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Early entries in this category are posts I wrote at gohlkus.wordpress.com and then imported over here, just for the heck of it. Then it became a holding category for posts I’d started here, abandoned, and finally edited and published, in some cases years later.

Recent links

I have to close a few tabs on my browser, so:

How the Government Dealt With Past Recessions, NYT, 1/26/09 (nice infographic)

The Daily Me, Nicholas Kristof, NYT, 3/18/09 (“[T]he public is increasingly seeking its news not from mainstream television networks or ink-on-dead-trees but from grazing online.”)

What LinkedIn’s Reorganization and OFA 2.0 Means for Politech Online, Fred Gooltz, hat tip to Matt Lockshin

Grist: Toward a less efficient and more robust food system

Thomas Friedman’s Latest Column Is an Outright Disaster, David Roberts of Grist. Topic: climate change legislation. Hilarious, angry, and yet right on.

Eight Characteristics of Leadership

EPIC 2014 – a future history thing about the death of the print media from a few years ago, by Robin Sloan currently of Current TV

“Honesty breeds interest”, about designer Stefan Sagmeister — from a Belfast designer who seems really talented, David Airey.

I haven’t necessarily read this stuff, or if I have I haven’t formulated many thoughts about it, but I’d like to.

basically what I was saying about Watchmen

Why a Watchmen movie was unnecessary

MacOS iPhone Project

http://www.macosiphone.co.cc/

Carol Gee’s Blog | Talking Points Memo | It’s a puzzlement . . .

A blog on TPM on transparency in the Obama administration.

Netroots Nation Salon: An Evening with Lawrence Lessig

An Evening with Lawrence Lessig, founder of Change Congress.

Wish I had heard about this before it happened. I don’t know how I didn’t. But I was out of town anyway.

New Yorker article on Van Jones

Greening the Ghetto – Can a remedy serve for both global warming and poverty? Van Jones is trying to find one.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain of Data – 2008 Election Polling

Blog by Mark Blumenthal at Pollster.com about 2008 election polling and what it showed

Simply Scripts

Simply Scripts — the text of many, many film scripts

Found via Very Short List, a daily email with exactly one recommendation per day (which I found via TicketWeb)

The history of AC Transit (East SF Bay Area, California)

AC Transit History: From Streetcars to BRT, by V Smoothe

No relation

Frank Gohlke at the Smithsonian

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