Links from last week: Links from the recent past version

Oh, yeah, links!

• Photojojo shares some tips on photographing kids
• Can you believe that this is made of sprinkles?!
• Gretchen at The Happiness Project (LOVE!) shares how to not overeat during the holidays.
• Aren't these cookies adorable?!
• Some songs are banned for really silly reasons.
• I think I'll finish it off with a what? wow.

In other news, has anyone else noticed that Martha Stewart Living writers seem to be getting a lot of their ideas from Pinterest lately?

Links from last week: Thanksgiving edition

I haven't done as much web surfing this week but I still came up with what I think is a pretty good list of links for you to read. These pages are mostly Thanksgiving themed, with a little Christmas in there.

• I bookmarked this Babble post on DIY Christmas tree skirts for myself. I don't have a skirt for my tree, poor girl went bottomless last year, it was cold too. I just couldn't find one I really liked. This year I did find one at Hobby Lobby but it was a little pricey, maybe with 21 to choose from here, and my new sewing machine, I can make one?
• Inflation jokes aside, here's a good read on how balloons get chosen for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I'll give you a hint: money.
• Here's another Thanksgiving Parade related post from Mental_Floss. Did you know there used to be an agreement that stores wouldn't put out there Christmas fare until Santa arrived (at the end of the parade, that is)?
• Before you stomp down some 80 year old woman to get the last dancing Elmo, you may want to read this return policy guide. Useful stuff there folks.
• This one's not holiday related, but I think it's especially useful this time of year when you may be more likely to have family and friends over to your house and need to tidy up a bit. Or maybe you need to find a place in your home for new items you get for Christmas.
• And then there's this. Don't do this people, just don't.

I hope you enjoy these links and have a great Thanksgiving. Will you be watching the parade tomorrow? Or stocking up on sleep to hit those black Friday sales?

An Asthmatic Christmas

Check out Asthmatic Kitty's Christmas page.



It has Christmas goodies from Sufjan and others including an e-card, games, ornaments to color, videos, and 8-bit (Nintendoesque) Sufjan Christmas ring tones.

Today is the Day

Today is the day to download firefox 3 and help set a world record.

On checking the stats for my website, I noticed that IE is the top browser used by you guys, shame, shame, shame. This is actually the first month that has happened, it had been firefox since January. Don't be afraid to give firefox 3 a spin, you'll still have IE there in case you want to go back to it (would you really want to?), it won't take it away.
(Note: Spreadfirefox.com is not loading for me right now and you may have to try mozilla.com a few times before you get it to load, but it will load and the download didn't take any longer for me than it normally would.)

Spread Firefox

I've been using Firefox 3 beta as my only browser for around a week now. I wanted to try it out before then, but my one must-have add-on, Foxmarks was not ready for it yet, so I had only tried it briefly using a portable version on my usb drive . Then, when I found out Foxmarks was ready, I went all-in. I am now using Firefox on both my desktop and laptop, and it's great.

It has crashed once, but that's nothing compared to the crashing problems I had with Firefox 2. The only other problem I've had is a very small one, and that is that sometimes when I have my bookmarks open in the sidebar it won't close by clicking the x, instead I have to hit ctrl+b, not a big deal. Plus, this is the point of beta testing, so they can be notified of these problems and get them worked out before the official release.

Anyway, the point of this post is to "Spread Firefox." SpreadFirefox.com is trying to set a Guinness record by making Firefox 3 the most downloaded software within the first 24 hours of it's official release, which should be sometime in the next week or so. You can visit the site to find out more about Firefox 3 and pledge to download it on download day.

Webspace and Me: A History

The move to Wordpress is a major landmark in my experience of creating my presence on the internet; it is the first time in my 9 years of having my own site that I have paid for hosting. To mark the occasion I wanted to create a timeline to show the progression of the sites I've created, plus I've never cataloged this so I though it would be interesting for me if not for anyone else.

I want to say it began in 1998 when we first got the internet at home. We had aol and you could make your own website, I don't really remember it.

From that I moved on to the free hosting site tripod.com. I never made a personal site there, instead I made a site to list the complete discographies of every band that I liked, with tracklistings. In the early 2000s I made the first ever (and as far as I know, still the only) fan site for Blake Hazard. You can get a very broken glimpse of it via the Way Back Machine archive take a look. Oh and then there was a site I made to educate people on the different ways "indie" music can be defined. I was quite the indie snob.

At the same time I started having a blog, I used livejournal, and xanga, and livejournal again, and again.

Which reminds me of something I've missed from livejournal and can do now...