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I could so go for one right now... - Derrick

Bleh, said the man eating Kashi high fiber cereal. - Derrick

"I've been thinking about audiences, and who artists make art for. When an artist is creating, is she or he thinking about the viewer? Are they thinking about the buyer, the gallery owner? Are they thinking about what their friends and peers might think? Are they thinking abut themselves? When you create a non-commissioned work, who do you think about?" - Melissa from Bookmarklet

... and I love the way these drawings also ask these questions inherently... who is the "I" and the "you" when you're looking at them? It's like an evolution of Magritte's paintings, especially "this is not a pipe" - Tracy Ruggles

go go go small-business entrepreneurs fighting the soul-less corporate schmucks!!! - Tracy Ruggles

"When my son was 3, my wife and I rushed him to the emergency room. Bouncing from couch to chair in our living room, he had slipped and crashed into a coffee table. The pediatrician and the nurse explained how to care for his five stitches. At some point, it dawned on me that neither one made eye contact with me, even after I asked a question. They gave directions to my wife only. Soon after, I was bringing my older son to school, and his teacher asked me: "Would you tell your wife to pack an extra pair of shoes for Jake tomorrow?" Admittedly, I'm not eager to pack the shoes, and my wife and I easily slip into classic gender roles. But at the same time, my better nature cringed. Why should I so easily be let off the hook?" - Melissa from Bookmarklet

Hmmm... I haven't really experienced this too much. I think it has a lot to do with the personalities of the parents. In those "official" situations (emergency rooms, school offices, parent-teacher conferences, cops), someone there usually quickly sizes up who they're dealing with and makes a decision about who is "in charge". Maybe it's just me & my relationship with my wife, but it's been a pretty even split as far as who they think is the more "in charge" parent. - Tracy Ruggles

What an awesome selling point! Nevermind, that most people never even heard of Socialtext. - Admiral Anika

Daniel, I need to read blogs more. I even have yours in my GR and I don't think I've looked at GR since July. - Admiral Anika

"Kim Wallen, professor of psychology and behavioral neuroendocrinology at Emory University, is busy doing the math to find out. And, yes, he says, simple physiology may have a lot to do with orgasm ease -- specifically, how far a woman's clitoris lies from her vagina. That number might predict how easily a woman can experience orgasms from penile stimulation alone -- without help from fingers, toys or tongue -- during sexual intercourse. In fact, there's even an easy "rule of thumb," Wallen says: Clitoris-vagina distances less than 2.5 cm -- that's roughly from the tip of your thumb to your first knuckle -- tend to yield reliable orgasms during sex. More than a thumb's length? Regular intercourse alone typically might not do the trick." - RAPatton

Every man should read this. - Lis Miller

Heh - that's also a sign of good breadcrumbs you left for yourself - Tracy Ruggles

It was a good name, which is a wiki good practice. title search: knock - Adina Levin

"I've just been checking out what's new at one of my fave design spots — The Heads of State. They're doing lots more (beautiful) illustration work as well as posters these days, but right now I'm admiring these recent poster designs. Lovely." - Melissa from Bookmarklet

these are neat, love them - Melissa

"After laying off an employee, cutting hours and discontinuing raises, Sheryl Woodhouse-Keese, owner of Twisted Limb Paperworks LLC in Bloomington, Ind., invested $600 last fall to create a 1,500-square-foot garden outside the recycled paper-products company's office. Now, her four employees can take home their pick of 10 herbs and 22 vegetables. "The garden really is a nice benefit, saving them on their food bills," said Ms. Woodhouse-Keese, who estimates the garden has meted out $2,400 in produce this season, from tomatoes to potatoes. Employer-sponsored gardens can be a cheap and easy way to boost workers' morale, relate better to certain customers and expand a company's health and wellness program. It is unclear how many businesses have them, although the National Gardening Association projects a 19% increase in food gardening this year, as the recession motivates households to trim grocery lists. For a small employer, a garden can encourage camaraderie among co-workers and become... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

I've often thought encouraging something like gardening for a break during the day may also increase productivity. It i so rewarding to literally see fruits of your labor... - Clare Dibble

love this. - Melissa

"there is nothing more satisfying than a nice smoocheroo." ( so true. so true) - Anna Lynn M. from Bookmarklet

