting to work, he reassures you of the abundance of time. After lunch, after dinner, after the next episode of _Orange is the New Black_, there is a clear stretch of time to work, and you'll be more energized and balanced then. Sometimes he will offer you cannabis.\r\n\r\n**His strategy:** Later offers you gifts but they must be accepted immediately. He sells you on what appears to be perfect compromise \u2014 do whatever you like now, as long as you get to work right after after lunch, or right after dinner. It's a nearly irresistible deal: at the time you accept the gift you believe are losing nothing, because you'll simply do the same amount of work later in the day, and you get to enjoy a lovely treat right now.\r\n\r\n**His weakness:** He can defeat you only if you never learn that work only gets harder throughout the day. Accepting his morning gifts weakens you in several ways simultaneously. Firstly, you're using the day's freshest hours to do its least demanding activities; secondly, you're training yourself to expect the easy and fun part of the day to come before you begin working; and thirdly, some part of you knows that you have already sold out on your high expectations for the day, and the day becomes tinged with shame. Tomorrow will be upon you in an instant. If you do begin to work later, you'll expect less of yourself and you'll quit early. If you follow a policy of never accepting gifts of gratification before you've done enough work to be proud that day, he cannot win.\r\n\r\n## **3\\. Distraction**\r\n\r\nThe third horseman waits until you're at your desk, having thwarted the first two opponents. Rather than sneak up to you, he rides in to the sound of trumpets and pyrotechnics. He wears a great blue cape with a white lower case \"f\" on it. On his tunic are embroidered his emblems of power: a coffeemaker, a sudoku grid, a banana nut muffin and a Reddit alien.\r\n\r\nThough Distraction has been antagonizing writers and artists for centuries, his power has grown a hundredfold in the past few decades. In fact, he is threatening to dominate an entire generation of youth, who worship him by absently fondling a black or silver rectangle they carry in their pockets.\r\n\r\nThose who write for the web are particularly vulnerable to his power, because he lurks in the very tools the writer uses.\r\n\r\n**His strategy:** He wants to reduce your output by diluting your writing time with social media time, second breakfasts and daydreaming, so that you start to believe you need enormous blocks of time to produce anything. When you begin to despair at your inability to get anywhere, you will stop working for the day, leaving you ripe for all four horsemen to descend upon you when they please.\r\n\r\n**His weakness:** Distraction works by enchantment. He doesn't want you know you're distracted until you're too hooked on the distraction to quit immediately when you do realize. You have to learn what the in-the-moment sensation of becoming distracted feels like, and when you notice it, return your attention immediately to what you were doing, without \"resolving\" the distraction. It is easier to learn to do this in small stretches. Set a timer and declare the next thirty minutes distraction free. Snap back to the task at hand the moment you notice you're not doing it anymore. This is a muscle you have to work.\r\n\r\n## **4\\. Self-doubt**\r\n\r\nThe final enemy often waits until you've actually begun to get somewhere. You may even be almost done a day's work by the time you notice his long shadow creeping across your workspace.\r\n\r\nSelf-doubt stalks every creative and will appear at some point during every project. His figure is indistinguishable from Death \u2014 dressed in black with a bare skull for a face. Sometimes you just spot his silhouette on a distant hilltop, and then he will disappear, allowing you to finish. But you know you saw him and you are left unsettled about your work. Other times he may ride right up to you, unfurling a great black banner that says, \"Everything you write is shit.\"\r\n\r\nUnlike his predecessors, who are satisfied with merely ruining your day, his aim is to get you to stop forever.\r\n\r\n**His strategy:** To get you to give up on your projects out of the belief that you're missing a crucial ingredient, typically talent or inspiration. Creatives who believe they're missing something must either wait for it to come to them, or quit the pursuit altogether.\r\n\r\n**His weakness:** Primarily, he needs you to believe that bad work is avoidable and that it threatens your good work. Self-doubt has trouble gaining traction with the writer who is unfazed by producing something he knows is bad. If you embrace your shitty work as a [necessary component][3] of getting to your good work, he begins to doubt his own effectiveness. Joel Saltzman's analogy of [writing as panning for gold][4] is helpful \u2014 the gold is only ever found amongst many times as much sand. If you see the sand as being in the way of your gold production, you stop producing. Good writing needs bad writing, and the less resistance you have to one, the more easily the other comes.\r\n\r\nSelf-doubt is the most complex of the enemies to creativity, and it can come from a lot of different places. But having a name for the stifling force goes a long way towards continuing to work regardless of its presence.\r\n\r\n***\r\n\r\nEssentially, if you know which foe is stifling you at a given moment, it's not difficult to defeat him. Expect them to come in this order, but be aware that they never really die. When you have trouble with one of them, often the others will reappear, even if you've already handled them that day.\r\n\r\nI'm convinced now that these four enemies make up the entirety of everyday resistance to creative work, that they are predictable and that anyone can defeat any one of them on any given day. There's really not much that can stop you if you decide you'll keep working no matter who shows up.\r\n\r\n***\r\n\r\n### Have a lot on your mind?\r\n\r\nEveryday mindfulness has transformed my life, and the lives of many others. You can use it to reduce stress, deal calmly with trouble, and experience joy and peace throughout everyday life. Making it a habit is easier than you probably think. [**Learn how.][6]**\r\n\r\n[1]: http://www.raptitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/horseman.jpg\r\n[2]: http://www.raptitude.com/2012/07/tomorrow-is-not-a-suitable-day-for-doing-things/\r\n[3]: http://www.raptitude.com/2012/03/why-your-work-disappoints-you/\r\n[4]: http://amzn.to/18BFoUd\r\n[5]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/16230215@N08/4159029688/\r\n[6]: http://www.raptitude.com/gravity-landing/you-are-here-a-modern-persons-guide-to-living-in-the-present/\r\n", "pub_date": "2013-12-14T02:06:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3271, "fields": {"title": "Finding Almost Anyone's Email Address [Link]", "url": "http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/11/finding-almost-anyones-email-address-link.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-12-14T02:05:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3272, "fields": {"title": "Gluten Free Sourdough Bread Recipe", "url": "http://glutenfreesourdough.blogspot.com/2009/03/gluten-free-dairy-free-sourdough-bread.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-12-13T16:38:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3273, "fields": {"title": "Discover. Share. Inspire. - Living Deliberately - 2 Adults, 5 Kids, 2 Continents", "url": "http://www.discovershareinspire.com/2013/06/why-have-more-children-expecting-number-six/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-12-13T01:36:40", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3274, "fields": {"title": "Build vs. Buy \u2013 A Garden Soil Dilemma", "url": "http://www.nwedible.com/2013/11/build-vs-buy-a-garden-soil-dilemma.html", "description": "Everyone and their Grandmother has some \u201cnamed\u201d version of deep-mulch composting in place, which is all this really is. Check out any of the following to find the method that works best for you, your natural materials and your climactic area.\nLasagna Gardening: original method and simplified method.\nHugelkultur: overview article and my experiments with hugelkultur\nNo Till Gardening: Ruth Stout did it naked. OSU prefers it with black plastic.\nBack to Eden Gardening: Watch the original free film and prepare for woodchips and Bible quotes. I love this film. Christian gardeners may find it beyond inspiring. Deep-mulching non-Christians who aren\u2019t bothered by the Evangelical overtones will find much to love as well.", "pub_date": "2013-12-13T01:28:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3275, "fields": {"title": "Bacon Pancakes", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/bacon-pancakes/", "description": "6 slices of bacon\n3 egg whites*\n1/4 cup coconut flour (30 g)\n1 tablespoon purified granular gelatin (like this) (15 ml)\n2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted (30 ml)\n2 tablespoons finely chopped chives (30 ml)\n1/2 cup water (120 ml)\nInstructions:\n\nCook the bacon in a frying pan over medium heat. Leave the bacon fat in the pan. Crumble or finely chop the bacon and set aside.\n\nWhisk egg whites into soft peaks (an electric mixer works well for this). Set aside.\n\nIn a large bowl mix together the coconut flour, gelatin, butter, chives and bacon. Add the water and mix well then gently fold in the egg whites until combined. The batter will be thick and lumpy.\n\nRe-heat the bacon fat in the frying pan over medium heat. Scoop small amounts (about 2 tablespoons) of batter into the pan, gently smoothing the batter out with a spoon to form small pancakes. Better yet, set a 3-inch biscuit cutter in the frying pan, drop the batter in the middle and then smooth out the batter to form perfectly round cakes.\n\nCook about 3 minutes on each side. Serve warm.", "pub_date": "2013-12-13T01:01:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3276, "fields": {"title": "Dear Mark: Resistant Starch, Zinc Deficiency, and Something New", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/resistant-starch-zinc-deficiency/", "description": "I think it\u2019s worth trying. Potato starch is only about $4 or $5 a bag (less if you order in bulk on Amazon), mixes well in water or smoothies without much of a taste. Start with a teaspoon or two and work your way up to as many as four tablespoons. Expect flatulence as your gut flora acclimatize to the influx of this food.", "pub_date": "2013-12-13T00:59:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3277, "fields": {"title": "How-To: Standup and Mobile Workstations", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-standup-workstation/", "description": "The real beauty of the treadmill desk is that you never feel that incessant need to workout tugging at the back of your mind. Since you\u2019ve already done 5, 6, 7 miles at work, you don\u2019t necessarily have to find time to trudge off to the gym. You can relax, unwind, and spend time with friends and family after work. It doesn\u2019t replace exercise, but it certainly takes the edge off it.\n\nIf a TreadDesk doesn\u2019t work or make sense for someone, I encourage frequent movement: walking, squatting, pushups, pullups (there\u2019s even a bar in the office), a light jaunt outside in the Malibu sun. The key is to break up the stasis. Even just five minutes every two hours is plenty.", "pub_date": "2013-12-13T00:55:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3278, "fields": {"title": "How (and How Not) to Buy a House", "url": "http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/09/04/how-and-how-not-to-buy-a-house/", "description": "Mindset: You can start things off by giving yourself a great gift that will make the rest of the process go much more smoothly: a calm and rational mind. Repeat after me: \u201cI am not buying a flowery pillowcase of emotions or a future of warm memories. I am conducting a business transaction to purchase a piece of land and an assembled collection of construction materials.\u201d\r\n\r\nDon\u2019t worry, there will be plenty of time for the pillowcases and the memories after you buy the house, but don\u2019t put the carriage in front of the horse. For now, you are a BusinessMan/BusinessWoman looking to conduct some business. The strength provided by this mindset is essential to get the results you want.