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Please don't lose that Bundt

Horace Rumpole — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:22:01 -0800

I like big bundts and I cannot lie! In honor of November 15th, National Bundt Day, the Food Librarian is bringing us 30 days of Bundt cakes. (via)

Sweet Smell of Success

Halloween Jack — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:38:03 -0800

Getting tired of fail, fail, and yet more fail? SUCCEED Blog chronicles that which is made of win. Leave your schadenfreude at the door. (via).

Death's Blog

Joe Beese — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:40:39 -0800

Death's Blog

Stephanie Aurora Clark Nielson returns from an almost fatal plane crash.

granted — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:16:47 -0800

On August 16, 2008, a small plane carrying a young married couple and their flight instructor crashed in the Arizona desert. Doug Kinneard, the instructor, was killed in the crash; Stephanie and Christian Nielson survived, both severely burned. Prior to the crash, Stephanie's weblog, the NieNie Dialogues, "had attracted a small but ardent following, thanks to its upbeat dispatches about marriage, home décor, entertaining and the art of raising four children ages 6 and younger." After the crash, with burns on over 80% of her body, she spent two months in a medically induced coma. One month later, she was released from the hospital (link to Stephanie's sister's blog); one month after that, she began blogging again. Stephanie's posts since then have chronicled her gradual recovery, her re-integration into her family, her love and gratitude for her husband, and, finally, on the one-year anniversary of the plane crash, herself. A note that Stephanie's Mormon faith is a prominent and recurring theme throughout her writing, so if that sort of thing bothers you...then you are going to be bothered.

Terminally Illin'

digaman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:49:17 -0800

Cancer is hilarious. On humor, healing, and the art of remaining human and hip in difficult circumstances. (From Newsweek.) See also here, here and here.

Discover, Explore and Document

netbros — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:27:13 -0800

NYC Grid is a photo blog dedicated to exploring and discovering The City of New York block by block and corner by corner. Updated every weekday, each post covers a new block with a focus on the mundane and ephemeral. An optimistic snapshot of New York as it is now. Vs. The Lamentations: Lost City is a running Jeremiad on the vestiges of Old New York as they are steamrolled under or threatened by the currently ruthless real estate market and the City Fathers' disregard for Gotham's historical and cultural fabric. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York — a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct. Still hunkered down in the East Village, waiting for the wrecking ball of gentrification to find me. Until then, I'll write this ongoing obituary for my dying city.

New afternoon free paper, hawked by kids shouting “Extra! Extra!”

joeclark — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:47:52 -0800

“With t.o.night, you too can remember the good old days, when Mom, Dad, Junior, Little Suzy, and Skip would all sit around the radio and listen to blogs on the Internet.” The solution to the decline of newspapers? Launch a new one, charge nothing for it, fill it with wire copy and stories from a city blog, publish it weekday afternoons, and hire kids to wear “poor-boy caps” and shout “Extra! Extra!” while handing it out. t.o. night (sic) will be a new afternoon free commuter paper in Toronto. City blog Torontoist – not the one supplying “content” to the paper (that’s BlogTO) – approaches this new competition with delicious skepticism. Maybe Torontoist has learned its lesson, since its own partnership with a paper (the storied Globe and Mail) generated content that goes without updates for unbloglike weeks at a time.

Fauxbituaries

Iridic — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:23:41 -0800

i dream of a world without you: death notices for the nonexistent. (Via the blog of John "Scary Go Round" Allison, one of the contributors.)

I am a south korean Homeless Man and New Upgrade!

oneironaut — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:43:22 -0800

A homeless man in DC has a wordpress blog which he posts images to using a remote camera. I saw this man in the DC metro yesterday, hauling a shopping cart around that not only contained his clothes, but was also festooned with cardboard signs advertising different web addresses. Wandoojin.wordpress.com was the only one I could make out, and though the fellow is clearly disturbed (though the site is not disturbing), to me it's a fascinating look at how accessible technology is to everyone, especially the folks who have too many words, images of Gremlins sitting on the US, and conspiracy theories involving Teddy Kennedy and the Clintons to keep to himself. Also, he's apparently made good use of the Apple store near my office. (I wonder if he knows the Arlington rap?)

Appetite for China

Joe Beese — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:55:56 -0800

Appetite for China - a food blog whose motto is "1.3 billion people must be eating something right". Today: Dried Fugu and Durian Pudding

Most Expensive

Joe Beese — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:38:14 -0800

The Most Expensive Journal blogs about $4,200 computer keyboards, $2.7 million guitars, and $11 million watches.

