the middle bedroom, ‘family life’ quilt made in 1990 from children’s clothes, bear’s paw pattern the day bed, bed coverings from Nigeria, note the beautiful vintage wool rag rug front bedroom, star quilt made in 1985 from dress fabrics the back bedroom and bunk bed, the top quilt from about 1986 is a machine flip and stitched log cabin, the bottom quilt is called “summertime dream” (1984) and has some of my first painted and dyed fabric. Last weekend I made six beds up, stripped ours (not shown) and found the cot and the crib
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Beds at cottage
by buridan (cargo cult materials) On the incivility of atheists: “Tom Johnson” and Exhibit A [Via Why Evolution Is True] If you’ve not heard of the “Tom Johnson” affair, or aren’t interested in it, you’ll want to skip this post, which I offer simply to bring some clarity to a confusing situation. On October 22 of last year, Chris Mooney put up a post at The Intersection called “Counterproductive attacks on religion—exhibit A.” The “exhibit” was an excerpt from an earlier comment on that web…
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When the narrative is more important than facts we get a Cargo Cult World
At the Summit at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., Tony Perkins, founder of AlwaysOn, moderates a discussion about the state of journalism in the Digital Age with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Quentin Hardy of Forbes, and Robert Scoble of Scobelizer. The
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Did the Web kill journalism, and will the iPad bring it back?
Watching fellow college students working for $7.50 an hour after graduation, Tana Walther, a fashion-design major at Kent State University in Ohio, snapped up an alternative offered by her father—to run a Pita Pit restaurant franchise he would buy. “I guess I bought her a job,” says her father, Jan Walther, of North Canton, Ohio. According to The Wall Street Journal , parents often say they would do anything for their child.
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When The Folks Give You The Biz
Now that Justin Avery Anderson’s soft granola has made it to the shelves of Whole Foods and Central Market, he hopes to take it all the way to the White House reports The Dallas Morning News . “I have not contacted the White House, but that’s the plan for the next few weeks,” the 23-year-old says.
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Soft Granola Leads Entrepreneur On The Trail To Success
By Sarah Blecher CSR’s Office Manager & Social Media Strategist Some of you may remember (but don’t worry, I don’t expect you to) back in April I wrote a guest, guest blog post about my new obsession with gardening.
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Hello, Mr. Cucumber.
If you’ve ever searched Google for the answer to a practical question (and who doesn’t?), you have probably seen the website eHow.com . It seems to appear on the first page of results for literally thousands of unique terms. What you may not know is that the company behind eHow.com, Demand Media, has created a cash machine so big that Wall Street and even Google itself has taken notice.
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Demand Media Banks It Hard
We are told over and over again by all the top internet marketers that the money is in the list. In other words you need to build a list of people who are willing to buy goods or services that you recommend to them and the bigger your list the more likely you are to make sales.
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Some E-mail Methods to Use for Your Online Business Promotions
Regular visitors may have noticed a small difference to the site lately – I’ve gone and removed the Google Adsense ads!!! I’d spent some time reviewing the ad revenues from the different ad formats across the site, not that there are that may, and noticed that Adsense wasn’t performing well at all. Given that it was being placed in prime position, not only on the front page of the site but on each post page, I had expected a much better return. Obviously you, the loyal visitor, were trying to tell me something… It was time to retire Adsense
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Why I Removed Google Adsense from the Blog…
Red boxes, red envelopes and the blue and yellow Blockbuster stores may dominate the movie rental landscape, but according to a recent survey, when Americans want to watch a DVD, they are most likely to turn to their local library. The Hartford Courant reports the survey, released this year by OCLC, a nonprofit library co-operative and research organization, found that public libraries in the United States lend an average 2.1 million videos every day, slightly more than the 2 million that Netflix ships
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Libraries Stack Up
The Houston Inventors Association and the University of Houston Small Business Development Center are having the Fourth Annual Inventors Tradeshow on Wednesday August 11, 2010 from 5 to 8:30 pm. In addition to members of the Houston Inventors Association, we have invited inventors from other surrounding areas. We have also invited representatives from local companies and organizations that help inventors solve problems and help businesses get started to answer questions and make presentations about their services
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4th Annual Houston Inventors Tradeshow
There must have been an enormous sigh of relief among BP employees — from the front line to the boardroom — on Tuesday, when their CEO Tony Hayward’s finally resigned. However he was perceived — as villain, incompetent or, scapegoat — what’s clear is that Hayward was failing spectacularly as their leader almost from the outset of the oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Handling the Fall-out from a Failing Leader
WomenEntrepreneur.com dishes out inspiration from current mompreneurs. • Royn Pellei of Vive Vita thought she was getting her big break when a big company became interested in one of her baby products. That company soon decided the product was unacceptable
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Never Quit!
