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Monday, May 9. 2011

Monday morning non-newsy links


If you've been away, scroll down and catch up on tons of our cool posts from the weekend.


Return of Central Park horseback riding


Law firms - A less gilded future


For The High-Tech Naturalist: LeafSnap Identifies Leaves Using Your iPhone’s Camera


There's an app for that, Dr. Merc


Conflict history: Browse the timeline of war and conflict across the globe


The Photopic Sky Survey is an interactive 5000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,000+ photos. A beautiful example of data aggregation, annotation, and exploration.


For the young, there’s a silver lining in the housing bust


Government documents: 1929-45


From a member of the elite force, an inside look at the brutal training and secret work of the commandos who got Osama bin Laden.


When media "balance" is considered unfair


More newsy links later today...

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 05:14 | Comments (6) | Trackback (1)

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"There's an app for that, Dr. Merc"

That's what was missing from Bruce's "drop the electronics, get back to nature" post yesterday. If only there'd been an app to help us!
#1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2011-05-09 08:03 (Reply)
Here's the Central Park horseback riding url 'cause the link don't work:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/apple_hot_to_trot_evXlz89iA0vlaLIFMLNaEJ

And funny as heck for Dr. Mercury, when I was searching for that, I found an article about your favorite Baywatch babe. ("Pamela Anderson is hot to trot"):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1382434/Pamela-Anderson-hot-trot-stages-protest-horse-drawn-carriages.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

She looks awful in the pictures in that article, btw. Merc, you may have to reconsider on your lust for the former beauty.
#2 Big___Al on 2011-05-09 08:28 (Reply)
Bird Dog fixed the link. Now that's customer service!
#2.1 Big___Al on 2011-05-09 08:36 (Reply)
Whew -- thanks for the warning. I definitely won't click on the link now. In her day, though, she was somethin'.

Bird Dog, please place the 'silver lining' article in the "Duh Of The Century" category.
#2.2 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2011-05-09 10:48 (Reply)
She was somethin' alright... but my mommy doesn't let me use words like that.
#2.2.1 Big___Al on 2011-05-09 16:31 (Reply)
If you open the 'govt docs 1929-45' link, and then on that page open the link to 'cartoons' --you will come upon the no-doubt accidental posting of the govt's cartoon assesment form. This sad, funny, scary actual interface between human and system includes a box for the (three lines maximum) description of which special interest group the cartoon appeals to. Feh. If it wasn't in service to service spontaniety (in the form of 'the cartoon'), i doubt it would've struck a reader as as as hmm, so cosmically banal? So banally cosmic? like say a turd comet or something.

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/cartoon_analysis_worksheet.pdf
#3 buddy larsen on 2011-05-09 09:32 (Reply)

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