• Rogue Columnist: Newspaper suicide watch: the folly of “local-local”
  Even newspapers like the Wash Post screw up the hyperlocal angle.
  (tags: newspapers journalism business media)
• A VC: Hyperlocal Has To Be Peer Produced
  Fred Wilson’s take on the hyperlocal story in WSJ. He thinks the content needs to be peer produced and aggregated.
  (tags: journalism newspapers media local)
• bookofjoe: Tim Roberts, winner of this year’s TopCoder Open, gives a lesson
  Coder offers route to success: avoid bells and whistles, ask lots of questions, and meet requirements of user as they’ve described them.
  (tags: management consultant)

• LibriVox
  Site for free, public domain audio books
  (tags: books audio)
• DCist: Police to Seal Off D.C. Neighborhoods
  DC allowing police to set up checkpoints in high crime areas, requiring ID to prove residency, business or legitimate purpose to enter area.
  (tags: government crime politics)
• Talking Points Memo | Phase II
  Perhaps the Bush Admin misremembered key intel findings, dozens or hundreds of times, in the run-up to the war?
  (tags: politics iraq iraqreport government)

• Cool Tool: Sticker Shield
  Sticker Shield is a static adhesion sheet that surrounds a decal or sticker, making it easily removable and transferable from one surface to another.
  (tags: coolstuff)

• Analysts: Thompson’s ouster may foretell of losses
  Wachovia dumps its CEO Ken Thompson. The guy lasted longer that I would have expected.
  (tags: business)

• Health Beat: A Fresh Look at Health Care Reform; Part I of II
  First of a two part review of a book that proposes universal health care for Americans, and more importantly, an idea about how to fund it.
  (tags: healthcare)

Our school system publicized a $5 physical for all students participating in school sports next year. It’s being held this morning at Comp Rehab and you can imagine the crowd. I figure we’ll be here 2 hours minimum, but since our physicals normally cost $85 per kid we figure we’re saving $240

It was getting very warm in the building so I fled to the parking lot about five minutes ago. Celeste stayed with the kids even though she didn’t have to. Guess who’s the slacker parent? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

• PressThink: What Happened to Scott McClellan in Longer Perspective: 100 Years of the White House Press
  Jay Rosen provides historical perspective on press and the presidency.
  (tags: media politics journalism)

• Survey: More than half of work force has been laid off at some point – The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:
  Top reason for people changing jobs at some point in their careers is downsizing or layoffs (54%). Next highest was “sought new challenges or opportunities (30%). after that came Ineffective leadership (25%), poor relationship with manager (22%), impro
  (tags: business)
• Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq – washingtonpost.com
  The Bush post-mortems begin. The next couple of years are going to be very, very interesting.
  (tags: book iraq media politics)
• CNN/ABC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
  The press are corporate hand puppets.
  (tags: journalism media politics)
• Hullabaloo
  Reflection on former MSNBC reporter Ashleigh Banfield’s April, 2003 address to Kansas State U that offered a very honest critique of cable news’ coverage of the war just three weeks after the invasion. The result was she was fired and is now on TruTV
  (tags: iraq media politics journalism)
• YouTube – Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir – SWEET HOME ALABAMA
  Sweet Home Alabama presented in a way you’ll have to see to believe. HT to Fec for pointing to it. Clue to weirdness: it features the Red Army Choir.
  (tags: funny music video weird)

• mental_floss Blog » Shorts That Don’t Suck, Vol IV: Music Video Edition
  Mental Floss has four music videos that are way cool. I loved how Weezer hijacked all the “viral’ videos from the last few years.
  (tags: video)
• FOXNews.com – Dvorak: The Internet Is Making Us Dumber – Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
  One of the dumbest arguments in support of newspapers, TV and other “old” media I’ve ever seen. You’ll have to read it to get the full effect, but in a nutshell Dvorak says that the internet is bad because we normal folks only read what we want to read a
  (tags: stupidpeople web2.0)
• Applied Rationality: Prices matter
  Ribar points to a report that people drove 11 billion fewer miles in March 08 than in March 07. That’s a 4% drop and the largest drop ever reported by the US Federal Highway Administration. I guess that’s what gas prices north of $3.50 a gallon will get
  (tags: travel economics)
• Wedding anniversary – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Traditional wedding anniversary gifts. Found via Lex’s blog.
  (tags: gifts wikipedia)

• bookofjoe: Hot Mug
  Heat sensitive coffee mug that changes as temp of contents change. White with black “Hot” script when it’s hot, to black with white “Cold” script when cold. In between it’s part white and part black with both scripts kind of showing. very cool.
  (tags: coolstuff)