ana's clippings

Hi, I am Ana and is my digital scrapbook.
On occasion I post to my main blog, back at http://anaulin.org.
You can read more about-me back there.

Dec 22
“In psychiatry, the term “good-enough mother” describes the parent who loves her child well enough for him to grow into an emotionally healthy adult. The goal is mental health, defined as the fortitude and flexibility to live one’s own life — not happiness. This is a crucial distinction. Similarly the “good-enough marriage” is characterized by its capacity to allow spouses to keep growing, to afford them the strength and bravery required to face the world.” Married (Happily) With Issues - NYTimes.com

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“Last year I was nuts. Cookie incident. You never know what’ll take you down.” Yarn Harlot: For the record

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Dec 18
“The foundation claims that Firefox Mobile will have the fastest Javascript engine of any mobile browser, allowing developers to create apps for the browser instead of creating multiple versions of the same app for different mobile OSes.” Mozilla: Firefox Mobile will kill off app stores | News | PC Pro

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Dec 17
“Taking advantage of the countless benefits, cities around the country have been replacing traditional filament-based traffic signal bulbs with LEDs for years. Unfortunately, the low-watt LED units burn much cooler than its white-hot counterpart making it unable to melt snow off weather exposed traffic fixtures.” Unintended Consequence of Technology: New LED traffic lights can’t melt snow — Autoblog

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Dec 15
“7. Google Latitude” Twitter Blog: Top Twitter Trends of 2009

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Dec 11

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“They are starting out as the most politically progressive age group in modern history. In the 2008 election, Millennials voted for Barack Obama over John McCain by 66%-32%, while adults ages 30 and over split their votes 50%-49%. In the four decades since the development of Election Day exit polling, this is the largest gap ever seen in a presidential election between the votes of those under and over age 30. […] They are the least religiously observant youths since survey research began charting religious behavior.” The Millennials - Pew Research Center

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Dec 10

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“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either now or in the uncertain future — patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.” The Eternal Value of Privacy

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