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links for 2008-04-30

• Local Online Promotions Poised To Overtake Internet Ad Spend By 2012: Borrell
  (tags: advertising)
• The World Food Crisis
  An article in The Nation on the crisis
  (tags: environment food)

He's Dead Jim (title copied from original post but I can't think of a better one)

(Via The excellent FanBoy site run by Michael Pinto.)

"I guess we’ll just wait until it rains again..."

It is raining and you know what that means - the puddle is back. “..and the Brooklyn Paper has them.

I can't get to the end of "Then We Came to the End" fast enough

links for 2008-04-24

• Random Etc. - Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About
  via kottke.org
  (tags: design visualization)
• Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’ - New York Times
  "The nation’s relatively high violent crime rate, partly driven by the much easier availability of guns here, helps explain the number of people in American prisons."

links for 2008-04-23

• Earth Day - Wikipedia
  38 years of Earth Day. Why isn't this a floating Holiday so it can be on a weekend? The first one was on a Sunday.

links for 2008-04-22

• Who Did Six Apart Acquire?
  One person in 300+ comments. C'mon people. Many congratulations David, John and crew.
  (tags: business blogging)

Starting the weekend off with Mitchell and Webb and some lager

via  BuzzFeed

links for 2008-04-19

• The Difference Between Wordpress and Facebook
• David Byrne and Brian Eno to tour with "electric gospel" album - Boing Boing
  We saw Dvaid Byrne sing "i know what I know", and "You Can Call Me Al" at BAM last Friday night during the Paul Simon Concert. He was fantastic. Can't wait for this.
  (tags: music)
• TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Today's Must Read
  For the first three paragraphs alone this post about a report from the Pentagon's National Defense University is worth the click...
  (tags: politics)
• Flickr: The What Is My Pet Thinking?
  A post from hello.typepad.com about photos saying no to video on Flickr led me to this group. Hmm...what are they thinking?
  (tags: photography pets)
• Pungent winds bring countryside to the capital
  London gets a whiff
  (tags: environment)
• New Green Bo is now Nice Green Bo
  Here is a photo of the new signage. They were nver very nice there but the food was/is great.

Friday W Blogging

links for 2008-04-13

• Scavengers on the Urban Savannah - New York Times
  A great article about Brownstoner's Brooklyn Flea. We went last weekend and loved it. Old stuff and great onesies forW.
  (tags: flea_markets antiques parenting)

links for 2008-04-12

• The Moment The Back Story | Greek Yogurt Revival « - T Magazine - New York Times Blog
  weekend project- making yogurt from milk and a few tablespoons of store bought yogurt. Great way to reuse the mountain of yogurt containers we have waiting to be be recycled
  (tags: food sustainability)

links for 2008-04-11

• The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time - Nerve.com
  via Kottke.org whom I'm going to have to blame in advance for the tremendous time-suck this great you-tube filled list provides.
  (tags: lists humor)

links for 2008-04-10

• Courts chip away at Web sites' decade-old legal shield | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
  (tags: media social-media)

links for 2008-04-08

• Commute to Work by Bike : Planet Green
  Following a link in my treehugger e-mail about bikes I ended up on Planet Green which is Discovery's green portal play.
  (tags: media environment sustainability)
• On the Map
  Website for the Sheffield Museum's exhibit about mapping. Tufte blown out into literary maps, maps of personal space etc. Really interesting stuff. (via Boing Boing)
  (tags: mapping art)
• Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” (NOTCOT)
  post/review about the Sheffiled show. Better than the museum's site with more images.
  (tags: mapping art)
• blog.pmarca.com: The New York Times covers blogging
  Blogging causes death
  (tags: blogging)

Susan Mernit relaunches her site

Susan Mernit whose blog has been a daily read of mine for a few years has finally moved from blogger to MT. her new site is a great improvement and a better promotional outlet for such a smart thinker and consultant.

Swinging Monday

W hits the swings in her ABBA hat.

Brooklyn flea

A cold day to inaugurate what will be a great thing. A wonderful mix
of vintage and smartly designed things. Bags made from old sails, hip
onesies galore and the promise of shorter lines for waffles will make
this a destination for us on Sundays.

links for 2008-04-05

• 46 Things To Do Before Launching a Blog Network
  (tags: howto blogs)

links for 2008-04-04

• Australian Museum Uses Open Calais to Tag Collection
  (tags: folksonomy semantic tagging)
• brooklynometry: A Transplant Ruminates on Old Bushwick
  Nice Brooklyn blog with the most thorough Brooklyn blogroll I've ever seen.
  (tags: blogs brooklyn)