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Google Reader shuts down on July 1, and as a die-hard fan, I am going to miss it.

While I'm busy exporting my feed list and re-establishing my RSS reading elsewhere, I'm reminded that I often used the starring function to call out posts of note. Of course, the truth is that I rarely returned to my starred items, and with minimal social network tie-ins, those favorited posts never got much exposure.

So I'm resurfacing them here for posterity--fully, more or less, despite the fact that I have a lot of links from 2009 and earlier that make no sense to me now, or that just aren't interesting anymore. For one reason or another, they were interesting then, and they deserve to be archived. And, naturally, some of my favorite blogs over the six-plus years I've been living in Reader don't seem to have been starred along the way, like Alice and Kev, which will keep you riveted if you read it chronologically.

Regardless. From items I liked to items I wanted to revisit later (and likely never did), herewith, my Google Reader faves archive, in reverse chronological order, with occasional (present-day, in parentheses) annotations.

• You're a Suspect, Tristan Louis, tnl.net
• Photo of the original Sesame Street cast, kottke.org
• EFF: Who Has Your Back? felixsalmon.tumblr.com
• How I Keep Up, Andre Torrez, torrez.org
• Clean My Mac 2
• Android Under New Google, Marco Arment, marco.org
• In Praise of Quora's Weekly Email Newsletter, Jason Kottke, kottke.org (I feel the same way)
• The Near Past, David Jacobs, hello.typepad.com (R.I.P. Brad Graham)
• Right Here Where We Stand, Music 2012: A Year in a Day, Glenn McDonald, furia.com
• I'm Never Going to Be Able to Unhear This, sippey.com (damn you, Sippey, it's true, and I hate it)
• Buy Apple On January 18, Joe Springer, Seeking Alpha (which turned out to be good advice,  so long as you sold within two business days)
• 50% Bonus on American Express Membership Rewards Transfers to Starwood, View from the Wing (I didn't do it)
• Ernie Anderson outtakes, lonelysandwich.com
• It's the Weekend, hello.typepad.com
• Drunk Jeff Goldblum, kottke.org (I'm less than a year back and confirming Jason Kottke is truly the best blogger in history)
• ABBYY Business Card Reader
• Use TextExpander to sanitize formatted text, Justin Blanton, hypertext.net
• President Obama participates in first Presidential AMA on Reddit, oreilly.com
• "Everyone wants to control the plumbing," felixsalmon.tumblr.com
• Paradise, Matt Jacobs, capndesign.com
• Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies
• Turn your Twitter stream into your friends' linkblog, Jason Kottke, kottke.org
• Make Your Twitter Stream More Interesting with the Stellar Tweetbot, Mike Davidson, mikeindustries.com
• Kingdom Rush for the iPhone, kottke.org (him again)
• Top IamA, via waxy.org (found one year ago this week; I still visit this regularly)
• Ex-Googlers Launch Avocado, An App For Couples... Techcrunch via Techmeme (downloaded, never used)
• 5 Tips From A Delta Reservation Agent, Chris Morran, Consumerist
• The quickest way to get things done and make change, Seth Godin
• RIP MCA, David Jacobs, hello.typepad.com
• Might Upgrade to the Paid Version Someday, marco.org
• Lighting Science Definity - A19 Omni V2 - Dimmable - 2700K, via marco.org (haven't bought it)
• Apple's Post-PC World, Andy Ihnatko via Daring Fireball
• Primer, kottke.org (haven't watched it)
• Seattle Shows, Matthew Baldwin, defectiveyeti.com
• "So cool," MG Siegler
• My Paleo Media Diet, Jim Stogdill, oreilly.com
• Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up, emptyage.com
• 645 West End Avenue, streeteasy.com
• SXSW Interactive 2012: As Crowd Swells, New Technologies Emerge for Intimate Relationships, Jeremiah Owyang
• The Rise of the Indie Brand, Mitch Joel, twistimage.com
• Photoshop Touch for iPad, Daring Fireball
• [Joel Johnson, "Where I Work Now," currently offline (but appears in my feed)]
• The Most Lucrative Membership Rewards Points Earning Amex Ups its Signup Bonus -- And What It Means for an Overall Credit Card Strategy, View from the Wing
• Subtle "paper" wallpaper images for the iPhone, hypertext.net
• Strategy: 6 Guiding Principles, Branding Strategy Insider
• This tweet, from an account since suspended: 
  The wife said to me last night "I think we'd have less arguments if you weren't so pedantic". I said "Don't you mean 'fewer'?"
• Play Me Later, notes.torrez.org
• Twelve! lonelysandwich.com
• An Interview with Jason Kottke, notes.torrez.org (this list is very meta now)
• Agenda app
• Kingdom Rush for iPad, kottke.org
• Claims about Potato Chips, Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution (This one I reread. "We found that a bag of potato chips costs 4 cents more per ounce for every additional negative word on the bag")
• Garret Vreeland on 12 years of blogging, rc3.org
• Pretty Lights, kottke.org
• Favorite Albums of 2011, Matthew Baldwin, defectiveyeti.com
• I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA, Reddit
• The New Commerce, GigaOm
• Speed Notes (automated iPhone text files on Dropbox), Matt Haughey, a.wholelottanothing.org
• THIS IS GOOD, Nathan Jones, twitter.com
• Little Printer publishes tiny personal newspapers, kottke.org
• Linen backgrounds for iPhone and iPad, hypertext.net
• Remember the Milk, Now Integrated With Siri, Daring Fireball
• Ready for T-Commerce? No one else is either, finds study, Internet Retailing
• The Rands Test, Rands in Repose
• Commerce as content, shopping through art, Dan Frommer, SplatF
• Two devices to help unclutter your work space, GigaOm
• SendTab: a great simple app for managing screens, Matt Haughey, a.wholelottanothing.org (belatedly realizing Matt's blog is a nice productivity tool roundup)
•  "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own -- nobody." ScottPorad.com
• Silicon Valley Vets Aim to Bring Personal Financial Services to the Masses, All Things D
• IFTTT, via waxy.org
• Before the Internet...
• The Kid Should See This, kottke.org (that guy again?)
• Twitter by the numbers, GigaOm
• Sunday Morning Observation on Being a Grown-Up, Scott Porad
• What Does a CEO Coach Do?, avc.com
• There Will Be No Files in the Cloud, avc.com
