• Amazon Media Manager
  Lets you add items from Amazon’s catalogue to your wordpress blog. It keeps a list of things you’ve added, too, so you can choose what to display, how to display it and more! [via weblogtoolscollection]
  (tags: wordpress)
• Resources For Web Design
  Specifications, tutorials, webmaster’s reference, web authoring, articles, character and entity references, validators, tips, tools, CSS, HTML, PHP, SEO, and more!
  (tags: php coding tools)
• Metroblogging DC
  Heavy on the ads but with genuinely local content.
  (tags: dcarea)
• Metro Arts and Architecture
  Which metro systems double as the world’s longest art galleries and in which cities you can see stunning underground palaces, museums, aquariums, an ancient chapel… [via metafilter]
  (tags: mass.transit)
• London’s Transport Museum
  Site includes history and information on exhibitions.
  (tags: mass.transit)

Also, I’ve noticed over the past week or so that WordPress has been automatically selecting my “quicklinks” category for these posts even though “daily life” is my default category. When I go to edit the post (to change the title from ‘links’ to ‘Quicklinks’) the “quicklinks” category is already selected. Weird…maybe del.icio.us finally figured it out or something.

I have finally discovered the purpose and usefulness of Pages within WordPress; geeky rambling ensues.
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I have such quick-thinking and witty friends! Here are two imagined conversations.

Evil Audiologist: You don’t sound like you have a hearing problem.
oihanen: Well, you don’t sound like you have a stupid bitch problem.

Here’s the other:

Idiot Parent: So, are you still in training to be an interpreter?
Dan: So, are you still in charm school?

• Forgotten NY: Subways
  Outdated signs and signs that were never correct in the first place abound, as well as doorways to nowhere, closed stations, and lines that may as well be closed
  (tags: mass.transit newyork)
• Suicide Girls is owned by a right winger who treats women like shit
  Wow, I had no idea. Glad I never paid too much attention to them; I will continue that practice. [via kalephunk]
  (tags: sex women)
• Alta-glamour.com
  11,000 entries in a database of vintage erotica. Lots of photos. [via kalephunk]
  (tags: history sex)
• Girl-on-Girl Gaming
  Article explores communities, questions and concerns of lesbian video gamers. [via game girl advance]
  (tags: queer girltech)
• Ferguson Safety Products
  The Safety Smock: A quilted gown designed specifically to clothe suicidal prisoners/inmates (not a restraint). [via cruel site of the day]
  (tags: random)

• CruisEUs.net
  Group cruise in July 2006 for ASL interpreters. RCCL’s Vision of the Seas to Alaska. You cough up $150 for the lectures but earn CEUs.
  (tags: deaf cruising)
• Spoono
  Tips and tutorials for graphics and programming.
  (tags: coding php graphics design)
• Real-time HTML Editor
  Type into the text area, and it updates the preview frame. [via allah_sulu]
  (tags: coding tools)

Here is a word of advice for non-interpreters: never ask a sign language interpreter if they are “in training.” Unless you have been an interpreter yourself - and if you have, you know better than to ask - you have no idea what our work entails. When I stumble in the last five minutes of a 14-hour workday because the speaker suddenly changed the short speech they gave multiple times in the previous couple of hours, don’t assume that I don’t know what I’m doing. If I ask my co-terp for help, be aware that this is standard procedure in my field. You don’t know me, you don’t know what I did earlier in the day, and you don’t have a clue how difficult my job is. Do not fucking ask me if I am “training to be an interpreter” and then when I say “I’m a certified interpreter” rephrase your question to ask again if I am still in training. Just don’t fucking do it.

• I’m worrying about my corset never coming and having been swindled out of $125. I am just too trusting, and this really shows it. I hope my Better Business Bureau complaint helps, and I hope PayPal will reopen the investigation because their 45-day limit for claims shouldn’t apply for a custom item like this. But I hate that I got cheated.
• I’m worrying about the diamond earring that I carelessly dropped down the drain last night. I saw it down there and tried to get it out but it vanished. I took apart the sink, pulled out all the crap in there (two long-haired people make for a messy sink), and tried to paw through it. Now I see why they call it graywater - ewwww. I must have spent at least an hour searching, but I can’t imagine where it went. It was so tiny. It was a gift, and I’m actually more upset about this than you might expect. I haven’t thrown away the hairball yet, maybe if I dry it out or something the earring will turn up. But now I only have five and I’m really upset.
• I’m worrying about working the overtime tonight when I just want to go home and hide in my panic and worries. (It occurs to me that I did not put my anti-anxiety med in my box this week. No wonder I’m a nervous wreck.)
• I’m worrying about having possibly accidentally ordered two free subscriptions to Cruise Travel magazine, in addition to the one I paid for this morning and then canceled this afternoon upon finding the free offers.
• I’m just worrying and sad and all that. And it’s not like any of it even matters. But I just feel like I am having a constant medium-intensity anxiety attack, like I might cry at any time. It’s the lack of meds, I know it is. But I’m still freaked out.
• I’m worried that I will never ever lose any weight.

But I did get The Sims: Superstar for $5 at EB-Games yesterday.

• htaccess Cheatsheet
  Sneak a peek when you need it. [via blog-her]
  (tags: coding)
• Good-Tutorials.com
  Nearly 9,000 tutorials for Photoshop. [via kadyellebee]
  (tags: graphics)
• AirplaneHome.com
  A Boeing 727-200 Home Project [via kalephunk]
  (tags: random)
• The art of pixel layouts
  Create a site with a full-blown pixel layout. Here are some basic guidelines and instructions.
  (tags: design graphics)