\r\n\r\nLocation: Next you choose your location. You need to do this before you start looking at houses, because it is way more important than the details of the structure itself. Beginner buyers often say things like, \u201cOh, I\u2019ll just live somewhere near the interstate, so that way it\u2019s easy to get anywhere\u201d. Instead, I suggest starting with the assumption that cars don\u2019t exist, and designing a life around that assumption instead. You\u2019ll still have your cars, of course. But your level of need for them, and thus the quantity of money and time you waste sitting on your ass in them, will be completely different.\r\n\r\nWith a bit of planning, it\u2019s almost always possible to put work, grocery store, school, library, and anything else you need right within the area you live. By looking for public amenities, you can get many of the benefits of a country house right inside the city, as shown in the picture above. The more things you live near, the less you need to own yourself.", "pub_date": "2013-12-12T20:22:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3279, "fields": {"title": "Stocks \u2014 Part XVII: What if you can\u2019t buy VTSAX? Or even Vanguard?", "url": "http://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/02/stocks-part-xvii-what-if-you-cant-buy-vtsax-or-even-vanguard/", "description": "The Bottom Line:\n\nSince I no longer work or have access to 401k plans (Rats!), my portfolio looks like this:\n\nVTSAX (Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund) 50%\nVGSLX (Vanguard REIT Index Fund) 25%\nVBTLX (Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund) 25%\nI also hold some cash, about 4% at the moment. I target about 5%. (Yes I know all those add up to 105%. These are targets that vary with market swings.)\n\nIf for whatever reason I didn\u2019t have access to those specific funds (or if I had access to the even lower expense ratio Institutional versions) I\u2019d look for the Vanguard variations that delivered the same Vanguard stock, bond and REIT index portfolios.", "pub_date": "2013-12-12T20:21:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3280, "fields": {"title": "Organic Cotton Vejibag-VejiBIG Combo", "url": "http://vejibag.com/store/holiday-12-pack-combo/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-12-12T20:18:37", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3281, "fields": {"title": "Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard", "url": "http://24ways.org/2013/grunt-is-not-weird-and-hard/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-12-12T20:17:27", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3282, "fields": {"title": "Money Questions \u2022 Re: Build Your Own Online Business", "url": "http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=4067&p=64470#p64470", "description": "\r\nI've been working full-time online for about 6 years now. Wanted to share a really basic business model I came across this afternoon. I believe one could expect to make at least $20/day with something similar, which would equal $7,300/year - almost enough to cover a Jacob-style ERE budget.\r\n\r\nBasic Arbitrage Business Model\r\n\r\nThe purpose of arbitrage (of any sort) is to purchase something for cheap and resell it for more elsewhere. A common method of this online is \"Adsense arbitrage\" where one pays for cheap ads on Google, and sends it for a page of more expensive Adsense ads. This can easily be expanded out to Bing -> Adsense and then Facebook -> Adsense.\r\n\r\nSite: http://www.pickupsandbeer.com\r\n\r\nDescription: A very basic \"Made for Adsense\" type site. Pictures and ads are all that's needed. In this case, their page is optimized to show ads from auto manufacturers. As you can imagine, companies like Ford have huge ad budgets and these clicks would pay nicely.\r\n\r\nTraffic source: Facebook. They run a simple Facebook page that links back to the Adsense page at https://www.facebook.com/PickupsAndBeer - by appealing to a niche audience, they've built a large following (over 800k likes) and use \"Suggest\" ads on Facebook to display their page and expand their audience, while constantly linking back to the Adsense page.\r\n\r\nI wouldn't recommend trying to copy it exactly, but you can take this specific idea to general pattern back to specific idea. The goal is to create page that would display expensive ads (Finance has often been popular) and find a source of cheap traffic to funnel towards it.", "pub_date": "2013-12-12T02:01:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3283, "fields": {"title": "The gift of this moment", "url": "http://blog.exuberantanimal.com/the-gift-of-this-moment/", "description": "Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement\u2026 to get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.\n\nAbraham Joshua Heschel\nJewish philosopher and theologian 1907 \u2013 1972", "pub_date": "2013-12-10T15:10:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3284, "fields": {"title": "Oven Baked Squash Chips Recipe | Key Ingredient", "url": "http://www.keyingredient.com/recipes/13134040/oven-baked-squash-chips/", "description": "Squash chips: slice thin, salt, bake @ 200 for 2-3 hours.", "pub_date": "2013-12-06T15:41:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3285, "fields": {"title": "20 Things the Rich Do Every Day - daveramsey.com", "url": "http://www.daveramsey.com/blog/20-things-the-rich-do-every-day", "description": "So many problems with this, but the advice is still pretty good.\r\n\r\n\r\n1. 70% of wealthy eat less than 300 junk food calories per day. 97% of poor people eat more than 300 junk food calories per day. 23% of wealthy gamble. 52% of poor people gamble.\r\n\r\n2. 80% of wealthy are focused on accomplishing some single goal. Only 12% of the poor do this.\r\n\r\n3. 76% of wealthy exercise aerobically four days a week. 23% of poor do this.\r\n\r\n4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% of poor people.\r\n\r\n5. 81% of wealthy maintain a to-do list vs. 19% of poor.\r\n\r\n6. 63% of wealthy parents make their children read two or more non-fiction books a month vs. 3% of poor.\r\n\r\n7. 70% of wealthy parents make their children volunteer 10 hours or more a month vs. 3% of poor.\r\n\r\n8. 80% of wealthy make Happy Birthday calls vs. 11% of poor.\r\n\r\n9. 67% of wealthy write down their goals vs. 17% of poor.\r\n\r\n10. 88% of wealthy read 30 minutes or more each day for education or career reasons vs. 2% of poor.\r\n\r\n11. 6% of wealthy say what\u2019s on their mind vs. 69% of poor.\r\n\r\n12. 79% of wealthy network five hours or more each month vs. 16% of poor.\r\n\r\n13. 67% of wealthy watch one hour or less of TV every day vs. 23% of poor.\r\n\r\n14. 6% of wealthy watch reality TV vs. 78% of poor.\r\n\r\n15. 44% of wealthy wake up three hours before work starts vs. 3% of poor.\r\n\r\n16. 74% of wealthy teach good daily success habits to their children vs. 1% of poor.\r\n\r\n17. 84% of wealthy believe good habits create opportunity luck vs. 4% of poor.\r\n\r\n18. 76% of wealthy believe bad habits create detrimental luck vs. 9% of poor.\r\n\r\n19. 86% of wealthy believe in lifelong educational self-improvement vs. 5% of poor.\r\n\r\n20. 86% of wealthy love to read vs. 26% of poor.", "pub_date": "2013-12-04T14:48:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3286, "fields": {"title": "What to get everyone for Christmas", "url": "http://www.raptitude.com/2013/12/what-to-get-everyone-for-christmas/", "description": "The pivotal understanding in moving from unhealthy finances to healthy finances is learning this: feelings are what you\u2019re actually trying to buy with every purchase. Every thing we want amounts to a feeling we want, and so everything we buy amounts to an attempt to buy a source of emotional experience, even if we don\u2019t realize it.", "pub_date": "2013-12-04T02:32:50", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3288, "fields": {"title": "Taco Shells made from Cauliflower", "url": "http://www.happychomp.com/post/48093575572/recipe-taco-shells-made-from-cauliflower", "description": "Ingredients:\n\n1 medium head of cauliflower (all the flowerets)\n3 eggs OR 4 egg whites\n^ yup, that\u2019s it!\u00a0\nInstructions:\n\nPreheat oven to 375 degrees\nUse a food processor, blender, or hand grater to grate the cauliflower into a crumb-like texture\nMicrowave the cauliflower for 5 minutes, stirring a little halfway through\n[If you don\u2019t want to use a microwave for Step 3] Move the grated cauliflower to a pan and add 1/4 cup of water. Cover the pan and steam over medium-high heat for about 8-10 minutes. Just make sure to stir half-way through to avoid the cauliflower from burning. Keep in mind that you will have a bit more water to squeeze out.\nPlace the now-cooked cauliflower in a kitchen towel, that is on top of a seive, on a bowl (wow, that was confusing.. look at the pictures below). Make sure to drain as much exces water as possible.. there is surprisingly A LOT of water in cauliflower\nMix the drained cauliflower and eggs until smooth\nPlace the mixture on a baking sheet into circles at about 1/4\u201d thick.\u00a0\nBake for 10 minutes. Flip. Bake for another 5-7 minutes. This is important to dry out the tortilla\nMove the tortillas to cooling rack to cool, so the bottom does not become soggy", "pub_date": "2013-11-21T21:50:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3290, "fields": {"title": "How I failed my daughter and a simple path to wealth", "url": "http://jlcollinsnh.com/2011/06/08/how-i-failed-my-daughter-and-a-simple-path-to-wealth/", "description": "The simple path to wealth\r\n\r\nIt starts with nine basics. She doesn\u2019t have to read any further than these to make it work. Just do it.\r\n\r\n Avoid fiscally irresponsible people. Never marry one or otherwise give him access to your money.\r\n Avoid money managers. It\u2019s your money and no one will care for it better than you.\r\n Avoid debt.\r\n Save a portion of every dollar you get.\r\n The greater the percent of your income you save and invest, the sooner you\u2019ll have F-You money. Try 50%. With no debt, this perfectly doable.\r\n Put this money in the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSAX) This is the fund you already own, so just keep adding to it.\r\n Realize the market and the value of your shares will sometimes drop dramatically. People all around you will panic. They\u2019ll be screaming Sell, Sell, Sell. Ignore this. Even better: Buy more shares.\r\n When you can live off the dividends VTSAX provides you are financially free.\r\n The less you need, the more free you are.", "pub_date": "2013-11-19T19:47:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3291, "fields": {"title": "Moroccan Roasted Cauliflower \u2013 Spaghetti with Broccoli, Lemon and Walnuts \u2013 Lemon Tart", "url": "http://snailsview.com/2011/03/15/moroccan-roasted-cauliflower/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-11-18T17:18:05", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3292, "fields": {"title": "In The Kitchen: Caramelized Onion and Sweet Potato Meatballs", "url": "http://www.julymooninspirations.com/in-the-kitchen-caramelized-onion-and-sweet-potato-meatballs/", "description": "Essential Elements:\r\n\r\n3 T coconut oil\r\n\r\n3 T pastured butter\r\n\r\n2 cloves garlic, minced\r\n\r\n1 medium yellow onion, small dice\r\n\r\n1 egg\r\n\r\n3 T Dukkah (I purchased mine at Trader Joe\u2019s)\r\n\r\nZest of 1 lemon\r\n\r\n2 T flat leaf parsley, minced\r\n\r\n1 Lb. ground beef (80/20)\r\n\r\n1 medium sweet potato peeled and shredded (about 1 cup)\r\n\r\nsalt and pepper\r\n\r\nMethod:\r\n\r\nPre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Now get your onions nice and caramelized. Add 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil to a pan set to medium-high heat. Once your oil has melted add in the diced onions. The trick to perfect caramelization is to heat the onions on high for 5 minutes, releasing most of the moisture. Then, lower the heat to medium-low and cook for another 10-15 minutes stirring occasionally. The onions should be caramel is color (duh!).