Irrsinn.net: taking joy in human unreason

Quasi-daily linkage

Broadsheet - Salon.com - Very well-written article on overweight folks having to buy two seats on planes. "See, those of us who are and/or love people to whom airlines' "person of size policies" apply don't automatically envision the discomfort of getting stuck next to a fatty; we envision the ...

Deliberate starvation

I find that I have a lot of trouble mustering the courage to write about weight loss here. I mean, to really write about it, to give numbers and talk about specific failures and how I felt and how much weight loss sucks. My one goal for 2008 (from March ...

Not-a-review: A Very Hungry Girl

I wrote yesterday that I was 39 pages into Jessica Weiner's A Very Hungry Girl (beware: affiliate link!). I went ahead and finished it last night. I'll admit that I was a little disappointed by the book, as it soon began to describe Weiner's work in far more detail than her personal ...

Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (April 25th)

Links for April 25th from 15:30 to 20:48: The Psychology of the $1000 Emergency Fund | I've Paid For This Twice Already... - A commenter's word choice really got me: "For people who have never had a comma in their savings account before, getting to that magic number can be a ...

Tastee (del.icio.us) links

Links for April 17th from 17:33 to 19:07: Push-ups giving women a bad rep - I am all about doing full-length pushups. Anyway, this article is a good look at the value of pushups and what the reputation of women being unable to do them means for gender issues in ...

Quasi-daily linkage

10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit - Nice and easy list to follow. I fixed a silly problem on my site this morning courtesy of the reminder. Clients From Hell : The client calls around 9 PM on a Saturday... - “[very angry] I am reading your email in ...

I’ll be damned – more WP trouble

I was fixing a webcomic issue on Greg's blog, and I'll be damned if from one minute to the next, it didn't suffer from an index.php injection, too. This is weird as hell. A bunch of spurious content appeared on his homepage, although clicking through to those posts ...

They Might Be Giants. Maybe.

I got to see them last weekend in Hotlanta, GA. Pretty good show, although it had a more "indie" feel than I was expecting. I guess Greg's idolization of them leads me to think of them as a fairly major/big-label group, which they aren't. They put on a good ...