August 2008
Remodeling Can Be a Good Investment on the West... →
Mountain Biking Day #34 →
Government Gets Hooked on Tobacco Tax Billions →
McSweeney's: Footnotes, Endnotes, and... →
books read august 2008 →
“Consider the fact that the first act of commentary is the choice of what stories...”
– O’Reily responding to a commentor on Lessons on Blogging from Jon Stewart - O’Reilly Radar
“The only un-cool thing about the Tom Anderson news, of course, is that he grew...”
– Anderson: Would you like to play a game? (mathewingram.com)
“‘That said, one should not read too much into the fact that we have not...”
– footnoted.org » Freud in the filings…
MICKEY AVALON vs CSS →
Luxury Retail Heading for a Slump? →
Local Economy in for a “Long Slog” (Seattle... →
Jon Talton wrote a great article for the Times a few days ago that goes deeper than the usual “Boeing! Microsoft! Pink Ponies!” type articles and explores all the ways the Seattle region is exposed to the slowing economy: For local economy, it’ll be a long slog.
Automatic "Awesompersands" →
Evan Gaffney: A Mind of Its Own →
Presidential candidates - are states red and blue... →
Sources: De La Hoya-Pacquiao bout set for Dec. 6 →
Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely... →
“When it comes to reading SEC filings, like Dante’s Inferno, there’s definitely...”
– footnoted.org - On Apple and Dante’s Inferno…
Seattle Geek Girl Dinners →
Sneak Peak at 1310 E Union #202 (urbnlivn) →
I had a Google Alert running against this modern awesomeness for a while, and today it found a pocket listing for #202 on Zillow, which should soon list on the MLS. Sadly, it is beyond my humble means—I was hoping the non-view units would be cheaper. It’ll be interesting to see if it sells quickly for a $400K/3yr markup since last sale, since it’s not a view flat (most of the rest...
“# Hijacking Google Suggest May Become a SEO Technique.
It may become possible...”
– 9 Ideas How Google Suggest Could Change Search Marketing - Scott Clark Probably the most interesting implication of the set about Google Suggest graduating to Google’s homepage.
Organic Holidays, Eco friendly Accommodation, etc →
Would have been handy before I booked my next vacation.
Watchyourmonkeycalled: Jamie Lidell w/ Feist & Gonzales : “Multiply”
Damn that’s a lineup. I can’t wait to see Lidell’s live show again, though now I’ll wish this lineup was waiting in the wings for the encore.
Tens of Thousands of Subprime Loan Resets Coming... →
A group of researchers have dev... →
“A group of researchers have devised a method which allows people to communicate...”
– northtemple
IE Death March →
fling in response to jimray:
I cannot agree with this more. IE6 should no longer be supported. Microsoft has ended its support of it, so should we.
The web standards movement wouldn’t exist had we not drawn the line in the sand on Netscape 4, we need to do the same with IE6.
“# For every additional second that it takes to load a page, an extra 6 seconds...”
– ClickTale Blog » Puzzling Web Habits Across the Globe - Part 2
Tracking Homebuyer Activity →
Creative climate change containment →
Web Directions: East 08 →
Wow, how did I not notice this earlier! Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Veen, Dan Cederholm, Jeremy Keith and Andy Budd in Tokyo, Nov 7-9. Love the internationalized site. (@elclon if they return to Tokyo in ‘09, add it to your conference option list.) How fun would it be roam around Tokyo with that collection of geeks?
“While the Democratic veepstakes is being driven largely by a search for...”
– Medium Lobster: Your guide to America’s next vice president - guardian.co.uk
