from Shorpy… puttees AND high-heeled boots = terrifying

Doc Searls again… one of my very favorite aerial/landscape photographers

Gina Kamentsky's ingenuity… well worth following

via Lifehacker, this one is just pretty cool. I used it to make a pdf of today's oook blog page, and all the LINKS (e.g., to the month-by-month archives as well as to things-linked via delicious and otherwise) came through just fine. The hyperlinks inquire if you want to trust them before they connect.

from Wondermark

a Better Idea

from Business High: 1905 in the Shorpy Photo Archive. For my money, THE prat is the guy on the left in the front row. Truly inventive elbow move. But you may find other Prats, and Prattes too…

more fugitive music, with previews

what a wealth of fugitive music!

from The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong. Aw, gwan… listen to it. A fine example of context-building in the writing: "…So let the jazz purists frown at what they perceive as the sad ending of Louis Armstrong, singing kids songs. He sure as hell doesn’t sound sad to me and that trumpet solo is the truth, my friends…"

via Google Maps Mania, the sort of thing I've been imagining for years, and including layers like Murdock's [semi-bogus] map of ethnic entities. Geography reborn, just as I've been saying since…

from The Automata / Automaton Blog, via BoingBoing

twang.

Language Log is almost always apposite. Here's cultural commentary and even MIT geekery, elegantly drawn too

sooo worth your time, 20-some minutes of it. From The Guardian

from Swapatorium

Joe Manning's labor of love, tracking down and interviewing descendants of Hine's subjects

as usual, there may be more than one (Shorpy again)