tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133350322025-09-17T02:29:07.769-04:00Fun,cool and useful stuff I find on the web and in lifeJenn M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16287970963637748276noreply@blogger.comBlogger277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13335032.post-22553060570178412622010-09-03T10:05:00.003-04:002010-09-19T10:48:03.489-04:00

I have 3 sites that load up when I start FireFox: Google's Gmail service, the Blogger dashboard and National Geographic's main web site. The first one is, obviously to see my mail, the second, because it keeps me doing this and the third because it connects me to the real world. Nat Geo's home site has so many great features that sometimes one contracts "choice blindness" a web malady in which

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For my first birthday that I lived on my own in Boston, my sister gave me a Joyce Chen wok. I have since lost, a) the chattie (the little ring that the wok is supposed to sit on to disperse the heat evenly) b) the little wire platform for steaming and c) the lid, which would have probably saved me from burning myself quite a few times with spattering oil.While I'm nothing close to the masters

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Just in case you have a lot of free time on your hands and a handy supply of 3-5 foot webs in your yard, Boing Boing featured an article today on how to spin your own silk from spider webs. If I had the time (and the source material) I would totally do this. Spider silk is stronger than steel and can stretch to 40 times its length. Plus, imagine the Goth cred I would get for a little black

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I love the cforms plugin by Delicious Days just as much as the next Wordpress devotee, but there are a few things that (like too many WP plugins) are just left up to the user to figure out. After a client requested a form that let a user upload a photo to their website, I thought; "No sweat, there's a field to add an upload box." Half true. There is an option for a file upload box when you add

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The past few days may have been hot, but thank your god(s) that at least it's a dry heat. Below the Mason-Dixon line this is what's considered "mild" (spoken with 2 syllables of course). Hence the need for the Icebox recipes in Ernest Matthew Mickler's classic, "White Trash Cooking". I found this recipe in the "Sweet 'Pones, Puddins 'n Pies" section and it's been a hit at a few barbeques up

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I had a hankering for Vietnamese food today. Maybe it's the heat. Unfortunately,even though you can't swing a dead sea gull on the North Shore without hitting a Chinese/Sushi or Thai place, Vietnamese cuisine is tough to find (one notable exception is Sugar Cane in Peabody). So, I raided the pantry and scraped together enough ingredients to make a reasonable facsimile of rice noodles with

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So I lifted my nose up from my keyboard the other day and realized that I've been a WAHM for 2 and a half years now! How did I do it with out going crazy? Just loosen the straps across this canvas jacket and I'll show you.Confession time, I read a couple of articles here and there about how to work from home before setting up my business, but found them hard to relate to. Basically the

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Needless to say, I can barely contain my excitement.Reserve your copy now!

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1: Hiking through Steer Swamp after the rain. 2: The new season of "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack" on the Cartoon Network.3: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. Official Jennsweb Decree: Anyone in political discourse caught longing for/invoking "the good old days" as a call to arms against the new administration shall be locked in a room until they have read the entire book.4: "Victoria

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Stickermule.com I love the way this site is laid out. It's so clean, yet colorful and you can tell in the half-second it takes to read the site title what it's about. Check out their blog too. The flickr badge is "TD4". Just the "visual caffeine" I need for a case of the Mondays.

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2 skeins of medium weight, sort-of-knubly wool or wool/blend, size 8 US needles.Cast on as many stitches as you want to determine the correct width for a 3+ toddlerKnit as many rows as it takes to use up both skeins.For extra credit, sew on some big sequins around the ends (3 YO's suggestion)

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Up until 11 am this morning I did not know a thing about Yayoi Kusama. The BBC's Day In Pictures for Dec. 11, 2009 included an image of her work in an auto showroom and I felt compelled to look her up on Wikipedia. Which is where I found her amazing website. Enjoy!Mainly what I love about this site is the attention to detail. Every feature, the language choice buttons, site navigation and

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Think about it, does your mom's ex-hairdresser's cousin's lifecoach need to know everything about you? Besides, what if you are sitting across from them right now in a job interview? Then read and bookmark this helpful guide from the NYT to sorting out your friends on a need-to-know basis on Facebook.

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My anti-holiday-cheer gift to you, a link to 20 Outrageous Sue Sylvester Quotes as determined by Entertainment Weekly (a publication that seems completely enamored with "Glee" and that's, OK). Each one made me laugh and that's saying a lot considering a) I've never seen the show and b) I think I may have what, in polite conversation is called, a "stomach bug".Enjoy!

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I was doing a search of house painting stock images and came across this.It's a doorway somewhere in Paris. I wonder how they got that by the Historical Commission?

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Dollars5 is always good for a fun tweet and this link to an online display of retro propaganda posters did not disappoint! (thanks Hongkiat.com!)Looking at the amazing array of pro and anti fascism art reminded me of seeing anti-AIDS posters in Vietnam a few years ago. Usually the tableau depicted was a gigantic condom-shaped warrior waving a sword at a cowering Gollum-like creature. Tried

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Any real '80s refugee has a suppressed memory or two involving Spencer's Gifts. My favorite obsession, which continued into early college trips to Boston's Chinatown, was the fiber optic flower lamp which would incandence into a revolving rainbow of hues over and over. These lamps are like the futuristic projections of a bygone era.(plus, how can I resist passing on two of the best urls I've

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Only down to about 12 square feet of boxes and a mysterious amount of space left over which I think is a good sign that we got rid of just the right amount of stuff.

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One of the perks of working on the set de-construction for Zookeeper is you get "behind the scenes" access to the exhibits. It's a little surreal looking up from dismantling a streetlight to realize that you are the main attraction for a herd of kangaroos, but it beats "cubicle world".Went to the Tropical Rainforest exhibit on my coffee break and started talking to one of the gorilla handlers.

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Since quitting my "regular job" about 2 years ago, I hadn't set foot in the Park Plaza Hotel. I actually ended up back there for "Zookeeper" at 5am to set up for a big wedding scene. In the five years I worked there I never had reason to set foot in the Imperial Ballroom and it was pretty amazing to see the place. Kind of felt like the ballroom scene in "The Shining". The photo above is what

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Went to a birthday party and while talking to (commiserating) with another mom over the frequency of Laurie Berkner videos on Noggin, I mentioned my surprise at discovering that the Iowa Rapper Story that's been on CNN.com the past few days is about "Leslie" of "RazzleDazzle" fame on "Yo Gabba Gabba". Turns out that mom's husband is the guy who started sending her videos to all his friends and

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And, while we're on the subject, can we all agree that Tasers are going to be viewed by our great-grandchildren as a completely barbaric tool that "fell out of fashion" sometime in the early 21st century?

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I don't know why this title jumped into my head. I've always associated with some half-remembered/half-imagined photo of Miles Davis. Plus, I found some interesting results when I searched the title one of which you can see here. (bonus points if you can actually navigate this site)Anyway, I've been busy, really busy, but still kind of freaked out when I saw the date of my last post on this

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Big up to Jim Champoux for recommending this island of misfit web sites!

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