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Last login: 4 hours agoSnapish: formerly known as suible is a 53 year old woman in a relationship from Where Is, Andorra.; Likes 1,424 pages, 16 videos, 39 photos • 69 fans • Received 21 reviews; Member since Jun 04, 2007

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Boycott McDonalds - A Project of American Family Association: Jul 4, 12:57pm 4 reviews
http://boycottmcdonalds.com/; Well, this is bad news. I don't approve of McDonalds food (I can make it faster, healthier and with more ambience at home) and I don't think they treat their employees very well, but now I feel compelled to eat their at least once in a while.

Welcome to EveryScape: Jul 1, 5:17pm 9 reviews travel, maps
http://www.everyscape.com/; Sorta interesting - rather like Google Maps street view, except more powerful in a couple of ways. It really is more like you are there - more of a 3 dimensional feel. One can easily jump around to different landmarks.

On the other hand, not as good as Google Maps in several important ways - getting directions seems well, not possible, at least not in any way I could figure out. And then there is the cities chosen at least so far, I mean, New York, of course, San Francisco, and other East Coast and West Coast metro centers. Middle of the country? Oh, we have Colorado - three Colorado ~~hot spots~~. Ummm . . . places where people presumably do something of interest to those who live on the West and East Coasts. The Midwest? Not there, nobody cares. I keep forgetting the Midwest doesn't count because it isn't on the coast.

And then internationally, we have Beijing and Krakow . . . and that is it.

Overlooking the cities chosen . . . I'm not sure I see any real reason to use this instead of Google maps - which covers many, many, many more cities. And it gives actual directions. It does not, give that feeling that you are standing in the middle of a major street looking at oncoming traffic and are about to be run over. I'll pass for now, but still a thumb up. Once in awhile it is thrilling to feel the rush one gets staring at oncoming traffic at least online.

Science Blog: Jun 23, 1:22am 9 reviews science
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/; My new motto (sub-title of the blog): "Send lawyers, guns and money"

Edith Macefield, 1921-2008: Ballard woman held her ground as change closed in ar…: Jun 20, 10:08pm 2 reviews bizarre
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/367335_obitmacefield18.html

TimesPeople Beta - The New York Times: Jun 20, 7:37am 3 reviews
http://timespeople.nytimes.com/packages/addons/timespeople/; sounds good, can't get it to work

The Elegant Sufficiency: Jun 18, 7:50am 2 reviews cooking
http://elegantsufficiency.typepad.com/; I really like this site - some really good photographs and writing, but mostly links to great articles that I never would have found otherwise.

Welcome to OLD-COMPUTERS.COM !: Jun 17, 2:12pm 13 reviews computers
http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp; My Tandy 1000 from 1984 is shown here. I can still remember my boss at the time being impressed because I had a 10KB hard drive - "that will last you a lifetime." I think that lifetime lasted about 3.5 years - long enough to get me through grad school and then some.

What Well Miss About Bill Gates &151; a Very Long Good-Bye: Jun 17, 12:30pm 24 reviews computers, wired, biography, gates-bill
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-06/st_billgates; Interesting article, however to nitpick:

From the page: "Fall 1967: Gates' parents enroll him in Lakeside School, an exclusive boys school in Seattle."

and

"1971: Gates writes programs for Lakeside, including one that creates class schedules; he manages to put himself in classes with the 'right' girls."

So, there were girls at an exclusive boys school? Or, their exclusion was important enough to mention, but when they are included, only the "right" girls are important enough to mention.

DoMyStuff.com - Outsource your life: Jun 16, 9:30pm 4 reviews entrepreneurship
http://www.domystuff.com/; In theory, not a bad idea, but ... database seems pretty small and there seems to be an overabundance of get rich by helping others get rich (also known as pyramid schemes). shrug.

I do wonder about hiring hit persons who will find and then shoot spammers and others who have annoyed me greatly. I suppose that would be wrong . . . and illegal. crap.

Tiny URL - Shorten Your Web Address URL: Jun 15, 9:00am 4 reviews
http://www.tiny.cc/; I used tiny URL this morning. I checked to make sure the new URL worked, I was pleased. I posted the URL on a website and then I got a message that the tiny URL didn't work. GRRRR. It didn't work and I was not pleased. I'll not be using tiny URL again.

And as far as masking affiliate links, yeah, people love being fooled and they're too stupid to look in the address bar.

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