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NCAAMMOD3.embedWidget(); HV officially in Road to Final 4 mode. So radio/net/etc. talk slow till Madness subsides.

A tour of our nation's First Nations, by canoe and on horseback.

Oakbog, Adam Rosen's Mac Support Service, has published a list of their Mac 'puter Newsletter Tips. I've been using hell outta Double-Click Columns to Resize in Finder: in Column view, 2-click the scrollbar bottom (the "II") to resize window to fit the longest filename. And this one might save lives: Ejecting a CD or DVD [...]

Pi may be an irrational, transcendental, decimally never ending nor repeating constant. But it does play well with others, at least on the musical scale. Musician Michael Blake of Quebec Antique performs some Pi slices - out to 31 places:

The Library of Congress exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color displayed some of the only color photos of Great Depression rural and small towns in America. Photographers in the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information shot these images between 1939 and 1943, during Kodachrome's dawn. The Denver Post selected a few dozen for their [...]

Video for Sarah's new book, Unfamiliar Fishes (amazon): Quoting Penguin publisher PR: Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an [...]

The first all-girl radio station in the nation, WHER-Memphis.

MAYA Design audio-visually asks What is Information Architecture? by breaking down the query into "What is Information"... ...and "What is Architecture?:" When we say Information Architecture (IA) we are really talking about everything you can define about a solution without specifying the underlying system (the raw plumbing) or specifying the particular user interface that will [...]

A video of a poem by Taylor Mali (who's been on HV several times), "What Teachers Make :" via Ben- Comma Q.

Recordings, remembrances, poetry, and PTSD from some of those who fought America's longest war.

Pickers, pluckers, and players, from the bad bluesman, Charley Patton, to a Master Class with Christopher Parkening.

BBC asks GHP to mash/mess/mix their theme: "Music sampling and remixing in the bedroom." Mark Vidler = Go Home Productions More info, and audio of the GPH-remixed BBC News theme: "BBC News - New utility that breaks music down into its components."

22yo Brit, Adele has a new album, 21, and an Adele: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR.

Practicing polygamy, finding pockets of Polynesian Mormons, and converting the lost Indian Israelites.

A global tour of J-based data-viz, from IBM Many Eyes to Brazil's Infografio 2.0, Journalism in the Age of Data: "A video report on data visualization as a storytelling medium." The annotated Flash chapters are best, but there's also a 50min Vimeo video, a podcast series (.m4v), and an accessible set of YouTube vids. (Produced [...]

From Funny or Die, "Sarah Palin Media Addict"(starring Gina Gershon): Sarah Palin Media Addict from Gina Gershon More FOD Gina Does Sarah: Gina Gershon Strips Down Sarah Palin GINA GERSHON DOES SARAH PALIN 2

NYTimes Lens blog has a great post on what to bring and "What Not to Bring to Tahrir Square: Stephen Farrell Learns to Pack a Smaller Camera Kit." CAIRO - It is rare that the most important piece of equipment in your bag is the bag itself, even more rare for that bag to be [...]

Life, death, land, livestock; cattle and sheep, wool and meat.

Jake's in Bangkok and snapping away... Temple Rules; Bangkok, Thailand: Chastity Belt Michael; Bangkok, Thailand:

CPB's Ted Coltman sent some pubcasting audience/contributer figures to the Pubradio maillist. It's the first time I saw this data so concisely assembled. So, with his permission: In FY 2009, TV and radio station grantees reported to CPB (on their Annual Financial Reports) a total of 5.6 million individual contributors (either to stations or to [...]