• Humble Indie Bundle, via waxy.com (funny: when I starred it, they were on bundle #3; as I write this, bundle #6 is active)
• Ten Mandates Of Account Management, Brand Strategy Insider
• 5 Delicious Ways to Use a Store-Bought Rotisserie Chicken, Matt Moore, artofmanliness.com (yeah, I subscribe to a feed called Art of Manliness. So?)
• Waiting for the fear to subside, Seth Godin
• The Lean Startup, Barry Ritholtz, the Big Picture
• Complete List of Incubators and Accelerators (like Y Combinator), via Hacker News
• The Color Of Your Website Has A Huge Impact On What People Buy, Adam Toren, Business Insider
• ["Talking Funny," YouTube video, removed, via waxy.org]
• PetFlow Raises $10 Million as Cash Pours Into Online Pet Market, All Things D
• Every successful case is a special case, Seth Godin
• How to Find the Cheapest Airfares, Upgrade Them, and Make Air Travel Easy, Gary Leff, View from the Wing (I spend way more time reading Gary's travel hacking tips than I do actually traveling)
• New Rules, Barry Ritholtz, the Big Picture
• The professional's platform, Seth Godin
• Jogging With The New F***ed Up Album, Dave Bry, The Awl
• The Financial Times Moves to a Web App for iOS, Daring Fireball
• Amazing 50% Bonus on American Express Membership Rewards Transfers to British Airways, View from the Wing
• "Shine," a new weather app for the iPhone, hypertext.net (I still have this, although I now rely mostly on Yahoo Weather and Dark Sky)
• 5 Can't Miss Financial Sites, Barry Ritholtz, the Big Picture (I spent a lot of time on the Big Picture, and I don't think any of these pointers impacted my financial well-being)
• Hashify, via waxy.org
• Now Playing, Nathan Jones via Twitter
• Let us pay for this service so it won't go down, Marco Arment, marco.org (see: Google Reader)
• Recipe for Baked Wordpress, carpeaqua.com (bookmarked April 2011. In related news, this site still runs Movable Type)
• Hipmunk, Flight Search iPhone App, Daring Fireball
• PicaPic
• Introducing Stellar, kottke.org
• Quote, 37 Signals
• The steady-savings retirement plan, Felix Salmon, reuters.com
• [a blip.tv compilation of cinema "Nooooo!" moments]
• SXSW torrents
• "Find me stuff I'm interested in," Dave Winer, Scripting News
• Millions of Hovels, Tim Bray
• Innovation with Solitaire?! Matt Haughey, a.wholelottanothing.org (I must have played 10,000 games of solitaire on this same app and had a lengthy blog post drafted but never published it)
• How to get the best hotel deals, View from the Wing
• Reading Is Fundamental, Anil Dash, dashes.com
• Improving Conversion After the Add-To-Cart, Linda Bustos, Get Elastic
• The Colonial Vibe Of Destroyer's 'Kaputt', Alex Balk, The Awl
• Best Songs of 2010, Said the Gramophone
• Keeping Score on Apple Finance Predictions, Daring Fireball
• Study: Teams work best when members are physically close together, Clive Thompson, collisiondetection.net
• come break bread with us at the Old Timers Ball, a.wholelottanothing.org (I did this, and it was wonderful)
• Daytum
• Tin, Zan McQuade, thatcupoftea.com
• How to Manage a Tech Career, Loren Davie, Antipatter
• Start registeri.ng, .NG domains go on sale, Hacker News
• Tell him to jump higher. Jami Attenberg, whatever-whenever.net
• [several more View from the Wing bonus mileage offers and ideas]
• Introducing Word Lens
• Lastfm Best of 2010
• do you hear that? it's the sound of powerpoint... sippey.com
• Playlist, Zipped, via choiresicha.com
• List of social skills a solid career requires, Penelope Trunk
• Slap, Daring Fireball
• What is Amazon's approach to product development and product management?
• The book of the year, Seth Godin
• The Outlook: Pants, Valet (I don't think I bought any pants)
• Gridulator
• I Need More Ears, Scott Porad
• Video of 14 year old Jimmy Page in 1957: I watched "It..., Mike Davidson, mikeindustries.com
• Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, & Pomplamoose VideoSong!!!!
• Ping, Andre Torrez, notes.torrez.org
• Health Month, the game
• Airport Express and Airfoil, avc.com
• Solipskier
• How to Pitch a Product, avc.com
• Elements for iOS
• Spanfeller Media Group Names SoftBank's Perlis Chairman
• My Favorite Money Manager, avc.com
• Devour
• Achievement Unlocked 2
• The Incident
• Osmos for iPhone, via waxy.org (great game)
• CSS3 Generator, Simple Bits
• The Books' new album The Way Out, Neven Mrgan's Tumbl
• [Album of the Summer 1, formerly on whatilearnd.tumblr.com]
• Venture Capitalist's New Frontier: Where Cellphones Meet Retailing, Spencer E. Ante, All Things D
• [several websites that no longer exist]
• [several pages of iPhone wallpapers]
• 9 Unconventional Ways To Grow Your Business, Karin Price Mueller, Business Insider
• A sad truth about most traditional b2b marketing, Seth Godin
• How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen, Derek Sivers
• Some Day We'll Shut Up About Robyn but Not Today, Choire Sicha, The Awl
• [aside: OMG I'm only halfway done. We're back to this day in 2010. My archives go to 2007]
• Advanced Media Relations For Startups: How to Be Newsworthy, Danny Wong, ReadWrite
• messy and manic in flat-front khakis, sippey.com
• Music: Bodies of Water - Ever With Us; Treats, Sleigh Bells
• The Health Graph, Anil Dash
• [several links suppressed and/or deleted out of disinterest]
• Web Analytics 101: Definitions: Goals, Metrics, KPIs, Dimensions, Targets, Avinash Kaushik, Occam's Razor
• Here's How To Get Google To Love You In Just 4 Months, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Business Insider
• What is an online service you really need but cannot find? Reddit
• What's your favorite software that no one else knows about? Reddit
• How To Self Promote For More Success, pfadvice.com
• How to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment: 10 No-Brainers, Linda Bustos, Get Elastic
• Analyzing Financial Statements, avc.com
• Stickiness is bad for business, Chris Dixon
• Hot trend: Part-time entrepreneurs, Matt Linderman, Signal vs. Noise
• [several personal and dead links redacted]
• List of Social Media Management Systems (SMMS), Jeremiah Owyang
• The iPhone blows, kottke.org
• Meet Gatsby, Mike Melanson, ReadWrite
• [Caterina Fake's post on Hunch's $12 million investment round, since deleted]
• BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DISH FOR, Ditherati
