the midnight forest: Archive

Beard Song from Sophie Madeleine →

a lovely little ditty about beards - stuff like this is why I have this thing.

Nov 5th

I might be returning. We shall see.

Sep 27th

Apr 4th

Why Digital Rights Management Doesn't Work →

http://www.bradcolbow.com/archive.php/?p=205 A concise and funny description of a major library dilemma

Mar 12th

I haven't looked to closely, but this seems pretty... →

http://hypem.com/popular a new music blog

Feb 28th

Modern Procrastination from Seth Godin →

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/02/modern-procrastination.html Makes me want to stare at a black sheet of paper more often.

Feb 15th

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ →

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ I am looking forward to reading this - beautiful graphical representations of statistics, etc…

Feb 15th

“You play drums?” I whisper to him. “Only on Rock ‘N’...”

– Going Bovine by Libba Bray, page 160

Jan 24th

The Future of "Reading" →

This incredible story combines text, still images, video, music, and other audio to tell the story of Alice over the course of her childhood and young adulthood. I think this type of storytelling is where we’ve been heading for a century.

Jan 13th

Google's new approach to China →

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html very interesting.

Jan 13th

Like my brother, I wisht I was in Austin in the Chili Parlor bar, drinking mad dog margaritas and not caring where you are.

Jan 11th

Dec 14th

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http://www.anythinklibraries.org/ →

What a neat idea. I love the concept of revolutionizing libraries. It seems that this change has worked well for this community.

Dec 14th

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http://projectinfolit.org/ →

This is the kind of stuff I’d love to be doing. I’m just exploring the site, but I’m glad that things like this exist.

Dec 14th

http://www.fupenguin.com/ →

funny pics, funny words

Dec 2nd

Nov 30th

“On her lapel, the woman wore a nametag that said LAUREL and a large red button...”

– The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, by Reif Larsen, page 279

Nov 29th

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The Webby Awards →

Want to geek out on great websites? http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=13 I’ll mention some of my favorites in other posts. I had to tear myself away from this earlier so that I could actually get some work done.

Nov 20th

Choosing the Right Grad School from Danah Boyd →

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/10/28/choosing_the_ri.html very interesting and well-timed for me

Nov 19th

Just when I think I've found enough webcomics →

http://www.forthewicked.net/links.html Another nice site that has a lot of links to webcomics - it’ll be nice when someone comes up with a webcomic reader or an app that makes them easier to read

Nov 19th

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“One must not live in the past,” a man who worked at the Butte Historical...”

– The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, by Reif Larsen, page 79

Nov 12th

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Nov 12th

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Nov 11th

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Nov 9th

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Personal Finance 101 →

I had a driveway moment with this one today - and it prompted me to get back to once again start thinking about my personal finances more proactively

Nov 9th

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Nov 6th

"New York's Official #1 Brass Band for... →

website for the band Slavic Soul Party, recently introduced to me by my great friend Sasha

Nov 5th

Approximately half of US kids will use foodstamps... →

A 30 year national study, published in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and reported on here by the AP, has startling statistics that clamor for us to examine a lot of things, including childhood nutrition and whether or not the US is as economically stable as we like to think.

Nov 5th

Nov 2nd

Nov 1st

Stephen's Lighthouse →

This is one of my go to blogs for information about information. I’ve already posted to a few things I’ve discovered through him, and I make it a point to check back often. Interesting stuff I found on his blog today: How Moms Use Their iPhones and The 100 Most Visited Wikipedia Pages

Oct 31st