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267<a class="nav" title="A restaurant without tips?" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2013/08/a_restaurant_without_tips.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;I worked in food service for about 10 years. I always made great tips, and I have no problem with the tipping system. But I found this article on <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/08/tipless_restaurants_the_linkery_s_owner_explains_why_abolishing_tipping.single.html">running a no-tip restaurant</a> compelling, particularly his observations about the people who were most opposed to his alternate system.</p>
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269<p>I'll add an anecdote of my own. One night I served a couple drinks. The man paid and I went on my way. When I returned to the table to see how they were doing, the man said to me "I'm going to tip you even though I know you have a closet full of designer jeans at home."</p>
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271<p>I had a lot of choices at that moment. I took a few seconds to select from among them. And then I said, thoughtfully, "Well, as a matter of fact I don't have any designer jeans, but I think I deserve to have nice things as much as anyone else."</p>
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273<p>At this point, his date (I presume they weren't married) took over. "She's on her feet 8 hours a day," she started out, and I walked away. (For the record, it was usually 12 hours or more.) As I remember, he was a white, middle-aged male. And that exchange, it seems to me, was about status and who should - and should not - have it.  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;08.19.13&nbsp;]</small></span>
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332<a class="nav" title="NPR's Top 100 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2013/07/nprs_top_100_sci-fi_and_fantas.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;I'm not particularly nerdy, but I was still surprised that I've read only 23 out of NPR's <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books">Top 100 Science-Fiction &amp; Fantasy Books</a>. (<a href="http://www.listchallenges.com/npr-top-100-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books?ref=share">Tally your total here</a>.) I enjoy both genres, so I'll use this as a reading list when my current stock runs dry. What did they leave off? Let me know so I can add it to my "to read" list.</p>
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334<p>As a side note, I'm always a bit annoyed to see these genres lumped together, since they are so different from each other in type and tone. Actually, I guess that statement alone makes me pretty nerdy, eh?  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;07.31.13&nbsp;]</small></span>
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415<p>I had no idea, but I've run into this 3 times just today. Does anyone know the history of this? (hat tip K.R. Lary and <a href="http://feelinglistless.blogspot.com/">Stuart Ian Burns</a>)  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;05.29.13&nbsp;]</small></span>
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489<a class="nav" title="75th Anniversary of the Hindenburg" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2012/11/75th_anniversary_of_the_hinden.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;Last May was the anniversary of the Hindenburg Disaster. Here is <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/75-years-since-the-hindenburg-disaster/100292/">the amazing Atlantic spread</a> commemorating the day. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/75-years-since-the-hindenburg-disaster/100292/#img14">Image 14</a> is the very essence of the 1930s-future.  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;11.29.12&nbsp;]</small></span>
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528<p>But this article suggests that women simply are not given the same opportunities, no matter what their title, that are given to men. Pure and simple.  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;11.16.12&nbsp;]</small></span>
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565<a class="nav" title="Obama's data-crunchers" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2012/11/obamas_data-crunchers.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;The day of the election, I heard a Political Science professor say that the Obama campaign had an unbelievable amount of information about voters. What they were doing put Nate Silver in the shade, he said. Here's <a href="http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-quants-and-data-crunchers-who-helped-obama-win/">a glimpse of that data machine</a> and how they did it.</p>
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702<p>I'm sure it's true. I often see both parents and nannies lost in their smartphones while their very little children run, climb, and play at the park. What resonates most strongly with me is the section at the end of the article which paints an alarming picture of both the depth and length of distraction these devices provoke.  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;10.05.12&nbsp;]</small></span>
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739<a class="nav" title="The Jack O'Lantern Tree" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2012/10/the_jack_olantern_tree.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;Halloween is coming. You wish you had a wonderful book for your children to celebrate the season. Now you do! The very talented Linda Stanek is making her latest e-book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00977IK8G/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00977IK8G&linkCode=as2&tag=rebeccaspocke-20">The Jack O' Lantern Tree</a>, available to everyone for free from October 4-8.</p> 
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741<p>Please download it and read it to your kids (or your own inner child). It's available for download to Kindle or computer. If you're new to the Kindle universe, go here to learn how: http://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc. Click "Free Reading Apps" in the menu bar if you have a Mac, iPad or Android.  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;10.04.12&nbsp;]</small></span>
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763<a class="nav" title="Collecting Cookbooks" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2012/10/collecting_cookbooks.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;I could have written <a href="http://activehistory.ca/2012/08/speak-recipe-reading-cookbooks-as-life-stories/">Speak, Recipe: Reading Cookbooks as Life Stories</a>, so beautifully does it capture my attitude toward old cookbooks and the histories - both cultural and personal - they embody.</p>
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793<li>Check for universal recycling symbol. If the product has been labeled as V or PVC, then avoid the product.