We walk by faith, not by sight

Joe Beese — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:11:48 -0800

It is apparent to me that Faith does have a brain, despite what the doctors have said. Even though it is generally believed that anencephalic babies are blind, deaf, and cannot feel touch or think... I don't believe that. Not at all. So little is known about the human brain and the only one who really knows what's going on is God. I truly believe that Faith can think and can feel my touch and hear my voice. I can't prove it but I feel like I just know. [images may be disturbing]

A New Species in the News Ecosystem

Potomac Avenue — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:12:07 -0800

The Huffington Post just announced that it is launching a new initiative to produce a wide range of investigative journalism — The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. Arianna Huffington has various ideas about how to fix the hole that failing newspapers leave behind, but this does have some precedent . Some reactions so far.

government weblogs

kliuless — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:32:08 -0800

The OMB has a blog (feed) -- Peter Orszag started one at CBO (still going under Douglas Elmendorf née Bob Sunshine) and carried blogging over to the White House. The Atlanta Fed has one too (not to be confused with Macro Man). David Altig unofficially began it as an economist at the Cleveland Fed and then, when he became research director in Atlanta, made it official (altho still hosted on TypePad). Are there any other (federal/state/local/non-US) worthwhile government blogs (wikis sure) out there from our shiny new iPod gov't? cf. DoD live (check out the other service blogs, e.g.)/air force live & USAgov on twitter

Social Neuroscience

homunculus — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:31:55 -0800

That Voodoo That Scientists Do. "When findings are debated online, as with a yet to be released paper (PDF) that calls out the field of social neuroscience, who wins?"

The First 100 Days

Cochise — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:39:39 -0800

Oh those vaunted "first 100 days," they are finally upon us. Roosevelt's legendary time period has long been applied to new administrations, but never so emphatically or with such hope as to the Obama administration. And now you can follow them! For commentary, there's The First 100 Days, for mainstream media there's Obama's First 100 Days, for a comparison between old and new there 100 Days: Starting the Job, From FDR to Obama, for new media there's Obama's First 100 Days, and finally, for a government perspective there's First 100 Days. I smell an idea for an ironic t-shirt...

The Printed Blog is exactly what it sounds like

janet lynn — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:46:16 -0800

In yet another strange marriage of media new and old, The Printed Blog launches next week. The paper will be distributed in Chicago (home of the once-great, now-bankrupt Chigago Tribune) and San Francisco, and it’s free. “Why hasn’t anyone tried to take the best content and bring it offline,” asks founder Josh Karp. What about people who don’t live in Chicago or SF? They can get the PDF … online.

Your favorite music blog sucks

swift — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:51:47 -0800

Your favorite music blog sucks.

Rock/Psych/Prog/Indie/Folk
ChrisGoesRock
Prog Not Frog
Like Dynamite to your Brain
YoungMossTongue
Glamorous Indie Rock'n'Roll
FANTASY
SONZEIRANANET
A L A I N F I N K I E L K R A U T R O C K
Orexis Of Death
Eclectic The Devil's Music Hefiorels eclectic music Many fantastic colors makes me feel so good ... Saque su disco URBAN ASPIRINES History of the 80s The Glorious 70s Experimental experimental etc Cagedream Misterioso Impossível Underground/Punk FACTS MYTHS & LIES of D.I.Y. MUSIC 1987-93 DOWN UNDERGROUND Blues BLUES TOWN The Blues Lounge Disco DANCE DISCO MUSIC My Favourite Sound© Meta All Music, All Blogs Progressive Rock Music Ultimate Discography PNF Blogwatch

Air Flow

Artw — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:44:37 -0800

How to blog, or counter-blog, for the US Air force, in handy flow chart form.

2008 Cliopatria Awards

marxchivist — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:26:43 -0800

2008 Cliopatria Awards announced. These awards are given for the best History Blogs. Winners this year include: The Edge of the American West (best group blog), Wynken de Worde (best new blog), and Northwest History ( best individual blog) by mefi's own LarryC. One winner I've enjoyed is Zunguzungu, this year's winner for best writer. I particularly like his essay on colonialism in Heart of Darkness, A Few Good Men, and The Searchers.

They are fighting for a new world of freedom and peace.

anastasiav — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:05:00 -0800

Toons at War previously on the same topic

'Where Forgotton Books are Remembered'

anastasiav — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:13:26 -0800

The Neglected Books Page

Pictures of the Day

kliuless — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:05:11 -0800

The WSJ Photo Journal - The Boston Globe's Big Picture has company. [previously]

Down South frumpin'!

iffley — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:17:19 -0800

Jocelyn Testes-Harder is a no-nonsense woman

Memes in Motion

scalefree — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:42:01 -0800

Shifting the Debate. Track the movement across the blogosphere of the top 100 political videos on YouTube with this amazing Flash applet.