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Hurricane Relief:
The American Red Cross
Donation Link: Click here
Relief focus: Provides a full spectrum of services to disaster victims, including shelter, medical care, food, clean water and assisting with cleanup efforts.
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America’s Second Harvest
Donation link: Click here
Relief focus: Transports food to victims and secures additional warehouse space to assist member food banks in resuming and maintaining operations.
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Catholic [...]

Free Download A Day » Blog Archive » Opera Web Browser: free reg code (today only):
Today only, Opera Software is celebrating its 10th anniversary by giving away registration codes for its Opera web browser. (It’s normally $39.) Opera’s a fantabulous web browser: features include a pop-up blocker, RSS newsreader, e-mail client with spam filter, a [...]

BELOIT COLLEGE’S MINDSET LIST® FOR THE CLASS OF 2009
Most students entering college this fall were born in 1987.
1. Andy Warhol, Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead.
2. They don’t remember when “cut and paste” involved scissors.
3. Heart-lung transplants have always been possible.
4. Wayne Gretzky never played for Edmonton.
5. Boston has been working [...]

Not much to mumble/grumble about lately. The shortening days of summer (both in length and quantity) have taken precedence over logorrhea.

Two families of raccoons have taken residence in the impenetrable thicket in the middle of my block: 2 mother and 2 litters, of 4 and 5. 11 raccoons is too many, but since we have [...]

So who picked the 8-sided red shape and used it as a submit button?

10 years ago we saw a similar UI decision, to use a button labelled Start for everything — even shutting down.

Google maps plotted different routes for me to go from Mt Rainier to Olympia, based on whether I start inside the park or outside.

This September, Your Name Here…:
It’s nice — and that’s an understatement — when something good done in this blog has repercussions. You may remember that back in March I auctioned off the name of a Cruise Ship in ANANSI BOYS for the CBLDF. And we made $3,533 for the CBLDF. And that happened around [...]

Also featured at tonight’s outdoor dining extravaganza (at which we learned that the childhood best friend of our hostess was someone I had once worked with: if her hometown of Soperton, Georgia, has not been mentioned, the connection would not have been made) was a red potato salad I have made a few times every [...]

Off to a backyard cookout this evening and since I was raised never to go to anyone’s house empty-handed, here’s what we’re bringing.
Balsamic strawberries[1]:

1 pound ripe red strawberries (doesn’t matter if a few are underripe or overripe: this covers a multitude of sins). These are on sale at a lot of places right now so [...]

ongoing · Exit AdSense:
[T]he only conclusion I can draw is that AdSense isn’t going
to make you much money if you write about Web technologies and politics and
publish pictures of flowers and donkeys.
I am coming to much the same conclusion. I don’t even have the pictures to post (still scraping up the pennies for a Nikon [...]