794<li>If you are unsure if the product has vinyl then email or call the 1-800 number of the manufacturer or the retailer and ask them about the material used in the product.
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797<p>(via <a href="http://www.twitter.com/KPbabydoctor" class="sup">@KPbabydoctor</a>)  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;10.01.12&nbsp;]</small></span>
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871<p>To simplify matters, you might also consider using a password management system so that your digital executor need only type in your master password to access all your online accounts. Then they need only consult your long list in the instance that your computer goes down in flames with you.
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1783<blockquote>In October 2006 a 32-year-old milk truck driver barricaded himself in an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania and shot 10 young girls execution style before putting his nine-millimeter pistol to his head and pulling the trigger.</blockquote>
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1785<blockquote>The crime shocked America, but what came next was perhaps more stunning. Within days grieving parents reached out to the widow of the killer, offering forgiveness and financial assistance.</blockquote>
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2064<a class="nav" title="NYC Subway Quilt" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2011/02/nyc_subway_quilt.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;Quilts are unparalleled for their supreme practicality combined with skilled and intricate artwork. One day I'll learn to make them myself, and when I do, this quilt of the<a href="http://makesomething.ca/2011/01/31/whole-cloth-quilt-nyc-subway-map/"> New York City Subway map</a> - or one like it - will be on top of my list. (via <a href="http://www.fiberfarm.com/blog">jmff</a>)  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;02.17.11&nbsp;]</small></span>
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2677<a class="nav" title="College replaces Dewey with Netflix classifications" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2010/09/college_replaces_dewey_with_ne.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;Librarians at the College of Eastern Nevada have <a href="http://www.cronknews.com/2010/08/11/librarians-abandon-dewey-decimal-system-in-favor-of-netflix-categories/">replaced the Dewey Decimal System with Netflix categories</a> in order to allow students to more readily find the books they need. They've provided a handy cheat sheet for faculty who are accustomed to researching the old fashioned way. I was pretty neutral about this until I got to the part about classifying <a class="sup" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141439556/ref=nosim/rebeccaspocke-20">Wuthering Heights</a> as "Romantic Comedy". Seriously, people, have you ever read any of the Brontes?  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;09.08.10&nbsp;]</small></span>
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2699<a class="nav" title="Who owns Trader Joes, and where do they get their goods?" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2010/09/who_owns_trader_joes_and_where.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/20/news/companies/inside_trader_joes_full_version.fortune/">Behind the growing empire of quirky neighborhood grocery stores known as Trader Joes</a>. I've always wondered where they sourced their products - from everywhere, it turns out, name brands included. Turns out there's much more to know about them than just that. (via <a href="http://waxy.org/links/">w.o/l</a>)  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;09.07.10&nbsp;]</small></span>
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2721<a class="nav" title="Summer Reading - 09/05/10" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2010/09/summer_reading_-_090510.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;This week: Otherworld literature, books for adventurous girls, and what to read for the rest of the year.</p>
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2724NPR: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129581144&ft=1&f=1032">Ricks' Picks: Best Books About War In Iraq</a><br />
2725NPR: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127987195">Three Books For The Self-Help Skeptic</a><br />
2726Guardian UK: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/01/mark-pilkington-top-10-books-ufos">Otherworld literature: From total believers to complete sceptics, the author of Mirage Men selects books that are 'informative, entertaining, puzzling or all three at once'</a><br />
2727Guardian UK: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/04/ten-best-religious-zealots-in-literature">Ten of the best religious zealots in literature</a><br />
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2730<p><strong>Children and Young Adults:</strong><br />
2731PBS: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/parents/booklights/archives/2009/07/series-books-featuring-adventurous-girls.html">Series Books Featuring Adventurous Girls</a><br />
2732PBS: Booklights: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/parents/booklights/archives/2010/07/thursday-thirty-summer-books-tot-to-tween.html">Thirty Summer Books, Tot to Tween</a><br />
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2735<p><strong>And for the Rest of the Year:</strong><br />