With the expansion of today’s networks over the last 30 years, routing protocols have become a vital central part of these networks to ensure efficient routing and reachability. Along with the well known routing protocols like OSPF and EIGRP there is also some other routing protocols which get less attention.
If you’re an aspiring short story writer or fiction writer of any kind, then you might be interested in the 2010 Family Circle Fiction Contest . The submission deadline is September 8, 2010, so you have just over a month to polish your 2,500 word or less original short story! There is no entry fee. The winner gets money and a prize packages from MediaBistro.com, including: $750.00 A gift certificate to 1 course of your choice from MediaBistro.com A 1-year MediaBistro.com AvantGuild membership A 1-one year MediaBistro.com On Demand Videos membership You can submit up to 2 stories, but to enter you must be 21-years of age or older and from the United States. Entries must be written by the entrant and unpublished, and they must not have won any other prize or award already. Entries must be typed on 8-1/2″ x 11″ paper and should include your name, address, daytime telephone number and e-mail address (note that email address is the only piece of information that is optional) on each page. Send your entry to: Family Circle Fiction Contest, c/o Family Circle Magazine, 375 Lexington Avenue, Ninth Floor, New York, NY 10017. You can get all the details and rules here
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Family Circle Magazine Short Story Fiction Writing Contest Deadline Approaching
Excellent Freelance Writing Job Opportunity Now HiringI was just browsing the Guide job openings here at About.com, and noticed one that many freelance writers might be suitable for. The Media guide covers industries like web, …
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Earning More: Excellent Freelance Writing Job Opportunity Now Hiring
I will be selling my handcrafted jewelry at Marquette Michigan’s Art on the Rocks this weekend! I have many new designs including my Strawberry Series, which is only available from me in person, my new Around Balance series and my new Mixed Metal Owl Family Pendant! None of these items have been pictured online yet… The 52nd Art on the Rocks will be held on Saturday, July 31th, 2010 10 a.m.
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Art on the Rocks 2010 & *New* Gift Certificates!
The benefits of being your own boss outweigh the advantages of working a 9 to 5 job – we’ve already established that. Sometimes, though, we might forget that there are certain responsibilities attached to being a freelancer. For sure, we KNOW these responsibilities are there, but especially for those new to the freelance business, little things might slip by you every now and then.
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How Do You Track Your Income?
In conjunction with his receipt of the Newton Medal, Edward Witten gave a public talk in London (now available on-line here), and an interview (available as part of a pod-cast here). Witten’s talk was a rather polemical argument for string theory, in which he laid out his reasons for still feeling that string theory is on the right track. The video is in two parts, with the first part not especially interesting since it is pretty much word-for-word the standard arguments for string theory th…
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Witten Talk and Interview
Many of you probably caught this post on PBS.org about content farms last week . When I read it, I found it very interesting that Demand Media turned down the opportunity to be interviewed for the piece. Usually, they can’t be tamed when it comes to spouting their really cool: Hey, we never said we were journalists… but look at our awesome brand of service journalism (not to be confused with actual journalism because we’ve added another word IN FRONT of journalism.
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Demand Media Strikes Back at PBS and Writers Everywhere – Yawn