• It's easy to forget that Iran and Pakistan share a border…
  (Juan Cole hasn't forgotten, though)
  (tags: geopolitics)
• Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing
  from The New York Review of Books, and full of thought-provoking observations on the conduct of medical investigation
  (tags: medical)

• Visualizing the Readable Volume in the Field of a RFID Reader – information aesthetics
  (you've probably already seen this, but if not…)
  (tags: geekery rfid)

• Fractal learning from Stephen's Web
  seems to me that this NAILS it…
  (tags: metastuff learning)

• Scoutmaster indeed…
  (they're back again)
  (tags: prattitude photography)
• The Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project
  gotta luvvit
  (tags: fiction geospatial)

• NASA – Saturn's Infrared Ring
  ?who knew?
  (tags: whoa astro)
• ONUG
  jeez
  (tags: argybargy nacirema)

• YouTube – NSFW: The Cloud Computing Consultant
  yup
  (tags: geekery cloudcomputing)

• Charlotte Hall Basketball: 1905 from Shorpy Historic Photo Archive
  love the effect in the upper left hand corner
  (tags: prattitude photography)

via BoingBoing, so EVERYbody’s already seen it, right?

• MLA Language Map
  county-level data, but covering a goodly range of languages
  (tags: languages linguistics mapping geospatial nacirema)
• Get Saz Appeal: Lu Edmonds interview from Folk Roots
  (of interest to the weird-instrument and fringe-music crowd mostly)
  (tags: musics)
• Collapse of Stout Party
  etymology of a phrase, wittily unreeled
  (tags: dialects language etymology)