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Just a quick note that the MDN Show podcast episode 14 is now available, including my eleventh World According To Gemmell segment. In this episode, I talk about getting started: planning your development process so you can stay motivated and make some progress on your app, even if you can only find short periods of time to work on it.
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Chocolate mint macarons. Photo: Dessert First, Flickr.
How darling are these chocolate-mint macarons? The dainty, French classic gets enlivened by a chocolate-mint flavoring by blogger Dessert First. Although the imperfections of home-baked goods can be endearing, these perfect little bites are worth marveling over for their smooth peppermint ganache sandwiched between two cookies.
Forget wrapping up store-bought gifts for friends and family. Instead, make your loved ones desserts from scratch this season -- they'll love the personal touch.
Are you planning to cook any holiday presents? Divulge your edible gift ideas in the comments!
Become a member of the Slashfood Flickr pool to get a shot at having your photos featured in Feast Your Eyes.
Forget wrapping up store-bought gifts for friends and family. Instead, make your loved ones desserts from scratch this season -- they'll love the personal touch.
Are you planning to cook any holiday presents? Divulge your edible gift ideas in the comments!
Become a member of the Slashfood Flickr pool to get a shot at having your photos featured in Feast Your Eyes.
Hey everyone~!
My name is Maddi and I'm the director of The Denton Dropouts, a brand new Rocky Horror shadow cast located in West Palm Beach, Florida. We're currently looking for dedicated, thrill-seeking Rocky Horror fans to join our cast, whether full time or part time, so if you're in the general area and want to join in on the fun, be sure to check us out on Facebook and Myspace for more information!
Thanks!
- M.
Hey everyone~!
My name is Maddi and I'm the director of The Denton Dropouts, a brand new Rocky Horror shadow cast located in West Palm Beach, Florida. We're currently looking for dedicated, thrill-seeking Rocky Horror fans to join our cast, whether full time or part time, so if you're in the general area and want to join in on the fun, be sure to check us out on Facebook and Myspace for more information!
What if you could decide where to shop, eat or hang out, with a little help from local Google users?
It might take you a while to ask them all, so to make it easier we've launched a new effort to send window decals to over 100,000 local businesses in the U.S. that have been the most sought out and researched on Google.com and Google Maps. We're calling these businesses the "Favorite Places on Google" and you'll now start to find them in over 9,000 towns and cities, in all 50 states. You can also explore a sample of the Favorite Places in 20 of the largest U.S. cities at google.com/favoriteplaces. Each window decal has a unique bar code, known as a QR code that you can scan with any of hundreds of mobile devices — including iPhone, Android-powered phones, BlackBerry and more — to take you directly to that business's Place Page on your mobile phone. With your mobile phone and these new decals, you can easily go up to a storefront and immediately find reviews, get a coupon if the business is offering one or star a business as a place you want to remember for the future. Soon, you'll be able to leave a review on the mobile page as well, just like on your desktop.
To scan the codes, you'll need a phone with a camera and an app that can read QR codes. For Android-powered devices, including the Droid by Motorola, we recommend using the free Barcode Scanner app. For iPhone, we have found the $1.99 QuickMark app to work best, and starting today, we're partnering with QuickMark to offer the app for free for the first 40,000 downloads. For other devices, we recommend searching for "QR reader" in your app marketplace, if it has one, or searching for the model of your phone and [qr reader] on Google. BeeTagg and NeoReader are two other apps that we've found to work well with the decals.
Here's a video that shows you how this all works:
This launch is part of our overall effort — online and offline — to provide you with the best local business results whenever you're trying to figure out where to go, whether it's a trendy Cuban restaurant in Philly, a comics shop in L.A., a hip hotel in NYC or a little bit of photographic history in Rochester, N.Y.
We plan to periodically send out new waves of window decals to qualifying businesses. If you own or manage a business and were selected as a Favorite Place, you may have already received your decal or, for most of you, it will arrive by mail in the next one to two weeks. If you weren't selected in this round, your first step is to claim your listing with Google's Local Business Center for free. That will help us determine that your business information is correct. Then, you can enhance your local business listing by adding enhanced content like photos and videos.
