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Links of Interest (October 27th 2008 through December 27th 2008)

Awesomeness is always looking for you. But are you looking for it?: Writer/Podcaster J.C. Hutchins may very well be the king of turning life's lemons into lemonade. Who else would see a 6am wrong number as an opportunity to grow audience not just for himself, but for the caller as well?
Tags: [tag]JC Hutchins[/tag]
History of the town of Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement: The Internet Archive has a complete scan of this 1866 book by Benjamin Hobart, detailing the early history of the town where I grew up. Just stumbled across it by accident.
Tags: [tag]public-domain[/tag] [tag]Abington[/tag] [tag]Abington MA[/tag] [tag]history[/tag] [tag]Internet Archive[/tag] [tag]Benjamin Hobart[/tag]
*New* Google Reader (12/05/08) Tweaks: If your finding the newer/cleaner/simpler Google Reader look to be harsher/cluttered/annoying then give this userstyle a try. The changes are subtle, but really bring Google Reader back to usable for me.
Tags: [tag]hacks[/tag], [tag]CSS[/tag], [tag]google[/tag], [tag]Google Reader[/tag], [tag]userstlye[/tag], [tag]tweaks[/tag]
Amazon Filler Item Finder: Have you ever realized your Amazon.com order would qualify for free shipping if only you could find something cheap to put you over the minimum? Amazon Filler Item Finder lets you search for qualifying items by price for just this purpose.
Tags: [tag]shopping[/tag], [tag]tools[/tag], [tag]money[/tag], [tag]Amazon.com[/tag],

Lincoln’s $5 bill gets a colorful makeover: I was just thinking, boy I wish this $5 bill had a big purple number on it (of course I was hoping the number was $1,000,000, but you can’t win them all).
The future keepers: Philip K. Dick’s children work to ensure the influential author’s cinematic legacy. I hope it works out because there have been some less than stellar adaptations of some truly amazing stories.
Animal Magnetism: Making O’Reilly Animals: History of the animal designs on O’Reilly’s book covers.
Record Industry Proves Again How Much They?ve Lost The Plot: Say hello to the Ringle!
Floatutorial: Step by step CSS float tutorial: Exceptionally detailed tutorials on floats.

Science Fiction Writers of America abuses the DMCA – Boing Boing: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America invoked the DMCA to request works be removed from Scribd even though in a number of cases they had no right to do so, including Creative Commons licensed work.
Consumer Reports says ‘keep that car’: Driving one car for 15 years is cheaper than buying a new one ever 5 years. Nice to see I’ve been doing the right thing all this time.
YUI Theater ? Joseph Smarr: ?High-Performance JavaScript: Why Everything You?ve Been Taught is Wrong?: Video of Joseph Smarr’s talk on High-Performance JavaScript.
30+ Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers & Designers: Nice collection of Firefox extensions useful for web developers and/or designers.
Redirection – Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache: Wordrpess 2.1+ plugin to handle redirects. Looks very full featured.
eTextbook seller fails logic test: Evo points out what I assume is a hilarious misuse of survey data. CafeScribe is supplying a “book” scented scratch and sniff sticker to customers because people like the way books smell.