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(tags: education learning alternative)

Adventures in Spam: Part I
Interesting discussion of url-less spam. I’ve been wondering what this is about; seeing it on some of my blogs. I *know* it’s spam, but I don’t know why…
(tags: spam web2.0 comments)

Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined
Wow! A new Blade Runner Director’s Cut, to be released in theaters in LA and NY and then DVD this december.
(tags: toread interview scifi movie)

Julie Zickefoose: Advice to Writers, and Myself
(tags: writing values household)

Eating local, organic lunches every day at work — for [...]

Can’t get enough of those chickens. They knock the camera off here because they’re terrified of the lettuce coming in. They’re terrified of pretty much anything, reminding me of Michael Pollan’s description of “free range” chickens too afraid of the outdoors to range into it in The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four [...]

GuideLines – Kayak Camping Tips
Looks like a basic guide, and probably more good stuff on this site.
(tags: toread kayak camping outdoors)

My Life Countdown offers a lot to think about.
I checked my life expectancy via the Death Clock, which in normal mode gives me a death day of Saturday, March 3, 2040…11,849 days (in pessimistic mode, I’ve only got until Thursday, December 29, 2022, a mere 5575 days left…I think I’ll work with “normal” mode. [...]

This looks like another must-see movie:

Marin Canoe Club Home Page
Looks like some info on local paddling.
(tags: kayak local outdoors)

Petaluma_Paddlers : Petaluma Paddlers
(tags: kayak local outdoors)

Here’s a roundup of posts from other bits of my online life this week:
From Citizen Science Projects:
Pastured Egg Testing Project:
I was happy to find a citizen science project that combines these interests: the Mother Earth News pastured egg testing project.
From AuntT.com:
Happy Birthdays!: Dinner to celebrate birthdays with my brother, sis-in-law, niece and nephew…and to meet [...]

I’ll never want to be the kind of person that has a wardrobe of formal wear and goes to high-dollar charity events. But if I were, I would definitely go to the Farallon Islands Blue Ball.
Our friend, Tippi Hedren, will be among the luminaries there.

Lunch With Alice Waters, Food Revolutionary – New York Times
(tags: toread food interviews people)