Here’s a bare-bones MARC record for Zeldman’s Taking Your Talent to the Web (from Library of Congress):
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Photo: “A cobbing shed showing girls sorting and cobbing ‘crude’ asbestos.”

From Asbestos: A Magic Mineral by Lilian Holmes Strack, 1941:
“Cobbing is really taking rock away from the silky fibers. Boys and girls make good cobbers. A cobber works at a bench which is much like any other except that a flat stone or iron plate […]

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“Earth to Michael.” It would seem that I’ve missed not only the first game, but I’ve also missed the second game as well. Crap. The third game is what I should have referred to in the last post. But in my mind the second game was not supposed to take place on that night but […]

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Cool Tip for Hot Dogs on a Summer Day #1: A wedge of ice on a slick, clean concrete floor can provide at least 15 minutes of “Where’d-It-Go??!” fun. And it helps to cool him down while you laugh hysterically.
The second game of the NBA finals is tomorrow night, as if you need me to […]

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You’ll remember that our last encounter with the mildly deranged boss (or, MDB) occurred a few months ago. A co-worker had quit, but the MDB refused to believe it until it was nearing 5 p.m. The MDB, who simply would not go home early and relax so that she could come back at 5 p.m. […]

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I’m doing some more tinkering. I didn’t like the way the words looked jagged in IE 5.5 Windows so I took out the stolen gif and replaced it with a simple, soft gray. I’ll have to play around a bit more to get that semi-transparent thing to work.
In non-redesign news, James of Consolation Champs […]

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Happy birthday to the Jishster! Yeow!

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This is not the kind of email one likes to receive from one’s precious wife at nine in the morning:

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One of the great things about the Internet is that it’s so incredibly dynamic. You can change your pages like you change your moods. In other aspects of my life I require routine. Solid, steady, predictable, precious routine. But here, I crave change. Maybe that’s because everyday I learn something new about the web. I […]

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Normally, I wouldn’t share something like this. But since I already have a history of loathing Gordon Sumner, I thought you’d like to know that Emode has decided that my inner rockstar is Sting.
Quote: “Oh yeah, the rock star in you is Sting. Sexy, versatile, and enormously successful, you’re an introspective soul who channels your […]

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