insane internet story resolved in real life, retailer who encourages bad reviews for more pageviews

waiting and intelligence, bit about summer camp, delaying skills as predictor of something

from mike r

managing "woodlands" as an alternative to sprawl; history of new england as one of recent forest growth (and historical deforestation)

Photo Auto Guide, "Live Map", Navteq and its ilk

geography of the meltdown

despite a seemingly lame reason for doing so (publisher's rights), Google has been forced to embark on the largest real life (newspapers, trade journals, etc.) legal notice campaign to notify authors of orphaned books that they must opt in or out of Google Book Search

used clothing trade

article about the DJ drama mixtape bust from a while back

via britta

"probable stop" table and more

new yorker piece on the Piraha, a tribe who don't seem to exhibit recursion (an essential part of the minimalist program)