… it helps me remember
- Crash test 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air VS. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu
- Burning the library in slow motion: how copyright extension has banished millions of books to the scrapheap of history
- Backwards Beekeepers T-shirts
- FDIC sends a big F-U: completely blacked out documents in response to WaMu takeover freedom of information requests
- Some half-formed thoughts on one future for bookselling
- Notes from a news-site paywall attempt
- Why Your Idea to Save Journalism Won’t Work (a checklist)
- Dan Gillmor’s “Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization”
- Photos of an 1890s camping trip
- Photos of NYC in the 1940s
- WhatTheInternetKnowsAboutYou: your browser is giving away your history
- Walter Cronkite, RIP.
- Creative Commons comes to Google Image Search
- Life During Wartime video from Stop Making Sense
- The crap they built where the beautiful old train stations were
- Weegee speaks on an old LP
- Salty microbe may be world’s oldest
- How digging up expense reports led a journalist to clobber British govt
- Video explains fair use for video (video video)
- Scouts training to fight immigrants and terrorists
- Lunar junk
- End of Overeating: the science of junk-food cravings
- Notes From the Underground
- $7 solar oven design wins $75,000 prize
- Cannonball floating in mercury
- Can video games improve vision?
- Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There’s a Catch
- On the demise of books, newspapers, music and movies
- EFF updates blogger legal guide
- Dudley Moore + Peter Cook sing song about Robin Hood’s BFF in 1965
- Monty Python’s free web video increased DVD sales by 23,000 percent
- Photos of the Northern Lights
- HOWTO write in the age of distraction
- John Cleese on Sarah Palin: “Monty Python Could Have Written This.”
- Cool photoblog: elders with style
- NY Times on “beautification software”
- Old timey Halloween photos
- Martin K. Tytell, Typewriter Wizard, Dies at 94
- Neal Stephenson present Anathem – Live webcast
- Photoblog devoted to century-old piccies
- Glenn Miller Orchestra – “Do You Wanna Dance?”
- Laurie Anderson interview in Smithsonian
- Stephenson’s Anathem was inspired by Clock of the Long Now
- Neal Stephenson lecture on whether genres matter anymore
- TimesPeople, a lightweight socialnetwork for the New York Times
- Motivational Music (MP3s)
- Fifty greatest comedy sketches of all time
- How people around the world count money — video
- Life and times of a Consumer Reports secret shopper
- Wubi: Install Ubuntu on Windows like installing an app
- HOWTO Write a decent novel in two months
- SimCity goes free software
- Rules of Thumb website
- Blog future vs NYT future: none of the above!
- Profile of Getting Things Done author
- Free “CC-licensed” banjo lessons from famous banjo author
- OpenDNS.com profiled in the NYT
- Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh. Here I am at Camp Blow-Up-a-Lotta.
- Storage staircase — genius!
- LineRider meets Super Mario
- Average walking speed increased 10% in last 10 years
- Vonnegut’s rules for short stories
- NYT on multitasking myth
- Men stare at crotches
- Steve Ballmer’s modest office
- Search-engines kill the art of clever headlines
- 93-year-old blogger: “It Bothers Me That I Have To Go”
- How The New Yorker’s media writer does his job
- Best history podcast — BBC’s “In Our Time”
- Fake beauty, video about transhuman tricks used on models
- Find It! puzzle is very difficult (at least for me)
- FreeEnigma: easy privacy for webmail
- Hidden rooms on the rise
- Spraying hot water at -29.4C
- Jean Shepherd tours Disney’s 1964 World’s Fair rides
- Psychological tricks of the retail space designer
- Ancient Roman Greek computer was used to chart the skies
- Depression peaks at age 44, according to study
- Great financial advice for writers
- Home Inspection Nightmares photo gallery, Vol. 5
- Urban bee keeper video