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More Fun with Generators

Endless enjoyment with these useful web tools to create otherwise useless made-up-ness: inspired in part by Bong’s Lounge in Portland as photo’ged by Cosmo yup, i like piglets reminds me of Olympia’s...

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Bread the Producer’s video of The Police May 28, 2007 Vancouver

<iframe width=”640″ height=”480″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/lsy_gL3rhbs” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> Bread the Producer edited up this montage beauty of The Police’s...

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US/CAN border line-ups – BC to Washington cameras

Borders are a drag and I often travel o’er the USA/Canada territorial line in the sand via Peace Arch, Pacific (aka Truck) or Lynden cause sitting in a long border line is an exercise in boredom and...

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How to Smoke Cannabis while Avoiding Jail – an illustrated guide by Seattle...

{Update – thanks Dominic!) This user-friendly guide was Illustrated and created by *awesome* graphic artist Ellen Forney (ellen’s blog) based on an interview with Seattle lawyer Jeffery Steinborn whose...

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Fact Checking Dossier for Political Animals

This list is borrowed from Democrats Abroad newsletter and was compiled by Beverly Bandler of DA-Mexico for easily fact-check and de-bunk rumours and innuendo which spread during this time of political...

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My pal Uji’s pre-Japan-trip annotations…

Ramen — a Japanese food that all Japanese people eat every day http://img.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/f3/57/kappa_room/folder/1502492/img_1502492_56879336_0?1222775449 Natto gohan — a Japanese food that...

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Transom Tool: Recording Phone Calls

Transom Tool: Recording Phone Calls Consider Perusing: Victoria cop calls to legalize drugs | Straight.com Audrey Foo and Dave Olson on Open Moko – 1st open mobile phone – Roland’s Rabble | Dogma Radio...

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Middle Class Relaxing With Marijuana – Science Daily article reports

Middle Class Relaxing With Marijuana Adapted from materials provided by University of Alberta, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS. Reposted here for education use ScienceDaily (May 15, 2008) — A...

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You Have the Right to Stay Out of Jail

You Have the Right to Stay Out of Jail Consider Perusing: The Tyee Winter Olympics: Stay or Go? OpEdNews » Washington’s Marijuana Decrim Bill: Why It’s Good, What’s The Hold-Up, And What To Do Bill...

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Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn’t Suck

Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn’t Suck But you must have had a good time writing it.We’d been practicing for about three months. We were waiting to sign to DGC, and Dave [Grohl]...

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Exceptionally Useful Free Handwritten Fonts | tripwire magazine

Exceptionally Useful Free Handwritten Fonts | tripwire magazine Should Handwritten Fonts be used in web design? For quite some time companies and governments have been working hard to make daily life...

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Automatic captions in YouTube | Official Google Blog

Automatic captions in YouTube | Official Google Blog Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we’ve introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even...

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The Oxford Comma, A Confounding Bit of Punctuation

The Oxford Comma, A Confounding Bit of Punctuation This final comma at the end of a list placed directly before the main conjunction such as “and”, “or” or “nor” is called the serial comma or Oxford...

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WhatTheFont! « MyFonts

WhatTheFont! « MyFonts Seen a font in use and want to know what it is? Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in our database. Or, let cloak-draped font enthusiasts lend a hand in...

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Online Etymology Dictionary

Online Etymology Dictionary This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago....

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Butterick’s Practical Typography

Butterick’s Practical Typography why typography matters what is typography? who is typography for? why does typography matter? what is good typography? where do the rules come from? Consider Perusing:...

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stripcreator : make your own comic strips

stripcreator : make your own comic strips Consider Perusing: F**K Stats, Make Art on Flickr F@ck Stats, Make Art – for SXSW F*** Stats, Make Art | Northern Voice 2008 SXSWi Notes: F*ck Stats, Make Art...

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Color wheel | Color schemes (Adobe)

Color wheel | Color schemes – Adobe Kuler Consider Perusing: “Bay of Flashing Darters” in bentlily | One poem a day Meet our Board of Advisors for 2012-2013! via VIAwesome Happy birthday Dave O...

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Word Frequency Counter

Word Frequency Counter Our word frequency counter allows you to count the frequency usage of each word in your text. Paste or type in your text below, and click submit. Consider Perusing:...

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The Rasterbator

The Rasterbator Wall art from any image – The Rasterbator enlarges images to multiple pages. Print and combine them into huge posters. Consider Perusing: Screening Posters: HempenRoad “Don’t Judge an...

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Browse fonts | Typekit

Browse Adobe fonts | Typekit Consider Perusing: Hemp Activism on the Internet – #4 74th Birthday Letter to Mom Heart Still Glowing? Support Olympic Documentary Film with a Two-nie The HempenRoad (1997)...

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Resource: Coded Communications, Phonetic Alphabets, etc. / clearinghouse

No doubt in some program or another you’ve heard military personnel/ spies/ special operations operatives communicate using “phonetic alphabets” meaning saying a word beginning with the intended letter...

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