Out of the Frying Pan

Six ways to hand-hold your camera

Good, practical article.

Best of the 2009 Lake Oswego police blotter

Where, among other things, it is revealed that A possibly inoperable white van was parked in a yard on Parrish Street where it appeared to be growing a slimy, green skin. HT, Jessica

Reviewing books on personal finance

Every Friday the blogger over at Simple Dollar reviews a finance book. He takes a meticulous, chapter by chapter approach. This week: Debt Is Slavery. Read the review.

What do you think?

It's an article on "settling" called Marry Him!.

Useful

Thirteen tips for dealing with a really lousy day and its affiliated post about what to do in just the next hour to improve the outlook.

Chronic disorganization

There's a national study group on the topic.

About Kindle

A rather nasty, but quite funny, critique - rated "Mildly to quite offensive" for language, but still pretty funny

Okay, I said I was done, but...

...this is a really fun site on gift wrap made only from bits and pieces you're almost sure to have around the house: Wrap Art. Off to elevate the cast, which is complaining about the script and, erm, supporting actors.

Project Wombat

"Project Wombat is an e-mail discussion list for difficult reference questions."

Free education from Berkeley

177 free courses on video: computer science, languages, health, ear training, more kinds of courses AND a bunch of links to free courses other places like Johns Hopkins, MIT, Carnegie Mellon. This is so majorly cool that I can hardly see straight.

Thinking ahead

Who Gets Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate was developed by the University of Minnesota Extension Service to help people plan the transfer of non-titled property (all property that does not have a deed or title -- IOW, most everything you own) from one generation to the next. For example, "who gets Grandma's...?" We didn't do well at this for several generations. This might have helped, but then again, maybe not.

Hopping on one foot

because finding something like Women Artists of the American West is so exciting to me.

It has been on the Internet a long time, judging from the design (those of us with fully deprecated pages still floating around out there can tell these kinds of things), and I hope Purdue will leave it up. What a great resource.

Props to Gale from my photography class; something she mentioned sent me scuttling rat-like around the wikis and google.

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