August 2009
321 posts
“Field & Stream” meets Outsider Art and… ? http://bit.ly/D7lUb
Adults forced to separate squabbling cable TV children. A time out for O’Reilly and Olbermann: http://bit.ly/2zDIlb
I’ll never tire of hearing stories of Brooks Robinson and his contact with fans http://bit.ly/Keuib
July 2009
262 posts
Some think books are a waste of $ [http://bit.ly/IcJ8N], but there are plenty of ways to read frugally http://bit.ly/19fMTf
New secularist worry: the rise of the religious *Left*? http://bit.ly/OrcC2
Wondrous Maira Kalman on brilliant Ben Franklin. “Don’t mope in your room. Go invent something!” http://bit.ly/g2ruK RT @aarieff
Is mobile Internet helping bridge “digital divide”? African Americans, Hispanics Lead Mobile Web Growth http://bit.ly/P2quW
RT @roncharles: Great write-up about the upcoming National Book Festival (Sept 26): http://tinyurl.com/lfg94k
Nice roundup of this week’s arts and culture headlines from @NewsHour http://twurl.nl/cqrvhs
#FollowFriday Past/Future: @lileks @paleofuture @unmodern
Saye it ain’te soe! RT @unmodern: The story of thorn. Or, why “ye olde” is a misspelling. http://tr.im/t2xe
#FollowFriday Books: @melvillehouse @readstreet @thebookmaven @roncharles #FF
RT @LaraABCNews: Anger… [and] a very palpable lack of fear. Shouts of “Our Neda is not dead, it is this government that is dead”
RT @royalenfields: Royal Enfield dealership in India is impressive. A visiting American gives us a photo tour. http://tinyurl.com/lwo9vx
Reflections on the past and future of publishing according to @R_Nash http://bit.ly/CgWoN
NPR’s newly redesigned site has the best 404 page in news http://tr.im/uUzu (via @acarvin) RT @NiemanLab
The Second Pass http://bit.ly/16pKqx -a very interesting literary website reviewing and discussing both new and “old” books
#FollowFriday Design/Style: @aarieff @acontinuouslean @jess3 @kristaprints @vpostrel
Design/Style: @aarieff @acontinuouslean@jess3 @kristaprints @vpostrel #FF
Books: @melvillehouse @nancethepants @thebookmaven #FF
Past/Future: @lileks @paleofuture @unmodern #FF
The Second Pass: a very interesting, new (to me) online literary mag; reviewing new and “old” books http://bit.ly/16pKqx
Conversation starter: which acclaimed/canonical books are safe to skip? http://bit.ly/v1RTX RT @CAVALIERMagzine
Sad: Mansion fire, badly handled, results in total loss of “museum quality art collection” http://bit.ly/B02jV
David Brooks’ life will have no meaning if you fail to breed http://bit.ly/NpriJ
How the only known photo of Phineas Gage was discovered… on Flickr. http://bit.ly/EBEQL RT @librarythingtim @jessamyn
Bunch of people I respect a lot are on http://bloggingheads.tv this week… @vpostrel @KBAndersen @willwilkinson @mleewelch and others.
Virginia Foundation for Humanities is hosting EdUI 2009 - for web professionals in higher ed: http://www.eduiconf.org/ RT @JenServenti
Tech brands// from something overheard at the Mos Eisley Cantina: Hadoop, Erlang, Git and Grep http://bit.ly/WIUrR RT @timoreilly @tsancio
Oh RT @CNETNews: Facebook erroneously sucking in Twitter updates http://bit.ly/vbPkS
Ha RT @allahpundit A special treat for veterans of Rathergate: Obama’s real birth certificate http://is.gd/1TwE6
“Snakes” by Great Northern ♫ http://blip.fm/~au5ju
Patti Smith’s “Hey Joe” (plus Patty Hearst) ♫ http://blip.fm/~atzip
Spooky & Stirring: Hey Joe (Nick Cave version) ♫ http://blip.fm/~atyzk
Nice. RT @OriolesHangout: Watching Adam Jones hit a home run by dropping the head of the bat on a Zack Greinke curveball
New EU law to extinguish art made from incandescent bulbs? http://bit.ly/1ldj1b RT @artinfodotcom (over to you @overlawyered!)
RT @WilliamShatner: I’m going back to The Tonight Show tonight. You won’t want to miss this. My best, Bill
!?! Books are #2 on a list of “Money Wasters To Avoid” http://bit.ly/wpYb4
Maisy Munches on Difethialone #failedchildrensbooktitles
What happens when novelists sober up? — http://tinyurl.com/n4n8he RT @sarahw @mlberry
“Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,/Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.” -Edmund Blunden
Amidst bulldozing policy, the only rust belt mayor who sings the praise of ruins: http://is.gd/1SN4R RT @joguldi
Enjoying new(ish) Great Northern album http://bit.ly/gtTTN; thanks to live session @WTMD for the introduction
On-the-record price fixing chat?! RT @Awl: The Silly Beleaguered Fashion World Strikes Out Blindly To Save Itself http://cli.gs/AjeSs
If only we could get Indian mangoes in the US, I would be really eager to try this chilled soup recipe http://bit.ly/2H0eGN
Well, it’s like, ya know? RT @Pat_Bianculli: I heard a commentator on NPR use “sort of” again today!! …bleep it like a cuss word!!
Not good RT @Richard_Florida: Flight of the creative class http://bit.ly/1aSySd
Beautiful video about letterpress printing http://vimeo.com/4749657 RT @kristaprints @mikeyburton
RT @RonHogan: Good luck to @NYPL director David S. Ferriero; he’s just been nominated to serve as the next Archivist of the United States!
Sorry newsies: RT @jeffjarvis: Obama adminstration saves money… by canceling newspaper subs. http://bit.ly/UYW6r
