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Possible disruption

October 9th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve discovered that my web host offers new pricing structures, with newer version of some of their services, and I’m about to switch.

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A beautiful knitting accomplishment

August 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

One of the knitting blogs I follow: DancesWithWool: Farewell to the King. Mind you, she did this in about three months.

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International Dadaism Month?

August 19th, 2007 · No Comments

If wikipedia can be believed, it’s true: International Dadaism Month - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Another “look at this”

August 14th, 2007 · No Comments

But this one’s a bit more, well, out of the mainstream, shall we say? But just as fascinating. Street Anatomy · Wearing your anatomy on your skin: the anatomy tattoo gallery (via Andrew Sullivan)

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British Timeline

May 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Cool history resource: BBC - History - Timelines - British Timeline (via Kottke).

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A Pepys and a Sutton

April 13th, 2007 · No Comments

In “today’s” entry in the online Pepys’ Diary:
Up, and after my wife had dressed herself very fine in her new laced gown, and very handsome indeed, W. Howe also coming to see us, I carried her by coach to my uncle Wight’s and set her down there, and W. Howe and I to the Coffee-house, [...]

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Pepys on his brother’s death

March 16th, 2007 · No Comments

From the online version of Samuel Pepys’ Diary:
I lay close to my wife, being full of disorder and grief for my brother that I could not sleep nor wake with satisfaction, at last I slept till 5 or 6 o’clock.

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Second Life meetup in Boston

February 21st, 2007 · No Comments

There was a fun first meeting for our new Boston SL meetup tonight in Cambridge, hosted by Tuan and Chris of Useful Technology. Stay tuned for more activities! You can check it out at meetup.com

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Where I’ve been lately

December 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I discovered a game/virtual reality/creative hotbed called Second Life, and I’ve been spending a lot of time checking it out.

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Advice for teachers

September 18th, 2006 · No Comments

“1000 words of advice for design teachers” has great advice not only for design teachers, but for anyone teaching.

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