the alphabet according to my browser

I recently found myself idly typing letters into my browsers location bar and noticing which sites it first suggests as an auto complete. So I made this list, which may or may not be an interesting alphabetic snapshot of the sites I've recently been visiting the most often. These don't reflect sites that I read obsessively in RSS and some results are surprising. (No Twitter or Pinterest? I'll have to figure out how that works.) A: Alicia Paulson [1], who was lovely enough to offer a copy of her book for the May giveaways B: The Beer Junction [2], a local beer shop and where I get Pliny the Elder and good advice on what other beer I might like (I'm an IPA lover) C: Cliff Mass [3], a local weather guru D: Design Mom [4], I love following her reports from France E: Epiphanie Bags [5], those lovely camera bags all the cool bloggers have (is now a good time to tell you I have one too?) F: Feedburner [6], I set up my feed through them before they became owned by Google, and I was so relieved that the switch over was seamless G: Grassroots Business Association [7], the small business group I'm a committee member of H: The Hairpin [8], it's where I get beauty advice [9] from a producer of This American Life (that sound? is a few of my worlds colliding) I: IMDB [10], for all those "that guy" look ups, I also like their collection of news [11] for updates on what is going on in movies and TV with just enough celebrity gossip thrown in J: Jordan Ferney [12], maker of excellent parties and surprises, and reporting from her move to Paris K: Knox Gelatine [13], research for a current project L: Luxirare [14], I'm in love with her posts about food [15] M: Musings of a Muse [16], where I get my makeup reviews N: NetShift [17], a neat little game made by foon, NetShift is the successor to BlackShift (which I liked even more but doesn't work on newer computers, sadly) O: Gmail [18]. Wait, Gmail? Apparently I don't visit sites that have O in them? How about Mrs. O [19]? Tom and Lorenzo [20]? Overstock [21]? C'mon browser! P: Posie Gets Cozy [22], Alicia again, I got sucked in by the adorable dog and kept reading Q: Ask Metafilter [23], not surprising in the least as it's all Qs R: Random.org [24], the number generator I use for giveaway winners S: School House Craft [25], a conference here in Seattle that I'll be at to talk about blogging with Blair from Wise Craft [26] and Molly from Orangette [27] T: Tom and Lorenzo [28], they who do Project Rungay and keep up commentary on all sorts of shows and red carpet events U: Ugly Green Chair [29], Whitney is one of my oldest blog-to-real-life friends! V: Voracious [30], a local Seattle food blog W: WTF with Marc Maron on PRX [31], these are a selection of WTF podcasts trimmed down to fit in a usual public radio slot and I'm so happy to see they are being picked up by public radio stations across the US (you should request it of your local station, just a suggestion -- I also suggest you listen to the WTF [32] podcast if you don't already) X: XKCD [33], I like this online comic so darn much Y: YouTube [34], this one is a surprise as I really don't spend much time on the site, though I did watch this fun fan-made Portal video yesterday: Outside Aperture [35] Z: Zappos [36], I recently panic-ordered a lot of shoes to try and they all arrived in one big box, it's so large I could curl up inside and ship myself back [1] http://aliciapaulson.com/ [2] http://www.thebeerjunction.com/ [3] http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/ [4] http://www.designmom.com/ [5] http://www.epiphaniebags.com/ [6] http://feedburner.google.com [7] http://grassrootsbusinessassoc.com/ [8] http://thehairpin.com/ [9] http://thehairpin.com/slug/how-to-be-a-girl [10] http://www.imdb.com/ [11] http://www.imdb.com/news/top [12] http://jordanferney.blogspot.com/ [13] http://www.knoxgelatine.com/ [14] http://luxirare.com [15] http://luxirare.com/make-pizza-without-dough/ [16] http://www.musingsofamuse.com/ [17] http://foon.co.uk/farcade/netshift/ [18] https://mail.google.com [19] http://mrs-o.org/ [20] http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/ [21] http://www.overstock.com/ [22] http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/ [23] http://ask.metafilter.com [24] http://www.random.org/ [25] http://schoolhousecraft.com/ [26] http://blairpeter.typepad.com/ [27] http://orangette.blogspot.com/ [28] http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/ [29] http://www.uglygreenchair.com/ [30] http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/voracious/ [31] http://www.prx.org/series/32112-wtf-with-marc-maron [32] http://www.wtfpod.com/ [33] http://xkcd.com/ [34] http://www.youtube.com/ [35] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0 [36] http://www.zappos.com/

