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  • Carmen 10:38 pm on July 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    What I’ve learned today… 

    This is what I’ve been reading about today, I thought you might be interested.

    First! Wtf?! Babies can talk dog language!  At first I was wondering how this kind of research will benefit the human race but in the end I think its just an example of how our brains develop.  It would make sense that our brains would recognize tone differences before anything else.  http://bit.ly/1K0X9Z

    Here is some more good brain stuff!  I can imagine in the future they will look back on this article the way we look back on 8 tracks.  New York Times brain article

    And I learned this recipe which I will be making shortly.  I like the way this guy talks.

    http://epicureanzealot.com/2009/07/21/its-a-hit-green-beans-and-farro/

     

  • Carmen 5:44 pm on July 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Ok, this meebo widget thing doesn’t work the way i want. I will take it off. Good try!

     

  • Emilily 5:40 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    The Blog Project: day 6 

    Well, we’ve come a long way.

    Categories
    I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve been obsessively categorizing and re-categorizing, and I think I like where it is going – what about you? For our main categories, we have: MAKE (projects), SEE (movies, books, art, websites), TALK (general life stuff), EAT (yum yum) and WEAR (clothes, jeweltry, products, etc.) I chose those because they are 1) descriptive and 2) all the words have almost the same aesthetic weight – 3 to 4 letters, all caps – so their relative size as they appear in the Category Cloud is consistent. Within these categories, we have sub-categories, like within MAKE, we have categories for egg projects and sewing projects, and within the SEE category we have categories for art and movies. How does this work for you?

    I also added a category under MAKE for The Blog Project :)

    Themes
    I like this theme a lot, but I read that in order to have a custom banner, we had to use a CSS style sheet, and that was only compatible with certain themes, this not being one of them. Do you know anything about CSS? Perhaps Max does? I need to draw something for it first, but I was just wondering what we would do with it then. I also wonder if there is any way we could get our categories listed at the top, the way Kristopher Dukes does? It is a nice way to organize the site.

     

  • Carmen 4:21 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    been thinkin ’bout shelves 

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    We’ve been trying to find the right kind of shelves that will fit in the firehouse and I think we have a winner.  Check out these shelves Max saw today in an architect’s office.  Aren’t they lovely?

     

  • Emilily 1:05 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Is this an evil joke? 

    Apparently, this is the new (and completely incomprehensible) trend in denim: the high-rise skinny-slouchy jean.

    http://bit.ly/5JJcT

    Because skinny jeans, with their short tapered leg and unforgiving skin-tight fit, were just too flattering, now they make it look like your crotch starts mid-thigh. And in case your legs don’t look troll-like enough, they come in a cropped length.

     

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