To explore a gallery of several hundred Favorite Places in 20 U.S. cities, to learn more about how to use the QR codes and to find out how your business can get involved, check out google.com/favoriteplaces.
It might take you a while to ask them all, so to make it easier we've launched a new effort to send window decals to over 100,000 local businesses in the U.S. that have been the most sought out and researched on Google.com and Google Maps. We're calling these businesses the "Favorite Places on Google" and you'll now start to find them in over 9,000 towns and cities, in all 50 states. You can also explore a sample of the Favorite Places in 20 of the largest U.S. cities at google.com/favoriteplaces. Each window decal has a unique bar code, known as a QR code that you can scan with any of hundreds of mobile devices — including iPhone, Android-powered phones, BlackBerry and more — to take you directly to that business's Place Page on your mobile phone. With your mobile phone and these new decals, you can easily go up to a storefront and immediately find reviews, get a coupon if the business is offering one or star a business as a place you want to remember for the future. Soon, you'll be able to leave a review on the mobile page as well, just like on your desktop.
To scan the codes, you'll need a phone with a camera and an app that can read QR codes. For Android-powered devices, including the Droid by Motorola, we recommend using the free Barcode Scanner app. For iPhone, we have found the $1.99 QuickMark app to work best, and starting today, we're partnering with QuickMark to offer the app for free for the first 40,000 downloads. For other devices, we recommend searching for "QR reader" in your app marketplace, if it has one, or searching for the model of your phone and [qr reader] on Google. BeeTagg and NeoReader are two other apps that we've found to work well with the decals.
Here's a video that shows you how this all works:
This launch is part of our overall effort — online and offline — to provide you with the best local business results whenever you're trying to figure out where to go, whether it's a trendy Cuban restaurant in Philly, a comics shop in L.A., a hip hotel in NYC or a little bit of photographic history in Rochester, N.Y.
We plan to periodically send out new waves of window decals to qualifying businesses. If you own or manage a business and were selected as a Favorite Place, you may have already received your decal or, for most of you, it will arrive by mail in the next one to two weeks. If you weren't selected in this round, your first step is to claim your listing with Google's Local Business Center for free. That will help us determine that your business information is correct. Then, you can enhance your local business listing by adding enhanced content like photos and videos.
To explore a gallery of several hundred Favorite Places in 20 U.S. cities, to learn more about how to use the QR codes and to find out how your business can get involved, check out google.com/favoriteplaces.
MINNEAPOLIS—A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures.
I understand you don't like the kittens but why do you just growl whenever Rascal grooms you. At the very least get up and walk away if you don't like it. Don't sit there whining like a baby.
Much love,
your scratching post
Much love,
your scratching post
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In an AP story on increased security at major football (the American variety) events, this sentence struck me:
"High-profile events are something that terrorist groups would love to interrupt somehow," said Anthony Mangione, chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Miami office.
This is certainly the conventional wisdom, but is there any actual evidence that it's true? The 9/11 terrorists could have easily chosen a different date and a major event -- sporting or other -- to target, but they didn't. The London and Madrid train bombers could have just as easily chosen more high-profile events to bomb, but they didn't. The Mumbai terrorists chose an ordinary day and ordinary targets. Aum Shinrikyo chose an ordinary day and ordinary train lines. Timothy McVeigh chose the ordinary Oklahoma City Federal Building. Irish terrorists chose, and Palestinian terrorists continue to choose, ordinary targets. Some of this can be attributed to the fact that ordinary targets are easier targets, but not a lot of it.
The only examples that come to mind of terrorists choosing high-profile events or targets are the idiot wannabe terrorists who would have been incapable of doing anything unless egged on by a government informant. Hardly convincing evidence.
Yes, I've seen the movie Black Sunday. But is there any reason to believe that terrorists want to target these sorts of events other than us projecting our own fears and prejudices onto the terrorists' motives?
I wrote about protecting the World Series some years ago.
