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By | April 30, 2009
After a wet and cold April, I am looking forward to those promised May flowers.
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This month…
Blog Roll: The Ass’s Dilemma; The Failure of #Amazonfail; Hostile Takeover; In The Jaws Of A Catfish; Bananaz; Microkahn; The Exact Opposite Is True…
Cooking: Historic Foods; 50 Best Dessert Recipes; Ruhlman’s Ratio; Great Cilantro Divide; Cooking With Dog; Cochon 555…
Design: Vave Jon; Hemlock 82; Our Middle Name; Director’s Commentary; Web Trend Map 4; Awful Package Redesign; Ten Graphic Design Paradoxes…
History: Nature vs. Nurture; Around Cape Horn; How I rewrote Polish History; Finding Everett Ruess; Modern America’s Founding Father; Witness To Three Revolutions…
Language Arts: What Are Writers Reading; Entrapment; The Genius of Yogi Berra; Voices And Visions; The Final Edition; Understanding Twitter; The Sentence Is A Lonely Place…
Music: Tone Matrix; Soul; We Got Time; Wynton Marsalis; Papaya; Zen and the art of songwriting; Storm…
Pics: Wild Wonderes of Europe; International Photography Contest; Snad Grains; Quiet Ripples; Daring Divas; 10,000 Year Clock; Kevin Carter…
Science: Attenborough; What Would It Look Like To Fall Into A Black Hole; Puijita darvini; The Rebellion of the Ant Slaves; Ice Baby; The Secret Social Life of Bacteria…
Spin Zone: 10 Principles For A Black Swan-Proof World; Christopher Hitchens Smackdown; PJ O’Rourke; Worth A REad; Last Man Standing…
Travel: Curious Expeditions Goes To The Smithsonian; The Forbidden Railway
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Map Guide: Remotest Place - NewScientist reports on the remotest place on earth; Maps; the pick: Tibetan Plateau.
Just added to the Education Guide: Public Collections - Site archives collections of things you might otherwise never be able to see at your public library; Adult Mexican Comics; Marc Fisher’s record collection; Bibles stolen from hotel rooms.
What’s Ken Burns up to next? Kind of makes me want to take a trip. First, though, dress for the part.
Julie and Julia Trailer
Writing With Libel In Mind (Citizen)
Think you’ve got balance?
Then, something down to earth, CycleKarting (You can’t buy a CycleKart and, even if you could, the racers wouldn’t let you participate. You have to build your CycleKart.)
The first bike trick ever recorded: Thomas Edison of course. Then, there’s this guy MacAskill today.
MovNat: why just take a walk in the woods when you can exercize as well.
Bacon is the other white heat (Theo Gray)
Top 10 Reasons Managers Become Great
The 7 Basic Principles of Magic (Penn & Teller).
Your Business Card Is Crap (Infotainer). (He could teach my wife how to pack, however.) Back on track, what’s the primary purpose…to open doors, list your services or leave a lasting impression?
Is Your Company Designed For Humans? (Harvard)
Subsidized Time? How about, subsidized pot holes.
What’s Happening (Sprint)
2008 Pigasus Awards: A cornucopia of crackpots! A plethora of psychos! A surfeit of screwballs!
When I was growing up we had erector sets. Never would or could I have imagined A-Pod.
119 cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web.
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