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"Start expressing fuel efficiency as gallons per mile (gpm) for some standard (meaningful) distance. We prefer gallons per 10,000 miles because it makes clear that seemingly small mpg improvements are valuable."
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A collection of tips for preserving your digital materials by The Library of Congress. [via Long Views]
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"[McCain] is not only 'breaking his word' he's breaking the law."
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"The campaign...includes television and online ads and 'phone and in-person conversations with influential mommy bloggers.'" Beware mommy bloggers praising corn syrup.
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The mullet strategy for naming a startup: one part business, one part party. [via magnetbox]
Alsea Falls Sounds
Alsea Falls is a small waterfall about 30 miles southwest of Corvallis. Today we took some back roads we hadn't been on before to get there, and then we took a nice walk around the falls. Here's what the falls sounded like:
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Firefox 3 has built-in color profile support, but it's not enabled by default. [via nelson]
Famers' Market Sounds
Corvallis has a great Farmers' Market and we try to go every Saturday. They block off 1st street by the river (view from above) and a few city blocks are filled with local vendors selling food.
Here's what walking through the farmer's market sounded like yesterday:
If you listen you can hear a guy playing a didgeridoo, kids screaming as they run through a fountain, a few guys playing jazz, dogs panting, and lots of snippets of conversations. The best reason to go to the Farmers' Market right now? Oregon Hood strawberries are in season. We made this fantastic strawberry shortcake with Hood berries from the market:
Best. Strawberries. Ever.
Here's what walking through the farmer's market sounded like yesterday:
If you listen you can hear a guy playing a didgeridoo, kids screaming as they run through a fountain, a few guys playing jazz, dogs panting, and lots of snippets of conversations. The best reason to go to the Farmers' Market right now? Oregon Hood strawberries are in season. We made this fantastic strawberry shortcake with Hood berries from the market:
Best. Strawberries. Ever.
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I want one of these orchard ladders for cherry-picking in a couple weeks.
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Looks like a good place to find information and ask questions about fruit trees.
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from wikipedia
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Andy Baio interviews Alan Taylor about his amazing new blog The Big Picture. I'm surprised there wasn't more resistance at The Globe.
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This Yahoo! Stencil Kit looks like a good way to mock up iPhone apps in Illustrator. [via CreativeTechs Tips]
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"Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun if you lay out your ideas ahead of time." Looks like nifty web app.
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tl;dr
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A web comic about branding. [via Brand New]
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The Web's favorite tinsmith resigns his post with the Yahoo Web Trust for a more pastoral way. [via waxy]
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Some clever CSS/JavaScript hacking that determines which sites on a list someone has visited. Used for questionable good here, but could be a privacy nightmare. [via hackszine]
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"...good practices of pagination design as well as some examples of when and how the pagination is usually implemented." [via swissmiss]
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Good thoughts for feed reader designers.
Chip Ross Sounds
You're probably wondering what Chip Ross Park (view from above) sounds like in the afternoon. I can finally answer that for you.
Backyard Sounds
Speaking of sounds, here's what my backyard sounds like around 5am.
Now that spring is here and I'm sleeping with the windows open I often wake up to this around 5. There's even one bird I call the alarm clock bird that I'd like to catch on tape sometime.
Now that spring is here and I'm sleeping with the windows open I often wake up to this around 5. There's even one bird I call the alarm clock bird that I'd like to catch on tape sometime.