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From Crossing the Rubicon, a link to an unusual and strangely amusing form of self portraiture, blogged by a guy who seems to get around:

The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.

Parent Hacks is mostly aimed at the parents of young children (say, under 6), but I still get some enjoyment out of it, and occasionally post my parenting tips in the comments.

I love The Common Room for its poetry, its news round-ups, the stories about the kids, the discussions of home schooling (how and why), and the recipes.

Adloyada is a Jewish woman who has six decades' worth of accumulated opinions to offer. Post categories include:
* Academic hissy fits
* AUT/NATFHE/UCU
* Books
* Confessions of a former couch potato
* Education, education, education
* Food and Drink
* Jewish life & learning
* London
* Memory
* Other voices
* Our entirely unbiased media
* Radicals and marxists of Chelm
* Service to the downhearted
* TBJM
* The age of not believing
* The land of milk and honey
* Today Programme
* Weblogs
* You probably think this post is about you

Relevant to recent discussions around my friendslist, the current post as I type this is about organization and stuff.

Portland Architecture goes into the "hate the attitude, still learn a lot from" column. This guy is pro-building: condos and hi-rises everywhere! Build the tram, after all it's already been *designed* and we owe it to the designer to build it! Completely understandable but not my attitude at all (guess I won't be an architect); still, I learn a lot about what's going on in the development circles, I occasionally see something I really like, for example, the Living Smart designs for narrow-lot home building in Portland.

Foldedspace posted some MP3s and links to old recorded music, such as a 1905 recording of In the Good Old Summertime by John Philip Sousa's band, and a 1918 recording of Over There by Enrico Caruso.

Edited to add: From one of the links, what may be the inspiration for Rosemary Clooney's hit, Come On'a My House: Won't You Come Over to My House, which contains the lyric "I'll give you candy" but is apparently about a woman asking a little girl sitting on the street, crying, to come over and play and pretend to be her daughter.

From 0 to 5 is the story of a woman and her partner who have foster-parented and adopted several children, including some gay teens who were abused in previous situations. They struggle so hard to teach the kids how to love and be loved, I can't adequately express my admiration for them.

A Dress A Day doesn't *always* show a dress a day, although that is the goal of the poster. Sometimes it's a quote about clothing from literature, sometimes a sample of fabric. Sometimes the daily dress is a pattern, sometimes a dress for sale (e.g., on Ebay).

Alas, a Blog is a group blog with a focus that might be ACLU and feminism and gender and size issues, with a side of politics and baby pictures. A post today discusses a story from the news of a Jewish family driven out of town by Christians, in Delaware, with the help of an anti-ACLU organization.

trish_wilson also writes The Countess. Frequent topics include father's rights, parental alienation, and erotic chocolates.