You know the drill, right? You're the person in your family who isn't afraid of computers, so you're the person your mother calls when something scary happens to hers. Which would be fine, if only you could convince her to buy a computer you understand. Which is to say, one that doesn't run Windows. Only you can't convince her to do that, so ( Read more... )

I'm not really here. But I thought my fellow Making Things addicts might want (or not want) to know what I just learned via phialastring: Interweave, suppliers of many very tempting books on technique, is having a Hurt Books Sale. It ends tomorrow, but right now? I didn't look at the knitting or spinning sections, but if they're as good as the metalworking ( Read more... )

The good, the indifferent, and the inexplicableI think my favorites are that red number the Duchess of Cambridge was wearing, the Duchess of Kent's piece of architecture, and the Countess of Wessex's bit of tailoring aspiring to be fire. On the less envy-making side (why do I not own hats like this? why do I have nowhere I could reasonably wear ( Read more... )

So, who else has read today's Page 1 story about alleged over-prescription of pain medication for workers who have suffered workplace injuries ( Read more... )

So there's this site -- friendblab.com -- that appears to be scraping DW accounts and displaying them in their entirety. Possibly LJ accounts as well, I didn't look. The site has essentially no contact information anywhere, only a home page that invites you to make an account or log in if you have one and a privacy policy that applies to account ( Read more... )

From Ta-Nehesi Coates, writing about (among other things) Poussin's "Abduction of the Sabine Women ( Read more... )

Some day I'll have a real post. But for now, links to a couple of intriguing-looking projects, still in very early phases, pushing back against efforts to destroy privacy on the net.

First, Priv.ly. An open-source project still very much in early alpha stages; their introductory blurb says, "Privly is a proof-of-concept for a new standard of ( Read more... )

Sort of a drive-by post here, and not any of the posts I actually wanted to be writing. But this essay about the effects of our cultural move from browsing an open Internet for information and connections to the use of proprietary networks like Facebook, and of apps rather than browsers, is worth all the buzz it's been getting ( Read more... )

I'd pin the giant sizes of everything here.

Pictures of a volcanic crater in Ethiopia. It's like Yellowstone on steroids.

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But I feel compelled to do it anyway, in case people weren't waiting eagerly until 10:00 Pacific, keeping half an eye on the news feed for word that the decision had come down.

It's out now, and it appears to be a win for the good guys. The article at dKos, where there must have been people staking out the clerk's office, is here. And ETA: Here' ( Read more... )