February 2008
80 posts
The Next Slum? →
The decline of places like Windy Ridge and Franklin Reserve is usually attributed to the subprime-mortgage crisis, with its wave of foreclosures. And the crisis has indeed catalyzed or intensified…
Feb 28th
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4 Generations: Water Buffalo Movie, Review,... →
Robert Thompson shot and produced “4 Generations” in 2007 while living in China. It is a story documenting a journey in southwestern China (near Tibet) to first find, then deliver a water buffalo to…
Feb 28th
Postcrossing - Postcards Traveling The World →
It’s a project that allows anyone to exchange postcards (paper ones, not electronic) from random places in the world.
Feb 28th
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:: MUJU :: Cutting-edge artists from Muslim and... →
Feb 28th
Odyssey Photography - travel and documentary... →
Travel and documentary photography from around the world.
Feb 28th
Social Media Goes Mainstream [Dion Hinchcliffe's... →
Feb 28th
Second Brain™ - All Your Content →
Second Brain makes it really easy to keep track of all the content you have online. Bookmark web-pages and import content from your favorite internet-services. Organize everything in collections and share it on your public page.
Feb 27th
“tumm·ler (tmlr) n. 1. One, such as a social director or entertainer, who...”
– tummler - definition of tummler by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
Feb 27th
Watchification →
First there was Speechification, which is a lot of excellent speech radio from around the world wrapped up in a podcast. Now there’s Watchification….selecting the really good stuff from the BBC iPlayer, from the shows that appear on YouTube and - you
Feb 26th
Speechification →
A blog of Radio 4. Not about Radio 4 but of it. We point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded. Other speech radio from around the world will no doubt find its way here too.
Feb 26th
Google circa 1960 →
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“This behaviour at the edge of unstability follows a random, inherant,...”
– http://park.org/Canada/Museum/complexity/complex3.html
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Ursus maritimus (Polar Bear) - a photoset on... →
Feb 25th
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BBC - Radio 4 - The Last Goodbye →
A moving and inspirational feature about an extraordinary humanitarian project to create a musical and artistic space in a hospital morgue. Sound artist Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) embarks on a remarkable personal and artistic journey of discovery.
Feb 25th
Bonbi Forest, Welcome to the Bonbi Forest Indie... →
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Rumplo - Awesome T-Shirts, from around the world. →
Feb 19th
Giveo » Give Back. →
Giveo is grassroots philanthropy. Give to any cause, or start your own worthy cause, free.
Feb 19th
Borrobol Cottages - Self-catering cottages,... →
Feb 19th
Pete Ashton’s Blog » Oh, Max… →
anyone can start a blog. That’s the beauty of them. And most blogs will have a tiny audience because that’s all they were intended to have. Most bloggers don’t want to be “successful” - success to them is having a conversation with a few readers and other
Feb 19th
Recovery from Septoplasty? | Ask MetaFilter →
Feb 19th
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Fix dead pixel - Killdeadpixel.com →
The graphic will try to massage the dead pixel back alive again by getting it to change rapidly. It has been reported to work many times.
Feb 16th
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle →
Feb 16th
Color Pencils Reviewed →
Feb 16th
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The Rules of Beeping: Exchanging Messages Via... →
This article explores the practice of “beeping” or “missed calling” between mobile phone users, or calling a number and hanging up before the mobile’s owner can pick up the call.
Feb 14th
A Writer by Any Other Name by Giles Turnbull - The... →
“Giles Turnbull finds it hard to write a meaningful bio, despite being a professional writer for some 15 years now. That’s horrifying. It’s frightening.” Yes, it is. Already, I’ve spent longer writing the bio than I did writing the article it is
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Windmill Bella Vista | Artemonas, Sifnos →
Feb 12th
FriendFeed →
FriendFeed makes it easy to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet.
Feb 12th
Losing it →
Feb 12th
Everything Changes (after Brecht, 'Alles wandelt...
Everything changes. We plant trees for those born later but what's happened has happened, and poisons poured into the seas cannot be drained out again. What's happened has happened poisons poured into the seas cannot be drained out again, but everything changes. We plant trees for those born later. -- Cicely Herbert
Feb 11th
SatLav website tells you where to go when you need... →
Feb 11th
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Is Barack Obama the Messiah? →
Feb 11th
“My understanding, though, is that this doesn’t really count because...”
– Matthew Yglesias (February 10, 2008) - Maine for Obama (Politics)
Feb 11th
The Cocker Hotel →
Suites in an art nouveau townhouse in San Telmo, Buenos Aires
Feb 11th
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Scoff →
“Good food from a good place” - alternative food delivery
Feb 10th
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Robert Paterson's Weblog: KPBS - How a small... →
Feb 8th
Color Changing Illuminated Shower Head | Gadgets... →
This illuminated shower head features color changing LED’s which are temperature sensitive. The light goes from white when the water is cold, to blue, then purple, then red when the water is hot.
Feb 8th