\r\n\r\nIn a separate pan heat another tablespoon of butter and oil over medium heat. Add in the shredded sweet potatoes and saute until they begin to change color and are slightly browned, about 5 minutes. Let the onions and sweet potatoes cool (I stuck mine in the fridge for a few minutes) before adding them to the rest of your ingredients.\r\n\r\nPaleo Meatball Ingredients 2 July Moon Inspirations\r\n\r\nOnce the sweet potatoes and onions have cooled, place them in a bowl with the remaining ingredients. Mix well, making sure everything is equally incorporated. Paleo Meatballs Rolled July Moon Inspirations\r\n\r\nNow for the fun part, making your meatballs. Roll the mixture between your hands forming 1 1/2 inch balls (about the size of a ping pong ball). You can make them bigger or smaller depending on what you\u2019re using them for. The 1 1/2 inch size works well as and appetizer served with a toothpick. You\u2019ll be browning the meatballs in batches before finishing them in the oven so I lined mine up on a baking sheet covered with a Silpat.\r\n\r\nPaleo Meatballs in Pan July Moon Inspirations\r\n\r\nHeat your remaining oil and butter in a pan on medium-high heat, add 1/2 your meatballs and brown on both sides. About 2 minutes a side until golden brown. Flip your meatballs very carefully\u2013I found using tongs to be the best method. Once brown, return them to the baking sheet and repeat with the remaining meatballs. Place meatballs on the center rack of the oven for 12 minutes. They should be firm, but not dry. ", "pub_date": "2013-11-18T17:17:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3293, "fields": {"title": "The secrets of the world's happiest cities", "url": "http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-worlds-happiest-cities-commute-property-prices", "description": "There is a clear connection between social deficit and the shape of cities. A Swedish study found that people who endure more than a 45-minute commute were 40% more likely to divorce. People who live in monofunctional, car\u2011dependent neighbourhoods outside urban centres are much less trusting of other people than people who live in walkable neighbourhoods where housing is mixed with shops, services and places to work.\r\n\r\nA couple of University of Zurich economists, Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer, compared German commuters' estimation of the time it took them to get to work with their answers to the standard wellbeing question, \"How satisfied are you with your life, all things considered?\"\r\n\r\nTheir finding was seemingly straightforward: the longer the drive, the less happy people were. Before you dismiss this as numbingly obvious, keep in mind that they were testing not for drive satisfaction, but for life satisfaction. People were choosing commutes that made their entire lives worse. Stutzer and Frey found that a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40% more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office. On the other hand, for a single person, exchanging a long commute for a short walk to work has the same effect on happiness as finding a new love.", "pub_date": "2013-11-18T14:31:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3294, "fields": {"title": "Early humans saw black hole light in the night sky - space - 24 September 2013 - New Scientist", "url": "http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24257-early-humans-saw-black-hole-light-in-the-night-sky.html?full=true#.UomMkz69KSM", "description": "Some 2 million years ago, around the time our ancestors were learning to walk upright, a light appeared in the night sky, rivalling the moon for brightness and size. But it was more fuzzball than orb. The glow came from the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's heart suddenly exploding into life.\r\n\r\nThis novel picture emerges from work announced this week at a conference in Sydney, Australia, which ingeniously pieces together two seemingly unrelated, outstanding galactic puzzles.\r\n", "pub_date": "2013-11-18T03:43:03", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3295, "fields": {"title": "When did goods get so bad?", "url": "http://www.raptitude.com/2013/09/when-did-goods-get-so-bad/", "description": "The value of everyday household stuff has dwindled noticeably in my lifetime. I remember accompanying my dad, one Summer weekday when I was ten, to a little shop to get the family VCR repaired. Repaired! Can you imagine that? There were people running a profitable business fixing small appliances \u2014 toasters, coffee makers and Video Cassette Recorders \u2014 because even a few decades ago there was an expectation of lasting value in these things. Today we typically bury malfunctioning electronic devices in the ground and buy new ones. It\u2019s possible that there will be a time when children are surprised to hear their parents used to have their cars fixed too. \r\n\r\nCertain aspects of the human world are marching pretty steadily in a particular direction, the growing disposableness of our goods being only one of them. But they aren\u2019t all moving in a bad direction. Over my lifetime I\u2019ve seen a steady increase, for example, in the recognition of gays as regular people, the ease of self-publishing your own creative work, and freedom of expression generally. I like the way things are moving on those fronts. So don\u2019t think I\u2019m saying that the world is going uniformly to Hell. But the quality of the objects with which we populate our homes is certainly not a category in which we\u2019re moving towards humanity\u2019s potential.\r\n\r\n", "pub_date": "2013-11-18T03:35:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3296, "fields": {"title": "Being and doing are not at odds", "url": "http://www.raptitude.com/2013/05/doing-and-being/", "description": "When it\u2019s applied to what\u2019s most important to you, an increase in productivity is not tantamount to sacrificing the quality of the present to improve the quality of the future. It\u2019s not an a deferral of today\u2019s happiness for tomorrow\u2019s.\r\n\r\nWe don\u2019t need to \u201cstrike a balance\u201d between being and doing, between work and repose. These are not separate categories of living, as they\u2019re often made out to be. Doing the work that serves your real values improves the present reality of your life. It makes life better right now, and later, and probably forever, as all worthy goals should.", "pub_date": "2013-11-18T03:33:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3297, "fields": {"title": "How I Deal With People Asking Me The Same Questions All The Time When Traveling", "url": "http://www.vagabondjourney.com/how-i-deal-with-people-asking-me-the-same-questions-all-the-time-when-traveling/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-11-18T03:30:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3298, "fields": {"title": "Welcome to Dinovember \u2014 Thoughts on creativity \u2014 Medium", "url": "https://medium.com/thoughts-on-creativity/6f4cb1886d41", "description": "Every year, my wife and I devote the month of November to convincing our children that, while they sleep, their plastic dinosaur figures come to life.\r\n\r\nIt began modestly enough. The kids woke up to discover that the dinosaurs had gotten into a box of cereal and made a mess on the kitchen table.\r\n", "pub_date": "2013-11-18T03:21:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3299, "fields": {"title": "How to Manufacture the Best Night of Sleep in Your Life", "url": "http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-manufacture-the-best-night-of-sleep-in-your-life/", "description": "Ah, sleep: is there anything quite like it? So easily discarded and discounted when nighttime attractions present themselves and yet so dearly missed and pined after the next morning. You\u2019ve heard me say it enough, so I\u2019ll keep it short. A good night\u2019s sleep is the foundation for a healthy, happy, productive existence. Good sleep keeps us lean and thinking clearly. And without good, regular sleep, we just go through life in a scattered daze, everything foggy, slightly confusing, and less enjoyable. We\u2019re not really ourselves if we haven\u2019t slept. We desperately need a good night\u2019s sleep, every night.\n\nSo how do you get one? What would a day of optimal sleep promotion look like?\n\n\nLet\u2019s start from the beginning. Let\u2019s start with the morning.\n", "pub_date": "2013-11-18T03:19:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3302, "fields": {"title": "The Truth about Success \u2013 Brick by Brick", "url": "http://unicornfree.com/2011/stacking-the-bricks", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-11-12T20:51:23", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3303, "fields": {"title": "Never Pay Taxes Again", "url": "http://www.gocurrycracker.com/never-pay-taxes-again/", "description": "\r\nSo how do we eliminate taxes? All we need to do is follow 4 simple rules:\r\n\r\n Choose leisure over work\r\n Live well for less\r\n Leverage ROTH IRA Conversions\r\n Harvest Capital Losses AND Capital Gains", "pub_date": "2013-11-12T20:41:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3304, "fields": {"title": "Children are suffering a severe deficit of play \u2013 Peter Gray \u2013 Aeon", "url": "http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/children-today-are-suffering-a-severe-deficit-of-play/", "description": "The golden rule of social play is not \u2018Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.\u2019 Rather, it\u2019s something much more difficult: \u2018Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.\u2019 To do that, you have to get into other people\u2019s minds and see from their points of view. ", "pub_date": "2013-11-12T01:08:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3309, "fields": {"title": "Pinboard to Evernote script", "url": "https://github.com/olivierthereaux/PinboardEvernoteSync", "description": "", "pub_date": "2013-11-05T19:35:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3310, "fields": {"title": "Which CSS Measurements To Use When", "url": "http://demosthenes.info/blog/775/Which-CSS-Measurements-To-Use-When", "description": "\r\nPixels (px)\r\n Use for: hairline borders and general elements when creating fixed-width designs; values for CSS shadow displacement. Avoid using in @media breakpoints, as doing so breaks pages when they are zoomed: use rem or em instead. \r\n Don\u2019t use for: typography. (Exception: setting a base font-size in a CSS reset). \r\nPercentage (%)\r\n Use for: making responsive images and containers; setting height on the body in some cases. \r\n Don\u2019t use for: typography. (Exception: font-size CSS reset.) \r\nem, ex\r\n Use for: typography, and elements related to typography (margins, for example), with the understanding that em and ex have a subtle \u201cgotchas\u201d when used in complex layouts. Consider using rem as an alternative. \r\nPoints and picas\r\n Use for: print stylesheets. \r\n Don\u2019t use for: anything else. \r\nrem\r\n Used as: a more robust and predictable alternative to em and ex, and employed for the same purposes, including @media query breakpoints. \r\n Don\u2019t use: if you wish to support IE8 and earlier. Or, use the unit but include a fallback (by providing an alternate measurement in a more common unit before the rem measurement) or a polyfill. \r\nViewport units (vh & vw)\r\n Use for: responsive typography; \u201cperfect\u201d responsive containers. \r\n What not to use the units for is difficult to determine, as vh & vw are very new and have yet to be fully exploited in web design. Do be aware of their lack of support in IE 8, and allow for fallbacks. \r\nInches (in) and Centimeters (cm)\r\n Use with: print stylesheets, especially page margins \r\n Don\u2019t use for: anything else. \r\nCharacter (ch)\r\n Use when: sizing and adjusting monospaced fonts. Be aware of browser support limitations. \r\nGrid (gd)\r\n Use for: experimental layouts; the unit is only supported in IE10+ at this moment. Polyfills are beginning to appear, however. \r\nRaw numbers\r\n While almost every CSS property requires that the measurement system be specified in the declaration, a few are best used with plain integer or floating-point values. In particular, line-height and border-image should be used with raw numbers. ", "pub_date": "2013-11-05T03:12:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3311, "fields": {"title": "Use your privilege", "url": "http://www.raptitude.com/2013/10/use-your-privilege/", "description": "Imagine arranging the lives of every person who has ever lived, in order of how much opportunity they had in their time, to do the kind of work they wanted to do and live the kind of life they wanted to live. Where do you think you fit? It\u2019s extremely unlikely that you aren\u2019t near the very top. Argue with that at your peril.