• But it's better than TV, Seth Godin
• [True Gotham's MLS announcement, since deleted]
• The rise of antisocial media, via randomwalks
• ShrinkIt
• My recommended kid games, Matt Haughey, a.wholelottanothing.org (I need a 2013 version of this)
• Break Bread for Brad, a.wholelottanothing.org
• Realtime LiveJournal -> Buzz, Brad Fitzpatrick, LiveJournal
• Explicit vs Implicit Social Nets, avc.com
• Affiliate infuriation, Marco Arment, marco.org
• [a variety of additional productivity links from Matt Haughey and Andre Torrez]
• The NYC tech scene is exploding, Chris Dixon
• The zen humidifier, Clive Thompson, collision-detection.net (still want)
• 12 Albums, Steven Garrity, Acts of Volition
• Gahd. Choire Sicha (indeed)
• Phish - Possum (2009/12/04 at Madison Square Garden), marco.org
• [several more dead links]
• Seven years gone, Seth Godin
• After Branding, Tim Bray
• I Wrote Your 2010 Career Resolutions for You, Jobacle
• Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World of New Apps & Features, via Techmeme
• Holiday Cheer Spreads for E-Commerce Giants, Ben Worthen, All Things D
• Tyler Cowen on Happiness, rc3.org
• My year in cities 2009, kottke.org (note to Jason: I still do this)
• if you don't have anything nice to say... sippey.com
• 5 Million NYC Property Records Available Via Startup's API, ReadWrite
• Creating a true impression, rc3.org
• [several links over the past year or so to Steve Rubel posts that are no longer there]
• Anatomy of a bad search result, Chris Dixon
• [several more waxy.org linkblog links]
• Provocations for 2010, Faris Yakob, Talent Imitates, Genius Steals
• Time of the season... Kleptones blog
• the tail-eating snake of the web, sippey.com
• Hudson Union Society upcoming events
• Tweeteorites, Daring Fireball
• Seeking Alpha Bags $7 Million In Funding, Alaska Miller, Business Insider
• Fotonauts Raises $1.1 Million, Shifts Fotopedia From Desktop To Web, Leena Rao, Techcrunch
• There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.), Derek Sivers
• How to take your site to the next level, Guy Kawasaki, How to Change the World
• Getting meta, Seth Godin
• Why Digital Agencies Aren't Ready To Lead (And Why Traditional Agencies Shouldn't Either), Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Separation
• British People Still Love The Strokes, Alex Balk, The Awl
• Which is more useful? Google's links or the actual home page? Jason Fried, Signal vs. Noise
• Twitter Lists Provide More Opportunity for Online Visibility, Denise Wakeman
• Who is advising executives on customer experience? Victor Lombardi, Noise Between Stations
• Chad Ochocinco Experience, Hello Typepad
• Removing The Most Painful Question Potential Clients Always Ask, Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Separation
• Rare Hour-Long Alfred Hitchcock Interview, kottke.org
• From sketch to photo instantly (this is insanely awesome), kottke.org
• Canabalt
• Enjoying business travel, Gulliver, Economist.com
• Javascript Nintendo Emulator, kottke.org
• How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of
• Pitchfork's songs of the decade, kottke.org
• I.T. Organizations Considered Harmful, Loren Davie, Antipatter
• unicode heaven, sippey.com
• One in Six Consumers Act on Spam, Tamara Gielen, Be Relevant!
• Gauging Your Distraction, nytimes.com
• Some Interesting Retail Email Marketing Stats, Tamara Gielen, Be Relevant!
• App Store WTF of the Week (App Store Link), Daring Fireball
• The Science of Persuasion, kottke.org
• The Summer Build, bobulate.com (broken link)
• Alan Richman Names Top 25 Pizzas in the U.S., via randomwalks
• On Set: A First Look at US Royalty's "Every Summer" Video, Valet
• 4Questions for: Passion Pit, Valet (sadly, I have no familiarity with either US Royalty or Passion Pit)
• 279 Days to Overnight Success
• "We're being held up," Sportsfilter
• Disaggregating fare aggregators 2009: Which airfare comparison sites are the best? Mark Ashley, Upgrade: Travel Better
• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, Clay Shirky
• Old Growth Media and the Future of News, Steven Johnson
• Google Reader hacks, kottke.org (sigh)
• Mentions of my own blog post on the pre-Web 2.0 era
• Study: Hearing damage occurs after more than 5 minutes of full-volume listening on iPod earbuds, Clive Thompson, collision-detection.net
• Play the original Oregon Trail game online, hypertext.net (back before we all downloaded it onto our iPhones)
• Timing is Everything, Sportsfilter
• Fight Fatigue at Work: Detoxify (I assume for my toxic lunch mix at the time of Hill Country Chicken and chocolate chip cookies)
• Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released
• Tips for Making Your Baby's First Airplane Trip a Success (Hi Nate!)
• The Wholesale Sedation of America's Youth, Follow Me Here
• Slacker Works Hard Bringing Music to Your iPhone, Wired
• FuckedCompany Founder to Launch "Kaplan Index" Site, Owen Thomas, Gawker
• Fix Tabbing in Firefox on Mac, Oliver Willis
• Heavy Rotation: 2008, Zan McQuade
• Tower defense game for the iPhone, kottke.org
• Frumination
• I made this. you play this. we are enemies
• How Strong Is Your Value Proposition? Linda Bustos, Get Elastic
• A Year of Parking Tickets, nytimes.com
• Companies Are Not Ready, Willing And Able For Marketing 2.0, Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Persuasion
• iPhone Game: Trism, peterme.com
• Then/Now, a Series by David W. Dunlap, nytimes.com
• OpenTable Reservations Come To The iPhone, Techcrunch (y'know, I'm not even sure I have this app)
• Connect with Others, Jeremiah Owyang
• High quality YouTube video hack, kottke.org
• [a couple of posts that didn't load properly, like this one, and one or two that were particularly boring and dated]
• sweetie the band, torrez.org
• Tip: Prevent iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone, Signal vs. Noise (this *still* bothers me)
• Six Principles for Making New Things, Paul Graham
• 5 Great (And Free) Games You're Not Playing Now, Jane Pinckard, GigaOm
• Bloxorz
• bert and ernie : robert deniro joe pesci - from casino, kottke.org
• Living online, with web apps, Matthew Haughey, Fortuitous
• LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover, Guy Kawasaki (and a rather inauspicious start to my list)

