Som Sabadell flashmob: Brilliant, brings tears to my eyes & joy to my heart.

TalkStory Radio Network: Something to listen to.

Navel gazing: Biodiversity in my belly button.

Adobe Revel | Photoshop.com: No storage limits? Should I put 25,000 images there?

Origin of the @reply - Digging through twitter's history: Very cool. (via @davewiner)

Vittles: Films about food, people and their stories.

Video Scribing, Whiteboard Animation: This is cool way to animate a message.

Club Trip to N.Y., 2002: Holy shit! @sethmnookin wrote this @newyorker article, 1 I clearly remember 10 years later.

Groundwork Radio Special: With @NPRScottSimon on WUNC & other stations nationwide 7/4/2012

Groundwork | Democracy Close to Home: Radio show and multimedia blog examining the current state of American democracy.

Matthew on Twitter Restrictions: Seems what @davewiner has been telling us all along.

Anderson Cooper: "The Fact Is, I'm Gay." : Great read. Thank you, Anderson and Andrew.

FlexSlider V2 is here!: Updated by @woothemes.

Great comment here: 'Filing taxes late incurrs a penalty. The power to level this fine is through Congresses powers of taxation. It is not that hard a concept to grasp folks.'

Foundation: Updated to 3.0.

Kimchi Pizza: When you take things for granted: May have to make this sometime.

Pepsi: I'm still partial to RC cola, but this Pepsi site is interesting, like pinterest fo pop lovers.

World Outline for Poets: With big work project behind me, & weekend temps above 100, I'm going to catch up on my web skills.

A Dinner with Drug Reps: Dan Ariely: [A]fter giving a short lecture about the benefits of a drug, the [physician] would begin to believe his own words & soon prescribe accordingly.

Welcome to Firman Firdaus Homepage: Now that's a simple, effective home page.

Snapseed: Snap it. Tweak it. Love it. Share it.

Podcasts, Rivers and the World Outline: Adam Curry post makes me think we also need a Back to the Podcast conference.

The Bold Italic: Cool guide to San Francisco.

A different kind of staycation: Om Malik: I need to let my brain breathe and rejuvenate without worrying about deadlines or fretting over news.

Tattoos: The Legacy of a Seafaring Heritage: Fascinating, even as I contemplate inking the mistersugar pig on my body.

Food Camera: ”FoodCamera is the fastest and easiest way to take and share pictures of food.”

Twitter doesn't innovate: ”Twitter doesn’t need to be beaten, it just needs to be threatened so it gets out of its comfort zone.”

Med Student Rescues Body Part From Airport Security: Great story from Krulwich Wonders. #scio13

Kicksend: ”Send large batches of photos, videos & files to your family & friends.”

Robert Gupta at TEDMED: One of the highlights of the conference. Violin, talk, violin.

Coming of Age (2012): Sweet short film starring Erin's uncle, Bill Braun, MD.

Thread: Getting started with Radio2: Screencast from @davewiner, just what I've been waiting for.

Exhausted With The Same: ”The only reason to blog is because you have something to share — not “'say.'” Not sure I agree, but thought provoking.

American Dance Festival | Durham Dances: Looking forward to this family-friendly activity June 30.

Mister Rogers remixed and autotuned: 'It's good to be curious about many things.” thanks @kottke

10 Timeframes: ”I can never remember if we are supposed to live each day as it were our last, or if it’s the first day of the rest of our lives. It’s hard to tell sometimes.”

Outlaw Garden: ”Breaking the rules by growing vegetables (even when the HOA says no)” @outlawgarden

AstroPix Beta: ”Access to the collected image libraries of a variety of the leading astronomical observatories.”

John's Premium Tonic Water: I.must.order.

BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2012: Do I know anyone going to this?

Nineteen Eighty-Four: On second thought, maybe I did read Orwell. Going to my corner radio to be told yes or no.

Huxley vs. Orwell: Infinite Distraction Or Government Oppression?: Having read neither book, a comic to help me understand.

Duram Rotary Club: 8/20/2012: I'll be speaking about building online communities.

Sustainable Cleveland 2019: Mayor Jackson leading Cleveland toward 50th anniv of infamous Cuyahoga River fire. #SC2019

GreenCityBlueLake: 2012 is year of local foods in Cleveland.

Culture Kettle: Great logo.

Sugar Inc.: Now here's a real Mr. Sugar who's done quite well! @briansugar

A VC: Gawk.it: Excellent. Search engine for blogs + comments.

Drawar: Thinking About Design: Nice design-thinking blog, with a simple design itself.

