February 2012
The Locavore Hunter™: Puerto Rico's Green Iguanas... →
Interesting info about USDA approved slaughtering facilities.
The red state ripoff →
Crips, Bloods, and Commuters: Seattle Gang... →
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mexico city - a set on Flickr by locaburg →
one of the finest David Lynchian sets of photographs one will ever see
January 2012
mentalflossr:
Clara Peller, the “Where’s the Beef?” lady, lost her Wendy’s gig in 1985 after appearing in an ad for Prego spaghetti sauce in which she said, ”I found it. I really found it.” Wendy’s argued that statement “infers she found the beef at somewhere other than Wendy’s restaurants.”
Snowstorm Jan 2012 - a set on Flickr →
Intense snowball fight @ Cal Anderson today
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Mexico Trip
Trip is locked in. All reservations made. Trav is flying in from DC tomorrow. We fly to Mexico City Thursday morning.
Four days in Mexico City. Map of desired sights & restaurants, far too much to do in 4 days. Four days in Yucatan peninsula. Ruins, jungles, beaches, cenotes. Detailed/impossibly perfect itinerary is done.
Back 1/29. If I’m kidnapped I’ll try to update my Facebook...
Patagonia Men's Capilene® 2 Lightweight Boxer... →
These are the most comfortable boxer briefs known to man, for both active/sports and everyday use. I am slowly replacing all my cotton underwear with these. REI used to sell them for cheaper but no longer.
“A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses it to come to a...”
– Alain de Botton on false standards and reclaiming the metrics of success. (via curiositycounts)
Love the credit check discussion at parties.
Watchcuriositycounts:
In 2011, dozens of volunteers came together to map the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using only a few basic tools: balloons, plastic bottles, and digital cameras. Now, a team of these citizen mapmakers are creating a line of low cost, DIY balloon mapmaking kits, enabling anyone to make and share their own high-resolution aerial imagery.
Music lessons over Skype becoming popular →
It’s 5:45 am and my brain is too fuzzy to wrap my head around the concept of a bagpipe lesson over Skype.
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WatchFirst Watch: Fanfarlo, ‘Shiny Things’ : All Songs Considered Blog : NPR
More bleeps and bloops, less horns and glockenspiels. I like it! They’re returning to Seattle in April.
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SDOT Blog » The Ten Bridges of the Spokane Street... →
“In general, the term “viaduct” is used to describe a bridge that does not cross a particular geographic feature such as a river or a canyon, and generally does not change elevation.”
Noted.
The 1976 bridge strike was committed by a drunken ship pilot if I remember correctly.
It should also be noted that sometime during the oughts the name was changed from ‘West Seattle...
iN-PUBLiC | Richard Bram →
Street photog
Skull in Underwater Cave May Be Earliest Trace of... →
We are going to this area in Mexico, and Trav is SCUBA diving into one of these cenotes. (I am only snorkeling.)
WatchThe Cat Walk - Video Library - The New York Times
Jackson Galaxy, a cat behaviorist and television personality, teaches The Times’s Stephanie Clifford how to walk her cat on a leash.
Discovery Park or Lincoln Park would be good for this.
Michelle Obama’s Evolution as First Lady -... →
An interesting peek into her personality and west wing infighting.
iPhone 4S Battery Life: Best solutions: Apple... →
Many good leads here. I recently switched from a AT&T 4 to a Verizon 4S and found more rapid battery drain.
