Tagged: link-lovin

March 24th, 2009

Link Lovin’ | March 24, 2009

Nothing of substance tonight. Wrapped up the top-secret Twitter post/series with Linden. We’ll have that up next week. Spent an hour on the phone with my mom. Napped. Watched Dancing with the Stars. That said, thought I would share some articles I’ve loved from the last month or so.

If you’re a blogger or tweeter, be sure to check out my @bloggers_guide and @tweeples_guide accounts on Twitter. I’ve been “feeding” my recommended blogging and Twitter reading to those accounts. Have a great one!

December 5th, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | December 5, 2008

Wow! It’s been almost three months since I’ve shared links with you! Not that I haven’t had anything to share, but this fall I did clean out my feed reader, eliminating 75% of the blogs I hardly read. I still have things to share, but not nearly the number I had before. Here’s what you need to check out this weekend:

  • The Newborn Ultimatum. My blogger friend lifestudent shared this article about how having a newborn around makes you a better man (or woman). There’s a lot we can learn from them!
  • 10 Jobs That Make You Realize Your Job Isn’t That Bad. Chris and I now have a long standing joke that when we complain about our jobs, we say, “Could be worse. You could be a chicken sexer.”
  • Who’s Laughing Now? Did you hear about the runner who was attacked this fall by a rabid fox? Turns out, Michael Scott was right about his Michael Scott’s Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race For The Cure.

OK, that’s the most relevant and recent list of important reading for you this week. As always you can see all my Google Reader Shared Items on my shared items page.

September 12th, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | September 12, 2008

Phew! My life has been veritably insane the last few weeks, but I finally have time today to share some incredible material that’s on the Web. Well, I like it, at least. Here we go:

  • Baldness Pattern: A New Cold War Analysis I almost wrecked my car this week listening to this story on NPR’s Morning Edition. While it’s fascinating that there’s a pattern of baldness among Russian’s leaders, the silly song at the end really made me laugh!
  • Introversion and Leadership Yes, another article about introversion, but ever since I’ve accepted that quality about myself, I love reading about it. And now there’s news that many great leaders were introverts!
  • Video: A Renewed Mind is the Key to Bad Dancing Thank you, Betsy, for sharing this. I’ve spoken with the leaders at LifePoint, and we’ll be adding this as a new ministry next spring. We’re holding open-call auditions for bad break dancers.
  • And We Wonder Why We’re Hated No kidding! This is by far the worst church sign I’ve ever seen! And for the record, I prefer to sing, “I kissed a squirrel…”

And that does it for the week! I hope you’re enjoying the Olympics as much as I am! That should be sufficient for this weekend. Be sure to check out my other Google Reader Shared Items and Delicious pages.

August 15th, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | 15 August 2008

Wow! It’s been a busy week! The Olympics have totally consumed my evenings and my RSS reader, so this week’s link lovin’ will all be related to those fantastic games. Here we go:

  • 18 Smaller Countries to Cheer For In the US, we’re pretty fortunate to have so many athletes in so many events to check out, but who’s cheering for the little guys–for the countries who only have one or two athletes that qualify for the Olympics? I say, we adopt them and cheer for them, too. Many of the athletes listed will be participating in the track and field events next week, so you haven’t missed them.
  • For Opening Ceremony, Beijing Told Rain to Go Away Who knew that the picture-perfect weather on opening ceremony night was also part of the orchestration? Yep. Seems that it’s the rainy season in Beijing right now, so they (I’m not sure who exactly was in charge) made it rain outside Beijing where it wouldn’t ruin the Olympic events.
  • Speedo’s LZR Racer Breaks Records If you’ve watched swimming at all, you’ve seen these new suits that, quite frankly, make it hard to tell the guys and the girls apart. And you’ve probably noticed that there’ve been a lot of world records broken in the last week. Yeah, these suits have a lot to do with those new records, but you should also know that the Olympic pool is 3 meters deep. Regulation pools have to be at least 2 meters deep, and this deeper pool is reducing the ripples/wakes that usually bounce off the bottom of the pool and interfere with the swimmers above.
  • Champion Nicole Cooke’s Training Secrets This British chippy is a cycling champion who started out biking to school every day. Gotta love that!
  • Blue Screen of Death Appears at Olympics This is just one more reason to buy a Mac, and quite frankly, I’m surprise the production people weren’t using them in the first place. Anyway, if you were watching the opening ceremonies on TV, you missed it, but yeah, a PC crashed and it was projected all over the bird’s nest.

