Link check in

These have been my bread and butter lately and it's been a while since I've posted the interesting links, so here ya go...

Mastectomy flash mob!

Coming out of your closet (whether or not you are gay)

Oh my god. You gotta just go look. Next time you post your phone number in a public place, think again.

Updates possible for the rest of the evening...

Some things

A new map of the US -- I can't tell if Chattanooga landed in Mammoth or King.

Chattanooga Doesn't Need Facebook

Touching Strangers.

Why?

Not dead yet? Here's why.

12 Little Known Laws of Karma

Putting Time in Perspective

Chattanooga-heavy links!

One Day in Chattanooga

Lego goes modernist

New York's secret subway station

Open source culture thrives in Chattanooga

Chattanooga's Makeover Secret: A River Runs Through It

New York to Chicago: 2.5 hours by plane today; six weeks in 1800!

... and one more of Chattavegas:

Getting caught up...

Cities That Surprise: Chattanooga, Tennessee

How the Wild West really looked

Why it cant be up to men…things I never knew before becoming pregnant…

Portraits of survivors of Norway’s massacre

GeoGuessr drops you someplace in the world, via Google Maps, and you have to guess where you are. It then tells you how close, or far off, your guess was. An amazing/addictive way to explore the world.

Steal Away Home: stunning portraits of men and women who were born into slavery and photographed seventy years after the Emancipation Proclamation

Who needs feminism? (via Steve)

Litterati (via Jeff)

The Histomap

40 Days of Dating

... and one more: The Stupid. It entertains.

A return of sorts

The Case For Vegetarianism Delivered By A Toddler

We are the 15%

What is the #1 threat to women?

Some thoughts from a virginal whore

I Am Not Trayvon Martin, but I am a father

The cucumber: more useful than you thought

Ad, Earth, Depression, HK speaks, summer sippin', and the best city in the US...

A great ad

Earth Through Time

Maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit

Rare footage of Helen Keller speaking

Fightin' free radicals and BS!

Best city in America?

Links...

A Well-Regulated-Godzilla?

The Most Representative Photograph of the Human Race?

700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities -- summer project, anyone?

Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite

World sites, tilt shifted

9 film frames

Back, after a year in the wilderness

It's Friday!

Got a box of old negatives?

Uncle Mark has a new column!

Fresh writing links!

Pro blogger routines (and some tips!)

Breathtaking Minimalist Landscape Photographs

W in 24 charts

10 Things To Avoid For A Toxin-Free Home

Helen on the Bush Library

...and speaking of idiots and amendments

I need to spend some time with this.

Update...

Thug Kitchen won. And after their brillant Earth Day post, who's surprised?!?  ;-)

Humpday Links

I was so busy this past week, with guests and taxes, and then amending my taxes... blah... that I never finished putting up some Friday links. And then the links I had been collecting seemed a little trite after what happened in Boston (btw, if you lost your phone, could you call anyone?). When I finally had a chance to get my rss feed caught up, I was a little bored by some of the food blogs I usually read -- it seems as though some bloggers out there might be in a bit of a rut, perhaps? Fortunately, there's a new player on the scene...

Have I mentioned that Thug Kitchen is my favorite new food blog? I'm not alone (more here).

From TEDGlobal speakers: 11 websites and links you didn’t know you needed in your life

What happens to your data when you die?

Keeping your garden Monsanto-free

The fridge of the future?

100 Rules of Dinner

Updates:
We Missed the Hitchens Birthday

Friday Fun!

It's been a busy week, but I managed to collect a few interesting bits...

Check out this cool weather service (here's the announcement)!

What Major World Cities Look Like at Night, Minus the Light Pollution

100 Websites You Should Know and Use

(Don't worry! You're not having a stroke!)

UPDATES:
Amazing historical photos of Chattanooga
Germany's probably not where you think it is.

Good Links

It's feeling a little holiday-ish today. The kids in the neighborhood have been on spring break and the thump-thump-thump of basketballs out in the street has been making it sound almost summery all week. And now even G-Dog is taking the day off (well, the morning, anyway). I'm going to have to get some work done at some point, but first, I'll pass along a few links that have caught my eye...

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

WhatWasThere is a really cool web site that overlays old photos with recent Google Maps versions of the same location, along with a toggle to fade from one to the other. They post a daily photo to facebook, often a "today in history" sort of thing, if there is something appropriate for that day (today's is a shot of Niagara Falls, because once -- on March 29, 1848 -- it actually froze over). But yesterday's took us back to 1979, and the scene of the worst nuclear accident in US history. And then when I flipped over to my rss-feed reader, I ran across these images from the now-abandoned Fukushima Exclusion Zone Town Namie-machi. It was a sobering reminder that we humans play with a lot of very powerful toys, and we are still struggling to to accept the capriciousness of nature and our own limitations in planning for the unexpected.

But on a lighter note...

I thought Joe McNally's instagram from atop the world's tallest building was bad (seriously, just looking at the photo gives me vertigo), but at least he was standing on something. Now a Ukranian guy who goes by the moniker "Mustang Wanted" is dangling from things. Yikes.

Thug Kitchen is probably the most awesome food blog ever.

The Oatmeal illustrates some quotations.

And finally, keep your mobile devices safe.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Lunchtime update: the 25 least visited countries

Armenia makes learning to play chess mandatory

Evening update: Loving Life at 90, and making shoes at 91

Words cannot do this justice (via PetaPixel)

The world's coolest subway entrance

Links & Thoughts...

I haven't done a link list in a while, but as I get my rss feed caught up, I thought I'd share a few...

Giant camera resolution text charts

Hong Kong's cramped apartments

Calvin & Hobbes in real photos
... and as an engagement theme

Art Talks

In the footsteps of Julia Child and M.F.K. Fisher

A Fork of One's Own: a history of culinary revolution

Questioning Bob Woodward's credibility

6 ÷ 2(1+2) is a lot more complicated than it looks

Wow. Perhaps too many of us have cameras these days. Is it cheapening photography? Will people realize we still need great photographers?

Food deserts mapped

Cinderfella

And finally... I started this link list almost a week ago. But life kept tugging me away from my rss feed (in a good way! nice weather and visits from family and lots of cooking!), and it's taken me this long to get it caught up. And in the meantime, we've gotten the sad news that Google is snuffing Reader. Fortunately, D&S is on top of the challenge this creates: to find an alternative before the lights go out in July.

But there are other issues at work as well. As I said over there in the comments, "in addition to being a trauma for Google Reader fans, this experience also calls attention to our vulnerability when it comes to all sorts of cloud-based applications. I'm now starting to wonder if I should switch to my own install of Wordpress, because then I would own my blog, instead of keeping it in rented space. Twitter, Facebook, Google+... it's all someone else's party and what assurances do we have that we won't be abruptly kicked to the curb in those places as well?"

Changes may be afoot once again... any thoughts?