\n\nFrom my angle, it\u2019s an incredible time to be alive. It\u2019s never been easier to learn to do anything you want to do, for free. If you\u2019re reading this page you have access to that power. Depending (slightly) on where you live, it has probably never been safer to say what you want to say, to find an audience for your ideas, to start your own business, to wear what you want, to go where you want and to love who you want.\n\nIt is possible you\u2019re experiencing a set of political or social circumstances that truly limit you. I know there are readers everywhere, including countries with political violence and theocratic oppression. But the vast majority of you are sitting on a mountain of untapped privilege.\n\nUse your privilege. For the sake of those who never had it, or even just for the times in your life when you had much less, make use of the insane powers afforded by widespread literacy, high levels of personal freedom, and access to the most empowering of human innovations: the Internet.", "pub_date": "2013-11-04T03:08:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3313, "fields": {"title": "16.4 MB: Panasonic LX100 - Luminous Landscape", "url": "https://luminous-landscape.com/panasonic-lx100/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-07T01:00:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3314, "fields": {"title": "meta-box/post.php at master \u00b7 rilwis/meta-box \u00b7 GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/rilwis/meta-box/blob/master/demo/post.php", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-03T20:10:25", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3315, "fields": {"title": "https://www.whywork.org/rethinking/whywork/rawilson.html", "url": "https://www.whywork.org/rethinking/whywork/rawilson.html", "description": "I would like to challenge that idea. I don't think there is, or ever again can be, a cure for unemployment. I propose that unemployment is not a disease, but the natural, healthy functioning of an advanced technological society. ", "pub_date": "2015-09-03T20:08:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3316, "fields": {"title": "WordPress \u203a Support \u00bb WP Email Capture", "url": "https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/wp-email-capture?filter=5", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-03T02:24:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3317, "fields": {"title": "Tom Haws: Top ten actions to reverse gum recession", "url": "http://tomsthird.blogspot.com/2012/12/top-ten-actions-to-reverse-gum-recession.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-03T02:23:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3318, "fields": {"title": "Define Fields - Documentation - Meta Box", "url": "https://metabox.io/docs/define-fields/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-03T02:22:51", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3319, "fields": {"title": "Command line interface for WordPress | WP-CLI", "url": "http://wp-cli.org/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-03T02:22:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3320, "fields": {"title": "Taking e-mail back, part 2: Arming your server with Postfix and Dovecot | Ars Technica", "url": "http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-part-2-arming-your-server-with-postfix-dovecot/3/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-03T02:22:18", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3321, "fields": {"title": "A WordPress & Git workflow / Plausible Thought", "url": "https://plausiblethought.net/wordpress-git-workflow/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-02T00:52:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3322, "fields": {"title": "Homemade Merguez Sausage", "url": "http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/08/homemade-merguez-sausage-recipe.html", "description": "Ingredients\r\n\r\n 2 teaspoons whole cumin seed\r\n 2 teaspoons whole coriander seed\r\n 2 teaspoons whole fennel seed\r\n 2 tablespoons paprika\r\n 2 tablespoons Kosher salt\r\n 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper\r\n 3 pounds lamb shoulder, cut into 3/4-inch cubes and removed of gristle\r\n 1 pound lamb, beef, or pork fat, cut into 3/4-inch cubes\r\n 2 tablespoons freshly minced garlic (about 6 medium cloves)\r\n 1/3 cup harissa\r\n 1/3 cup ice water\r\n Lamb casings, soaked in warm water for 30 minutes prior to use\r\n Type of fire: Direct\r\n Grill heat: medium-high\r\n\r\nDirections\r\n\r\n 1.\r\n\r\n Place cumin, coriander, and fennel seeds in a cast iron skillet over medium heat and toast until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a spice grinder and grind into a fine powder. Transfer spice mixture to a small bowl and mix in paprika, salt, and cayenne.\r\n 2.\r\n\r\n Place lamb and fat in a large bowl. Add in spice mixture, garlic, and harissa. Toss to through coat meat and fat in spices. Place in refrigerator until ready to grind.\r\n 3.\r\n\r\n Grind mixture through a meat grinder, fitted with small die, into a bowl set in ice.\r\n 4.\r\n\r\n Using paddle attachment of a standing mixer, mix on low speed for 1 minute. Add in water and mix until liquid is incorporated and sausage is uniform and sticky, about 1 minute more.\r\n 5.\r\n\r\n Form a small sausage patty; place rest of sausage mixture in refrigerator. Cook patty in a small frying pan over medium-high heat until cooked through. Taste and adjust seasonings of sausage if necessary.\r\n 6.\r\n\r\n Stuff sausage into lambs casings and twist into 6-inch links. Refrigerate until ready to cook.\r\n 7.\r\n\r\n Light one chimney full of charcoal. When all the charcoal is lit and covered with gray ash, pour out and spread the coals evenly over entire surface of coal grate. Set cooking grate in place, cover grill and allow to preheat for 5 minutes. Clean and oil the grilling grate. Grill over medium-high direct heat until sausage registers 155\u00b0F when an instant read thermometer is inserted in middle of link. Remove from grill, let rest for 5 minutes, and serve.", "pub_date": "2015-09-01T20:49:38", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3323, "fields": {"title": "How to cure lactose intolerance", "url": "https://chriskresser.com/how-to-cure-lactose-intolerance/", "description": "Studies have shown that supplementation with probiotics, in addition to consuming yogurt that has been enhanced with certain types of bacteria, can alleviate symptoms of lactose intolerance by modifying the metabolic activity of microbiota in the colon. (11, 12, 13) These bacteria may even produce their own lactase enzyme, and consuming lactose from dairy products can promote the growth of these bacteria in the colon. Over time, these effects can lead to greater lactase content in the gut, improved lactose digestion, and eventually the elimination of intolerance symptoms.", "pub_date": "2015-08-28T11:20:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3324, "fields": {"title": "No Knead Einkorn Sourdough Bread | The Healthy Home Economist", "url": "http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/no-knead-einkorn-sourdough-bread", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-08-28T11:07:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3325, "fields": {"title": "Travel with Kevin and Ruth: National Forest Boondocking gets easier!", "url": "http://www.travelwithkevinandruth.com/2015/08/national-forest-boondocking-gets-easier.html", "description": "The solid tent icon is for dispersed camping, or boondocking! The other tent icon is for established campgrounds where you might find picnic tables or other ammenities, some free, and others at a small cost.\r\n\r\nWhen you click on the icon you can go directly to a page describing the location, as well as exact GPS coordinates. \r\n\r\nA full list of National Forests by state is available here...\r\n\r\nhttp://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/map/state_list.shtml", "pub_date": "2015-08-20T11:49:13", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3326, "fields": {"title": "It's a Necessity: A Towel By Another Name", "url": "http://www.itsanecessity.net/2015/06/a-towel-by-another-name.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-08-14T14:27:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3327, "fields": {"title": "DIY Text Expander \u00bb Linux Magazine", "url": "http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2014/162/Workspace-Text-Expander", "description": "01 #!/bin/bash 02 # read the abbreviation 03 xdotool key ctrl+shift+Left 04 xdotool key ctrl+x 05 sleep 0.2s # to work reliably in Firefox 06 SELECTION=`xsel -b` 07 # read snippet file 08 xsel -b -i < ~/.snippy/${SELECTION} 09 # paste snippet 10 xdotool key ctrl+v 11 xdotool key BackSpace # delete the last blank line, so we stay inline", "pub_date": "2015-08-14T14:18:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3328, "fields": {"title": "Cheap RV Living.com -Smiths Fork/Grey\u2019s River Road: Part II", "url": "http://www.cheaprvliving.com/blog/smiths-forkgreys-river-road-part-ii/", "description": "In my last post we were traveling the Smiths Fork/Grays River Loop and got as far as LaBarge Pass and the Tri-Basin divide where I turned north on Greys River Road. Once on the Grey\u2019s River Road you go over a slight pass and head down to Alpine. At the top of the pass the Grey\u2019s River is just barely a creek, much less a major river. As I followed the river I could actually watch it grow as the hundreds of little creeks flowed into it and by the end of the drive it was a mighty river! As you look at the photos you can watch it growing.", "pub_date": "2015-08-14T14:16:19", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3329, "fields": {"title": "Flex Channel | Transportation | Specialty Products | Amesbury", "url": "http://www.amesbury.com/specialty-products/transportation/flex-channel/", "description": "Schlegel Flex Channel ", "pub_date": "2015-08-08T13:16:02", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3330, "fields": {"title": "A meaningless conversation with life navigator Ian MacKaye", "url": "http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/ian-mackaye-survival-issue-interview/", "description": "I hate to talk so much about the fucking computer. The fact that it\u2019s dominating this conversation is a sickness. All we can talk about is our devices. For the last decade, society has been stoned on technology. If we\u2019re living through a screen, we\u2019re not doing anything. I thought a lot about the psychological effects of an office. People working eight, ten, twelve hours a day. Look up from that computer, look around you, and nothing has moved. Never in the history of the world have people worked ten hours and nothing has moved. Imagine if you were sweeping for twelve hours how clean your fucking house would be? The dirty plate next to your computer? It\u2019s still there! As a society, there\u2019s gotta be a psychological effect. I don\u2019t know what it will be, but at some point, people will sit back and realise that this is a tool. And that life \u2013 real life \u2013 is outside of it. I can accept it\u2019s a miracle that we\u2019re talking across an ocean, but fuck if I\u2019m gonna live in it! I wanna go outside, too. If you want to talk about real navigation, one should seek balance. If the right foot and left foot are out of whack, then you go down.", "pub_date": "2015-08-07T15:58:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3331, "fields": {"title": "The 11 nations of the United States - Business Insider", "url": "http://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-08-07T15:57:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3332, "fields": {"title": "The Web We Have to Save \u2014 Matter \u2014 Medium", "url": "https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426", "description": "But hyperlinks aren\u2019t just the skeleton of the web: They are its eyes, a path to its soul. And a blind webpage, one without hyperlinks, can\u2019t look or gaze at another webpage\u200a\u2014\u200aand this has serious consequences for the dynamics of power on the web.