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• Pinboard: bookmarks for werty
  My last Delicious (del.icio.us, that is--did Joshua Schachter keep that domain?) link will be a pointer to my Pinboard account. Sad to see this service go.
  (tags: internet sad)

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• YFSF: In Which the Yankees Didn't Offer the Biggest Contract
  A useful and important read, if you love (or hate) the Yankees.
  (tags: baseball sports money)

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• On Expansion Tear, Luke's Lobster Plans Location For UWS : First Word : Eater NY
  This is nothing but good news, except maybe for the folks at the Mermaid Inn up the block
  (tags: food nyc)

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• McSweeney's Internet Tendency: I'm the Foursquare Mayor of This Goddamn Safeway.
  Love. "Did you notice I'm currently the Foursquare mayor of Phoenix City Hall? Do you even know what that means? I'll tell you what it means: it means I'm kind of almost LITERALLY THE MAYOR."
  (tags: internet humor)

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• Seth's Blog: The inevitable decline due to clutter
  This observation also applies to my desk.
  (tags: business personal)

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• Geocities - The Torrent (download torrent) - TPB
  I love that this exists. (via @waxpancake / waxy.org)
  (tags: internet interesting)

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• Mint Opens Up Its Data: See How Spending Is Truly Trending
  Wow.
  (tags: money interesting)

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• A Love Letter to Camera - NYTimes.com
  Dear loving wife, if we don't get that digital SLR I'm always talking about (and which you'll never, ever use), this would make for a fine gift this holiday season. Love, your junior-grade shutterbug husband
  (tags: gadgets shopping)

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• Office for Mac Isn't an Improvement - NYTimes.com
  I want to upgrade, but the Outlook freeze-on-sync (mentioned by beta testers I know, too) is a deal-breaker. Waiting for the ol' Microsoft SP1
  (tags: mac)

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• YouTube - TODD RUNDGREN BLACK MARIA BOTTOM LINE 5-14-78
  I have listened to this song (specifically this live version) SO MUCH the past two weeks that it's almost embarrassing. See also.
  (tags: music)

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• Mule Design Studio’s Blog: The Chokehold of Calendars
  I have a client who is double- and triple-booked in meetings all day and simply decides each hour what to attend. This is not a situation that harbors successes. Nor is my recent tendency at work to tentatively accept every meeting thrown my way, which serves a similar purpose but screws up other people's scheduling. Now that I'm running Canopy, I actually am putting hands-on work into my calendar, although, as Mike notes, it's easy to bump, which has me working from 9 to midnight a lot lately. I'd love to have his conceptual calendar to see how it works. In the meantime, I'd be happy to have a clone.
  (tags: management productivity business)

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• US Airways Grand Slam tips - TMtravelworld
  I follow some travel bloggers and I'm always perplexed by their mileage accrual schemes. In this case, US Airways is giving away up to 100,000 bonus miles for people that get enough third-party activity on their plans. The author has mapped out a complex strategy to get the miles by spending $400 on various items he doesn't want or need, including a few throwaway car rentals and, of all things, a boutonniere. I appreciate that the 100K miles have an approximate value of $1,000--or more, considering that this man certainly is planning some redemption tactics to extract value--but I just don't see the utility in spending real money for what is basically store credit. Maybe if I were more of a road warrior I'd get it, but I dunno.
  (tags: travel money)

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Bill Simmons' latest column on ESPN quasi-Rickrolls readers deep in football mode into watching Hulk Hogan defeat the Iron Sheik at Madison Square Garden. Which, in turn, gets said reader's mind into nostalgia mode, whereupon one quickly discovers all kinds of great Hulk Hogan nuggets--he was huge in Japan!--and then to the real "who knew?" moment, unearthing this thorough list of pro wrestling terms on (where else?) Wikipedia.

A worked screwjob, is part of the storyline and the match is intended to end controversially. A shoot screwjob is extremely rare and occurs when a change is made without one of the participants knowing, creating an outcome that is contrary to what was supposedly planned for the storyline by the participants. The most famous example of a screwjob of this type is the Montreal Screwjob.

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• A More Royal Royal Opera House - Brand New
  I'm okay with the new crest, but when the Gotham font appears in the logo for the ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, of all institutions, have we not reached a point of saturation?
  (tags: branding design trends)
• Snack Attack: Sun Chips Eaters Make Noise About a Crunchy Bag - WSJ.com
  The power of the Internet: using anonymous commenting as content, the Wall Street Journal actually ran a Facebook post that Sun Chips' new bags are "the worst when your stoned at 2am and trying to not wake up the house." Journalism!
  (tags: news internet writing)

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• "Hallowed Ground" | History Eraser Button
  A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the “Ground Zero Mosque." I love this. Intolerance and jingoism is making America ugly. (via Derek Powazek)
  (tags: nyc politics sad)