Fire in the Triangle: ”Our sponsors & Office of State Fire Marshal remind you that #1 cause of home fires & burn injuries is cooking.”

The Words: Trailer, looks like a good flick

Social Media at MIT: Blog for social communicators, by @hatchsteph

Finish Weekend: ”Finishing is hard.” June 02-03 in Atlanta.

Open Garden: Wondering how this would solve conference wifi woes.

Seth's Blog: Ranking for signal to noise ratio: ”The alternative, which is well worth it, is to find new channels you can trust.”

Radically Simplified WordPress: Matt Mullenweg explains.

ThinkUp on PHP Fog: Capture your social network activity.

Quarterly Co: Subscribe to get stuff. Reminds me of a swag service I once paid into. I got an Ask.com t-shirt.

Talk Story | Sharing stories, Sharing culture: Literacy program for Asian Pacific American & American Indian/Alaska Native children & families.

Talk Story Newsletter: From the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Honest Code: ”We don’t use Six-Sigma, and we’re not ISO-9001 certified. The process we use, really, is common sense.”

Mentor Premium Responsive Business HTML5 Template: Convergence: a theme named Mentor, built on Twitter Bootstrap.

Why go to conferences?: Duke's Mohamed Noor has two pieces of advice.

Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Presentation: 3 things @EdBennett learned in past 3 years.

The Secrets of Creativity?: ”Popular science writing, if it hopes to be popular, almost never paints as nuanced a picture of the topic as experts want to see.” #scio13

The Atavist Matures as a Publisher and a Platform: ”The Atavist is still telling stories and licensing the software, but the founders are making a bet that those tools may have broader appeal.” by@carr2n

More Breweries. Less Beer.: ”They focus on making fancy beer for a select audience willing to pay more.”

mistersugar on Instagrid.me: Reflects my life: family, friends, flowers, food, fun, art.

abl_droploader: New #Textpattern image uploader plugin from Andreas Blaser.

Don't tell me not to learn!: Bravo, @easternblot

Twitter Bootstrap Button Generator: Very cool tool from @PlugoLabs.

Twiddy & Co: 930 Outer Banks Rentals & Vacations in North Carolina

It's Time To e-Volve: Taking Responsibility for Science Comm in a Digital Age: ”Think of social networks as conference mingling on steroids...”

inessential.com: Glassboard 2.0: ”We just about don’t use email any more. I love that.” cc: @smalljones

Art Sumo: This is great way to find art: “Discover the world one painting a day” @artsumo

Delayed Gratification Photography: Justin Watt is taking photos the old fashioned way. Great B&W pics on Justinsomnia.org.

Intuitive Timeline jQuery Plugin: ”great for pulling in media from different sources.” cc: @edyong209

Momofuku: ”We do not currently operate a sushi bar or karaoke parlor, but appreciate the inquiries.”

Torta Pisticcina (Chestnut Flour Tart) from @saveurmag: & get your flour from High Rock Farm, available @weaverstreet #glutenfree

CDC - Social Media Tools for Consumers and Partners: #scio13 #sitt cc: @SCONC

The morning after Amendment 1: Your world. And mine.: Beautiful essay by @Barry_Yeoman.

Thread: Question for HTML gurus: While we wait for @branchinc, notice how @davewiner is using Bootstrap + Disqus for one-off discussions. Nice.

Type-A Parent Conference 2013: For social media/blogging parents, June 22-24 in Charlotte

PeerJ: Sustainable science publishing is coming.

Visual Strategies - Felice Frankel Photography: ”A practical guide to graphics for scientists & engineers.” #scio13

Crave You - TapTronic Remix: Brilliant & bouncy. Irish dancing meets taps. (h/t @kottke)

"Make It Better" @ Duke: A message of equality from Duke University.

Is This the Most Boring Election Ever? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone: ”The people who work for the wire services and the news networks are physically incapable of writing sentences like, 'This election is even more over than the Knicks-Heat series.'”

theBlu: This looks interesting. Reminds me of my childhood snorkeling off St. Croix.

Kentucky Derby 138: Best 3 minutes of sports is tomorrow, May 5.

Announcing the 75th class of Nieman Fellows : Congrats to @ODitor Betsy O’Donovan of NC.

Announcing the 75th class of Nieman Fellows: I esp like this: Blair Kamin, architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, will study architecture, landscape architecture and urban design, seeking to re-examine and revitalize the field of architectural criticism in print and on the Web.

Maker Faire: NC: This year's event is June 16 at NC State Fairgrounds. Make it a family day.

Blessing of the Brains: At my alma mater, @JohnCarrollU, a way to help students prepare for final exams.

