linkspam loves living in the 21st century

[cofax7]

Yikes, several days worth of links here.

Awww, this animated short is just ridiculously wonderful. Dogs and their people, really.

Clay Shirky on the future of publishing.

The Big Picture focuses on growing tea in England.

This website has beautifully-photographed portraits of women with gray hair. Gorgeous and inspirational

Comments

[lc59]

thanks for that great link about greying women. I'm one myself and I've been debating as to whether or not to let it grow out(my hairdresser thinks it'll age me) but I'm discovering, now that I'm not blowing it out because it makes it frizzy, that it's actually got the natural curl I always wanted,lol...so I'm wondering how much it would continue to spiral as it gets longer....sorry, rambling. I did find the site loaded really slow...altho that could have been me. I do wish though that the pics had been colour...some of them it was really difficult to tell how much was actually grey.
And about the travel steam-iron...don't bother, I've never found they work all that well. You'd be better to try to get an steamer like they use in clothing stores.

[katie_m]

Yeah, at one point all of Quincy was without power - I know at least some of it was still out on Monday, because a co-worker had been staying at a relative's house since the storm. They got it a lot worse than the North Shore this time around. Though note to self: DO NOT MOVE TO PLUM ISLAND. Every time there's a storm of any magnitude, there's a "and also three houses on Plum Island fell into the sea!" story in the news.

I was charmed by the mini-spate of "and then I went skiing down my completely unplowed street!" videos that came out of the storm, too. As nasty weather events go, I'll take a blizzard over other options any day of the week. You can see them coming, they make your surroundings pretty and sometimes kind of entertainingly alien without usually really damaging them, and as long as you don't live in South Boston or somewhere else with seriously parking space wars the joint "oh God now we have to dig out?" thing can be a neighborhood bonding experience.

[alessandriana]

For the de-wrinkling bit-- try this stuff. It works super well, I pretty much swear by it.