Showing posts with label web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web. Show all posts

White House Correspondents' Dinner | C-SPAN

Seth Meyers rags on Donald Trump. The Donald looked mighty pissed...

Rick Santorum's problem

Boy, pissing off the wrong people will sure cause one problems these days...

Blogger mobile templates

Hey, I enabled mobile templates on my blog (and Penelope's blog).  The blog looks great on my iPhone now!

Charity Navigator

It's that time of year again: making donations to charities.  In case you haven't seen/used it, Charity Navigator is an excellent resource for evaluating the effectiveness of your donated dollars.

Health Care Costs

Read these slides.  They are a great source of information about the American health-care system.

Mila's Daydreams

This blog has some lovely, imaginative photos of a beautiful little girl.

Op-Ed Contributor - Allergy-Free New York - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Contributor - Allergy-Free New York - NYTimes.com

This article about trees and pollen in New York City is fascinating. Humans are causing more allergies through selection of trees to plant!

YouTube - Top Secret DrumCorps Basel Tattoo

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- Top Secret DrumCorps Basel Tattoo


Pretty amazing!

Joe Wong at RTCA Dinner

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- Joe Wong at RTCA Dinner


This Chinese-American comedian is pretty funny!

Tying shoelaces

Interesting information about tying shoelaces. I learned that not all knots are the same recently: apparently, about half the time I mistie my laces!

Iceland

This Vanity Fair article about the financial meltdown in Iceland is fascinating. Definitely an interesting read, both for the historical perspective and the stories of what is happening in Iceland right now.

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Neat: it's a Java applet that generates a word picture from a web page/blog/RSS feed. Here's one for my blog.

Food

Nicholas Kristof's article in the NY Times pointed me at this petition. I signed it, as I tend to trust Kristof and Michael Pollan's judgment.

Good Reads

A friend of mine, Mark Flanagan, convinced me to sign up for this website last year. I decided to try it out; we'll see how useful it is.