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12/7/2010 Melissa Avery-Weir

This week’s internet cruising, in which I was evidently trying to make up for lost time.

A Vegan No More | Voracious – This woman went through a struggle to find her health as a vegan… and found that she needed to go back to eating meat. Her journey is well-documented and heart-breaking, although I found her dogmatism rather creepy. She believed very strongly in veganism, and now believes very strongly in omnivorism.
Vegan Defector Talks Back | Voracious – Part 2 of the no-longer vegan story.
To Teach Your Kids Money Management, Start Your Own Bank – A cute take on teaching kids how to save. I'm still divided on the whole "give an allowance for nothing (chores are a family duty)" or "give compensation for chores" debate, but the bank idea is cool.

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11/30/2010 Melissa Avery-Weir

Down to six hundred sixteen unread Google Reader items! Here are some of the coolest of the nearly 200 I’ve read in the last couple of weeks (as well as random surfing, of course):

How to Lower Your Heating Bills This Winter – I definitely need to try out lowering our thermostat. We keep it on 72 F in the winter, which we could probably stand to lower by 5-7 degrees if I bundled up more.
9 New High-Quality Free Fonts | Freebies – I really like the Spatha and My Fair Cody fonts on this list. I'm (back-burner) working on a design for charsheet.net, and the styles of those two fonts grabbed me.
The Definition Of “Money” Is A Bit Different In Swampland… – Das Krapital – Washington City Paper – "Two BILLION dollars…I wonder how much you would have to raise taxes on the wealthiest one percent to raise two BILLION DOLLARS over the course of the fiscal year?"

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9/21/2010 Melissa Avery-Weir

This week’s internet cruising:

Lymejello – Wow. Speaking of telling difficult stories. Lyme disease is apparently no joke. I remember seeing the photos in middle school health class–a ringed rash, warnings that it could kill untreated, but not that it was so damned debilitating.
My Hopebuilders 5k page – Yeah, I'm a punk. Go donate and push me to run. If I meet my fund-raising goal, I'll run it hard.
Tim Gunn Is A National Treasure – "[W]hen I visit department stores and I go to the shop that’s called “woman,” I am horrified! Horrified by the awful, degrading, disrespectful choices that women have."
10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies – A very nice set of usability tips, including some debunking of common UX myths.
YouTube vs. Fair Use – Apparently, YouTube is getting amazing at detecting copyrighted content. For better or worse.
With New Rules In Place, Old Overdraft Gimmicks Under Fire – Ah, the old "reordering debits to maximize overdrafts" game. It's good to see it challenged.
Ask BFD: How Do I Deal With Compliments On Weight Loss? – Because thinner does not equate to prettier.
DarkPatterns.org – From Elf, this is a nice little collection of web… scams. Or UI trickery. Or something in between.

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6/27/2010 Melissa Avery-Weir

Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Do You Like Your Body 3 (Preliminary Notes On the Expendability of the Foreskin) – In summary: I'm not a huge fan of circumcision. (Very long article.)
MetaFilter Saved My Pals From Sex Traffickers—Exclusive Interview | Mother Jones – This is incredibly cool, although the article is a bit confusedly written.
Blog U.: Book Publishers’ Regrets in 2025 – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed – "Sell the Book, Not the Format: Whenever we buy a book we should automatically have the option of receiving the book in all formats."
Big Fat Deal » The Rhetoric Of The “Real” Woman – Hear, hear. "[…] the whole “eat a sandwich, I’m a real woman!” dialogue is damaging in its own way. It keeps women running after and policing each other in a little circle of body obsession, while men get to go off and run the world."
Elf M. Sternberg – Google Translate from Korean… not so much. – Awesome find from Elf, and a good discussion in the comments about human vs. computer translations. From the translation: "Indeed, the Demon Squid embarrassment for the United States the pain does not go off maybe 12." Um, yeah.
Fatshionista – Fat Joke Fail: In Which I Do Not Namecall Ricky Gervais – This article is from January of 2009, but is a very thoughtful treatment of equating (or conflating) oppressions, namely being gay and being fat.
"Whether or not fatness or gayness is easily measured or authenticated is irrelevant. Whether or not fatness or gayness is biologically inherent is irrevelant. What’s important here is the suggestion that certain people are owed humiliation for looking a certain way."

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

4/25/2008 Melissa Avery-Weir 1 Comment

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 real encouragement to keep saving money." I've never had a comma in my savings account. Excellent read.
Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » Serious Sam:The Mayhem Shooter – This description/review of Serious Sam is rather accurate. WO and I played SS 2 for an afternoon and loved getting to blow shit up. I enjoy mayhem games that require very little strategy, and WO can't stand anything as old as Doom 2. Good compromise.
Someday is Now: No, Mar!a, you're a skag – An old blog post I ran across, but hilarious. Brava, Kathy!

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