Friday link post
It’s Friday, and it’s been a long week, and so here’s a collection of random links I’ve found this week that you might find interesting. This week, I’ve the courtesy to break ‘em up into subject areas.
"Them Navasota troopers ran me down / Escorted me right out of town / For cherry pickin squirrels and feedin dogs / And dreamin of Jamaica in a fog" -from "Cracklins," by The Gourds
GEEK + TECH
- Fear the SSN algorithm : http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=679&doc_id=178957
- Digg vs. IE6 : http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/can-you-digg-it-maybe-not-if-youre-stuck-on-ie6/
- “… as obsessions go, battling the Borg is waaay overrated” : http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-all-take-deep-breath-and-get-some.html
- RSS is too slow : http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/speeding-up-rss/
- Check it : http://malwarebytes.org/
- FTP vs SFTP : http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/13/142210/RIP-FTP
- Font potential : http://craigmod.com/journal/font-face/
- Zeldman gets interesting : http://www.zeldman.com/2009/07/14/pain-is-my-alarm-clock/
- lifehacks for designers : http://www.designer-daily.com/25-amazing-lifehacks-for-designers-2579
- Unlock the potential of WordPress widgets : http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/14/5-useful-and-creative-ways-to-use-wordpress-widgets/
- Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Google Analytics : http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/16/a-guide-to-google-analytics-and-useful-tools/
ART
- Photos of larval fish from Belize : http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/sets/72157607254072541/
- Polaroid me : http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/rollip-brings-back-distant-memories-of-discolored-polaroid-photos/
- New Right Hand Pointing : http://www.righthandpointing.com/
GARDENING
- If only my plants could water themselves : http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/irrigatingplant/
- Squirrel vs. Dog - squirrel wins : http://www.chron.com/commons/persona.html?newspaperUserId=vansli&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckUserId=vansli&plckPostId=Blog%3avansliPost%3ab9ea79fe-db93-474b-90c6-a3525c874fdc&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest
- Gardening can kill you : http://www.gardenrant.com/my_weblog/2009/07/thanks-for-all-the-memories.html
HYPER-LOCAL
- Betty Martin recalls the time daddy wouldn’t let her swim : http://bettymartin.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/the-backstroke/
- New theme park in Tomball : http://swamplot.com/grand-texas-theme-park-in-tomball-bringing-some-of-that-texas-frontier-spirit-to-texas/2009-07-09/
- The history of Rosenberg : http://www.fbherald.com/articles/2009/07/14/news/doc4a5cb19b3cddd157802480.txt
- Work (for free) for Swamplot : http://swamplot.com/wanted-swamplot-neighborhood-correspondents/2009-07-15/
- Hey Annise! It only really works if you use it : http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/07/wanted_social_media_consultant.php
MUSIC
- Paste interviews Todd “I’m Always on Tour” Snider. He says, “I swear, it’s the truth, I’m not as into music as I am into chicks who will shave their heads and fucking whack a car with an umbrella.” Seriously. : http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/07/catching-up-with-todd-snider.html
- Not enough Snider? The previous link links here - the (mostly) true story behind Greencastle Blues : http://www.knoxville.com/news/2009/may/22/life-lessons/
MEDIA
- “ So now you want to put a price on a so-so online product that heretofore has been free and can largely be duplicated elsewhere? Good luck with that.” : http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2009/07/you-cant-charge-for-something-that-doesnt-provide-value.html
- Screw the Ethicist, tailgaters deserve worse : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19FOB-ethicist-t.html
- Subsidize this : http://uhjournalism.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/subsidizing-journalism/
RANDOM
- I’ll do this … tomorrow : http://lifehacker.com/5309174/banish-clutter-by-evaluating-your-collections
