steampunk

a new interest - I love gears, hw, etc

• http://steampunkworkshop.com/
• NY Times article
• The Steampunk Home blog
• Voyages Extraordinaires
• Instructables
• Modern Alchemy Home Furnishings

History of History

from Arts & Letters Daily:

History - the rational and methodical study of the human past - was invented by a single man, Herodotus... more

social wallpapering

Dress Up Your Desktop at Social Wallpapering [Wallpaper]

There are a few great desktop wallpaper sites out there, and many crappy ones—but a new one (to us) called Social Wallpapering goes into the good pile. Browse through thousands of eye-catching images for standard monitors, widescreens, and dual monitors. The minimum resolution at SocWall is 1280x960, and all images are categorized and rated by users, so the "Most Popular" list is a good bet. (Get to it under the Browse menu, Everything.) For more desktop eye candy, see our top 10 sources for free wallpaper, fonts and icons.
Social Wallpapering

Idealist.org

Gain valuable experience and learn something -- by volunteering! Idealist, a project of Action without Borders, is a global clearing house of nonprofit and volunteering resources offering a comprehensive directory of volunteer opportunities. It provides information and links to 20,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 140 countries.

Visit the site
http://www.idealist.org

CAREER PRO NEWS Weekly
Connecting career professionals to today's opportunities

July 4, 2008

Career Pro News is published by Bridges Transitions Inc. on the web
every week at: http://careerpronews.bridges.com/

Plan a Room Redesign in 3D with Mydeco

from lifehacker.com, Plan a Room Redesign in 3D with Mydeco:

Feel like giving a room in your house a new and improved look, but find yourself aimlessly wandering the aisles of your home improvement store, hunting for inspiration? The Mydeco website offers a free tool that lets you visualize almost every aspect of a room—either built in Sims-style 3D or recreated from an uploaded photo—from floors to furniture to wallpaper, down to what you'll put on your coffee table. Once your room is set up, you can view it from any angle, check out other users' rooms and (of course) see purchase recommendations. For a free online tool that requires no CAD-like skills, Mydeco is a pretty helpful style solution.

Mydeco [via MakeUseOf.com]

Scan the Day's Headlines with Wordle

from utne.com

Scan the Day's Headlines with Wordle

Visual learners can thank Wordle, a site that creates a word cloud from text or RSS inputs, for making the printed word a little more palatable.

my site looks like this:

Faces in Places

Faces in Places

George Orwell's "1984" forever popularized the phrase, "Big Brother is watching you." This blog believes others are watching you, too, but these commonplace siblings are less judgmental. (At least, we like to think so.) The collaborative collection highlights faces in such unexpected places as a roof, your front door, a hot iron, or even that muffin you had for breakfast. From screaming faces to friendly ones, angry features to those more fowl, visages with crazy eyes or beady peepers, or the vast array of purse faces—there's a mug here for everyone. Still having trouble picking facial features out of the ordinary? A tour through the gallery may illuminate new ways to see food, buildings, transportation, garden tools, everyday gadgets, and familiar things around the house. Even the red jacket zipper fish is much more fun than Big Brother.

Juiciest Religious Factoids

from the Steven Waldman blog:

For someone who is both a religion junkie and a numbers junkie, the fabulous new Pew Religious Landscape survey has left me a bit giddy. Every page tells an amazing story. Eventually, we'll parse this more thematically but for now...[read the rest of the story]

I like Georgia O'Keeffe

I really like Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings, and especially the red canna. I have copied her paintings twice, once in watercolor and once in pastels. This is my copy of her painting in pastels.

TripIt

from Lifehacker.com:

TripIt takes all the work out of storing your travel plans in one place. Instead of making you enter all the details like places and times by hand, just forward reservation confirmation emails to TripIt so it can do all that heavy lifting for you. Register for a free account at TripIt and start forwarding travel plan confirmation email messages from "virtually any" online travel site to plans@tripit.com, and the web service will parse out dates, times and locations and generate your itinerary with lots of additional information, like a calendar, photos, weather, maps, online check-in links and even collaboration with fellow travelers. Check out a sample TripIt itinerary that came together by fwd'ing a few emails from online bookings. Now, this is a travel organizer I might actually use (versus just saving all my trip-related messages in my email software.)

TripIt