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• Driscoll’s: a ‘Fresh Look’ of Fresh Berries
  New branding and label design for Driscoll's fruit. Unfortunately it doesn't do anything about Driscoll's flavorless strawberries that spoil in four days
  (tags: branding food)
• Mets' Dickey keeps long streak alive - SweetSpot Blog - ESPN
  I feel the same way, about Dickey and about knuckleballers. Wade Boggs, we hardly knew you
  (tags: baseball)

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• Wakeblog
  This is the blog for the Wakemate, a new gadget for mobile phones that is supposed to track your rem sleep cycles and help you consistently rise in the morning on the proverbial right side of the bed. I know this applies to me, so I queued up for the product, many months ago. The blog is a fascinating study in what it takes to produce a physical product--it's very, very hard (and crucial to get the details right at launch, and production delays are inevitable. Check out the combination of optimism, crisis and grind in the Wakemate's blog. (Also, Wakemate, if you're reading this, I'm ready for my shipment.)
  (tags: gadgets business interesting)

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• “Straddling” bus–a cheaper, greener and faster alternative to commute « ChinaHush
  The biggest problem with the ongoing liquidity crisis in America is that we can't spend government funds on too-cool-for-school infrastructure solutions like this. (Then again, America rarely has, anyway... we're too busy widening highways to innovate on rails.)
  (tags: transit wow)

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• Gag me with a spoon
  Jason got a kick out of linking to this Valley Girl segment from "Real People" last week. What he forgot to mention is that the host was Fred Willard!
  (tags: tv)

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• What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy?
  Incredibly, the dack.com Bullshit Generator is just as accurate and clever, 10 years on
  (tags: web humor)
• Behind the Rebrand: Virgin Atlantic - Marketing news - Marketing magazine
  Come for the branding news, stay for the awesome time-lapse video of the repainting of a 747. Amazed at how much is done by hand
  (tags: branding travel)

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• Teddy Wayne: Postmadern Men : The New Yorker
  Love this. "Not that I’m rewarding her or discriminating against her on the basis of her physical appearance. I’m just stating a subjective personal opinion that does not represent the views of SterlingCooperMizuho or its subsidiaries."

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• You Can't Appreciate How Completely Apple Has Humiliated The Cellphone Industry Until You See These Charts
  Great visualization on how Apple makes its money. With roughly 3% of the mobile phone market, Apple makes more profit than the rest of the industry combined.
  (tags: iphone business)

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• The Millions : Colonoscopy: It’s Time to Check Your Colons
  New in grammar: the jumper colon. I love this, not least because I often use colons in this way
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• Yankees Out Of Step - Hartford Courant
  This is my favorite memory of the late Bob Sheppard: requesting that a full stadium of rowdy, Macarena-dancing fans would "please... do not throw socks... onto the playing field." I was at this game and laughed about it for years after. Bob Sheppard saying "socks." Jeter's recorded intro is a wonderful tribute that we'll be hearing at old-timers' day for decades to come
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• Choire Sicha: When I was working at the New York Observer...
  Posted without comment, because really, there is no comment. (Right about now I'd like a little "like" button like all the folks on Tumblr.)
  (tags: friends writing)

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• YouTube - M.A.R.R.S. - Pump Up The Volume / A.R. Kane & Colourbox
  Truly a magnificent, timeless dance song
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• YouTube - Criminal Element Orchestra - "Put The Needle To The Record"
  PUT THE NEEDLE ON THE RECORD WHEN THE DRUM BEATS GO LIKE THIS
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• Pump Up the Volume (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  I may download every single sample and make a big long mix for my flight to Australia. Let the pieces assemble in my head and finish with the real thing
  (tags: music)

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• Business Insider: Uh Oh, Is Apple's iPhone 4 A Lemon?
  I'm an Apple fan, shareholder and relatively early adopter. But I have never understood the concept of waiting on a long line to buy a gadget. For one thing, the gadget's not going anywhere; pick it up a day, or a week, later if your career isn't dependent on it. Truly, what's the difference? (I bought the original iPhone on Day Two and my life was no less fulfilling or sexy.) For another, the danger of buying first means you may get to be the one to expose flaws. There's an old adage that says not to buy a car in its first model year, because production quality improves over time; perhaps this is starting apply to Apple, which has to crank out a million of any new device just for launch. Curious to see how this plays out.
  (tags: gadgets iphone)

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• Gourmet Magazine Revived for the iPad - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  Congratulations to Anil on his first Activate release
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• Language Log: Pick-up basketballism reaches Ivy League faculty vocabulary
  Manute Bol, in addition to being a humanitarian and a decent basketball player, gave American linguistics "my bad."
  (tags: interesting words sports)

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• Six Degrees of Black Sabbath
  I got from Richard Marx to Tony Iommi in 6 steps. That's kind of genius (and it included a marriage).

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• Hugely Successful Pandora Sooooo Close To Making Money - The Awl
  "But isn't that disheartening, that something pretty awesome, and so successful, can still be short by a few million a year? How are we supposed to become the future and all?"
  (tags: music internet business)
• Videos - Internet Retailer
  For posterity: a clip of my live critiques at IRWD2010 (even though there's no view of the site Ethan and I are critiquing)
  (tags: personal)

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• Fairway’s Talk of Closing Cafe Mobilizes Patrons - NYTimes.com
  Fairway Cafe is nice and all, but I don't share the sentiment. It's not THAT great a restaurant, while Fairway really is THAT GREAT a market. I am 100% in favor of Fairway increasing grocery space and the product array. More Fairway shopportunity without driving to 125th Street! What's not to love?
  (tags: nyc shopping food)

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• That Luke Person: Luke Ferenc Pearson: Jus' Checkin'
  I know how he feels. (via waxy.org)
  (tags: internet humor)

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• Researchers Find 'Million-Follower Fallacy' in Twitter - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
  Sliding scales: 99 percent of users have fewer than 200 followers (typically they only have 24)
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• BBC News - MMR doctor struck off register
  The doctor behind the "MMR vaccine can cause autism" scandal has been removed from his medical council in Britain (roughly equivalent to losing one's license in America). Let's hope this puts the issue to rest, so people actually vaccinate their children and the world doesn't get overrun with mumps cases. For more details, read this great graphic novel: http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html
  (tags: health news)