My husband had a music geek moment with my daughter last night. She's 2.5 months and going through a crazy growth spurt, eating and crying in a neverending 24 hour cycle. He got home from work yesterday and gave me some reprieve from the wailing so I could take a shower. I walked out of the bathroom and he was swaying gently with her to Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry". And she was quiet for the longest stretch of the day, listening to that song on repeat. We tried "Buffalo Soldier" and "Jammin" too, but she cried until we put "No Woman, No Cry" back on. I'm so glad she has good taste in music :-)
Representatives from around the world arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark today to negotiate a successor treaty for the Kyoto Protocol. This 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) has been called the most important conference in a decade.
In fact, in an unprecedented initiative, 56 major newspapers in 45 countries published a shared editorial calling on politicians and negotiators gathering in Copenhagen to strike an ambitious deal on combating climate change. The editorial appeared in 20 languages including Chinese, Russian and Arabic. It asserts that the Copenhagen summit has the power "to shape history’s judgment on this generation: one that saw a challenge and rose to it, or one so stupid that we saw calamity coming but did nothing to avert it."
So in honor of this important event, we've built a number of new tools to give delegates — and you at home — easy access to useful information to help visualize and explore data and issues relating to climate change.
In September we launched a series of new Google Earth climate change layers and tours in collaboration with the Danish government. Check out these tours to explore the effects of climate change and get a better understanding of the scenarios that could unfold if we don't stop this environmental threat. The tours were developed together with leading environmental organizations and individuals including The World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace as well as Al Gore, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and others.
Over the past weeks, many of you have already uploaded personal statements of your hopes (and fears) for our planet through YouTube and the Raise Your Voice campaign. Now the search is on for the best video and text questions to be delivered to global leaders and climate activists who will come together in Copenhagen to answer the top-ranked questions from the YouTube channel in a townhall produced by CNN International. Voting with Google Moderator will continue until December 14th.
An Australia-based Googler also recently launched a tool called Show your Vote which puts the supporting voices for a global deal right on a Google Map. This tool can be integrated into any website to help drive the outreach and collect votes, and can already be found on UNFCCC, COP15.dk and WWF Earth Hour.
And if you're in Denmark with us, check out two unique installations powered by Google and YouTube. The first, a giant CO2 CUBE, is an art installation that visualizes one metric ton of carbon dioxide and has YouTube videos streaming on its walls. The second is an interactive Google Earth simulator made up of flat-screen panels and controlled with a free roam Space Navigator 6-axis joystick. (It's cool, trust us.) Welcome to Copenhagen!
In fact, in an unprecedented initiative, 56 major newspapers in 45 countries published a shared editorial calling on politicians and negotiators gathering in Copenhagen to strike an ambitious deal on combating climate change. The editorial appeared in 20 languages including Chinese, Russian and Arabic. It asserts that the Copenhagen summit has the power "to shape history’s judgment on this generation: one that saw a challenge and rose to it, or one so stupid that we saw calamity coming but did nothing to avert it."
So in honor of this important event, we've built a number of new tools to give delegates — and you at home — easy access to useful information to help visualize and explore data and issues relating to climate change.
In September we launched a series of new Google Earth climate change layers and tours in collaboration with the Danish government. Check out these tours to explore the effects of climate change and get a better understanding of the scenarios that could unfold if we don't stop this environmental threat. The tours were developed together with leading environmental organizations and individuals including The World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace as well as Al Gore, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and others.
Over the past weeks, many of you have already uploaded personal statements of your hopes (and fears) for our planet through YouTube and the Raise Your Voice campaign. Now the search is on for the best video and text questions to be delivered to global leaders and climate activists who will come together in Copenhagen to answer the top-ranked questions from the YouTube channel in a townhall produced by CNN International. Voting with Google Moderator will continue until December 14th.
An Australia-based Googler also recently launched a tool called Show your Vote which puts the supporting voices for a global deal right on a Google Map. This tool can be integrated into any website to help drive the outreach and collect votes, and can already be found on UNFCCC, COP15.dk and WWF Earth Hour.