"From Banksy to Katsu to Iz the Wiz, we often hear about guerilla graffiti artists who've taken their social critiques to the streets with powerful images and strong words. Along a quieter alley, Hungarian artist Edina Tokodi brings her art to the urban landscape in a softer way, but her message is no less provocative." - Melissa from Bookmarklet

Wow! That's so awesome! - Tracy Ruggles

very cool - Steve C

"My family was visiting, and I was planning on taking them to the beach to enjoy the beautiful day when i saw a billboard that made me want to cry. It says “Save the Whales,” with a picture of an overweight woman in the foreground." - tiffany from Bookmarklet

After PETA proposed renaming "Spearfish, SD" to "Sea Kitten, SD" it instantly lost its remaining half-ounce of respect. - Gus

Okay, I died. (via zefrank...this time on buzzfeed.http://tinyurl.com/mh9yf3) - felicious

*DEAD* - Derrick

"Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova record and tour together using the name The Swell Season, which is a shorter but far less descriptive moniker than "Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Who Won Oscars for the Song 'Falling Slowly,' From the Hit Indie Musical Once." So when we informed our coworkers that last Wednesday's Tiny Desk Concert would feature the pair, the response generally ran somewhere along the lines of, "Um, okay. ... Wait, who? THEM? REALLY?"" - Jason Toney from Bookmarklet

I could listen to Glen Hansard talk all day. I think I need to move to Ireland or Scotland since I'm a sucker for those accents. - cecily

now I have that song in my head :) - Anna Lynn M.

I hear ya Derrick - (jeff)isageek

Yeah. I definitely plan on staying till the end. But things are going to be a little different for me now, I think.. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato from Android

"Communities in North Carolina, Massachusetts, Arizona and elsewhere print their own money to encourage shoppers to patronize local businesses. Local money was last popular during the Great Depressio" - Anna Lynn M. from Bookmarklet

""Right now there's a lot of interest because of the economy, but a lot of these efforts come about to rebuild social capital," said Ed Collom, a sociology professor at the University of Southern Maine who studies local currencies. "There's been concern about lack of trust, neighbors not knowing each other. They see this as a way of neighbors helping each other." - Anna Lynn M.

Kind of neat. - Anna Lynn M.

wow...has anyone tried this recipe? Noms! - Anna Lynn M. from Bookmarklet

I'm not crazy about popsicles, but that photo is awesome and I now want to have one of those chocolate-bourbon ones! - Tracy Ruggles

i want. - Melissa

"John Hughes never won an Oscar. He really never won awards at all. He made mainstream, popular entertainment. But for a period of time in the late 1980s, he made a series of movies, mostly about teenagers, that people still watch, still love, and still quote. And those movies have never really been replaced, because the guy knew something. These five moments are the best explanation I have of what it is he knew." - Jason Toney from Bookmarklet

I haven't seen Some Kind of Wonderful, either. - Jason Toney

still need to get a national pass. It's only $80 and all the camping you can do all year long :) - Anna Lynn M. from Bookmarklet

definitely! - Anna Lynn M.

"Last week, NPR Arts correspondent Lynn Neary had an enlightening piece on All Things Considered about the new graphic novel adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451. I say enlightening, because one learns several things upon listening to it, among them:" - Melissa from Bookmarklet

Orange sneakers ... oh yeah! Summer of love. - Kate Foy

Orange? AWESOME those are a PERFECT match for the walls in my sons room! - Nicholas Kreidberg

"When Ray Bradbury was 15 years old, he saw images of books being burned in Hitler's Germany. "It killed my heart and killed my soul," he says, "and the memory of Hitler burning the books caused me to sit down and write Fahrenheit 451."" - Melissa from Bookmarklet

New article says he loves it: http://www.writerswrite.com/blog... - Shevonne

I saw Some Like It Hot @ Hollywood Forever at the same time. Aww :) - Melissa

a good policy - RAPatton

VERY good policy. - Melissa

DAYum - Melissa

Stylin' - RAPatton from iPhone

of course I'm wearing pearls, rocking a clutch and carrying a danish. - Melissa

hee hee. :) - Melissa