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• Nona Brooklyn: Foodie Networking Site Launches - PSFK
  Congrats to my old colleague Peter Hobbs on his new site launch
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• Help me help my friend in DC. | Ask MetaFilter
  The Internet is amazing, and Matt Haughey's creation is one of the most amazing things on the Internet. Read it all the way through.
  (tags: people internet wow)
• Harmful Drinks in America | World Of Mysteries
  Holy moly (also, great photography)
  (tags: food health diet)

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• Kagan’s Climb Is Marked by Confidence and Canniness - Biography - NYTimes.com
  On the surface, I like everything about the new Supreme Court Justice nominee. Progressive, open-minded, consensus-building, a Jewish girl raised on the Upper West Side, and a former clerk for Thurgood Marshall? Count me in. (And she may be gay? Fearless Obama!) I love this quote from the article: "'Her open-mindedness may disappoint some who want a sure liberal vote on almost every issue. Her pragmatism may disappoint those who believe that mechanical logic can decide all cases. And her progressive personal values will not endear her to the hard right. But that is exactly the combination the president was seeking.'"
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• Newsweek has fallen down and can't get up. - Slate Magazine
  Jack Shafer, tell us what you really think: "If the infinitely patient and hideously rich Graham can't see a profitable future for the money-losing magazine, that future doesn't exist. The category has finally gone to mold and will, in another 30 months or 30 years, advance to putrefaction."
  (tags: news media)
• Derek Powazek - How To Save A Newsweekly in 5 Easy* Steps
  Thoughtful, insightful ideas on Newsweek. "It’s never been print vs. web – it’s attention vs. apathy." Unfortunately, the business model doesn't necessarily support the shifts that seem so logical in Derek's post; if the magazine goes monthly, its share of attention may fall precipitously, which creates that much more of an uphill battle in maintaining relevancy. (Not to mention that "Newsmonth" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.)
  (tags: news media)

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• In a Shift in Strategy, Apple Is Making Plans to Open Its First Stores - NYTimes.com
  Flashback: nine years ago next week Apple announced it was trying a retail model. How novel it was! "A computer industry analyst said the company might open as many as 10 stores as part of a strategy to extend the Apple brand."
• Updated: Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  Missed this while I was on vacation. I'm not terribly conservative about my online transparency, but Facebook is designed for users to network and share based on personal interests. The assumption used to be that those interests were mine to keep close to the vest until I shared them with people I knew or wanted to know. Now, those details are going public, in order to better monetize the site. Good for Facebook, good for marketers, bad if your interests include touchy subjects that you hadn't thought were findable in a simple Google search. Divulge accordingly.
  (tags: privacy internet)

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• Vending Spree - Talkin' Snack
  Matthew Baldwin is going to consume and review every item in his office vending machine. Instantly my favorite new blog
  (tags: writing food humor)

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• Parka (Ftrain.com)
  "I wonder if when we look back at this month of iPad if we'll think what an amazing moment to have lived through, or if it will be like some guy with sideburns telling your dad about the reel-to-reel player in his carpeted van." It will be a nice side effect if Paul Ford's new freelance arc gets him posting on Ftrain more often
  (tags: writing friends)

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• Drag and drop attachments onto messages - Official Gmail Blog
  Google's making it very hard to use anything else for email
  (tags: html email)

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• More Truth About The iPad
  I feel like if I'd had an iPad in my hands the past three days I'd have written exactly what Henry Blodget writes here. Gorgeous, fun, a bit frivolous and unnecessary, and the first firm strike in a cultural shift to new computing models
  (tags: writing gadgets ipad)
• Thoughts on the iPad
  More amusement on the iPad hype. From Fred Wilson, who it seems wanted to like his: "I am excited to put two Velcro strips on the back of this thing and mount it to my elliptical trainer. It's perfect for that application and my blog reading and occasional posting from the elliptical will benefit mightily from the iPad." Now there's some fine ROI!
  (tags: writing ipad gadgets)
• The Awful iPad is the Middle of the Beginning of the End - The Awl
  iPad naysayer punditry is arguably as fun as anything on the iPad itself. Choire Sicha: "I don't need a $650 SCRABBLE MACHINE. I don't even need a ZERO DOLLAR Scrabble machine. If I wanted to play Scrabble, I'd spend more time on Facebook. And if I wanted to have a gigantic iPhone that doesn't make phone calls, and basically looks like a thumbprint and hand grease analyzer, well I'm sure that SAMSUNG makes a product that suits my needs."
  (tags: ipad gadgets writing)

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• Costco : The Frontal Cortex
  "The insula, on the other hand, was most active when prices were higher than normal, suggesting that the function of this brain area when shopping is to keep us from getting ripped off. If we're used to see the George Foreman Grill priced at $49.95, the insula generates a stab of aversive emotion when we see it listed for $59.95. That unpleasant feeling is what keeps us from placing the overpriced object in our shopping cart." This is why I balked at paying $20 over MSRP for an accessory at my local bike shop, even though I'd have been happier just owning it already
  (tags: science interesting shopping)

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• Searching for Elvis' Jewish roots | www.somethingjewish.co.uk
  Priceless, part two: Elvis Presley was once a Shabbos Goy, too. (add to your handy list of "things Obama and Elvis have in common")
  (tags: religion)
• The Beat of the Future - Boing Boing
  John Cusack is guestblogging on Boing Boing. Who'd ever have guessed we'd have that in common?
  (tags: blogs)
• Obama and Israel : The New Yorker
  Priceless: President Obama once worked as a Shabbos goy.
  (tags: politics religion)

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• YouTube - soundgarden - big dumb sex(live)
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• Snapper Snaps Sam - Brand New
  "The Snapper NXT identity [underwent] an evolution of the old typography, and it's a definite improvement. But the same can't be said for the 'NXT' part as it looks exactly like what you would imagine anything called 'NXT' would look like: it's pointy, it's trendy, it looks like it could be on any kind of next-generation product. And the gradients don't help any more than they do the new turtle."
  (tags: words branding)

