Sean’s Blog

Links for the week of interesting stuff I’ve come across.

The Answer To The Toughest Interview Question - Penelope Trunk over at the Brazen Careerist talks about how to handle salary questions in a job interview. This is great advice and one of the questions that always worries me. Her basic answer? Never give a number.

Ultimate Guide To Packing Light - Go Green Travel Green has rounded up 45 tips for packing light when traveling. This is something I am working on. I’ve gotten down to a travel backpack for a week in India and a week in Puerto Rico, but I still find I pack lots of extraneous stuff.

How To Get A Great Deal on a New Car - A three part series over at Gather Little By Little with some great tips on who to get the your new car for the least possible money. My car is going on 7 years old, and I will probably buy used next time, but these are good tips.

2 big idea posts from my cooking hero Mark Bittman(PBUH):

• 101 Simple Appetizers in 20 Minutes or Less
• Summer Express:101 Simple Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but have always been destracted. There is so much good information ou there that it is impossible to find all the good stuff. Every Saturday or Sunday I will try to share the best stuff I have seen the previous week. So without further ado, here are the weekly links for week ending 2/16/2007:

Unasked for Advice to New Writers About Money - John Scalzi over at Whatever stirred up the hornet’s nest with this post. Regardless, it really contains some good advice for anyone (not just writers) for dealing with money. Check out the followup posts here and here.

What People Eat Around the World - Photos and food costs for a week of food from around the world. It’s great (and in the case of Darfur, incredibly depressing) to see it laid out like this.

Lori Nix’s Art - Lori Nix build beautiful surreal models and then photographs them. They are really fantastic.

1975: And The Changes To Come - What the future of 1975 holds! I love these. People of the 60s looking ahead to the wild world of the mid 70s. I’m pretty sure all our predictions will look as ridiculous to future generations.