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Finally, an article about something I’ve suspected for ages: Significantly more girls blog and create or work on their own webpages than boys. Apparently, boys are more likely to post video (in theory to impress others) but girls are more likely to own and operate a website. I feel like I’ve definitely seen this personally [...]

I saw this American Apparel ad on a website and I just had to share: Not only is the idea of a company selling unitards and high-waisted shorts hilariously silly, they’ve gone and spelled “waisted” wrong, so it appears that the shorts are in an altered state of mind. “You know, those shorts. They’re high [...]

Never have I been so happy to be with Site5 for hosting. Apparently, DreamHost ran some kind of script recently to nudge delinquent customers into paying their overdue bills. As it turns out, what they really did was run the script on 2008 customers instead of 2007, and in some cases it ran twice, causing [...]

Today is the special day of the year where the Qbee members talk about the Quilting Bee. I myself joined around this time in 2005, so I’ve been a member for two years now! I’ve had a couple lapses where I didn’t participate in the activities or trade very much, but the community is so [...]

I may have just stumbled across the video equivalent of Cute Overload. Ready? READY? It is videos of babies laughing on YouTube. Now, I know. Babies make lots of noise and are expensive. BUT! They are also very funny and I dare you to watch these babies laugh and not end up with a smile [...]

I first joined the Quilting Bee the winter of 2005 – December-ish. I was a mere student back then and somehow had loads of free time with which to trade, participate in activities, create new patches, and post on the Bee*Bee*S. I found the Qbee community to be insanely warm and friendly, and I loved [...]

These things bother me and I feel compelled to mention them. Using “colophon” instead of “about” There’s just something about this that irks me. It’s a book-based idea, and is generally a short blurb that describes relevant edition notes. If this section were used like an actual book colophon to describe typography, the company, kind [...]

While browsing my student loan website attempting to make a payment, I came across this little gem: Take a look at that, and then tell me HOW BADLY they want me to navigate back from this page instead of forward. The fact that the “next” button is on the second line may be due to [...]

Do you ever get the feeling that the United States is going to hell in a handbasket? Or is that just me? I know it’s a product of reading the news, which is always remarkably sensationalist. JK Rowling talked about the Harry Potter books and said she felt compelled to kill off parents to show [...]

Just a quick rant to say that I cannot stand it when people say something “peaked their curiosity.” The word you are looking for is “piqued.” PIQUED. Something can pique your curiosity but it cannot “peak” or “peek” it. IRRITATING. I just saw that on a popular marketing community website, written by someone who is [...]

Probably the most horrible and yet somehow the funniest prediction regarding Harry Potter that I have seen as of yet: This is how the 7th book and movie will ( or should ) end: There is a huge fire at the Dursley’s House ( the “muggles” that hate magic ), and, when the firemen hear [...]

In order to understand my book collection, you have to understand how I purchase books; rarely do I buy anything I haven’t already read. This may seem strange to some, because why get it once you’ve already read it? With me, I buy books generally because I read it and loved it so much I [...]

Just saw this on a forum while trying to figure out why I keep getting PHP warnings from a plugin for WordPress: damn can`t belive i tryed remove at end empy lines in configuration.php and is started workin I suppose it comes as no surprise that his username was “HigH.”

I stumbled across a site recently that I’d like to mention here because I feel like a lot of people could get some use out of it. IconBuffet provides both free and non-free stock icons along with a kind of community whereby the free icons are obtained by trading with other members. There are many [...]

There are a myriad of reasons why I haven’t posted since last week, most of which are really lame excuses. I kept going to start a post, but I would write a couple sentences and realize my writing totally sucked, no one would be interested in what I had to say, and GAH what made [...]