links for 2008-04-03
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I covet….
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Daily Dose
links for 2008-04-02
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V-Day, the global non profit founded by Eve Ensler in 1998 at the first benefit of her award winning play The Vagina Monologues, will celebrate it’s 10th anniversary of working for the end of violence against women. “V To The Tenth” will take place April
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links for 2008-04-01
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Note the tepid and dismissive “Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants.” In one carefully chosen short phrase, Barack Obama uses a verb form that bestows his permission, as if she needs it, while at the same time subtly belittling her because she is
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About two years ago, I joined an online community (read: a group that meets in virtual space on your computer) called BlogHer. More than seven million women, from all over the world, consider themselves members of the group. Editors write about, organize
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links for 2008-03-31
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Advertising network Glam is putting an end to at least some of its guaranteed payments to publishers, just a month after raising an $85 million round of financing.
**ha. oops.**
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Tales from the dark side, errr, the garage
We got serious about this de-clutter thing and got busy in the Florida Room and the garage, yesterday. But first, we hit The 43rd St Deli (on 13th) for breakfast where I had – gasp – oatmeal. Steele cut oatmeal, pan-seared w/a balsamic vinegar reduction sauce topped with bananas and dried berries (and walnuts too but I picked around those, yuk.) And that pan seared oatmeal – really good. (Do not tell anyone from my “old life” that I ate oatmeal!) (Also, the photo is from the iPhone so not great and I don’t have time to do any editing and photoshopping, sorry.)
Anyway, the clean up. Crazy.
Really crazy since much of what we were de-cluttering had BEEN de-cluttered a few years ago and we broke the biggest de-clutter rule of all… when something is set aside to leave your house, it needs to LEAVE YOUR HOUSE! Bags of old kid clothes, old toys, stuffed animals and just plain JUNK that should have been gone were still there. ugh.
Every car driving through the neighborhood stopped to take stuff from the curb. Many people got out, walked up the driveway and sifted through the piles of stuff. Many, many more people wandered into the garage and attempted to remove items before we’d sorted through them. Many, many people wanted things we were not planning on parting with. I surprised TW by saying I was ready to let the “grandma headboard” and the “grandma radio” go. (The headboard is at the curb, come get it! It’s orange! The radio was sold and the nice man is coming to get it tomorrow.)
We found some other stuff, well a lot of other stuff. But this is the stuff that I was most amused by and can actually share here…
Yes, that’s a record of Nazi marches and speeches. Yes, that’s a flash cube. Yes, that’s an Atari tape cartridge. Yes, those are dressmaker’s matches.
Oh, the skink… it was dead and I did not kill it.
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Ha. This made me laugh.
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Thanks zoe
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links for 2008-03-30
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At a March 19, 2001, board meeting the Village of Skokie mayor and trustees voted overwhelmingly to approve a plan by a local developer to move and restore the historic Dempster Street station. The developer is the Taxman Corporation which restored the 40
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Dempster station was established as part of the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad’s Skokie Valley Route, a high-speed bypass for the interurban around the more congested North Shore suburbs on which the Chicago rapid transit had trackage rights as
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The most fascinating reading EVER.
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Also fascinating
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links for 2008-03-29
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Dear Body, Look, I’m just going to start with the elephant in the room (no pun intended) and say it….you’re fat. I’m sorry that I’ve treated you so poorly over the years and want you to know that above all else, I need to be kinder to you. Here’s the th
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Back Up Your Birth Control, Damn It
I made it! I am here to remind you that Emergency Contraception is available to YOU, over the counter, if you need it – or when you need it. Do NOT hesitate to go to your pharmacy if the condom breaks, if you forget to put your diaphragm in, if you are forced to have unprotected sex. In fact, I would urge you to do what I’ve done – buy a box right now. You can order it from Drugstore.com if you like. Have it in your medicine cabinet and tell your friends that you have a box if they ever need it.
I bought a box one year ago. So far, nobody around here has needed it and it will expire in six months or so – and then I’ll throw it out and buy another box. Just in case.
And even if you don’t order your own box right now, you should make sure every woman of childbearing age knows that emergency contraception is available – over the counter. Spread the word. There are still many, many women who don’t know it is available. There are many, many women who don’t know what emergency contraception is. There are many, many women who are afraid to use emergency contraception. Reassure them. Help them find information. Support them as they learn more about their reproductive rights and options.
Back Up Your Birth Control – it’s your right and your responsibility – do it.
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links for 2008-03-25
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I don’t often vent like this. It’s just that I have been so excited about this Disney trip and the Johnson’s Baby Camp trip which is ALSO a heated subject right now. It’s about time that those of us spoke up who are appreciative of what is handed to us. I
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My boss paid me to go see Lisa Stone (founder of BlogHer) speak at Harvard last week and she gave a great presentation. I think I want to talk more about this later, so stay tuned.
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But like flirting, networking isn’t just learning to be social. A good networker builds her career, meets new friends, finds a decent caterer, via networking. Networking isn’t a social skill, it’s a life skill.
(remind me to blog about flirting/network
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