And that does it for the week! I hope you’re enjoying the Olympics as much as I am! That should be sufficient for this weekend. Be sure to check out my other Google Reader Shared Items and Delicious pages.

July 18th, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | 18 July 2008

You’d think having a new laptop would increase my productivity, but no, that hasn’t happened. In fact, I think I’m even lazier than before. Who knew that was possible? Anyway, I haven’t shared with you all what I’ve been reading (laziness has increased in that department, too), and here’s some material to get you up to speed:

That should be sufficient for this weekend. I like to keep the summer reading light. Be sure to check out my other Google Reader Shared Items and Delicious pages.

June 13th, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | 13 June 2008

I haven’t done this for a month, but here’s the best of what I’ve been reading. Consider this your summer reading…

Who said summer reading wasn’t fun? Check out what else I’ve enjoyed on my Google Reader Shared Items and Delicious pages.

May 9th, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | 9 May 2008

Anyone else glad it’s Friday? Man, I am. Aside from the fact that I had a cavity filled this morning and that no one showed up for Awesome Movie Fun Club, today wasn’t too bad. I got a nap this afternoon, and Chris and I got to eat all of the FonDoom we made for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. So my jaw really hurts, but I have a great list of reading for you this weekend!

  • What’s a Male Mistress? Yeah, I don’t have one of my own, but now I know what to call one, you know, in case I ever run into one. And I think I’ll be using the words adulterer/adultress and fornicator/fornicatress more often now.
  • Cadbury: Our Eggs Aren’t Smaller; You are Bigger. I love Cadbury eggs, but it’s been years since I’ve had one. Every time Easter rolls around, I venture near them but convince myself that my womanly figure doesn’t need them. I might reconsider next year because they’ve gotten smaller! And Cadbury lied about it! Those cads!
  • Churchill Coffee Closes in Springfield. In local Springfield news, the staple coffee place of my college career is closing to pursue the wholesale coffee market. Boo! Not only was the last location really convenient for me (well, as convenient as driving all the way into Springfield to find a coffee house can be), but I poured out a lot of blood, sweat, and tears on my graduate work there! It’s like the end of an era!
  • Are You Fed Up with Facebook? Until the folks at Mashable brought it up, I really hadn’t considered how often I log in to Facebook, but when I did, I realized that I’m only logging in about once a week. I mean, I send my shared bookmarks, blog posts, and Twitter updates to Facebook, so it sort of looks like I’m an active user, but I’m really not. What about you?
  • Uniballs on Moleskine. On her blog 100 Things That Make Me Happy Besides Money, Linden once again steals the words from my mouth. I, too, love Uniballs on Moleskines, and a friend asked me this week why I loved them so much, so I guess I’ll have to write a blog post about them, too. (Thanks for the inspiration, Linden!) Bonus: Here’s a bit from Lifehacker about Moleskine this week!
  • Southern Baptists Launch Pre-Emptive Strike Against Assemblies of God. Anyone like The Onion ? Here’s an article from the Christian variety. Thanks to Betsy for sending this to me—she’s Southern Baptist and works for the AG, so she can appreciate the irony.

I’m sure you found every link worthy of your time. If you want to know what I’m recommending as I recommend it, you can check out my Google Shared Items and my Delicious page.

March 21st, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | 21 March 2008

Well, I’ve done it again and let two weeks pass between link-lovin’s. This week you’ll find some great political pieces, writing tips, and as always, random fun. Enjoy!

