• Mapping with Isotype
  from Making Maps: DIY Cartography
  (tags: visualization geospatial design)
• Beards on the Rise
  and don't miss the Saga of Joseph Palmer, halfway down
  (tags: beards nacirema)

• Msr Lightning Ascent Snowshoe, Msr Lightning Ascent Snowshoes : Eastern Mountain Sports
  sez Stephen: don't ever buy any other kind of snowshoe
  (tags: geekery snowshoes)
• History of the Internet
  EVERYbody is pointing to it, so I'll join in too. Good stuff.
  (tags: chronology computing technologies)

• Lions of Literature: Swinburne, by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert (Part 1)
  from A Journey Round My Skull, and all 4 parts are well worth your time
  (tags: geekery poets)

• Hark! A Vagrant – You've Lost that Loving Feeling
  sheer genius
  (tags: comics caricature cartoon)

• A Friendly Gesture
  (tags: automata)
• Poisoned Milk
  (tags: automata)

• Singapore shipping: hiatus
  yup
  (tags: economics ships)

• Amish Hackers and Early Adopters
  from Kevin Kelly's The Technium
  (tags: technologies)
• Dreamtime: Blossom Dearie: 1926-2009
  wonderful singer, but a horrible person in real life apparently
  (tags: musics)
• Neil Gaiman's Journal: American Gods Blog, Post 2
  the very first substantive posting of Gaiman's Blog, 2001. I await a Rainy Day to enjoy reading through from the beginning…
  (tags: bloggery Gaiman)
• BLACK CAB SESSIONS – Chapter Seventy-Three : Richard Thompson
  the first one is especially powerful
  (tags: musics)

The future is assured:

(via Darryl Landry)
and see a 2007 clip and a recent interview

he SHOULD be. This is real Americana (and starting with number 2 is no crazier than anything else you can imagine):

• Magnetic duct-tape
  proof that we really ARE the Crown of Creation
  (tags: technologies)
• Rep. Kanjorski: $550 Billion Disappeared in "Electronic Run On the Banks" – Boing Boing
  yeah, watch this one… IS this what happened in mid-September?
  (tags: argybargy economics)
• Dumneazu: The Holy Pickles of Chisinau
  (don't miss this one, foodies)
  (tags: food ethnography)