\r\n\r\nMore or less, all theorists have thought of gaze in relation to power, and mostly in a negative sense: the gazer strips the gazed and turns her into a powerless object, devoid of intelligence or agency. But in the world of webpages, gaze functions differently: It is more empowering. When a powerful website\u200a\u2014\u200asay Google or Facebook\u200a\u2014\u200agazes at, or links to, another webpage, it doesn\u2019t just connect it\u200a\u2014\u200ait brings it into existence; gives it life. Metaphorically, without this empowering gaze, your web page doesn\u2019t breathe. No matter how many links you have placed in a webpage, unless somebody is looking at it, it is actually both dead and blind; and therefore incapable of transferring power to any outside web page.\r\n\r\nOn the other hand, the most powerful web pages are those that have many eyes upon them. Just like celebrities who draw a kind of power from the millions of human eyes gazing at them any given time, web pages can capture and distribute their power through hyperlinks.\r\n\r\nBut apps like Instagram are blind\u200a\u2014\u200aor almost blind. Their gaze goes nowhere except inwards, reluctant to transfer any of their vast powers to others, leading them into quiet deaths. The consequence is that web pages outside social media are dying.", "pub_date": "2015-08-06T14:02:53", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3333, "fields": {"title": "Vegetarian Indonesian Curried Bean Stew Recipe - Low-cholesterol.Food.com", "url": "http://www.food.com/recipe/vegetarian-indonesian-curried-bean-stew-124863", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-08-02T21:07:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3334, "fields": {"title": "North African-Style Chickpea Salad", "url": "http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com/2008/12/lessons-from-2008-and-north-african.html", "description": "2 (15.5 ounce) cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed\r\n1 carrot, peeled and grated\r\n\u00bd cup raisins\r\n2 Tablespoons fresh mint leaves\r\n2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil\r\n1-1/2 tablespoons juice from 1 lemon\r\n1 small garlic clove, minced or pressed (about \u00bd teaspoon)\r\n\u00bd teaspoon ground cumin\r\n\u00bd teaspoon paprika\r\nsalt and ground black pepper\r\n\r\n1) In a large mixing or serving bowl, combine chickpeas, grated carrots, raisins and mint. Stir. \r\n\r\n2) In a separate small bowl, combine oil, lemon juice, garlic, cumin, and paprika. Whisk it together, like you would a dressing. Pour over chickpea mixture and stir thoroughly to combine. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve at room temperature or a little chilled. Great for picnics.\r\n\r\nApproximate Calories, Fat, and Price Per Serving\r\n200 calories, 7 g fat, $0.63\r\n\r\nCalculations\r\n2 (15.5 ounce) cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed: $1.32\r\n1 carrot, peeled and drained: $0.10\r\n\u00bd cup raisins: $0.35\r\n2 Tablespoons fresh mint leaves: $1.50\r\n2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil: $0.23\r\n1-1/2 tablespoons juice from 1 lemon: $.20\r\n1 small garlic clove, minced or pressed (about \u00bd teaspoon): $0.03\r\n\u00bd teaspoon ground cumin: $0.01\r\n\u00bd teaspoon paprika: $0.02\r\nsalt and ground black pepper: $0.02\r\nTOTAL: $3.78\r\nPER SERVING (TOTAL/6): $0.63", "pub_date": "2015-08-02T21:01:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3335, "fields": {"title": "Lemon & Tuscan Herb Chicken", "url": "http://smellgoodkitchen.com/lemon-tuscan-herb-chicken-drumsticks/", "description": "Marinade\r\n\r\n 2 large lemons\r\n 3 sage leaves\r\n 1 teaspoon oregano\r\n 3 tablespoons rosemary, rough chopped\r\n 2 teaspoons thyme\r\n 1 clove garlic\r\n 1 teaspoon salt\r\n pinch red pepper flakes\r\n 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil\r\n 1/4 cup of water\r\n\r\nInstructions\r\n\r\n Add marinade ingredients to a blender and blend until pulverized.\r\n Split chicken drumsticks between 2 gallon size zip lock bags.\r\n Pour marinade into each bag.\r\n Rub outside of each bag to cover all of the drumsticks with the marinade.\r\n Refrigerate and marinade for at least 1 hour.\r\n Bake 375 degrees x 30 minutes. Turn and bake another 30 minutes or until cooked through (at least 165 degrees F)\r\n Turn on the broiler and broil 2 minutes on each side.", "pub_date": "2015-09-08T00:29:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3336, "fields": {"title": "Rye sourdough starter in easy steps | Weekend Bakery", "url": "http://www.weekendbakery.com/posts/rye-sourdough-starter-in-easy-steps/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-09T18:10:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3337, "fields": {"title": "Fuji X Buyer\u2019s Guide :: Part 1 :: Cameras \u00b7 DEDPXL", "url": "http://dedpxl.com/fuji-x-buyers-guide-part-1-cameras/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-12T01:14:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3338, "fields": {"title": "Fuji X Buyer\u2019s Guide :: Part 2 :: Lenses \u00b7 DEDPXL", "url": "http://dedpxl.com/fuji-x-buyers-guide-part-2-lenses/", "description": "Fuji 35mm f1.4 :: There are lenses that I love and then there are lenses that have magic inside of them. This is one of three lenses I\u2019ve owned in my life that I feel have that magical quality. Those lenses are the Nikon 105mm f2 DC, the Panasonic Leica 42.5 f1.2 for M4/3 cameras, and this Fuji 35mm 1.4. I. Love. This. Lens. The photo above is pretty much the moment I fell in love with this lens. The color. The feel. The angle of view. I love everything about this lens. It\u2019s a bit slow on focusing as this was one of the first X lenses. I think it\u2019s time for Fuji to update this lens but I don\u2019t want the image quality or character to change. This lens does have character.", "pub_date": "2015-09-12T01:13:54", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3339, "fields": {"title": "The Cleanest Line: Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now \u2013 The Life of Audrey Sutherland", "url": "http://www.thecleanestline.com/2015/03/go-simple-go-solo-go-now-the-life-of-audrey-sutherland.html", "description": "On February 23, 2015 a true heroine and friend of the company passed away. Audrey Sutherland grew up in California and moved to Hawai'i in 1952, where she lived to be 93. She raised her four children as a single mother, supporting her family by working as a school counselor. In 1962, she decided to explore the coast of Moloka'i by swimming it while towing a raft with supplies, the first of countless solo adventures by this remarkable woman. \n\nShe shared \u201cWhat Every Kid Should Be Able to Do by Age Sixteen,\u201d a list just as valid today as when she created it for her own children.\n\nIt includes:\n\n Swim 400 yards easily\n Do dishes in a strange house, and your own\n Cook a simple meal\n See work to be done and do it\n Care for tools and always put them away after use\n Splice or put a fixture on an electric cord\n Know basic information about five careers that suit you\n Volunteer to work for a month in each of those fields\n Clean a paintbrush after use\n Change a diaper, and a tire\n Listen to an adult talk with interest and empathy\n Take initiative and responsibility for school work and home chores\n Dance with any age\n Clean a fish and dress a chicken\n Drive a car with skill and sanity\n Know and take responsibility for sexual conception and protection when needed\n Know the basic five of first aid: restore breathing and heartbeat, control bleeding, dilute poisons, immobilize fractures, treat for shock\n Write a business letter\n Spend the family income for all bills and necessities for two months\n Know basic auto mechanics and simple repair\n Find your way across a strange city using public transportation\n Be happy and comfortable alone for ten days, ten miles from the nearest other person\n Save someone drowning using available equipment\n Find a paying job and hold it for a month\n Read at a tenth grade level\n Read a topographic map and a chart\n Know the local drug scene for yourself\n Handle a boat safely and competently (canoe, kayak, skiff, sailboat)\n Operate a sewing machine and mend your own clothes\n Operate a computer as needed\n Do your own laundry\n\nThe breadth of her list and the juxtaposition of concepts gives insight into her personality: self-sufficient, caring, adventurous, fiercely independent, realistic, not bound by convention, and, above all, in love with life. She will be missed whole-heartedly.", "pub_date": "2015-09-12T01:12:39", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3340, "fields": {"title": "How to calculate your solar power needs whilst travelling?", "url": "http://www.multipoweredproducts.com.au/pages/How-to-calculate-your-solar-power-needs-whilst-travelling%3F.html#watts%20amps%20volts", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-22T14:14:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3341, "fields": {"title": "RV 12v Information - Everything You Need to Know", "url": "http://rvroadtrip.us/library/12v_system.php", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-22T14:12:37", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3342, "fields": {"title": "Benchmark Maps & Atlases | Atlases", "url": "http://www.benchmarkmaps.com/atlases", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-09-22T13:44:15", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3343, "fields": {"title": "Seth's Blog: Ad blocking", "url": "http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/09/ad-blocking.html", "description": "This reinforces the fundamental building blocks of growth today:\r\n\r\n The best marketing isn't advertising, it's a well-designed and remarkable product.\r\n The best way to contact your users is by earning the privilege to contact them, over time.\r\n Making products for your customers is far more efficient than finding customers for your products.\r\n Horizontally spread ideas (person to person) are far more effective than top-down vertical advertising.\r\n More data isn't the point. Data to serve explicit promises is the point.\r\n Commodity products can't expect to easily build a profitable 'brand' with nothing but repetitive jingles and noise.\r\n Media properties that celebrate their ads (like Vogue) will continue to thrive, because the best advertising is the advertising we would miss if it was gone.\r\n", "pub_date": "2015-09-22T13:41:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3344, "fields": {"title": "Linux: HowTo Encrypt And Decrypt Files With A Password", "url": "http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-a-password.html", "description": "Encrypting a file in linux\r\n\r\nTo encrypt a single file, use command gpg as follows:\r\n$ gpg -c filename\r\n\r\nTo encrypt myfinancial.info.txt file, type the command:\r\n$ gpg -c myfinancial.info.txt\r\n\r\nSample output:\r\n\r\nEnter passphrase:<YOUR-PASSWORD>\r\nRepeat passphrase:<YOUR-PASSWORD>\r\n\r\nThis will create a myfinancial.info.txt.gpg file. Where,\r\n\r\n -c : Encrypt with symmetric cipher using a passphrase. The default symmetric cipher used is CAST5, but may be chosen with the --cipher-algo option. This option may be combined with --sign (for a signed and symmetrically encrypted message), --encrypt (for a message that may be decrypted via a secret key or a passphrase), or --sign and --encrypt together (for a signed message that may be decrypted via a secret key or a passphrase).\r\n\r\nPlease note that if you ever forgot your password (passphrase), you cannot recover the data as it use very strong encryption.