• Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: December 28th

    Exhibit 8: Limitations of Second Life’s modeling routines Lewis & Clark 2 Best quality image of PDX Expo totem poles 07-3-skidegate-b.jpg 911×523 pixels sitka_0200.jpg 450×600 pixels TED Blog | A call to men: Tony Porter on TED.com McKenzie River Drift Boats, wooden boat kits and supplies

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: December 25th – December 27th

    Google Image Result for http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1278/4610538959_27c9f9deac.jpg Google Image Result for http://www.scottspeck.com/pictures/seattle_2005/tacoma/DSCN2413a.jpg Google Image Result for http://www.earthseaimagery.com/images/pacific_ave_union_station_tacoma_4-74.jpg Kuriositas: Fly Geyser – Not Quite of this World Useful Scripts for Second Life® – brought to you by SL4Nowt Tutorial: Make your own Landmarks HUD : SL for Nowt Building in Second Life, By Example | Bob Sutor

  • Home Improvement - Hot Off The Presses

    Twas the Night Before Pogo

    Pop loved Pogo. The Christmas strips were particular favorites of his, but I don’t recall this specific one. The Russian jokes tie it to the Cold War/Space Race storyline… Somewhere I’ve got the books that introduce the two-headed dog who barks in Russian and a kind of gibberish that I find hysterically funny (pookapookapooka!). This one has St Nicholas and his reindeer (Albert the Alligator and his trusty moose), with Pogo along to make with the good cheer (oog). Walt Kelly was the greatest daily comic strip artist in American history. His Pogo strip was an uncanny mixture of laughter,…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: December 20th – December 23rd

    http://www.slcgov.com/mayor/refugee/domviolence.pdf SLC Mayors Office Domestic Violence Info YMCA Shelter – Salt Lake City In 1976 the YWCA opened the first domestic violence shelter in the state of Utah, and one of the first in the country.  The 75-bed shelter continues to provide crisis intervention, advocacy for women and children, extended shelter, and a private room. The program serves more than 500 women and children each year who are victims of family violence.  The shelter operates 24 hours day, 365 days a year. http://www.utahbar.org/bars/umba/assets/utah_domestic_violence_shelters.pdf Salt Lake Domestic Violence resources GIMP tutorials and resources for free – Gimpology.com: Enchancing the colors of your photos…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: December 13th – December 19th

    How parents keep the faith: getting spiritual meaning at home, not church – CSMonitor.com How parents keep the faith: Teaching the religion of Islam at home – CSMonitor.com How parents keep the faith: a Christmas gift of mitzvahs – CSMonitor.com How parents keep the faith: The rock of belief is at home – CSMonitor.com How parents keep the faith: Mandate a moral code, not theology – CSMonitor.com 500 Internal Server Error 500 Internal Server Error Deal watch: Norwegian Cruise Line launches ‘free upgrade’ promotion – USATODAY.com Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without…

  • Books - Hot Off The Presses

    Review | The Imperfectionists – When News Was Printed With Ink On Paper

    The iPad has been tempting me to try buying eBooks to eRead in my copious sPare time.  Last night I happened to catch an episode of the Canadian culture and current events show Q that included a very positive review of The Imperfectionists: A Novel by Tom Rachman. As a former English major, I’ve avoided reading serious novels for decades; I’ve read a couple of books in recent years that featured that cutesy scribbled-script kind of font with whimsical names like “The Lost Weekend of Cooking In Provence” or “The Lumpy Girl’s Guide To Off-Putting Personal Hygiene” and that was…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    News Flash: FOX Just Realizes Jesus Was A Pinko Wino, Parents Understandably Upset

    So this is why the Jesus Christianists hate Barbara Ehrenreich’s book “Nickel and Dimed” so much. Hat tip to @stopbeck for mentioning the effort to ban it, which goes back years but has a consistent Christian-Right taint. “It would be nice if someone would read this sad-eyed crowd the Sermon on the Mount, accompanied by a rousing commentary on income inequality and the need for a hike in the minimum wage. But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: December 3rd – December 6th

    Feast of St. Nicholas: With voices loud and joyous | Seven whole days Speaking to the Soul Quidditch coming to Elmhurst College – Chicago Tribune Padre Mickey’s Dance Party: Feast of St. Nicholas of Myra BBC News – Spain prime minister ‘stopped’ Rolls-Royce contract Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide Editorial | Creationist tourism | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal Are Mennonites Taking Over the World? – Sheldon C. Good – God’s Politics Blog