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If you're looking for music, there are search engines on the Web designed specifically for finding it. - mark

For those concerned about global warming and their impact on it, Ecobot offers a convenient, open-source way to track one's personal carbon footprint and take steps to reduce it. - mark

NPR.org, June 24, 2009 - It starts off sounding more like a Velvet Underground record, perhaps a version of "I'm Waiting for the Man." There are similar chord progressions and distorted guitars. And though they often wear some of their influences outwardly — there is a Beatles-esque song and a Television song for sure — the new Wilco record is all about a great band playing great original music on an album filled with great songs. - mark from Bookmarklet

Charlotte's United Way this morning approved a recession-damaged spending plan that cuts grants to local charities by more than a third, slicing away millions of much-needed budget dollars even as community needs skyrocket. - mark

"It seems that the Iranian soccer (or, football, as it were) players who wore green armbands as a gesture of solidarity with the nation’s protesters during a televised match against South Korea in Seoul have been banned from playing soccer in the country. For life. Their names are Ali Karimi, 31, Mehdi Mahdavikia, 32, Hosein Ka’abi, 24 and Vahid Hashemian, 32, and Iran’s pro-government newspaper reported that they have all “retired.”" - mark from Bookmarklet

Today, the Google-Facebook rivalry isn't just going strong, it has evolved into a full-blown battle over the future of the Internet—its structure, design, and utility. For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google's algorithms—rigorous and efficient equations that parse practically every byte of online activity to build a dispassionate atlas of the online world. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search. It is a complete rethinking of how we navigate the online world, one that places Facebook right at the center. In other words, right where Google is now. - mark from Bookmarklet

In Memphis, Tenn. they stood at the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in 1968. It's now home to the National Civil Rights Museum. In Clarksdale, Miss., they saw guitars of bluesmen Robert Johnson and B.B. King, and remnants of Muddy Waters' birthplace at the Delta Blues Museum. In Birmingham, Ala., they stroked the monuments at Kelly Ingram Park, where King and others organized boycotts, and where Bull Connor turned his police dogs against demonstrators in May 1963. - mark

After watching other photo hosts create simple tools for Twitter users to post pictures, Flickr has finally wised up and pushed out its own solution. By divining the popular photo service with access to your Twitter stream, you can now post individual shots there right from Flickr, complete with a fancy Flic.kr shortened URL. - mark