Category Archives: Blink

Links, often with no context, explanation, or redeeming value.

I Can Haz Ice Cream And Booze?

January 20, 2008 – 6:42 pm

This thread says you can get booze and ice cream in the same joint! Places to know in NYC: Otto, The Chocolate Room (beer & wine only?), ChikaLicious, Clinton Street Baking Company, BLT Burger, Homer’s, and Liquor & Ice Cream.

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Impeach Cheney Now

January 16, 2008 – 6:54 pm

You’ll feel better after signing the petition.

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Dead Men Don’t Cash Checks

January 10, 2008 – 11:00 am

Virgilio Cintron was the happiest corpse in the city…

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Chris ?Long Tail? Anderson On Open Source

January 10, 2008 – 10:01 am

Open source and the Long Tail: An interview with Chris Anderson
The shift of software from the desktop to the Web will really be the making of open-source software. The Long Tail side of software will almost certainly be Web-based because the Web lowers the barriers to adoption of software. There will always be some software [...]

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WordPress 2.4 Performance, Timeline

December 29, 2007 – 12:07 pm

The good news is that performance is a big goal for WP 2.4, the bad news is that it’s been delayed to the end of January at the earliest.

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Home Libraries, Amateur Libraries

December 11, 2007 – 7:43 pm

The Library Problem:
In March of 2006 my wife Mary and I owned about 3,500 books. We both have eclectic interests, voracious appetites for knowledge, and a great love of used bookstores. The problem was that we had no idea what books we had or where any of them were. We lost books all the time, [...]

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Roadside Attractions Fading Away?

November 28, 2007 – 4:42 am

Roadside Attractions Fading from Landscape:
A staple of the American road trip could be slowly disappearing from the nation’s interstates and byways. Owners of some roadside attractions are deciding that interest is waning

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Themes I Like

November 21, 2007 – 8:07 am

Matt has updated his site with a less blog-like front page and I just discovered Unsleepable, which is very bloggy, but seems like a good start for what I want to do next.

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European Internet Usage Statistics

November 15, 2007 – 5:00 am

Eurostat 2006: Internet usage in the EU25: ?Nearly half of individuals in the EU25 used the internet at least once a week in 2006 and a third of households and three-quarters of enterprises had broadband internet access.? Statistics Denmark 2007: Access to the Internet: 78% of population has home internet access.

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Gender Gaps

November 9, 2007 – 12:01 pm

Connect the dots: Boys vs. girls in US colleges and too many men in East Germany.

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Internet Safety

November 6, 2007 – 12:25 pm

NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety
As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum. Virginia is the first state to require public schools to teach Internet safety.

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Pick Up Lines

November 3, 2007 – 6:52 pm

How to pick up girls in the library. Indeed, it’s Picking Up Girls Made Easy.
girls, pick up lines, funny, advice

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MaisonBisson And unAPI

October 29, 2007 – 4:48 am

Thanks to Mike Giarlo’s unAPI Server for WordPress. Now if only there were a library catalog built on WordPress, I could probably just drop it in.
unAPI, wordpress, plugin

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Mac OS X 10.5 Comes With Apache 2 and PHP 5

October 28, 2007 – 4:19 am

Yep. Leopard comes with new stuff. Lazeez says it works fine, but commenters here are having trouble.
leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, apache, php

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Book Autopsies

October 23, 2007 – 10:49 pm

Via Ryan: Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies at Centripetal Notion.
awesome, book, books, art, sculpture

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