Simplicity - Matt Gemmell: ”The truth is, it’s OK to curate your life.”

Curious Rat - I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year: During my #PeaceCorps service in the S Pacific, I had fewer words. Only made me want to jump into Web when I got back to U.S.

swimmindustries: Here's a cool personal site, lacking an About page, but with a great mix of photos, music, links. (via @jess_i_am @mikeswimm

Making French Onion Soup | Michael Ruhlman: Carmelize onions: “from a few hours to as many as five if you keep the heat very low” - cc: @kottke @tomscocca

Flamingo (sculpture): A Chicago fav: Calder's sculpture in Federal Plaza. I'm going to @NasherMuseum tonight to see Calder exhibit.

In Celebration of Ramps - Sold out! - ASAP | From Here | Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: Darn. Missed it. I love ramps!

BBQ book talk at Flyleaf Books: @chopnc meeting 5/16/12: John Shelton Reed, author of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

Baby Tracker: ”The best app to understand your baby's schedule.”

The Data-Driven Parent - The Atlantic: Great to see Trixie Tracker by @chillnc mentioned in this article. Ben was speaker at our first NC bloggercon in 2005.

Who Made That Mason Jar?: Read this short history of the Mason jar today just after I made a batch of strawberry jam.

Nine Things I Learned From Reading Every Last Word of the New Yorker: I got New Yorker in Vanuatu, & did read every word of each issue while swinging in my hammock. #rpcv

Summit - Responsive vCard Theme: Hmm, this looks good.

Sphero: I need one of these for home, & more for #scio13.

Piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Visitor at Duke Hospital just now playing the most beautiful music on piano in the lobby. Moments like these ...

Raleigh Denim: ”We make limited edition jeans, using local materials and traditional construction methods, in our downtown Raleigh, NC workshop.”

Minigroup: Another group project manager. Looks simple.

The Financial Crisis: The FRONTLINE Interviews: Why it happened.

Scripting News: Time's hundred most influential: Wondering why new articles by @davewiner show up in his linkblog before they don on his home page.

TINY: A Story About Living Small (Teaser Trailer) on Vimeo: ”The world gets a lot bigger when you're living small.”

101 Spectacular Nonfiction Stories | Byliner Spotlights: ”Along with my curating work for Byliner, this hoovering of great stories affords me the opportunity to read as many impressive narratives as any single person possibly can.” (via @kottke)

Slavery Footprint - Made In A Free World: ”How many slaves work for you?” (via @BAmagazine)

maglaunch: Clemson University hired Neil Caudle to create a new research magazine. Neil blogs the process here.

The Best Tech Conference Nobody Knows About: ”It’s called Lindzonpalooza. Here’s how it works.”

Digitals: Cute video about digital overload. (via @SmashingMag)

Blue Corn Cafe of Durham: Wednesdays are Duke days - Duke employees get 20% off with ID badge.

One Economy Corporation: ”A global non-profit organization that leverages the power of technology and connects underserved people around the world to vital information that will improve their lives.”

The Vanuatu Pacifica Project: New effort to promote artist residences on Tanna. @theVPF @DJspooky

Richard Gildenmeister to sell thousands of his books: Sale starts 4/18/2012. Please support my friend - buy books!

Dr. Ronan Kavanagh's Blog: ”I also run a musicians clinic which specifically caters to the medical needs of sore or injured musicians.”

The Transformation of Academic Medicine: This was @AAMC_GIA #GIA12 keynote presentation by AAMC president Darrell Kirch, MD.

LensRentals.com - Hammerforum.com: This is hilarious.

copper: A tip jar to to pay people for their work.

You've Never Heard?... : NPR: ”This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to review classic albums they've never heard before.”

9/11: A public health failure | Duke Research Blog: ”Although 9/11 devastated the country, Garrett noted that it caused a spike in attention and funding for global health initiatives. This funding, however, was 'fast, urgent and sloppy.'”

Science Comedian Brian Malow joins NC Museum of Natural Sciences: This is fabulous news. Brian is amazing, a funny friend of science!

Benton Family Cure: Splendid short video about smoked ham, will make you want to eat bacon now. (via @jkottke)

James Cameron's Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy's junket? | Deep Sea News: ”...Americans could and did tackle any challenge: space, speed, altitude and depth.”

PHDcomics.com - lightbulb: This is why we give out notebooks at ScienceOnline #scio13

Embargo Watch: Don't embargo something that's already online. (via @ivanoransky at #gia12)

Muck Rack: ”What are journalists talking about.” (via @ivanoransky at #gia12)

HealthNewsReview.org: Independent Expert Reviews of News Stories (via @ivanoransky at #gia12)

2009 Lincoln Cent Design #3: Holding my first penny with the design celebrating Lincoln's professional life in Illinois.

Typographic capitals: ProPublica shares a tool for easy state maps: ”a webfont that, in place of standard letters, contains maps of the 50 states.”

