August 2008
68 posts
Privacy advocates nearly publish guide to... →
Actually, they didn’t “nearly publish,” they did actually publish it. In the PDF they hid things by putting black rectangles over them. The text is still there underneath. Morons. Pretty ironic coming from a privacy group.
July 2008
98 posts
WatchA fun way to illustrate Del.icio.us, er, now Delicious’s redesign.
“Excel takes out more trees due to East Coast power outages”
– Bad typo in “Burnsville resident upset Xcel took trees”
So um, it’s like they came in with Excel and said “Delete Column”?
This computer business is blooming →
LOL. [via in email]
Dear Star Tribune,
derusha:
What are you doing to me? Your RSS feed has no information in it, just a headline. I get it. You want to juice your page views. Instead, I’m just not clicking to your website. Why? I’m already paying for this content. I actually buy the newspaper. Why must you treat me like I’m stealing the content, by refusing to share anything on RSS feeds?
There was a time that the Strib...
“I was walking through our nation’s capitol on this beautiful Saturday...”
– Barefoot and Progressive
Cinderella iPod thief - m4w (Marcy Holmes) →
[via Sarah’s IM status]
Mix On, Mix Off - Longfellons Want to Know! →
The lastest on the old Molly Quinn’s place on East Lake Street.
MPR: News Cut: The "g" word →
Chuck Olsen and Bob Collins go at it in the comments big time. To be honest, I didn’t even bother reading it all though.
UPDATE: It’s basically about journalistic standards and the two of them disagreeing on what’s right and what’s wrong as well as what’s a story and what’s not… as well as the responsibility of how issues are presented. Bob, per usual,...
We saw Scott Seekins at the Pizza Farm in...
tumblelikeyougiveadamn:
No joke.
He was there with 4 or 5 women that were about half his age. Scott Seekins is a Twin Cities artist who is famous for being famous here in the TC (like Julia Alison, but before the internet). You literally see him everywhere; always walking, always wearing either a black suit or a white one, always with some crazy looking hair and a headband (you’ll know him when...
“But they often have a similar hatred for private enterprise, which is the back...”
– “They also have the weird habit of saying ‘we’ when they mean ‘me.’” by Jack Shedd
43 Folders: Blog Pimping, or: Who Do You Want to... →
A great read via in an email.
WordPress for iPhone →
Released this morning. [via in IM]
Bon Iver's Daytrotter Session →
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“You have a battery powered car with solar panels and a windmill mounted on the...”
– The featured comment, out of all 178 so far, on the Star Tribune story “Drill more now, pay less at the pump? Not so fast.” It is responding to “how is solar and wind going to power my car?”
Twitter is Not a Micro-Blogging Tool →
Toronto Patching Grudge Match: Pd and Max to End... →
I have no idea what this is about but I’m laughing my ass off because they used this photo of Taylor and I.
“Merlin’s Rest is what you think—scratch that, it’s what you hope—a...”
– James Norton sums up my neighborhood pub, Merlin’s Rest. Of course, us locals are used to things like people at the bar arguing about obscure world trivia, seeing a guy in a booth wearing chain mail with his girl all done up as a beautiful fairy (with dazzling wings) and hearing Wild Bill tell...
“The 35mm [images] blown up to IMAX look really good, but when you see the...”
– Minnesota Zoo IMAX Projectionist Rodney Johnson on ”The Dark Knight.” (I’m seeing is there this Friday night!)
What Medicine Owes the Beatles →
via Fimoculous:
Factoids to impress doctor friends at dinner parties: If not for the Beatles, we wouldn’t have CAT scans.
Star Tribune infoCenter →
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Where to Eat? Ask Your iPhone →
At first, I thought they were taking my blog post to task but really they’re evaluating Urbanspoon, which I haven’t tried yet. [via Tod in IM]
Bill Dahn for US Senate →
Amazing site.
US Senate Candidate Dean Barkley's Match.com... →
MPR: The LoopHole: Jesse needs a new nickname:... →
My Top 7 Topic Titles on the Minneapolis Issues...
More Broken Windows- The Theory Is Disproven!
RT’s Wet Dreams - Find the Fountain of Youth!
“Do Fish Eat Candy?”-food/prizes for ‘good deed-doers’
Give Me One Reason To Come Back To Minneapolis…
Another 4th ruined
2008 MPS strategic plan is not a plan
We’re not racists in Minneapolis; we’re bigots
“Sen. Coleman’s supporters are gathering out in the hall to watch him file....”
– Nick Busse on Twitter
People I'd vote for before Norm Coleman →