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Way back when the internet was just text pages and marketing had not yet taken over everything, I bought moodle.net and put up my very first website. It had an animated GIF for the front page and everyTHANG.

“moodle” was a handle I had chosen back in 1996 when I joined one of the first Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) on the young web, Bitstream Underground (BSU), where I had made lovely friends that I still have today. Moodle.net became a place where I tested out my web design skills, and put up stuff that amused me.

I did hard coding for moodle.net, but I eventually discovered blogging platforms and I moved on to blogger and livejournal. I kept moodle as my email all the way up until 2008 until I sold moodle.net domain to the gentleman who authored the moodle programming language. I kept charlene@moodle.net and he provided a forward to my new domains. But nowadays I have become theredheadsaid as my online identity, and sadly the moodle.net email has become a spam magnet, having been on the intertubez for 13 years. So i made the decision today to pull the plug on my moodle.net identity.

Goodbye moodle.net, I have loved ye.

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• Author Charlene Jaszewski

If you’re a creative person you know that sometimes you need a box to design your way out of. Many people find the “make X once a day” idea very fruitful. And there’s a lovely blog that chronicles just that!

makesomething365.blogspot.com/

One woman makes an owl a day…

This gentleman makes one imaginary creature a day

Oddments & Curiosities: odd creatures on odd days…

One guy just decided to  Make Something Cool Every Day like this awesome “emoticikhans”

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If you are a fan of threadless, or drawn.ca, or other illustration sites, you’ll love society6.com. It’s works of art from illustrators available in multiple formats: art prints, t-shirts, even computer and iPhone skins.

It has the Tumblr functionality that I love: you can follow people and their updates appears in an easy-to-read stream.

As a (closeted) illustrator, I like the idea of just coming up with the art and someone else producing its vehicle!

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Pictoplasma is an illustration/animation festival I first discovered when I was in Berlin in 2006. It just came through NYC today and I got to see it!
I couldn’t find all my favorite shorts from the show, but here are the ones I could.

THIS ONE TIME – by Nelson Boles

CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE – WHITE COROLLA

Continue reading →

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If you go to buy an item at a retail store and the register price is different than the shelf price, most stores will honor the shelf price. However, if this happens at Whole Foods, it goes a step further. Here’s how it happened to me:

Price Mismatch

I saw a sale price on the shelf. I took item to get rung up. It’s different than shelf. I paid for the item, but they sent me to  customer service (I thought to get the difference back, which was $1). But the customer service person gave me the FULL PRICE of the item back! I guess they do this to, I dunno, make an example of themselves so they keep up on the prices?

Sadly, I went back the next day to get more of the tomato sauce (Frank’s – it’s AMAZING!), and the lower (wrong) price was still showing. I could have really taken advantage of this but some misdirected sense of ethics prevented me. Continue reading →

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So I was bored tonight and decided, like most bored people, to google myself. After the usual spate of linked in, facebook, and twitter links, I started seeing more obscure stuff. Sites I did one-off posts on, sites that were blog post aggregators.

Then suddenly a book acknowledgment for the book “Tarot for Writers” by Corrine Kenner. What? I have been acknowledged in a book, but the authors told me it was happening. But here I was, acknowledge for something I did long ago. Way back when I lived in Minneapolis (second time), I took a “Tarot For Writers” course from Corrine Kenner. I was in a phase where I was flexing my fiction muscles (that’s still a tough thing to do for a business head like me) and this intersected my love of the intuitive with my love of writing. Well Corrine made a book out of the course and thanked her class (including me!) How lovely! I hope her book does well!

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After reading Why The Kindle Will Fail over at the Neiman Journalism Lab (yay new find) I came up with my own conclusion: it’s butt ugly!
I admit I got excited when the Kindle (version 1) first came out. Continue reading →

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The Redhead Said