\r\nDecrypt a file\r\n\r\nTo decrypt file use the gpg command as follow:\r\n$ gpg myfinancial.info.txt.gpg\r\n\r\nSample outputs:\r\n\r\ngpg myfinancial.info.txt.gpg\r\ngpg: CAST5 encrypted data\r\nEnter passphrase:<YOUR-PASSWORD>\r\n\r\nDecrypt file and write output to file vivek.info.txt you can run command:\r\n$ gpg myfinancial.info.gpg \u2013o vivek.info.txt", "pub_date": "2015-09-30T16:04:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3345, "fields": {"title": "Salsa Verde | Vegetables Recipes | Jamie Oliver Recipes", "url": "http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/salsa-verde/", "description": "Ingredients\r\n\r\n 1\u00bd-2 cloves garlic , peeled\r\n 1 small handful capers\r\n 1 small handful gherkins pickled in sweet vinegar\r\n 6 anchovy fillets\r\n 2 large handfuls flat-leaf parsley , leaves picked\r\n 1 bunch fresh basil , leaves picked\r\n 1 handful fresh mint , leaves picked\r\n 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard\r\n 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar\r\n 8 tablespoons really good extra virgin olive oil\r\n sea salt\r\n freshly ground black pepper ", "pub_date": "2015-10-02T19:56:11", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3346, "fields": {"title": "How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux", "url": "http://superuser.com/questions/249497/how-to-encrypt-a-file-or-directory-in-linux", "description": "This is my method using openssl and tar\r\n\r\nOpen Encrypted Directory:\r\n\r\nopenssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -in ~/vault.tar.gz.dat | tar xz; thunar ~/vault\r\n\r\nLock Encrypted Directory:\r\n\r\ntar cz vault/ | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -out ~/vault.tar.gz.dat; rm -r ~/vault", "pub_date": "2015-10-03T14:06:45", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3347, "fields": {"title": "Discovering True Wealth : SanJuanSufficiency.com", "url": "http://sanjuansufficiency.com/discovering-true-wealth/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-05T14:39:14", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3348, "fields": {"title": "New propane line installation question - Fiberglass RV", "url": "http://www.fiberglassrv.com/forums/f56/new-propane-line-installation-question-56888.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-05T14:38:26", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3349, "fields": {"title": "My Restoration. 1972 Dodge Travco - Fiberglass RV", "url": "http://www.fiberglassrv.com/forums/f55/my-restoration-1972-dodge-travco-52453.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-05T14:37:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3350, "fields": {"title": "12mm+pad Frosty Peak Poplar - Dream Home - Kensington Manor | Lumber Liquidators", "url": "http://www.lumberliquidators.com/ll/c/pad-Frosty-Peak-Poplar-Dream-Home-Kensington-Manor-12FP/10039143", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-05T14:37:35", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3351, "fields": {"title": "The 12volt Side of Life (Part 1)", "url": "http://www.marxrv.com/12volt/12volt.htm", "description": "Welcome to the page of all things 12 Volt! The information here was either excerpted from various sources on the web and in the public domain, or results directly from my personal experience. When researching battery specs for this page, I was amazed at the wide variance in some of the information. For instance; the charts that show voltage related to state of charge... almost every chart I looked at had different voltage values. I had to make a judgment call and pick the chart that best matched my own observations on my own 12 volt system. I tried to keep \"opinion\" to a minimum in the interest of putting out good, useful information, but where the sources of the information differ, I had to make an opinion call. Just so you know... the data on batteries contained herein is the best I can come up with, but may not be gospel. Some of the suggested RV modifications require you to be at least a little handy... Don't undertake any project beyond your capabilities and be especially careful anytime you are working in proximity to the batteries. They can be really dangerous if treated wrong... acid is caustic and batteries can explode if a spark or open flame ignites the hydrogen gas they produce. Shorting the output terminals of a battery can create huge sparks and sprays of molten metal (can you say \"welding\"?) When working with batteries, you need to have plenty of ventilation, remove jewelry, wear protective clothing and eye wear (safety glasses), and exercise caution. Whenever possible, please follow the manufacturer's instructions for testing, jumping, installing and charging. Use proper care at all times and don't EVEN try to sue me if you screw up... I warned you! Please see the disclaimer before proceeding! 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This was done via extensive use of LED lighting, and minimizing phantom loads and high draw appliances. Once we understood the maximum power required, it was just a matter of sizing each of the required components. This is what we ended up with:\r\n\r\n 8 x Phillips LED light bulbs;\r\n 2 x Carmanah 95 watt solar panels and roof mounting kits. Room to grow to 8;\r\n 1 x Magnum Energy Magna Sine Wave Inverter and shore charger. We pipe the heat generated by the inverter into a heat vent in the bedroom to keep it cozy at night;\r\n 1 x Magnum Energy remote control mounted in a panel hidden in the closet;\r\n 1 x Go Power solar regulator mounted in a panel hidden in the closet;\r\n 2 x US Battery 2200 XC2 6v golf cart batteries vented to the outside. Room to grow to 4;\r\n 1 x period correct GE breaker box and breakers;\r\n misc cabling, switches, connectors, shunts and fuses.", "pub_date": "2015-10-05T14:15:49", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3358, "fields": {"title": "Legally Binding Electronic Signatures | HelloSign", "url": "https://www.hellosign.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-05T14:10:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3359, "fields": {"title": "Gpick \u2013 Advanced color picker | Ubuntu Geek", "url": "http://www.ubuntugeek.com/gpick-advanced-color-picker.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-05T13:13:09", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3360, "fields": {"title": "Complete Overview over the available and upcoming Fuji X-Mount lenses - Fuji X Lenses - Fuji X Forum", "url": "http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/topic/998-complete-overview-over-the-available-and-upcoming-fuji-x-mount-lenses/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-05T12:33:31", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3361, "fields": {"title": "Turmeric Lime Soda - It Takes Time", "url": "http://it-takes-time.com/2013/11/turmeric-lime-soda.html", "description": "Directions:\r\n\r\no Fill 1/2 gallon mason jar with water allowing 1-2 inches of head room\r\n\r\no Add 1/2 cup turmeric bug, 1/2 cup lime juice, and 3/4 cup sugar.\r\n\r\no Stir.\r\n\r\no Place on shelf away from direct sunlight.\r\n\r\no Cover with cloth and rubber band. This fermented beverage involves yeast as well as bacteria which means that oxygen is required. (For more on aerobic and anaerobic fermentation see Water Kefir: Oxygen or No Oxygen.)", "pub_date": "2015-10-08T20:35:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3362, "fields": {"title": "Iron's Dangers", "url": "http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/iron-dangers.shtml", "description": " SUMMARY:\r\n\r\n Iron is a potentially toxic heavy metal; an excess can cause cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses.\r\n\r\n Other heavy metals, including lead and aluminum, are toxic; pans and dishes should be chosen carefully.\r\n\r\n Iron causes cell aging.\r\n\r\n Drinking coffee with iron rich foods can reduce iron's toxic effects.\r\n\r\n Use shrimp and oysters, etc., to prevent the copper deficiency which leads to excess storage of iron.\r\n\r\n Avoid food supplements which contain iron. \r\n\r\n Take about 100 units of vitamin E daily; your vitamin E requirement increases with your iron consumption.", "pub_date": "2015-10-09T12:12:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3363, "fields": {"title": "Will digital books ever replace print? \u2013 Craig Mod \u2013 Aeon", "url": "http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/why-have-digital-books-stopped-evolving/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-09T12:04:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3364, "fields": {"title": "Home Energy Improvement Program Rebate Application", "url": "https://www.georgiapowerrebates.com/residential", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-09T12:02:55", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3365, "fields": {"title": "Classic Pad Thai Recipe | Leite's Culinaria", "url": "http://leitesculinaria.com/78647/recipes-pad-thai.html", "description": "Ingredients\r\n\r\n 1/2 pound narrow dried rice noodles\r\n 2 ounces boneless pork, thinly sliced and cut into narrow strips about 1 1/2 inches long\r\n 1 teaspoon sugar (preferably palm sugar although light brown or granulated will work just fine)\r\n 1 heaping tablespoon tamarind pulp dissolved in 2 to 3 tablespoons warm water (or substitute 1 tablespoon rice vinegar plus 1 tablespoon water)\r\n 1 tablespoon soy sauce\r\n 1 tablespoon fish sauce\r\n 3 large eggs\r\n pinch salt\r\n 3 tablespoons peanut oil or mild vegetable oil\r\n 2 to 3 cloves garlic, minced\r\n 2 to 3 ounces firm tofu, cut into narrow strips about 1 1/2 inches long\r\n 1/2 pound (a scant 4 cups) bean sprouts, rinsed and drained\r\n 3 scallions, trimmed, smashed with the flat side of a knife and cut into 1 1/2-inch lengths\r\n 1 tablespoon dried shrimp (optional)\r\n 1 tablespoon salted radish (optional)\r\n 1 cup roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped\r\n 2 to 4 tablespoons cilantro leaves (optional)\r\n Chile-Vinegar Sauce\r\n 1 lime, cut into small wedges", "pub_date": "2015-10-10T22:22:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3366, "fields": {"title": "A&E Deluxe Plus Standard Window Awnings", "url": "http://www.rvpartscountry.com/AEDeluxePlusStandardWindowAwnings.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-12T00:48:03", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3367, "fields": {"title": "Choosing Our Composting Toilet", "url": "http://theboatgalley.com/choosing-our-composting-toilet/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-12T00:43:30", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3368, "fields": {"title": "Nature's Head Composting Toilets: Saving Our Water for Tomorrow", "url": "http://natureshead.net/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-12T00:43:20", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3369, "fields": {"title": "Gut microbiota and brain function: An evolving field in neuroscience", "url": "http://ijnp.oxfordjournals.org/content/ijnp/early/2015/10/03/ijnp.pyv114.full.pdf", "description": "Similarly, probiotic treatment has been shown to be beneficial in animals models of infection and colitis (Bercik et al., 2010; Bercik et al., 2011b). Specifically, administration of L. rhamnosous for 10 days normalized anxiety- like behaviour induced by parasite Trichuris muris (Bercik et al., 2011b) and administration of B. longum for 14 days normalized anxiety-like behaviour induced by dextran sodium sulphate (DSS) colitis (Bercik et al., 2011b). Interestingly, a few studies have reported a change in behaviour when probiotics are administered to healthy rodents. For example, 28-day administration of L.rhamnosous to Balb/C mice resulted in reduced anxiety-like behaviour in the EPM and reduced depressive-like behaviour in the FST (Bravo et al., 2011). It has also been shown that a B. Breve and B. Longum both significantly reduced anxiety-related behaviours, albeit with a different profile (Savignac et al., 2014) and the latter but not former strain enhanced cognitive function in healthy Balb/C mice (Savignac et al., 2015). Also, 14-day administration of the combination of L. helveticus & B. longum reduced anxiety-like behaviour in the defensive marble burying test in Wistar rats (Messaoudi et al., 2011b). Interestingly, administration of this combination of probiotics to healthy human subjects showed a beneficial effect on anxiety and depression measures (Messaoudi et al., 2011a), Other combinations of probiotics have been shown to reduce sad mood to a psychological stimulus (Steenbergen et al., 2015) and reduce depression anxiety and stress scales whilst modulating the HPA axis in petrochemical workers (Mohammadi et al., 2015).", "pub_date": "2015-10-12T00:41:49", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3370, "fields": {"title": "Your Life is Always Just Beginning", "url": "http://www.raptitude.com/2015/10/your-life-is-always-just-beginning/", "description": "I struggled to relate a bizarre experience that left me infatuated with this cutting-from-black feeling. I was sitting at dinner with my mother and grandmother, and had the sensation that my life had just begun at that moment, as a 28-year-old man, with a home, a job, friends, relatives, and a backstory. I said it felt like \u201cthe universe had just rebooted, and that that dinner scene was where I found myself when the picture returned to the screen.