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2737NY Magazine: <a href="http://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2010/books/67623/">The Twenty Our most anticipated fiction and nonfiction of fall</a><br />
2738Guardian UK: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2010/sep/03/david-grossman-new-publishing-season">David Grossman and the new publishing season</a>: In this week's podcast we take a look at the new publishing season and open the betting on who this year's Christmas bestsellers will be<br />
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2742<p>Thus endeth Summer Reading 2010.  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;09.06.10&nbsp;]</small></span>
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2764<a class="nav" title="The surprising ways that language controls perception" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2010/09/the_surprising_ways_that_langu.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;I've always felt that language shapes our very perception of the world. In any language, what is named or not named, how things are framed, or what information is embedded (gender or tense - or, in Turkish, whether you witnessed an event yourself) - these things do more than color a narrative. They are the means by which humans construct reality. Language forms understanding. It dictates how we perceive the world, and how we convey our experience to others. One of the advantages of learning a new language is that it gives you a set of new eyes. A new language creates new brain spaces and connections, literally forcing you to step to the side and consider experience from a new perspective.</p>
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2766<p>Or so it always seemed to me. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383131592767868.html">Now psychologists are proving my thesis</a> - and the effect language has on perception, memory, and cognition is startling even to these experts.</p>
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2768<p><Strong>Update:</strong> This weekend the New York Times Magazine has a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?src=me&ref=general">long article on the same subject</a>.</p>
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2770<blockquote>Some 50 years ago, the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson pointed out a crucial fact about differences between languages in a pithy maxim: "Languages differ essentially in what they <em>must</em> convey and not in what they <em>may</em> convey." This maxim offers us the key to unlocking the real force of the mother tongue: if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language <em>allows</em> us to think but rather because of what it habitually <em>obliges</em> us to think <em>about</em>.</blockquote>  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;09.03.10&nbsp;]</small></span>
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2792<a class="nav" title="Gorgeous fake movie posters and film paraphernalia" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2010/09/gorgeous_fake_movie_posters_an.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;Take a walk through the world of <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/08/20/movie_fan_art_slide_show/slideshow.html">fan-produced movie posters</a> and fake peripheral properties. These are gorgeous works, ranging from <a href="http://mubi.com/topics/2132?page=163">Fake Criterion DVD Covers</a> (scroll down for Star Wars), <a href="http://godxiliary.com/alienvspooh/Medium/">Aliens vs Pooh</a> and <a href="http://godxiliary.com/thepoohing/">The Poohing</a> (a Winnie the Pooh/The Shining mashup), and this gorgeous <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinvg/tags/starwars/">Star Wars travel poster art</a> - and those are just my top 3.  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;09.02.10&nbsp;]</small></span>
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2814<a class="nav" title="2010 Seafood Dirty Dozen" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/2010/09/2010_seafood_dirty_dozen.html">&raquo;</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://food.change.org/blog/view/12_fish_every_eater_should_avoid">12 Fish Every Eater Should Avoid</a>: the most unhealthy, environmentally, and socioeconomically unsustainable seafood choices in the world. It's from the  <a href="http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/fish/seafood/guide/">Smart Seafood Guide</a>, which also lists your best and worst choices nationally and regionally (since where you are will define sustainability in certain cases).  <span class="me"><small>[&nbsp;09.02.10&nbsp;]</small></span>
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2866<h3>my book</h3>
2867<p>&raquo;&nbsp;<strong><a class="me" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/">the weblog handbook</a></strong><br />
2868<strong>amazon editors' best of 2002</strong>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/o/tg/feature/-/400254/">digital culture</a><br />
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2873<h3>directives</h3>
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2893<p><em>The Minnesuing Group</em>, Minnesung Lodge, October 2013<br /></p>
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2900&raquo;&nbsp;The Bone Season, Samantha Shannon&nbsp;&nbsp;<!-- a class="me" href="http://www.rebeccablood.net/medialog/2013/the_bone_season_1.html">[more]</a --><br />
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