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• The Supreme Court must decide whether five minus three equals three. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
  "And I feel myself transported, just as you are doubtless being transported right now, to that one college lit class where pretty girls with long black hair talked wispily about Keats' 'Endymion' while a solitary fly buzzed against the window pane."
  (tags: writing politics)
• Photoshop CS5 Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek (YouTube)
  "Indistinguishable from magic. Incredible."—John Gruber "Holy shit."—David Wertheimer
  (tags: design wow)

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• CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator
  Nifty tool (via simplebits)
  (tags: html css design tools)

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• Chatroulette Map
  This is kind of insane
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• Google Adds Biking To Google Maps - Bike Hugger
  Nice integration, and at first glance, gives a more accurate route for my bike commute than ridethecity.com
  (tags: bikes)

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• DOIs and their discontents
  Ars Technica takes a pragmatic but tough stance on ad blockers, turning off the website's content entirely for users who refuse to look at arstechnica.com ads. The freedom-fighers in the comments (and, I imagine, pro-ad-blocker folks like David Pogue) are mad, but Ars makes a good point from which they refuse to back down. "[If you won't whitelist our ads] please go get your news from a higher quality source. As it stands you're a net loss to us." Great read.
  (tags: news internet)

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• YouTube - Eric Gales Band- Paralyzed/Take A Look 9/29/93
  Eric Gales never made it big, but man, is he a talent. Check out this footage from when he was 18 (I still have this CD). The latest Eric Gales news is less exciting: http://bit.ly/dkj6ol
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• Tom "T-Bone" Wolk Dead: Hall & Oates Bass Player Dies At 58
  I was a T-Bone Wolk fan in his day. I liked Hall & Oates, and I loved him and GE Smith, who were really the best reason to watch SNL in the late 1980s. (via Titivil)
  (tags: music)
• List of things I hate #3 | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist
  I can't tell if Penelope is a genius or a kook, but I am certain that she cracks me up. "The most popular name for upscale strippers to use is Lexus. Do you know what this tells you? Pseudonyms are for strippers."
  (tags: writers humor)

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• OK Go - "This Too Shall Pass" (RGM version)
  And you thought the "Here It Goes Again" video was good? Check this out (aside: I'm waiting for Amy to tell me if it's really one take)
  (tags: music fun)
• Microsoft: Don't press F1 key in Windows XP
  Mac zealots are going to ride this one for years
  (tags: windows internet)

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• Economic View - Paring the Deficit, by Selling Part of the Radio Spectrum - NYTimes.com
  Fact of the Day: broadcast TV use--that is, the number of people that get their channels over the airwaves--is down to 9% of Americans
  (tags: tv trends)

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• Aaron Boone retires, joins ESPN as baseball analyst - ESPN
  Article: "His career-defining moment came in the old Yankee Stadium in the form of an 11th-inning, Game 7 of the 2003 AL Championship Series that lifted New York past the Boston Red Sox and into the World Series." Not entirely true. I best remember him for playing basketball that off-season, screwing up his left knee, and getting his Yankee contract voided. ESPN has a habit of hiring analysts who are not very good at making smart decisions (see also: Phillips, Steve)
  (tags: baseball)

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• Official Google Docs Blog: A web clipboard for Google Docs
  The entire OS is on its way into the cloud. If this works smoothly on the iPad the paradigm shift will be striking
  (tags: web wow cloudcomputing)

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• A Whole Lotta Nothing: Break Bread for Brad
  See you there.
  (tags: friends weblogs)

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• Neven Mrgan's tumbl
  Great, great summation of the ReadWriteWeb Facebook hoo-ha. "And you tell the carwash manager how unhappy you are...." (via marco.org)
  (tags: web sad)
• Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million
  Interesting stats in the article, including a nice new confirmation of the old 80/20 rule
  (tags: socialnetworking business)
• Sasquatch Poopship Avocado Ultramarine - emptyage
  If you're not careful, the Buzz-Twitter-Facebook recursion will make your head spin
  (tags: meta web socialnetworking)

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• Cool Betty White is red-hot - CNN.com
  Go Amy go! Continued congrats to her and Peter and Gian and Ian and the whole team behind the Snickers spot.
  (tags: advertising friends fun)
• Amazon.com: This Is a Test Product and Nothing Will Be Sent to You
  Naturally, it has 24 reviews
  (tags: web humor)

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• Motley Crue: Motley Crue : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
  From 1994. Contains my favorite album review sentence ever: "This seventh effort's major innovation is the loss of singer Vince Neil and the arrival of his welcome replacement, John Corabi, formerly of the Scream (me neither)."
  (tags: music writing)

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• Monster Buys Yahoo HotJobs For $225 Million In Cash
  Farewell, HotJobs. Once upon a time, this was one of the biggest job sites on the Internet. I was flattered to have had the opportunity to work there briefly.
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• AOL posts profit, but subscribers dwindle | Reuters
  What's crazy is that AOL still has nearly five million subscribers (including my in-laws, no matter how much I tell them they're paying twice with their cable modems)
  (tags: internet business trends)

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• WakeMate
  Bluetooth-enabled device monitors your sleep patterns, wakes you at the optimal REM stage. This is genius—I can always tell when I wake up at the "right" point in my sleep cycles. An alarm clock that ritualizes this for me may be worth 10X its weight in gold
  (tags: health gadgets)
• Blogger Buzz: Important Note to FTP Users
  Blogger shutting off FTP access for remote posting. This is fascinating to me--not long ago, FTP was really the only way to publish a blog to a personal domain. Fast forward a few years and 0.5% of Blogger's users are FTPing anything. Interesting shift in both Blogger's usage trends, and probably of the migration of domain-level bloggers switching to local install apps (MT, Wordpress) and then to remote services with auto-redirects (Tumblr, Typepad, and Blogger itself)
  (tags: blogs trends)
• Facebook | Jake Dobkin: From an Email to David Carr about The New York Times
  Jake Dobkin knows from chutzpah
  (tags: media blogs nyc)

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• Mike Arrington's Smartest Move Yet: Bailing On The CrunchPad
  This provides great perspective on the iPad. The startup making the JooJoo is creating an off-the-shelf Windows machine with a touchscreen for $499. That same price will now get Apple's polish and a unique user experience on a similar product. I know which one I'd buy
  (tags: gadgets)

