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Hee!

sparkofcreation Apr 22, 2008 11:23

So, first off, if you haven't heard of Gene Weingarten, he's a humor and features columnist for the Washington Post (and he won the Pulitzer this year for this brilliant feature on what happens if you hire the world's best violinist-Joshua Bell-to play the world's best violin music ... in the DC Metro ... during morning rush hour). If you're not ( Read more... )

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New layout.

sparkofcreation Apr 21, 2008 18:28

New layout and also several new icons courtesy of girlyb_icons (text in layout courtesy the indomitable Federico García Lorca). You should go look, she both has an incredible use of color and is incredibly prolific.

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Drive-by posting: Travel advice.

sparkofcreation Apr 09, 2008 07:12

Okay. Life = insane, need vacation, have booked, no time to plan what to actually do when I get there. If you were going to these 2 places for these amounts of time, what would you want to do? What should *I* do ( Read more... )

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Oh. My. God.

sparkofcreation Mar 25, 2008 20:47

I'm not telling you what he's singing (it's way better if you realize it for yourself!), but here's a hint: the theme was "songs from the year you were born.

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He may well win this thing. And I say that as someone who absolutely hated him when he started.

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Kelpies become famous!

sparkofcreation Feb 17, 2008 13:23

This week on PostSecret, one of the postcards shows an Australian Kelpie hanging its head out a car window. It looks just like Scout except she can't quite manage to hold her ears up, although you can tell she wants to.

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GO GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sparkofcreation Feb 03, 2008 20:12

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"Don't Be Evil"

sparkofcreation Feb 01, 2008 07:23

I know "Don't Be Evil" is (at least unofficially) Google's motto, but I think the fact that there is NO WAY TO CONTACT THEM FOR SUPPORT FOR GOOGLE APPS counts as evil. I've been hunting for any way to call or email them for the last 15 minutes but their "Google Apps Help" section consists entirely of FAQs. Which are useful for some people, but not ( Read more... )

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To those who can cook far better than I can ...

sparkofcreation Jan 20, 2008 23:21

If I'm going to make a vegetable stock on Monday (tomorrow) in order to have leek and potato soup on Saturday night ( Read more... )

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If you want to know what really happened in the last Republican debate,...

sparkofcreation Jan 06, 2008 13:57

... ask a nine-year-old.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/6/25723/26527/751/431492

I've avoided watching the debates until now because I saw them as little more than exercises in media manipulation. This time, I wanted to watch the Republican debate just ( Read more... )