Sarah @ work gave us this terrific salad recipe:
Quinoa Salad Recipe

1 cup Quinoa (Rinse well, add to 2 cups boiling water, simmer covered for 12-15 min. let sit for 5).
2 big handfuls dried cranberries
1 handful sliced almonds
1 handful pine nuts (optional)

Add all these ingredients into a large bowl.
Dressing:

2 tbsp chopped green onion
6 tbsp Orange Juice
2 [...]

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Left alone on a Saturday after a cancelled trip; I find myself looking for diversions and fun stuff. Just ordered;

All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life of Legendary Surfer Miki (book) by David Rensin as DORA is the man. More about Miki.
Little Brother by Cory Doctrow (book) cause Cory rocks. More about LB.
Big [...]

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This is the best new canned beer drink tradition I’ve seen in years;
“…a ‘wizard staff’ is when you finish a beer and tape it underneath your next beer. As you drink more beers, the staff grows.
You become a wizard when the staff is taller than you.”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wizard+Staff

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Excellent graffiti that caught my eye. The artist’s name also is the key to this one: “D*FACE”.
View slightly larger

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Defacement of Canadian money is a crime — but if you’re going to do it - at least do it well. The zombie bills are great.
More at DE-NOTED — Why let good money go to waste

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oh yeah
Made me laugh in this hectic week I’m having.

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Crosswalk Countdown - GuerilLA from Kelly Herrington on Vimeo.
Make you smile video of the day. Very funny.

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Here’s a handy little app to install and then forgot about ’til the day comes when you’ve somehow overwritten your clipboard or possibly lost some work.
“Jumpcut is an application that provides “clipboard buffering” — that is, access to text that you’ve cut or copied, even if you’ve subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal [...]

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Because Vandals Like Tetris, Too
I know a girl who won Tetris. Which is crazy.

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You can now follow along with Jenny’s ’statements’ on twitter.
“jenny holzer is famous for her short statements, formally called ‘truisms’. some are common myths while others are just phrases on random subjects in the form of slogans. ” — http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/holzer.html
http://twitter.com/jennyholzer | Jenny on Wikipedia

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Twistori pulls in 6 x “I ___”’s from the twitter-verse in stream across your screen. Visit and watch for a bit.

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Excellent and entertaining presentation from Clay Shirky (thanks Johan !).

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Due to posting to multiple accounts (personal and being part of our work account) in Twitter; it’s extremely handy to know the available Twitter shortcuts…

ON: turns phone notifications on
OFF: turns phone notifications off
FOLLOW username: turns on notifications for a specific individual
LEAVE username: turns off notifications for a specific individual
D username: sends a private message to [...]

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Shaved my face for the first time in 3 years
I’m a shavin’ hater — every photo of me for the past 3-4 years - I have some stubble.
This was just for fun — I’ll go back to being a ‘dirtball’ soon enough.

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Somehow I had completely missed this in the WP 2.5 Upgrade;
You can now have custom CSS colors for each users WP-Admin panel.
I was wondering if anyone will come out with some color schemes; and I found Matt had asked the same question. Keep an eye on that thread to see what starts coming out.

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