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Inbound: Houston is a public art project that will replace highway billboard advertisements with images of what the viewer would see if the billboard wasn't there. Here's an example: > Via (and more photos at) notes.husk.org. - Michael Sippey

Inspired by clusterflock... I love the web. - Michael Sippey

Ev's post outlining the rationale for the implementation for RTs in Twitter is full of interesting bits*, but this is the sentence that stuck out in the post. Emphasis his: > This last point [re. unstructured data] is not obvious... - Michael Sippey

You know, I had forgotten all about CD-ROMs until this afternoon's visit to jimcarrey.com. > Good times. - Michael Sippey

David Hornik makes a compelling* argument for Twitter to bring on the ads. Esp. of note is the graf about context... The very data others have suggested Twitter should sell to third parties is invaluable to create the necessary context... - Michael Sippey

The latest from Greg: DIEFEEBLE, the wristband in ashen gray, "for leading that life of quiet desperation that you keep hearing about." - Michael Sippey

Super excited about Silkscreen being available through TypeKit. - Michael Sippey

Today is Maura Johnston's last day at Idolator. - Michael Sippey

Kindle for PC: perfect for tech and text books. Mac version coming soon; O'Reilly, it's about time to kill Safari. - Michael Sippey

Mena pointed me to Style Rookie ("Tiny 13 year old dork that sits inside all day wearing awkward jackets and pretty hats") and now I Can't Stop Reading. I'll do this this one time to get it out of my... - Michael Sippey

I love this bit from Chris Dixon's blog post announcing Founder Collective. We believe the best people to predict the future — and create it — are fellow entrepreneurs, not former bankers drawing graphs and developing abstract theses. - Michael Sippey

The Office's John Krasinski has written and directed a film adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. I had no idea. Two quick notes: Actually, I had no idea until learned about it via the always helpful... - Michael Sippey

I'm not quite certain that this is completely sound polisci -- public optics and the news cycle has to play a role in the political calculus of massively important president-led bills like health care reform -- but Rafe Colburn makes... - Michael Sippey

Twenty years ago this week I was living in London, enjoying a semester abroad as a senior in college. Instead of hopping the first plane I could find to Berlin, I watched the wall come down on television. I've regretted... - Michael Sippey

New career for Jason: fan fiction. - Michael Sippey

But I'm a blogger who likes food. And this week I had three dishes at three restaurants in New York that are worth mentioning. 1. The filetti pizza at Motorino Pizza in the East Village. People in SF's East Bay... - Michael Sippey

Hmmm. This looks familiar. - Michael Sippey

Kevin DeMaria posted a photo essay of the last days of Gourmet Magazine. > So good. (via) - Michael Sippey

Very excited to have Metric using TypePad Motion! - Michael Sippey

Do you love cities? And architecture? And computers? And vague phrases like "ambient arrays" and "biophysical mesh networks" and "knowable material"? Do you dress primarily in black? Then chances are you could probably use Molly Steenson's new Urban Informatics Speech... - Michael Sippey

Big news in the Times today about how car companies are choosing to pronounce "2010" in ads for new models. (Shortcut: they're going for "two thousand ten" over "twenty ten".) Here's Jon Pearce, group creative director at Team One, the... - Michael Sippey

Last Tuesday night, after Caltrans closed the Bay Bridge for repairs, I set up a single serving site: isthebaybridgeopen.com, and then proceeded to pimp it lightly here and on Twitter. Just because I find this kind of stuff interesting, here's... - Michael Sippey

Must listen to this. - Michael Sippey

Rich Juzwiak on Michael Jackson. He was the kind of man who thought audiences would be "nourished" by the reinsertion of eight bars of "The Way You Make Me Feel" into its live arrangement, the kind of man who considered... - Michael Sippey

No, this isn’t a mistake. First, there’s less DNA in a sperm cell than there is in a non-reproductive cell such as a skin cell. Second, the DNA in a sperm cell is super-condensed and compacted into a highly dense... - Michael Sippey

Lehman Brothers had one hell of an art collection. It's up for auction at Freeman's in Philadelphia. You know you've always wanted an Ed Ruscha tainted with the stench of economic collapse...and now it can be yours. - Michael Sippey

Tony Alfrey dissects what's happening on the Bridge. So consider this for just a second: the tool that they installed was not "strong enough" to handle the total load (traffic, roadbed, wind), yet this cracked Eyebar has been hanging up... - Michael Sippey

Tony Alfrey dissects what's happening on the Bridge. So consider this for just a second: the tool that they installed was not "strong enough" to handle the total load (traffic, roadbed, wind), yet this cracked Eyebar has been hanging up... - Michael Sippey

This is an amazing photo. > Taken by Joe Marshall and posted to TwitPic with the tweet... > Wtf is happening to the Bay Bridge? Looks like part of it fell off and hit some cars. Blocking 2 lanes wowow - Michael Sippey

Letters of Note publishes the stock rejection letter from Zyzzyva's Howard Junker. The important thing is this: Do not be discouraged by this or any other momentary setback. The road is long; the struggle must go on. - Michael Sippey