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Maira Kalman is amazing. read this. now. - Ed Fladung

mindbendingly awesome three part interview by Jamie Watson of Cher Pendarvis. takes it back to Cher learning to surf, patching dings and learning to shape, glassing and competing. Hanging with Rell Sun, being gently nudged into competition by Skip Frye, taking pointers from Shaun Tomson, and of course marrying Steve Pendarvis. Cher is a surf goddess. - Ed Fladung

animated map. from Jan '07 to the present. it really starts to get bonkers around Jan '09. scary. - Ed Fladung

my new favorite website. - Ed Fladung

gorgeous photos from Dubai. i really dig the aesthetic qualities of these photos. very light, but not blown. i bet the light n Dubai is horrible. this guy is talented. - Ed Fladung

great article in SFGate on Danny Hess and his wooden surfboards. [via @seborealis ] - Ed Fladung

gynormous article on Cameron and his new film Avatar. I have a friend who is working on the film who says that it will be one of the most amazing films ever seen, with mind-numbing new special effects stuff going on. we'll see.... - Ed Fladung

student photo project. please file this under: why the hell didn't i think of this. - Ed Fladung

new website designed by the guys over at the newly minted <a href="http://quiverstudio.blogspot.com/">Quiver Studios</a>. I really like this site. minimal, easy to use, blogesque design, good photography. kudos Graham. - Ed Fladung

awesome web-based website wire-framing tool. so simple anyone can use. and you can share your wireframes. So you want to put together a website for some new idea you have. this tool will help you figure out exactly what you want on your site. it will take all the guess work out, when you hand the site off to a web designer, who is used to having to guess what you'd like on your website. - Ed Fladung

the best halloween costume i have ever seen. bar none. - Ed Fladung

tutorial on building a multi-language blog/website with Wordpress and the WPML Plugin. - Ed Fladung

wicked new site full of yummy new architecture projects from my favorite SF/HI based nice modernist architect and surfer Craig Steely. I love this guy's work! nice shiny new site. - Ed Fladung

very interesting nerd read. explains just how badly Google is overturning traditional business models like GPS, cell phones and soon desktop operating systems. - Ed Fladung

Mathieu Young's photography documentation of a nor cal harvest. beautiful shots, interesting subject matter. - Ed Fladung

"Rosemary is an open-source modular cascading filter-based modification system for CSS files; or commonly recognized as the acronym, OSMCFBMS4CSS." - for css coders this is rad! - Ed Fladung

this is one classy rejection letter. if you ever need to write a rejection letter let this be your template and dont we all wish we could receive rejection letters with this much time, effort, wit and humility put into a standard form letter. - Ed Fladung

great video of McFetridge's "Do" lecture. good background audio for working. - Ed Fladung

great interview with The Malloy Brothers. very much worth a read. these guys make it look so <em>easy</em>. - Ed Fladung

rad interview with Calarts homie / Girl Skateboards designer / fine artist Tony Larson. I've never seen his board graphics. They are impressive. intimidatingly impressive. love them - Ed Fladung

"Grab a mop" is probably the best political slogan I've heard in 20 years. and the clincher: the naysayers "you're not mopping fast enough! that's a socialist mop!" - Ed Fladung

My homie Isaiah Seret gets the nod from Kanye on a new video he co-directed with Jon Beasley for Hecuba. and the video is amazing. as usual. really nicely done. filmed on RED with wicked production design and costuming. - Ed Fladung

“IF you really want to know why the financial system nearly collapsed in the fall of 2008, I can tell you in one simple sentence.” - read on. - Ed Fladung

say it with me now: There is no such thing as clean burning coal. What you're not breathing anymore, you are drinking. [via @jimmoriarty] - Ed Fladung

"I'm convinced that it is only through drawing that I look at things carefully and the act of drawing makes me conscious of what I'm looking at..." - amazing, hypnotic, insightful, revolutionary, subversive. - Ed Fladung

awesome article on pair programming related working method by Agave Lab, a "nearsourcing" company in Guadalajara. the method involves pairing programmers in teams of two and having them share and switch off on projects, very cool. - Ed Fladung

harrowing account of a surfer in Samoa who was out surfing, when the tsunami hit. - Ed Fladung

"Since the global financial system started unraveling in dramatic fashion two years ago, distinguished economists have suffered a crisis of their own. Ivy League professors who had trumpeted the dawn of a new era of stability have scrambled to explain how, exactly, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression had ambushed their entire profession.Amid the hand-wringing and the self-flagellation, a few more cerebral commentators started to speak about the arrival of a “Minsky moment,” and a growing number of insiders began to warn of a coming “Minsky meltdown.”" [via <a href="http://idealistpropaganda.blogspot.com/2009...">Glen E Friedman</a>] - Ed Fladung

Paul Krugman lays down some truthiness about why the current form of the Republican part: "at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation’s two great political parties is spite pure and simple. If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they’re against it — whether or not it’s good for America." - Ed Fladung

bat shit insane!: The red lionfish, a tropical native of the Indian and Pacific oceans that probably escaped from a Florida fish tank, is showing up everywhere _ from the coasts of Cuba and Hispaniola to Little Cayman. Wherever it appears, the adaptable predator corners fish and crustaceans up to half its size with its billowy fins and sucks them down in one violent gulp. Research teams observed one lionfish eating 20 small fish in less than 30 minutes. "This may very well become the most devastating marine invasion in history," said Mark Hixon, an Oregon State University marine ecology expert who compared lionfish to a plague of locusts. "There is probably no way to stop the invasion completely." - This article says that the infestation is limited to the eastern caribean. not true. they are catching Lionfish by the dozen in Cozumel and the Riviera Maya. - Ed Fladung