Advice for snow chains? | Ask MetaFilter.

Help me watch The Wire. | Ask MetaFilter. Where to find a spoiler free reference and when to watch the prequels.

The last few links in the chain. | Ask MetaFilter. Oh my gosh, Chi-Chi's restaurants are all gone?

Help me fight perspective! | Ask MetaFilter. With a link to the angular size calculator.

How to improve my posture? | Ask MetaFilter.

You Grow Girl™ - » Annatto Pod. Wow, she includes a link to a tutorial on using it to dye cloth or wool.

Cold Season Remedy: Homemade Cough Drops | The Kitchn.

Seattle Tall Poppy: Tips for Throwing a Party...Without Breaking the Bank. Can you keep a secret? I've never so much as thrown a dinner party. I've got to change that this year.

How do restaurants estimate how long you'll have to wait to be seated? | Ask MetaFilter.

Authentic imitation. "The way that books used to be printed, the reader would have to cut open each page with a paper knife", at Kottke.

Here are some pictures of the Cortona Cafe on a happy Saturday morning spent knitting with friends. These were taken with the S90 set on automatic (as I have not read through the manual yet).

I love the menu wall.

They have a guitar you can use if you'd like.

On auto the pictures seem a bit dark to me. (And perhaps that means they are true to life whereas I'm used to seeing photos online being cheerily bright - ?) I'll just have to learn how to use the camera properly I suppose.

Here are some wrap up posts about the Altitude Design Summit that contain a lot of useful information:

Janel from Apartment Therapy has put together the list of speakers (or at least those that have blogs).

Mint has a panel by panel wrap up of of the talks she attended.

Say Yes To Hoboken shares the best bits of advice from the summit.

Petit Elefant has the list of design sites mentioned in the first panel (tons of new ones as well as old favorites), and SF Girl By Bay shares her favorites among those as well as some new favorites of her own.