  • Worst Easter Candies for Your Waist Let’s start off this week with something to depress you. Just how much Easter candy did you eat this week?
  • Family Friends Race Gender Another great post from David Catanese at KY3. I think we can all relate to skating on thin political ice around friends and family.
  • And You Think You’re Tired of the Democratic Campaign! Just imagine how the Democratic staffers feel! We were supposed to have chosen the Democratic nominee by now, but there’s no end in sight. Can you imagine not taking a day off for months at a time?
  • California Parents Don’t Have the Right to Homeschool Their Children Did you here about this recent ruling from the CA court system? Unless parents are qualified, they’re no longer allowed to homeschool. I have both family and friends that homeschool their kidlings (and they do a fantastic job), so I’ll be keeping tabs on this news story in the future.
  • Would You Confess Your Sins Online I’m not Catholic, but I find this topic fascinating, and much of my research for my thesis involved notions of online religion.
  • Top 80 Church Websites ChurchRelevance.com released its list of top 80 church websites this year, and I couldn’t disagree with them more! The sites at the top of their list are Flash-based and not user friendly, but I suppose that a “cool” website trumps usability any day! Who cares if your church website is artsy if your visitors can’t find anything they’re looking for. Hmphf!
  • Why Bloggers Should Moderate All Comments My gal pal Teresa is an avid blogger, and she recommends that bloggers moderate all the comments on their blogs. Good arguments to consider for all bloggers.
  • Verbicide One of my new favorite blogs is the Mighty Red Pen because the blogger is also an editor. Have you seen “verbing” of words around your home? In recent years, Googling, blogging, and texting have all been “verbed.”
  • Nix Those Adjectives and Adverbs This applies to anyone who wants to be a better writer—use plain English and keep your sentences simple. Thanks to the writers over at “So You Want to be Published”!
  • Just Say No to These Three Enemies of Clear and Direct Writing Even though I have two degrees in writing, I’m always thankful for reminders in writing well, and this post from Copyblogger teaches us to say no to metadiscourse, redundancy, and pretentious words.
  • Four-Word Thinking And blogging of clear and direct writing, now is as good a time as any to introduce my new blog: Four-Word Thinking. What can you say with four words?
  • Running Long is a Gift This article from the Runner’s Lounge reminded me that I should be thankful for every mile I run. Running long is indeed a gift, especially when you must limit the miles you go every week.
  • Guinness Petitions to Make St. Patrick’s Day a National Holiday I’m just a teeny bit Irish, but that’s reason enough for me to support the movement to make St. Paddy’s Day a national holiday. Agree with the peeps at Guinness? Sign the petition here.
  • Daylight Savings Time ≠ Energy Savings Time I’m not the only one still recovering from DST; apparently, the promise that moving the DST schedule earlier in the spring and later in the fall isn’t saving the energy as Congress promised, which just goes to show that we shouldn’t let our lawmakers make scientific decisions.
March 7th, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | 7 March 2008

I’m not sure where I’ve been the last few weeks. I’ve certainly shared plenty of links, but my blogging has been somewhere over the rainbow. And by that I mean, I’m over here in Missouri—nowhere near Kansas, Munchkin Land, or Oz—and my blogging is as illusive as the wizard himself.

OK. I haven’t been awake long enough to know if that analogy was any good. Usually my analogies are crap, so let’s get to the good stuff. Here’s the stuff worth reading from the last few weeks:

