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links for 2008-08-29

• The comments on David Brook's sad parody of a convention speech are great
  "Ridicule? Is that all you can muster? Congratulations." most of them are along this vein. respectful in the we expected more from you than this vein. Perhaps Obama is raising everyone's game including commenters.
  (tags: politics)
• Jonah Goldberg on Palin in the National Review Online
  "As something of a Palin booster, I'm having some flop sweats at the idea it's actually happening. You've heard all the usual pros and cons, here are a few added thoughts off the top of my head." this from a booster.... provincial, not ready for primetime, inexperienced, etc.
  (tags: politics)

links for 2008-08-28

• My friend Jared making a great point about the fantastic speeches coming out of the Democratic Convetion
  The gist of it is that Obama is raising everybody's game making them speak better.
  (tags: politics history)
• interesting charts of the Presidential race
  despite the white text on black background a lot of interesting things being tracked and graphed on this site
  (tags: mashup information election)
• FreeRice intorduces Subjects
  FreeRice has introduced subjects! French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chemistry, English Grammar, World Capitals, and Famous Paintings. Fantastic n'est pas?
  (tags: languages education philanthropy SocialSoftware)
• So What Do You Do, David Karp, Founder of Tumblr? - mediabistro.com Content
  MediaBistro interviews David Karp. Maloney had no idea you hired him when he was 17 but then I hadn't done the math. He comes off very well.
  (tags: blogging social_media)
• Clark Rockefeller relationship map - Muckety.com
• Merge Multiple RSS Feeds Into One Using Google Reader / Yahoo Pipes + Feed Burner ~ Blogger Widgets and Plugins
  (tags: rss)

links for 2008-08-25

• WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier
  The NYT wrote an article about George Orwell's notebooks being blogged and mentioned this site but didn't link to it. Here it is.
  (tags: blogging history ww1)

Will the real Rockefeller please stand up?

What are the odds that a Ripley-like sociopath who pretended he was a Rockefeller would be on the cover of the Styles section and look so much like the real Rockefeller who got married this weekend?

                                       

Fake - Clark Rockefeller       Real - Clayton Rockefeller

Update: Whether intentionally or not the NYT is now onto this.

Brandi Carlisle playing Johnny Cash

links for 2008-08-20

• What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
• The mysterious hand signals of women's beach volleyball at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
  Thanks to NBC we can all study the meanings of the one and two fingers that the competitors in women's beach volleyball use to communicate with each other. B pointed out that the slide show is titled "Cracking the code" which is a joke I didn't get. Yuck yuck yuck.
  (tags: Olympics)
• Cycloculture: Grant Petersen
  Interview with Rivendell's Grant Peterson
  (tags: cycling)

links for 2008-08-20

• What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
• The mysterious hand signals of women's beach volleyball at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
  Thanks to NBC we can all study the meanings of the one and two fingers that the competitors in women's beach volleyball use to communicate with each other. B pointed out that the slide show is titled "Cracking the code" which is a joke I didn't get. Yuck yuck yuck.
  (tags: Olympics)
• Cycloculture: Grant Petersen
  Interview with Rivendell's Grant Peterson
  (tags: cycling)

links for 2008-08-19

• Why Shop with Mid-Century Modern Furniture
• Bob Costas hosts Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz in a mutual-indifference society - The Mayor of Television
  I missed the interview but this summary is something to read. Kind of like when they try to get Nicklaus to say glowing things about Tiger. I've been thinking about the poster I had of Mark Spitz and whether if I were still that young (oh, to dream) if I would have a poster of Michael Phelps. For some reason I don't think so. While it was amazing I think Bolt's accomplishment is far more awesome. Just a man in track spikes obliterating a WR without help from a suit and he hasn't even run the 200 yet.
  (tags: sports Olympics)
• MT launches blog of blogs
  a blog of blogs - yes with top 10 lists. interesting.
  (tags: blogging blogs movabletype)

Can you hear me in the cone of silence?

I kept hearing the words Cone of Silence today and it sounded so familiar. It came from Get Smart as the wikipedia and this commercial point out. Of course to our national debate and Presidential election are now referring to a failed technology on a television show about an inept (no offense meant Maxwell)  spy with no regard to the absurdity of its source. Still if this becomes something, bad form to cheat in a church.

Byrne and Eno's new album

David Byrne was born cooler than I could ever hope to be (Brian Eno) too. One can always aspire to it.  The whole album is streamed in this widget. On the site you can buy the album in several forms. The deluxe form has an album cover designed by Stefan Sagmeister, a film by Hillman Curtis, screensaver by Holding Pattern etc. Coolness, uber hip geekdom and a cyclist too boot.

links for 2008-08-14

• Ride the City: safe bike routes made easy
  A bike route plotter. very nice
  (tags: cycling mapping)
• Advertising - Woman to Woman, Online - NYTimes.com
  (tags: media blogging)

Bed Bugs

Bed Bugs
Originally uploaded by sabeth718.

Art in the park

This is one of the sculptures in the BWAC summer show at Brooklyn Bridge Park. You can see one the waterfalls in the background. Tonight Union Hall is curating free music here. Should be a great time. I