Ed links to the most recent Edgar Award winner, John Hart’s Down River. One of my favorite authors is North Carolinian Michael Malone, so I think I’ll give this North Carolinian who is my age a try.

Esbee’s backing Obama. She also notices how her husband, who has a different last name from hers and is “Spanish sounding” got a different mailer than she did. Basically Hillary was pandering…again.

Use a Sony Playstation cord with your MacBook power brick. It’s less bulky than the Mac’s own power cord which means it’s easier to pack and it has a two prong plug instead of a three prong, so you can use it in any AC outlet.

Kids being sent home from school for shaving vertical lines in their eyebrows. School admins claim that they are gang symbols or look like gang symbols. Mountain out of a molehill.

Justin Wolfers poses a question on the Freakonomics blog: Is the US tax system fair? Are the rich paying their fair share? Warren Buffett compared his tax rate to his secretary’s and found that his was in the 15% range while hers was in the 30% range.

Article about exodus of ESOL students from Prince William County to Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria. From the article: “The school-to-school migration within Northern Virginia started just as Prince William began implementing rules to deny some service

Rex Hammock posts about Marc Andreessen’s post about why Microsofts potential hostile takeover of Yahoo! is significant. Most interesting is Rex’s point that it in this day of info-overload the successful writers/editors/bloggers tell us why, not just wh

Dave Ribar writes about how privatized debt collection hasn’t been the “winner, winner, chicken dinner” the Congress-critters thought it would be

New service for Mac users for organizing public domain books.

Web based file format converter. Upload file you need converted and it will be done and an email sent to you with a link to a page where you can download the converted file.

Fan that blows under your bed covers. I could use that in the hot north carolina summer.

Wooden coffee cup holders. Starbucks will provide you with cardboard versions for free, but if you’re willing to pay $5 for a cup of joe then paying the $70 for one of these is no big deal. Currently available in black walnut, benge and birds eye maple.

Rubel looks at three emerging careers for budding digirati; Chief Customer Experience Officer, Digital Storytellers, Super Crunchers.

Fred Wilson’s portfolio company Adaptive Blue has launched SmartLinks. I haven’t tried them yet but apparently they allow you to provide information about links without the reader navigating away from the page. Going to test drive them.

Citizen Journalism Academy at Guilford College in June.

Classroom pages for 6th grade at MMS

If Joe is right and Borders is about dead then my family is going to have to figure out something new to do on late Friday evenings. We love going to the Borders at Thruway and hanging out with a drink and some book/magazine browsing.

scip08 freeman exhibitor kit

App for recording VOIP calls.

Blog post has an interesting chart on all the communication vehicles development in IT industry (email, wiki, twitter, etc.). Impossible to describe so check it out.

RAND assesses U.S. intelligence agencies.

Helene likes Starbucks’ online version of a suggestion box. She also sees opportunity in Starbucks’ data.

Starbucks Idea Page. Very nice way to solicit customer feedback and engage in customer communications.

Did local blogger Troublemaker really have police show up at his house to track comments on his blog or was it an April’s Fool Day joke?

Citizens Against Government Waste takes lobbying money sans disclosure. So much for objectivity. Lex calls them “whores”. http://blogontherun.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/oink/

Wine bottle label remover. Pack of 10.

Archive of interviews by Mike Wallace for his nationally broadcast show in the late 50s.