Tumblr (3.0; @spinnerin)http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/<a href="http://www.horsepigcow.com/2009/11/the-disintermediation-era/">The Disintermediation Era</a>: <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timwilson/141705860/"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/141705860_629063b9fb.jpg" alt="A Quote from Charles"/></a></p> <p>It must suck to be the middle-man today. Everywhere they turn, it’s bad news. Democratization this. Circumventing that. There was a point not that long ago that the middle-man provided great…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/235158780http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/235158780Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:36:49 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wondermark/~3/SOE4bWQtzfQ/">#568; In which Susie does not learn</a>: <p><a href="http://wondermark.com/568/"><img src="http://wondermark.com/c/2009-11-06-568homework.gif" border="0" alt="Will Susie become a ward of the state? OR OF THE PIRANHAMOOSE?" title="Will Susie become a ward of the state? OR OF THE PIRANHAMOOSE?"/></a></p> <div> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?a=SOE4bWQtzfQ:NZOVBA5xKRQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?a=SOE4bWQtzfQ:NZOVBA5xKRQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?i=SOE4bWQtzfQ:NZOVBA5xKRQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?a=SOE4bWQtzfQ:NZOVBA5xKRQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?i=SOE4bWQtzfQ:NZOVBA5xKRQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?a=SOE4bWQtzfQ:NZOVBA5xKRQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?a=SOE4bWQtzfQ:NZOVBA5xKRQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wondermark?i=SOE4bWQtzfQ:NZOVBA5xKRQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/></a> </div> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wondermark/~4/SOE4bWQtzfQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/235103276http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/235103276Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:18:15 -0500<a href="http://shareable.net/blog/galileo%E2%80%99s-dream">Shareable: Galileo’s Dream: A Q&A with Kim Stanley Robinson</a>: <div> <div> <div> <p>Kim Stanley Robinson is one of America’s most important science fiction authors—and an underappreciated utopian visionary.<br/> <br/>He grew up in Southern California ‘s Orange County (a Republican…</p> </div> </div> </div>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/234461242http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/234461242Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:48:29 -0500<a href="http://www.dezeen.com/2009/11/05/bread-shoes-by-re-praspaliauskas/">Dezeen » Blog Archive » Bread Shoes by R&E Praspaliauskas</a>: <div> <p><img src="http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/11/dzn_Bread-Shoes-by-RE-Praspaliauskas-14.jpg" alt="" height="484" width="450"/></p> <p>Twin brothers and designers R&E Praspaliauskas have designed a collection of shoes made of bread.<span></span></p> <p><img src="http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/11/dzn_Bread-Shoes-by-RE-Praspaliauskas-09.jpg" alt="" height="484" width="450"/></p> <p>Called Bread Shoes (of course), the products come in a variety of designs and dough…</p> </div>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/234285516http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/234285516Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:25:44 -0500<a href="http://io9.com/5397263/biotech-company-sued-for-accidentally-growing-extra-bones-in-peoples-bodies">Biotech Company Sued for Accidentally Growing Extra Bones In People's Bodies [Mad Medicine]</a>: <p><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/11/trauma_chronOSimage.jpg" width="340"/> A company called Stryker Biotech was in court last week defending a bone-growth product it sold for years, despite reports that it would “drift” in the body, causing bones to grow in random…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/233296476http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/233296476Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:26:13 -0500<a href="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/er/2009/11/gekiga-jaws-herald-comic-1975-part-one.html">Gekiga JAWS (Herald Comic, 1975) PART ONE</a>: <p><div> <a style="display:inline" href="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8f01d970c-pi"><img alt="Jawscover" title="Jawscover" src="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8f01d970c-800wi" border="0"/></a> <br/><a style="display:inline" href="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8d22f970c-pi"><img alt="Jaws3" title="Jaws3" src="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8d22f970c-800wi" border="0"/></a> <br/><a style="display:inline" href="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6536524970b-pi"><img alt="Jawsbeach" title="Jawsbeach" src="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6536524970b-800wi" border="0"/></a> <br/><a style="display:inline" href="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8f2ad970c-pi"><img alt="Jawskid2" title="Jawskid2" src="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8f2ad970c-800wi" border="0"/></a> <br/><a style="display:inline" href="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8d52d970c-pi"><img alt="Jaws4.1" title="Jaws4.1" src="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8d52d970c-800wi" border="0"/></a> <br/><a style="display:inline" href="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8ea0e970c-pi"><img alt="Jawsboat" title="Jawsboat" src="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6a8ea0e970c-800wi" border="0"/></a> <br/><a style="display:inline" href="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6538281970b-pi"><img alt="Jaws5" title="Jaws5" src="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6538281970b-800wi" border="0"/></a> <br/><a style="display:inline" href="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6536f54970b-pi"><img alt="Jawsshirt" title="Jawsshirt" src="http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a6536f54970b-800wi" border="0"/></a> <br/><strong>To Be Concluded!</strong> </div></p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/233229831http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/233229831Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:04:39 -0500<a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702526.html">Doctorow's Project: With a Little Help - 10/19/2009 - Publishers Weekly</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Audrey <br/> Interesting publishing experiment. It’ll be useful to see how this works out.