And if you're in Denmark with us, check out two unique installations powered by Google and YouTube. The first, a giant CO2 CUBE, is an art installation that visualizes one metric ton of carbon dioxide and has YouTube videos streaming on its walls. The second is an interactive Google Earth simulator made up of flat-screen panels and controlled with a free roam Space Navigator 6-axis joystick. (It's cool, trust us.) Welcome to Copenhagen!
Thanks to everyone who posted with kind words last night.
Giles is away for a few days, I'm here alone and sometimes being alone with your thoughts isn't the best thing. Usually I make a point that if I'm feeling down I stay the hell offline just so as to avoid such things. Slipped a bit last night, and I'm sorry for bothering people with it. I can reassure you that it's not some new situation that's arisen to upset me, and it's certainly not any kind of personal problem, it's just a long, ongoing pain in the arse of a situation related to something that I really don't give two shits about but which just keeps blighting my life and will not go the fuck away, and after years and years of it sometimes I crack a little.
Anyway. I will STFU about it and endeavour to keep it that way }:-).
Now I must get on, code won't write itself }:-).
Giles is away for a few days, I'm here alone and sometimes being alone with your thoughts isn't the best thing. Usually I make a point that if I'm feeling down I stay the hell offline just so as to avoid such things. Slipped a bit last night, and I'm sorry for bothering people with it. I can reassure you that it's not some new situation that's arisen to upset me, and it's certainly not any kind of personal problem, it's just a long, ongoing pain in the arse of a situation related to something that I really don't give two shits about but which just keeps blighting my life and will not go the fuck away, and after years and years of it sometimes I crack a little.
Anyway. I will STFU about it and endeavour to keep it that way }:-).
Now I must get on, code won't write itself }:-).
Dearest Londo...
I don't know HOW you do it.
It's winter outside, the ground is frozen... and yet somehow you manage to find a NEWT and bring it into the house?!
When I saw you playing with the wriggling thing that was it's tail, I thought it was a worm. Until I saw it...
~Shudders~
In my SHOE!
I mean, really.
Big mean hunter? I can deal with all the mice you bring in in Summer (JUST!), but newts, newt tails and frogs are right out.
( Image Below cut )
I don't know HOW you do it.
It's winter outside, the ground is frozen... and yet somehow you manage to find a NEWT and bring it into the house?!
When I saw you playing with the wriggling thing that was it's tail, I thought it was a worm. Until I saw it...
~Shudders~
In my SHOE!
I mean, really.
Big mean hunter? I can deal with all the mice you bring in in Summer (JUST!), but newts, newt tails and frogs are right out.
( Image Below cut )
Totally wiped out trying to cross the useless fucking train tracks on Townsend. First time I've done that in nine years. Fuck this weather.
I'm kinda confused about how I landed flat on my back but ended up with road rash on my palms...
Persistent rumor has it that the only reason that the useless menace of those tracks on Townsend (that run less than a block, and terminate right in front of the Adobe building) still exist is that Caltrain's contract specifies that if they don't make use of those tracks, ownership of that right-of-way reverts to the City. So once a month, they very methodically roll a train down the street... then roll it back. "See? We're 'using' it", they say, and no Caltrain bureaucrat gets a black mark on their record for having accidentally reduced the amount of real estate under their control. [citation needed]
- Music:The Dollyrots -- Brand New Key
Dearest Weirdo,
Why on earth would you climb the trellis when you can't get down? I'm sure J did not appreciate having to go out and help you out.
Dear Spot,
Don't mock your mother, you know she can be a bad tempered little cuss, and as you demonstrated when you tried to pounce her later, she gave you a look and you rolled over like a big baby, you are a great big kitteh softy.
These two events may be releted.
lots of love
The girl who puts milk on the table to photograph you but can't because you insist on waiting to eat until after dark when the blinds are down...
Why on earth would you climb the trellis when you can't get down? I'm sure J did not appreciate having to go out and help you out.
Dear Spot,
Don't mock your mother, you know she can be a bad tempered little cuss, and as you demonstrated when you tried to pounce her later, she gave you a look and you rolled over like a big baby, you are a great big kitteh softy.
These two events may be releted.
lots of love
The girl who puts milk on the table to photograph you but can't because you insist on waiting to eat until after dark when the blinds are down...
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