\u201d\r\n\r\nIt was fascinating, but not disorienting\u2014I knew how to speak and act, and I could remember what had apparently happened earlier in the day, and earlier in life. But life itself seemed like a brand new proposition, as if I\u2019d been waiting on deck for a thousand years, and I finally found myself at the plate. There was so much detail to be noticed, so much possibility to be explored. The world felt like a playground, and to be alive in it felt like an unexpected gift.", "pub_date": "2015-10-12T13:02:42", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3371, "fields": {"title": "The end of capitalism has begun | Books | The Guardian", "url": "http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/17/postcapitalism-end-of-capitalism-begun", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-14T01:33:43", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3372, "fields": {"title": "Whole Health Source: Buckwheat Crepes Revisited", "url": "http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2013/11/buckwheat-crepes-revisited.html", "description": "Ingredients and Materials\r\n\r\n RAW buckwheat groats, 3 cups (does not work with kasha)\r\n Water \r\n Salt, 1 tbsp\r\n Food processor or blender (blender is best)\r\n\r\n\r\nRecipe\r\n\r\n Cover buckwheat with a large amount of water and soak for 9-24 hours. Raw buckwheat is astringent due to water-soluble tannins. Soaking in a large volume of water and giving it a stir from time to time will minimize this. The soaking water will get slimy! This is normal.\r\n Pour off the soaking water and rinse the buckwheat thoroughly to get rid of the slime and residual tannins.\r\n Blend the buckwheat, salt, and water in a food processor or blender. Use enough water so that it reaches the consistency of pancake batter (I usually add water until it's just above the level of the buckwheat in the blender). The smoother you get the batter, the better the final product will be.\r\n The batter is done! Put it in the fridge if you aren't going to eat it immediately. \r\n Cook it! In a greased or non-stick skillet, cook the batter at whatever thickness and temperature you prefer. I like to cook a thick 'pancake' with the lid on, at low heat, so that it steams gently. If I'm feeling fancy, I'll make a thinner crepe cooked at higher heat, and fold it over a filling. It will develop a delicious crispy bottom if you cook it on higher heat. ", "pub_date": "2015-10-15T00:28:46", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3373, "fields": {"title": "Amazon Price Watch: fast, free Amazon price alerts, no signup required", "url": "http://onlinepricealert.com/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-20T01:47:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3374, "fields": {"title": "Researchers suggest living in 'eternal summer' may be adversely impacting our health", "url": "http://phys.org/news/2015-10-eternal-summer-adversely-impacting-health.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-20T14:55:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3375, "fields": {"title": "Riley Brandt Photography \u00bb My Open Source Photography Workflow", "url": "http://www.rileybrandt.com/2015/10/15/foss-photo-flow-2015/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-20T14:51:57", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3376, "fields": {"title": "Pain Really Does Make Us Gain - The New Yorker", "url": "http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/pain-really-make-us-gain", "description": "as Bastian puts it, \u201cPain is a kind of shortcut to mindfulness: it makes us suddenly aware of everything in the environment. 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They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.\u201d\r\n\r\n4. \u201cThe world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.\u201d\r\n\r\n5. \u201cWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.\u201d\r\n\r\n6. \u201cI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.\u201d\r\n\r\n7. \u201cIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.\u201d\r\n\r\n8. \u201cThis grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.\u201d\r\n\r\n9. \u201cOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.\u201d\r\n\r\n10. \u201cThere is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties\u201d\r\n\r\n11. \u201cI am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.\u201d\r\n\r\n12. \u201cOne day\u2019s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.\u201d\r\n\r\n13. \u201cMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.\u201d\r\n\r\n14. \u201cI never saw a discontented tree.\u201d\r\n\r\n15. \u201cNone of Nature\u2019s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.\u201d\r\n\r\n16. \u201cThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.\u201d\r\n\r\n17. \u201cOnly by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.\u201d\r\n\r\n18. \u201cThousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.\u201d\r\n\r\n19. \u201cThe mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains \u2013 mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature\u2019s workshops.\u201d\r\n\r\n20. \u201cGoing to the mountains is going home.\u201d", "pub_date": "2015-10-29T18:57:24", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3379, "fields": {"title": "Resistance Starch", "url": "http://vegetablepharm.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_86.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:25:32", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3380, "fields": {"title": "Mail Rates", "url": "http://mydakotaaddress.com/Mail%20Forwarding.htm", "description": "\r\nMyDakotaAddress.com is pleased to offer you the lowest rates in\r\nthe state of South Dakota!\r\nMyDakotaAddress.com provides a variety of great mail forwarding\r\nservices customized to meet your needs. The service rate includes\r\nsorting, repackaging, and forwarding per your requested schedule. \r\nThere are NO additional charges for special sorting, mailing supplies\r\nsuch as envelopes, labels, etc. The actual shipping costs are\r\ndeducted from your prepaid postage account. You have four\r\nchoices of shipping methods, which includes USPS, UPS, FedEx\r\nor DHL, all available at their actual shipping costs with NO additional\r\ncharges. ", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:25:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3381, "fields": {"title": "INFP Careers", "url": "http://www.personalitypage.com/html/INFP_car.html", "description": "The following list of professions is built on our impressions of careers which would be especially suitable for an INFP. It is meant to be a starting place, rather than an exhaustive list. There are no guarantees that any or all of the careers listed here would be appropriate for you, or that your best career match is among those listed.\r\n\r\nPossible Career Paths for the INFP:\r\n \r\nWriters\r\nCounselors / Social Workers\r\nTeachers / Professors\r\nPsychologists\r\nPsychiatrists\r\nMusicians\r\nClergy / Religious Workers", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:24:36", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3382, "fields": {"title": "The Epic Refill Reference Guide: Rollerball, Gel and Ballpoints | The Well-Appointed Desk", "url": "http://www.wellappointeddesk.com/2014/06/the-epic-refill-reference-guide-rollerball-gel-and-ballpoints/", "description": "Lots of pens available these days accept either a \u201cParker-Style\u201d G2 refills, a Pilot G2 refill (adds to the confusion for sure) and the Pilot Hi-Tec C style refills. I thought I\u2019d try to come up with a list of refills that fit into these categories. This is by no means a definitive list but should provide you with lots of options for your favorite non-fountain pens.", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:24:12", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3383, "fields": {"title": "Review: Uni-Ball Jetstream 0.5mm Basic Series \u2014 The Pen Addict", "url": "http://www.penaddict.com/blog/2008/11/7/review-uni-ball-jetstream-05mm-basic-series.html", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:23:44", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3384, "fields": {"title": "The Best Pen | The Wirecutter", "url": "http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-pen/", "description": "For an affordable pen that writes smoothly; dries quickly and indelibly; won\u2019t bleed, skip or feather; and has the best ink flow of any non-fountain pen; grab yourself the uni-ball Jetstream. Available in a number of sizes and colors, it\u2019s the best affordable pen around for taking notes at school or a meeting.", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:23:22", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3385, "fields": {"title": "Installing Webster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary on Ubuntu GNU/Linux | eduardosanchez.me", "url": "http://eduardosanchez.me/2015/09/07/installing-websters-revised-unabridged-dictionary-on-ubuntu-gnulinux/", "description": "Install and use Webster\u2019s 1913 dictionary on Ubuntu GNU/Linux\r\n\r\n Download the dictionary file from James Somers at this link.\r\n Locate the downloaded file dictionary.zip and extract the contents.\r\n Unzipping dictionary.zip will yield two folders:\r\n __MACOSX \u2013 not needed, delete it\r\n dictionary \u2013 keep\r\n Navigate into dictionary and unzip the file named stardict-dictd-web1913-2.4.2.tar.bz2.\r\n The resulting folder stardict-dictd-web1913-2.4.2 is your new dictionary folder.\r\n\r\nNow you need a dictionary app to read the dictionary folder you just set up. I recommend that you download GoldenDict from the Ubuntu Software Center.\r\n\r\nFollow these instructions in GoldenDict to get the Webster\u2019s dictionary up and running:\r\n\r\n Press the F3 key (or Edit \u2013> Dictionaries\u2026) to get the Dictionaries preference pane\r\n Click on the \u2018Add\u2026\u2019 button.\r\n Navigate to the stardict-dictd-web1913-2.4.2 folder, highlight it, and click on the \u2018Open\u2019 button.\r\n Click the \u2018OK\u2019 button.\r\n\r\nEnjoy using your new dictionary.", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:20:28", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3386, "fields": {"title": "Dictionary access under Linux", "url": "http://www.arachnoid.com/linux/dictionary.html", "description": " \n\nIf you want to make \"dict\" work for you on an intranet, or on a personal system not connected to the Internet:\n\n You can download the dictionary database files from (example) ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/pre/, set them up on your local system or intranet server, enable a local \"dictd\" dictionary server, then access the service from your local network using the above-described clients.