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Alice Waters–Edible Schoolyard Takedown in the 'Atlantic Monthly': Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

Caitlin Flanagan's hatchet job in the usually thought-provoking and intelligent Atlantic Monthly on Alice Waters and her Edible Schoolyard project is so wrongheaded it would be easy to shrug off if it wasn't also so belligerent, so fueled by an animus that is way out of proportion to the terrible crime of Alice Waters's attempts to teach kids about nutrition and gardening.

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Conde Nast's Best Ideas contest.

"Conde Nast is posting flyers in the lobbies of its buildings notifying employees of a contest that will pay a prize of $10,000 per quarter for "the best idea" to help improve the magazine company. Also: Vogue magazine staffers are being told their private cars and cabs are no more."

Who gets the $10,000 for the idea of dropping the cars?

Seasons 1-5 of Lost are on Hulu

via www.hulu.com

Just saying.

Warmed by the Sun, Asteroid (2867) Steins Changes Shape

via www.nytimes.com

If I were warmed by the sun I think I would change shape too, thinner for sure.

Maya Lin video about deforestation

Maya Lin - Unchopping a Tree from What is Missing? Foundation on Vimeo.

via whatismissing.net

Putting it into terms we can relate to. Linked to from kottke.org but it is part of a new site called Whatismissing.com which launches on Earthday and has some wonderful videos live now.

How Paste Mag Survived 2009

Paste, an eight-year-old, 205,000-circulation music and entertainment magazine quietly rolled out a series of dramatic cost cuts bolstered by an array of product and pricing enhancements that enabled it to not only survive, but close out 2009 with a small profit....

But subscribers didn’t give something and get nothing. Costs and materials were certainly cut, but the team at Paste attempted to do it in a way that maintained quality and value. --Instead of lopping off frequency, Paste supplemented digest-sized issues --Instead of simply shutting down, the magazine solicited donations in a transparent, honest way --Instead of herding readers into a suddenly pricier subscription plan, they offered a customizable plan that allowed customers to receive the magazine, along with an array of bonus products, in a variety of formats.

via www.audiencedevelopment.com

The article doesn't talk about their site or their appearance on LALA but it is interesting. I subscribe and like the different pricing options for subscriptions as well as their alternative/folkie ear.

Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn Has A New Look

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OTBKB has a nice new design which is good news for a local must read.

Look In To My Eyes... Do It... Do It Now

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From a great portfolio of beards (via Cool Hunting)

Like the National Debt Clock but much better - Social Media Counts

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Seth's Blog: What every mass marketer needs to learn from Groucho Marx

If Wal-Mart or some cultural shift has turned what you do into a commodity, don't argue. Find a new place before the competition does. It's not easy or fair, but it's true. You bet your life.

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What it means to be on Twitter's Suggested User's List

Well, perhaps the best way to articulate it is that I think the list is being used as a useful fiction for distorting the value and promise of this new medium.

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Really interesting post about how being on the suggested user's list doesn't create more activity than already created by the core of one's organic followers. (The Today Show factoid is also interesting because a Today Show on-air throw to iVillage didn't mean much either you could count the pvs on your hands.)

the blog elves are cold

The Dynabook (maybe) 42 years in the making.

via en.wikipedia.org

One way or another it could be that this is the year where the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer begins to come to life, at least for the rich kid in all of us.

Student Brings Typewriter to Class

via www.openculture.com

Found on a really interesting blog called OpenCulture