  • Snowballed and CQ Primary Results Two things from the KY3 Political blog: First, David Catanese got snowballed last night during a live broadcast from Arkansas. I was watching, and it was hilarious. Check out the video, but fast forward to the 2/3 mark…that’s when it gets funny. Oh, and he also posted the results of the CG Primary—if we picked celebrities to hold public office, who would we pick?
  • If Paula Can Do It (Running While Pregnant) For the record, I’m not pregnant, though I found out this week that one more friend (this makes six, people) is pregnant. God is preparing Chris and I for the time when we start a family, but until then, I’m reading all I can get my hands on about pregnancy, and this article once again reaffirms that if you’re a runner, running during pregnancy is good for you and the baby.
  • Watch Your Tongue! California Town Goes Swear-Free We talked in Bible study this week about sins we cherish and are reluctant to let go of, and one of mine is my language. Sarcasm aside, I have a bit of a potty mouth—a sin I’m working to repent of. It’s hard to have godly sorrow for something I enjoy so much. It’s a vice, I know. So pray for me as I work through this, oh, and read the article about why a California town banned cussing for a week. (I might just have to give that a try!)
  • Online Shopping Website Runs Amok! Frickin’ awesome. Go to the site, click something, and watch the Flash magic in action.
  • Forget Starbucks! I love Starbucks as much as the next gal, but when I heard about this opportunity to buy great coffee and help a couple adopt a child I couldn’t help but pass the word along! You can help Vince and Alisa raise money for their overseas adoptions by purchasing coffee from the 963 Coffee Project. Excellent!
  • Did You Grow Up With Chelsea Clinton, too? I remember the first time I “saw” Chelsea Clinton. I was in fourth grade and Mrs. Thornton’s class stopped our day to watch President Clinton’s inauguration, and I remember a few comments from my fellow ten-year-olds about how ugly Chelsea was with her poofy hair and braces. She’s since blossomed into quite the well-rounded young woman, and regardless of your politics, you’ll find this article about our most private first-daughter fascinating.
  • Bibliophile’s Favorite Spot I’m a book lover and dream of having a space like this one day.
  • 30-Day Sex Challenge I won’t say if the hubby and I have taken up this challenge, but I found it interesting that this is a church campaign. Apparently, it was so popular the web site exceeded its bandwidth limitations!
  • Semi-Colon in the News I think everyone who reads this blog knows how much I love grammar and punctuation, so I’m awfully glad when semi-colons make the news! Next to the em-dash, they’re my favorite way to manipulate a sentence.
  • Magnetic Curtains Oh, yes, magnetic curtains, my friends. Simply scrunch them and they stay in place—and they look cool, too.
  • The Internet for Dummy Academics I love the guys over at The Scriptorium Daily because they cast an interesting light on religion and culture. Their explanation of the Internet for dummies has nothing to do with religion or culture, but it’s hilarious!

OK, that’s your reading assignment for the week. Enjoy!

February 16th, 2008

For-the-Love-of-Links Friday | 15 February 2008

Time for a doped up rendition of For-the-Love-of-Links Friday. That’s right. I’m doped up on both varieties of ‘Quil: Day and Ny. I have a tubular head cold and am accumulating quite the mountain of dead, snotty tissues on my coffee table. Regardless of my brain’s fuzziness, I feel like writing, so here’s the summary of what I’ve been reading this week:

Who’s a Fatty? Men’s Fitness released its annual rankings of America’s fittest and fattest cities. Springfield, MO, isn’t listed, but Kansas City was ranked the 15th fittest city. (St. Louis wasn’t listed.)

Olympians Now Allowed to Blog Who knew that until now the International Olympic Committee didn’t allow Olympic athletes to blog? This article at RunToWin.com summarizes blogging limitations and guidelines for Beijing Olympians. I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t blog during an important event in my life, so it’s good to know that these athletes can share what they’re doing this summer.

Runner-Blogger Shoutouts This week, these three posts/articles piqued my interest. First, there’s the argument for giving the half marathon the status it deserves rather than letting it be the red-headed step-child of road racing.

Second, DistortedVeracity linked to a fascinating review of Dean Karnazes Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner and the parallels of running and religion.

Third, I really enjoyed MomOnTheRun’s article about postpartum depression and running. I think God is getting me ready to one day be a mom because lately I find all things pregnancy-related fascinating. We’re not ready to jump off that cliff yet, but we’re praying about that time.

And last but not least, here’s one more reason I’m thankful to be a woman in America.

That’s all the craziness for now. More next week…

 

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