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• After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site | The New York Observer
  Thirty-five. Not a misprint. Wow wow wow.
  (tags: media wow)

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• New York Times to Charge Frequent Readers of Web Site - NYTimes.com
  "Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper's print edition will receive full access to the site." Not to crow too much, but I proposed this very model for Economist.com back in 2002 (Andrew Rashbass, call me when you're back in New York)
  (tags: web business media)

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• collision detection: Study: Shorter search queries produce better search results
  I've noticed this too (Amy, take note)
  (tags: internet usability)

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• Kempa.com » Absolutely surreal excerpt from a New Yorker profile of Vampire Weekend
  This is fantastic
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• Remembering our friend Brad | MetaTalk
  R.I.P. Brad Graham, one of the earliest bloggers and among the first people I met in the blogosphere, back before there was such a thing.
  (tags: friends blogs)

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• FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror
  Great data points on air travel to quell nervous nellies. "Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. ... These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles. ... This distance is equivalent to 1,459,664 trips around the diameter of the Earth, 24,218 round trips to the Moon, or two round trips to Neptune. ... There have been 7,015,630,000 passenger enplanements over the past decade."
  (tags: travel transit interesting)

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• YouTube - Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
  Fantastic (via waxy.org)
  (tags: music fun wow)

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• Gaithersburg Family Law Attorney | Maryland Estate Planning Personal Injury Lawyer | Montgomery County, MD
  Mutt!
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• Tiger Woods : The Frontal Cortex
  This is great. "I think the shock of the Woods scandal is largely a testament to the power of the fundamental attribution error (FAE). Simply put, the FAE occurs when people overestimate the importance of supposedly 'fundamental' personality traits and underestimate the importance of variables like context."
  (tags: people news science)
• Pass notes No 2,700: Keira Knightley | Film | The Guardian
  It's a shame there's no byline on this piece
  (tags: writing)

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• Popular technology blog PVRblog.com 4 sale, no reserve - eBay (item 300376905731 end time Dec-18-09 14:18:33 PST)
  This should be fun
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• appvent calendar 2009 | every day a free iPhone game
  Options!
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• The Food Lab: The Importance of Resting Meat | Serious Eats
  Excellent primer, although I may get crazy looks if I try this at dinner tomorrow night
  (tags: food)

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• Times Skimmer by The New York Times
  This is really handsome, especially the use of the NYT fonts
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• The Scotch Connoisseur Page
  Genius observations and suggestions. Makes me want to have a drink at 12:47 in the afternoon. Sometime this weekend I have to whip up some cookies and break out the Lagavulin (and go shopping for 50ml bottles of single malt)
  (tags: food fun scotch)
• Subtraction.com: Watching Yankees Spending
  Belatedly linking to this--the most important 2009 analysis I've read
  (tags: business baseball)

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• New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil - Recessionomics - Gawker
  "Now please kindly go fuck yourselves or each other."
  (tags: nyc food)

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• We Know The Experts Are Out There. - Expert Labs
  Congratulations to Anil on the launch of his new venture
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So maybe this won't be a regular feature. Anyway.

del.icio.us/werty

• Baby's First Internet - The Morning News: If TMN prints this I'd totally buy it for my son
• New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock - Diet and nutrition- msnbc.com: DD choco chip muffin: 630 calories. Wasn't it nicer when we were blissfully ignorant?
• Its Official: NYMag Buys MenuPages | paidContent.org: Fine pickup by New York Media; Menupages is a real hard-work dotcom success, and an essential tool for New Yorkers
• usergeneratedcontext.pdf (application/pdf Object): I like this notion--that UGC is really about context; professional (or at least dedicated) sources are creating most of the true content, and the user base is expounding and defining that content

• 1. Open bottle of iced tea. 2. Absentmindedly shake bottle. 3. Clean floor, pants, desk. 4. Find replacement keyboard when YUIO keys die (03:07 PM July 21, 2008)
• Why did an item I put on a 7-day ebay auction this evening get 5 bids in its first five hours? Is poaching passe? (11:37 PM July 20, 2008)
• Sitting at the computer, Nathan on my lap staring at the monitor and reaching for the mouse pad. He's a natural (10:10 AM July 18, 2008 )
• Picturesque uws: clear sunny skies, a light breeze, birds chirping, and a rat crossing my path in riverside park (08:41 AM July 10, 2008)
• So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so tired (02:51 PM July 07, 2008)

And the business blog is humming, with a new UX Critic feature we've introduced and numerous posts from me on the new iPhone. Take a look.

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In fairly short order I have become quite the distended blogger: from a near-complete publishing slate in this space, I now have six different locations online where my words and pictures appear.

Much as been said elsewhere about the potentially excess fragmentation of the online space, so I won't go into that here. Rather than fight it, I've embraced multiple services for their individual advantages. As for blogging, well, I now have this blog and a work blog and a kid blog, so here we are.

My del.icio.us link exporter seems to have stopped working again, which provides me with an opportunity to do what others have done and cull the links, blog posts and errata from elsewhere into a single post. I'll try and do this once a week if not more.

• The consumer cost of the iPhone on AIAIO. Contrary to popular belief, I am not automatically following the Apple Pied Piper and buying a new phone next month.
• UX in the world of food, also on AIAIO, from a few weeks ago.
• Let's see how this works: some choice tweets from recent days....
  • The pleasure of working from home is sorely mitigated by the looming specter of changing a poop diaper after completing a conference call (link)
  • new baby: permanent answer to the question "what should I do with my free time" (link)
  • How hot is it out? So hot my dog would rather hold it in than go for a walk (link)
• From my del.icio.us feed: Obama clinches nomination; Clinton seeks VP spot—Let me take a moment away from paternity leave to celebrate America's color-blind selection of a bright, progressive politician as one of our two main Presidential candidates
• And then, of course, there's Nate. I've got an early update on him on his own blog, and lots of photos on display, deliberately separated from this space for obvious reasons. There's also a large mass of Nathan photos in my Flickr feed, which is newborn nirvana for folks who like that kind of thing. The kid's fun: stop by.

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