not on MY scanner!

"…if Geithner can be made to swallow this then, please god, pretty much fucking anything can be subsequently ordained…"

don't miss it…

a fantastic set of images of a moulting civilization

I wonder if this list isn't a METAPHOR applicable to all situations? ARE there analogs to Ohms Law beyond the realm of electrons? Surely this one is Golden and Universal: "Always understand that you may pick two of the following three, but not more:
* It can be built well,
* It can be built quickly,
* It can be built cheaply…

of course it would be NICE to have data for levels below the State…

as a wiki… almost makes me wish I was still in the biz

…or see it in this form, which may make you a True Believer in Google's Goodness. Or not.

the Whole Text of Veblen's 1904 edition… just start reading it anywhere and be amazed. Guess those old guys knew a thing or two.

a nice catch by Dan Gillmor, presently at BoingBoing for a while. Bookend this with the Clay Shirky piece everybody's pointing to ( http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/) and you've got The Whole Enchilada

Nouriel Roubini is pretty convincing…

from BibliOdyssey, a bunch of illustrations of cooking technologies, 16th c. Italy

Public Lectures and Events, in case you don't have anything ELSE to do

!!at last!!

Beirut urban spelunkers… Flickr photostream at the end

Mike Wesch steals another march. FOLLOW those links to see how it works, and note what MW sez: "I feel like this is one of those >>Rear View Mirror<< moments in which a new technology comes into our lives with enormous potential and we just don't know what to do with it yet. We think of it in terms of what we know (pen and paper) and fail to recognize the potential. .."

in its early stages, but a promising project

NY Times

uh oh…

from Shorpy

Drew Friedman's site, worth visiting frequently