</blockquote> Here’s the pitch: it’s a short story collection, and like my last two collections, it’s a book of…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/233107947http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/233107947Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:21:34 -0500<a href="http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2009/11/the-stuff-of-life-on-the-stree.html">The Stuff of Life, on the Streets, for Free</a>: <p><span style="display:inline"><a href="http://www.janchipchase.com/assets_c/2009/11/20091022-Kabul-0171-1163.html"><img src="http://www.janchipchase.com/assets_c/2009/11/20091022-Kabul-0171-thumb-468x310-1163.jpg" width="468" height="310" alt="20091022-Kabul-0171.jpg" style="float:left;margin:0 20px 20px 0"/></a></span></p> <p>Four heaters serving up boiling water to the traders around Kabul’s Pul-e Khishti Mosque, with a box of tea-pots, fresh tea leaves, and a container for tea dregs. It sits as a stark…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/233048995http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/233048995Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:56:44 -0500<a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/zero-tolerance.html">Zero-Tolerance Policies</a>: <p>Recent stories have documented the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/education/12discipline.html">ridiculous effects of zero-tolerance weapons policies</a> in a Delaware school district: a first-grader expelled for taking a camping utensil to school, a…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/232415768http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/232415768Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:08:03 -0500<a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/eavesdropping_on_the_moon_circa_196.html">Eavesdropping on the moon, circa 1969</a>: <div><img src="http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2009/11/eavesdropping_on_the_moon_circa_196/lunarListener1b.jpg" width="600" height="972" alt="lunarListener1b.jpg"/></div> <div><img src="http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2009/11/eavesdropping_on_the_moon_circa_196/lunarListener4.jpg" width="600" height="376" alt="lunarListener4.jpg"/></div> <div><img src="http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2009/11/eavesdropping_on_the_moon_circa_196/lunarListener2.jpg" width="600" height="316" alt="lunarListener2.jpg"/></div> <p><br/> In July, 1969, a ham radio operator named Larry Baysinger, from Louisville, KY, used a 20-year old radio from an army tank and a homemade folded dipole antenna array to listen…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/232331176http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/232331176Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:35:05 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/disambiguity/~3/9kNSFvtRISQ/">Make it measurable: set clear goals & success criteria for your projects</a>: <p>Over the past few weeks I’ve been wrapping up and kicking off a bunch of projects. It is during both of these phases that I am reminded how incredibly valuable it is for me, as a UX practitioner, to…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/232111570http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/232111570Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:02:06 -0500<a href="http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2009/11/wearables.html">Wearables</a>: <p><span style="display:inline"><a href="http://www.janchipchase.com/assets_c/2009/11/20091022-Kabul-0218-1157.html"><img src="http://www.janchipchase.com/assets_c/2009/11/20091022-Kabul-0218-thumb-468x310-1157.jpg" width="468" height="310" alt="20091022-Kabul-0218.jpg" style="float:left;margin:0 20px 20px 0"/></a></span></p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/232047839http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/232047839Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:30:52 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/43Folders/~3/-S2k26wyzc0/nanowrimo-advice">NaNoWriMo: A Pep Talk and a Warning</a>: <p><a href="http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/5366461636"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091102-8cgq6h29sp3iybcx4g4gg51dgw.png" alt=""/></a></p> <p>I honor any project to write something — especially to write a <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">long piece of fiction</a>. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do but, like most people, I have always been too scared to…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231441444http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231441444Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:33:12 -0500<a href="http://www.43folders.com/2009/11/02/nanowrimo-advice">NaNoWriMo: A Pep Talk and a Warning</a>: <p><a href="http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/5366461636"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091102-8cgq6h29sp3iybcx4g4gg51dgw.png" alt=""/></a></p> <p>I honor any project to write something — especially to write a <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">long piece of fiction</a>. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do but, like most people, I have always been too scared to…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231361338http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231361338Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:10:01 -0500<a href="http://www.biorequiem.com/?p=1400">Style Dispatch 005 – Halloween Edition</a>: <p><img src="http://www.biorequiem.com/wp-content/titles/styledispatch.jpg" alt="Style Dispatch"/></p> <p><img title="KusanagHalloween6" src="http://www.biorequiem.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/KusanagHalloween6.jpg" alt="KusanagHalloween6" width="520" height="459"/></p> <p>As mentioned a while back, I decided to finally dress as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoko_Kusanagi">Major Kusanagi</a> from <em>Ghost in the Shell</em> for Halloween. Last year I boycotted the holiday altogether so it was definitely time…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231071796http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231071796Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:38:03 -0500<a href="http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/08/25/quantum-cello/">WNYC - Radiolab » Quantum Cello</a>: <p>Zoe Keating is the cellist from our live show, <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/03/07">War of the Worlds</a>. She used to play with the band Rasputina and now solos and records music for films, such as horror flick, “The Devil’s Chair”…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231071801http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231071801Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:38:03 -0500<a href="http://anti-mega.com/antimega/2009/11/02/dressing-for-gentlemen">Dressing for Gentlemen</a>: <p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=KQECAAAAYAAJ&dq=london%20of%20to-day&as_brr=1&client=safari&pg=PA379#v=onepage&q=dressing&f=false">London of To-day</a>, 1890:</p> <p><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091102-njp979jkmdiqtgut1gcg7r8nye.jpg" alt="gentlemendressing"/></p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231071799http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231071799Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:38:03 -0500<a href="http://www.cafemama.com/2009/oct/15_unpacking_words.html">unpacking words, slowly . october 15 . cafe mama</a>: <p>And then she laughs, and says she knows how to <i>truly</i> tell who is a writer and who is not. “Do you feel bad about not writing? Then you’re a writer!” Her head is thrown back, and we are all laughing,…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231012734http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/231012734Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:16:18 -0500<a href="http://xkcd.com/657/">Movie Narrative Charts</a>: <p><img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/movie_narrative_charts.png" title="In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively." alt="In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively."/></p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/230904342http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/230904342Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:35:16 -0500<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/sasha_obama_orders_secret?utm_source=onion_rss_daily">Sasha Obama Orders Secret Service Agent To Stop Squirming During Makeover</a>: <p>WASHINGTON—According to White House sources, first daughter Sasha Obama, 8, issued a direct order to Special Agent James Warren of the…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/228412838http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/228412838Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:01:28 -0400