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May Birthday Giveaway: Super Natural Every Day

[1] This month Not Martha will be 10 years old. Ten years! To celebrate I'm holding a giveaway each weekday, they'll be filled with stuff I love made by people I know. Here we go. I'm super happy to have a copy of Heidi Swanson's book Super Natural Every Day [2] to offer as our first giveaway. Heidi's site, 101 Cookbooks [3] is one of those sites I've been reading for years and years and our cookbook club chose her first book, Super Natural Cooking [4], for our first meeting and everything was a delicious success. With Super Natural Every Day Heidi has given us simpler and quicker recipes that I cannot wait to make. The book is broken up into Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, Dinner, Drinks and Treats and has a collection of tips that I've found myself trusting Heidi to know. (Eggs from really awesome small farms actually are more difficult to peel! It's not my imagination!) Did I mention this book is vegetarian? It is. I hardly noticed though. I ate dinner just shortly before I am typing this and the photos are making me hungry again. You want this book. To enter please leave a comment with this entry, you have until Tuesday, May 3rd at 10 a.m. PST to enter, the fine print [5] applies. If you'd like please answer this question: Have you ever cooked with dandelion greens? I'll go first: I have not, but there is a recipe for Chickpeas & Dandelion Greens in this book that is very simple (seven ingredients!) and I'm gonna try it. Alright, good luck everybody! Closed! Thank you for entering! [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580082777/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=notma... [2] http://www.heidiswanson.com/supernaturaleveryday/ [3] http://www.101cookbooks.com/ [4] http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2010/03/15/super-natural-cooking-at-the-coo... [5] http://www.notmartha.org/the-fine-print/

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photo: typical

It's not well known but one of the best views in Seattle is from the Observation Deck of the Columbia Tower (one of our skyscrapers). To get there you take a bank of elevators up to one floor and transfer over to another bank of elevators and, hold on, what do you find as you're walking past? A Starbucks! A Starbucks with a pretty great view. Above is one of the first views that greets you from the Observation Deck. I've circled the Space Needle in orange to show you how tiny it seems from the Columbia Tower. See? Cute. Here is the proof of the Starbucks. It's free to get up to it, by the way. To get to the observation deck you take the bank of elevators in the North Lobby to the 40th floor, pass by that Starbucks, then take those elevators to the 73rd floor. Follow the signs to the left. It's about $5 per person to get in and then you find yourself looking down at the Space Needle, which is pretty cool. The views are nearly 360 degrees and on a clear day you can see all the surroundings mountains. It's far cheaper than the Space Needle, involves a whole lot less waiting and zero souvenir photographs. (The Space Needle, though, does have glass elevators and a rotating restaurant.) It's one of my favorite places to bring visitors. And not just to show off that yes we really do have Starbucks everywhere. update: Not too long after this I found myself taking a picture of the Columbia Tower from the top of the Space Needle [1] for comparison. [1] http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2011/07/15/one-view-from-the-space-needle/

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almost daily photo: April 28th

Kyle [1] sent Scott home with a bottle of the beer which I had the opportunity to watch him make last month [2]. Don't be fooled by the name, I mostly observed! Thank you, Kyle, it was delicious. [1] http://kylestevensmusic.tumblr.com/ [2] http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2011/03/25/daily-photo-mar-25th/

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