\n", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:19:16", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3387, "fields": {"title": "vysheng/tg \u00b7 GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/vysheng/tg", "description": "telegram-cli ", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:18:34", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3388, "fields": {"title": "help/en/howto/cli \u2013 Cyberduck", "url": "https://trac.cyberduck.io/wiki/help/en/howto/cli", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-10-30T13:16:06", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3390, "fields": {"title": "CalTopo - Backcountry Mapping Evolved", "url": "http://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=38.8,-98.4&z=5&b=t", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-11-02T01:02:10", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3391, "fields": {"title": "TypeSource: Google Web Font inspiration in HTML & CSS", "url": "http://tobiasahlin.com/typesource/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-11-05T14:41:07", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3392, "fields": {"title": "35-49L \u2014 JepPaks", "url": "http://www.jeppaks.com/full-feature-ultralight-backpack-1/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-11-08T00:39:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3393, "fields": {"title": "Pad Thai Recipe", "url": "http://shesimmers.com/2011/11/pad-thai-recipe-part-five-making-pad.html", "description": "\nIngredients\n\n \u2153 cup (83mL) plain vegetable oil\n 4 ounces (113g) 2-3 millimeters wide dried rice noodles, following the instructions on how to prepare dried rice noodles for Pad Thai\n \u2154 cup (~166mL) prepared Pad Thai sauce\n 1 tablespoon (14mL) shrimp paste in oil (\u0e21\u0e31\u0e19\u0e01\u0e38\u0e49\u0e07\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e27\u0e22), as mentioned in my post on Pad Thai ingredients, optional\n 2 large cloves (8g) garlic, peeled and finely chopped\n 1 medium shallot (18g), peeled and finely chopped\n \u00bc cup (24g) finely-chopped preserved radishes\n \u00bc cup (8g) shell-on small dried shrimp (the kind specified in my post on Pad Thai ingredients\n \u00be cup (100g) the firmest tofu you can find\n 220g (1/2 lb) large (31-35/lb) shrimp, peeled and deveined\n 2 large eggs, cracked into a bowl\n 6-7 stalks of Chinese chives\n 2 cups (110g) bean sprouts\n Garnishes and extras:\n Sugar, dried red pepper flakes, fish sauce, and fresh limes\n Chopped dry-roasted peanuts\n Extra bean sprouts, soaked in acidulated water (to keep them fresh and crunchy)\n Chinese chive stalks\n Banana blossom, trimmed according to the instructions in my post on Pad Thai ingredients\n\nInstructions\n\n Cut the chive blades into 1-inch pieces; reserve the bottom parts of the stalks to eat with the finished dish.\n Set over medium-high heat a flat pan (preferably well-seasoned cast iron pan or nonstick paella pan), no smaller than 14 inches wide. Add half of the vegetable oil to the pan when it\u2019s hot.\n Immediately add the noodles to the hot oil, followed by the sauce (if you want to add the shrimp in oil to the dish, add it to the pan now along with the sauce); stir constantly (this is much easier done with two spatulas). Keep the noodles moving all the time.\n After about 30-40 seconds, with the tips of your spatulas, you should be able to feel that the noodles have softened up considerably. At this point, push them to one side and add the remaining vegetable oil to the empty side of the pan.\n Add the garlic, shallot, preserved radishes, dried shrimp, tofu, and shrimp.\n We have now reached the critical point of the process. The task before you is do whatever you can to: 1. keep the noodles moving almost constantly to keep them from burning or forming excessive crust at the bottom, 2. get the shrimp to cook about \u00bd way through, and 3. keep all the small bits of stuff in the pan from burning (those around the perimeter tend to burn first).\n Once the shrimp is turning a bit opaque on both sides and all the small bits are getting brown, make a well in the middle into which you add the eggs.\n Break and scramble the eggs with the tip of your spatulas; let them cook undisturbed on one side before flipping and breaking them into smaller pieces, keeping an eye on the other members of the pan the whole time, especially the noodles.\n By the time the eggs are cooked: 1. the shrimp should be fully, but not overly, cooked, 2. the noodles are soft and chewy, 3. the sauce has been entirely absorbed into the noodles, and the little bits have crisped up and caramelized.\n Turn off the heat immediately.\n Add two handfuls of chive-bean sprout mixture to the pan and give it all a quick but gentle stir. We want to wilt the bean sprouts and chives while getting all the little bits thoroughly interspersed into the noodles. Your Pad Thai is now done. You can serve it immediately, or you can let it cool for 8-10 minutes in the pan (which, in my opinion, is when Pad Thai is at its best).\n Top with 2-3 tablespoons of chopped peanuts per serving. Place a wedge of banana blossom and chive stalks on the side. Season to taste off the pan with extra fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, and dried red pepper flakes as necessary.\n", "pub_date": "2015-11-08T00:11:08", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3394, "fields": {"title": "Are You Out of Your Mind?", "url": "https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/are-you-out-of-your-mind", "description": "Certainly the most striking omission from this canon is Martin Heidegger. Crawford\u2019s belief that we encounter our world as laden with pre-given meanings and significances, his claim that we act in the world through the pragmatic use of skill in the pursuit of projects, and, above all, his argument that true individuality consists in both the rejection of the dominant opinion of an anonymous public and the authentic embrace of tradition \u2014 in short, the entire scope of the book\u2019s argument \u2014 relies heavily on the recondite philosophical anthropology the young Heidegger developed in Being and Time. Moreover, Crawford\u2019s dim evaluation of the dominant philosophy of the subject \u2014 as a sovereign self at once isolated from the world yet imperiously demanding authority over it \u2014resonates deeply with the later Heidegger\u2019s trenchant critique of Western metaphysical thought and its concomitant humanistic worldview. Modern technology, Heidegger argued, encapsulated this view of man as an all-powerful subjectum, a tyrant who orders, manipulates, and controls the things of the world. Heidegger urged a clearer thinking that would abandon this position in favor of a humble view of man \u2014 of human being \u2014 as subordinate to the larger sway of Being. Though couched in a poetic idiom foreign to The World Beyond Your Head, this line of thought must, I believe, be the inspiration for Crawford\u2019s complaint about the autonomous Kantian subject and advocacy for an embedded human condition.\r\n\r\nBut Heidegger\u2019s thinking, an occluded polestar for Crawford\u2019s arguments, does not point toward Kant. True, Heidegger took Kant to be a powerful interlocutor. But Heidegger\u2019s thought points in this instance to another source: to the ancient Greeks and, in particular, to Aristotle.\r\n\r\nOne of Heidegger\u2019s earliest ambitions was to overcome Aristotle\u2019s distinction between theoretical wisdom (sophia) and practical wisdom (phron\u0113sis). Aristotle understood practical wisdom not simply as a technical skill (techn\u0113), but as a capacity to undertake actions oriented towards ends, and, crucially, an ability to reflect on the consonance of means and ends with the good life. Though the practices essential to the exercise of phron\u0113sis \u2014 arts, sciences, games, politics \u2014 were therefore conducive to virtue, Aristotle ultimately argued for the superiority of theoretical wisdom. The Nicomachean Ethics leaves little room for doubt: the contemplative life of sophia, Aristotle argued, is the truly excellent life. In a series of early lectures and books devoted to Aristotle, Heidegger claimed that this valuation of sophia was the source of modernity\u2019s perverse metaphysical subjectivism. Further, Heidegger used Aristotle\u2019s own texts against him, arguing that phron\u0113sis was the higher calling. Heidegger called this kind of argument an Auseinandersetzung: a word meaning, literally, \u201cquarrel\u201d and denoting, more figuratively, a form of philosophical reading that aimed not only to explain but to transform the text at hand.", "pub_date": "2015-11-10T14:42:01", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3395, "fields": {"title": "Expose", "url": "https://github.com/Jack000/Expose", "description": "A simple static site generator for photoessays\r\n", "pub_date": "2015-11-10T14:23:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3396, "fields": {"title": "libvips", "url": "https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips", "description": " A fast image processing library with low memory needs.\r\nhttp://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk ", "pub_date": "2015-11-10T14:22:21", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3397, "fields": {"title": "Efficient Image Resizing With ImageMagick", "url": "http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/06/efficient-image-resizing-with-imagemagick/", "description": "", "pub_date": "2015-11-10T14:21:17", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3398, "fields": {"title": "How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox", "url": "http://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship", "description": "But we don't live in such a world. Walkable communities are very difficult to find in the US, and because there is such paucity of supply relative to demand, they are expensive, accessible only to the high-income. Places where they exist, like San Francisco, tend to have absurd zoning restrictions that prevent growing them. (Our own Matt Yglesias has much to say on these issues.)\r\n\r\nThe second, even more rare, is some form of co-housing. There are many kinds of co-housing, too many to get into in this post, but my favorite, a common model in Germany, is baugruppen, or building groups. I wrote an enthusiastic post about baugruppen here:\r\n\r\n The basic idea is that a group of people comes together to work directly with architects and designers, bypassing developers, to build a shared dwelling that they own collectively (a co-op, basically). Taking developers out of the picture saves money \u2014 25 to 30 percent in Berlin, where baugruppen are common \u2014 and opens up space for much more ambitious, innovative, and sustainable architecture. It also fosters cooperation and community among members of the collective.\r\n\r\nIn practice, baugruppen are basically like condos, but with much more robust shared spaces and collective ownership rather than developer ownership. (If you want to know much more about them, passivhaus designer Mike Eliason has a seven-part series I highly recommend. He summarizes it as \"private owners collaboratively building affordable multifamily projects.\")\r\n\r\nThe idea behind baugruppen, and co-housing generally, is that it's nice to live in an extended community, to have people to rely on beyond family. It's nice to have bustling shared spaces where you can run into people you know without planning it beforehand. It's nice to have friends for your kids, places where they can play safely, and other adults who can share kid-tending duties.", "pub_date": "2015-11-10T14:20:52", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3399, "fields": {"title": "Ecology and Society: The dark side of light", "url": "http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art13/", "description": "Twenty percent of the world\u2019s electricity is used for artificial lighting.", "pub_date": "2015-11-10T13:52:23", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3400, "fields": {"title": "Lit up | Ramble", "url": "http://dghaskell.com/2015/11/06/lit-up/", "description": "Twenty percent of the world\u2019s electricity is used for artificial lighting. In most countries, night lights are getting brighter and more abundant.", "pub_date": "2015-11-10T13:52:00", "status": 0}}, {"model": "links.link", "pk": 3401, "fields": {"title": "Reading Right-to-Left | booktwo.org", "url": "http://booktwo.org/notebook/reading-right-to-left/", "description": "\u201cOne of the first tricks I learned many years ago had nothing to do with photography, but was drilled into me by an army sergeant. It only took a few smacks up the back of my head to learn how to look from right-to-left when scanning a landscape in an effort to see the hidden \u201cenemy\u201d in our mock battles. This process of reverse reading forced me to slow down and read each tree as if it were a syllable I was seeing for the first time. Even today, about thirty years after I called that sergeant every adjective not found in a decent dictionary, I still find myself scanning a landscape from right-to-left.\u201d ", "pub_date": "2015-11-10T13:50:42", "status": 0}}]
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