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Can local food help jump-start economy? @jane_black writes, new study finds evidence that it can. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/all-we-... (via @WaPoFood)
NYer Cartoon Caption Contest master! Laurence Lytton, of New York City, won Nov. 16 contest and is a finalist in Nov. 30 contest.
Makes me wonder if anyone has won the caption contest more than once?
That 3-time winner's name is also Lawrence. Do Lau/wrences have some advantage in the NYer's cartoon caption contest? Call @stevenlevitt
@ebertchicago, who's entered caption contest nearly every week but never been a finalist, mentions a 3-time winner. http://the_new_yorker_no_the_new_york.html
Last year in Slate, Patrick House wrote about how to win the cartoon caption contest. http://www.slate.com/id...
Dear Asian Carp, meet bow hunting http://www.windycitizen.com/chicago... (via @windycitizen)
RT @ WadeOnTweets Projection: 32K to 33K votes in Bham mayoral election, 27-28% turnout. Down from 45% in '07 mayoral election.
@the35212 It didn't fall in Crestwood, did it? I'm at Rocky's waiting on pizza.
Google teams up with WaPo and NYT on "Living Stories" project. http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/
Texas could use an Open-Government Initiative, no? http://www.texastribune.org/blogs... #OGD (via @matt_stiles) >>So could Alabama.
@NYTimesSkimmer Was that the title of your major? (OK, I've got all the bad Hampshire jokes out of my system.) Got any others @mattlatmatt?
@kimsunee Who wouldn't want that for breakfast?
@NYTimesSkimmer I know some Hampshire grads who don't like bacon. But bacon-thoughts have never looked as good as they do on the Skimmer.
Protesters in Iran have started doctoring bank notes to get out the message: http://payvand.com/blog...
RT @McSweeneysBooks @mattlatmatt on the merits (or lack thereof) of drinking wine while playing pool: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links...
Along with swine flu, global warming, Barack Obama, China, and credit crisis, Times Skimmer has a "bacon" topic: http://www.nytimes.com/timessk...
Excited about Google Goggles' future ability to tell me tree types. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Excited about Google Goggles' future ability to tell me tree types. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgfz0zPmH4
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HuffPo Q&A with Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall law professor who oversaw the study on Gitmo suicides. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
RT @tanyaott1 all Birmingham mayoral candidates interviews are now live: http://www.wbhm.org/News/2009/
Alexander Nazaryan makes the case for Netherland as best book of the decade. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexand... (via @thesecondpass)
Thinking about red balloons is beginning to interfere with thinking about the AL-FL game. http://balloon.media.mit.edu/chipbra...
@travisjnichols on poetry "less interested in telling stories & more interested in exploring how story-language works." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-...
@atticusrominger How'd dinner turn out?
Unrelated but 1) I love opening a new jar of sambal and 2) the Internet has made the Hammacher Schlemmer significantly less interesting.
Just noticed Google Public DNS (http://code.google.com/speed...) and Google Discover Music (http://www.google.com/landing...). Busy day.
On the eve of the Iron Bowl, Howell Raines's "Goodbye to the Bear": http://www.tnr.com/article...
@WadeOnTweets Wanted to introduce myself at tonight's Crestwood meeting, but I had a noisy two-year-old with me.
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