I used StateFace in my new post, Travels west: Thanks to Nieman Journalism Lab for alerting me to this great font.

Honey Badger Cafe: ”Please do not park in the valet lot. We really do not appreciate them, and would like to see them fuck off.” - Use the Toggle Profanity button to clean up the site. But that would be boring.

H2O Project - Rotisserie: ”Users are allowed to post responses at any time, but their responses are not published to other users until the deadline for the current round passes.” (via Scripting News)

Aloha Editor - HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor: ”With this WYSIWYG editor you can edit any website content instantaneously.”

PatternTap: Aims to be the best resource for examples of specific design and user experience patterns on the web

New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea: Just maybe.

How to design a business card fast: Good design tip from Before & After Magazine.

I'm not a "curator" - Marco.org: ”One of the reasons I don’t add more “via” links is because it’s often difficult to trace the original “discoverer” of a link.” (via DF)

Flexslider | WooThemes: So many slider plugins. Flexslider, Orbit, Slides, Carousel. Quite the rage in web design. But nothing will beat my dad's Peace Corps slides projected on the kitchen wall.

A VC: The Next Generation: Really interesting how Fred Wilson is using the VoiceBunny api to automatically podcast his blog posts. I'd prefer to hear his own voice, but still a good strategy.

Have web comments failed?: Intriguing: “main role of an editor in a year or two may just be to start conversation topics. Blog posts, in a sense, are irrelevant compared to conversation.”

North Carolina unincorporated non-profits: Love this one: Bitter Unemployed Men's Society (B.U.M.S.)

Bootstrap, from Twitter: My only complaint so far with Bootstrap docs is lack of clear instructions on how to call javascript plugins, though guess I can learn elsewhere.

Learning from competition: Instapaper dev Marco Arment on competition, complacency & fonts. Great read.

SwitchPoint: ”A gathering of global thinkers and doers merging ideas, sharing breakthroughs, and finding solutions to save lives in the developing world.” 4/20/2012 @HRBallroom

Round up your mates: ”A capacity crowd of 16.” ROTFL

2012 Triangle Food Blogger Bake Sale: Green Eats Blog has the details about the event, 4/28/2012.

Announcing mesh12: It's time to mesh | mesh conference: This looks interesting. Any #scio12 folks attending?

Scripting News: Why Bootstrap might be *very* important: I'm using Bootstrap to remake mistersugar.com, and finding it extremely helpful.

SAVEUR Best Food Blog Awards: Nominations close April 22, 2012.

coconut grater wood stool: This is what we used in Vanuatu to scratch coconuts.

Coconut Scraper: Saveur Magazine suggests this coconut $35 grater. In Vanuatu, we scratched coconuts couple of times a day with a much cheaper version.

Font Awesome: ”[T]he iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap.”

ScienceSeeker: 922 science blogs from around the globe are feeding the uber-useful ScienceSeeker.org aggregator.

8th Int'l Public Markets Conference: Nice to see @joecimperman in this video about Cleveland's market gem.

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center: ”Where saving history is making history.” Community project in Chapel Hill, NC.

About kottke.org (kottke.org): He's amazing, and his site has been such an enjoyable daily destination for me for more than a decade.

Studio Neat Made an App: Stop-motion movie to promote a new app for making time laps & stop-motion movies. I bought this today.

The Most Astounding Fact (Neil DeGrasse Tyson): ”The universe is in us.”

kottke.org redesign, 2012 version: Just in time as I redesign mistersugar.com.

Fasting to Beat Jet Lag: Mentions Charles Ehret, Argonne National Lab chronobiologist. (via DaringFireball) cc: @boraz

TXP: The online magazine for Textpattern returns.

How the TED Conference Started An Intellectual Movement -- New York Magazine: ”For even die-hard technologists, interacting via disembodied avatars gets old, and occasional 3-D mingling is refreshing.”

The Smoffice: The World's Smallest Office: ”One lucky startup will receive six (6) months in the world's smallest office, a swanky downtown [Durham] condo, and technical assistance from startup experts.”

What will it be like to have a public conversation? And what makes for a good or bad topic?: @joshm nails it: “Conversations better embody the ethos of the Internet. Everyone gives a little and, in the end, the aggregate turns out to be pretty special.”

Kyle Shank: VHS to S3: Awesome, & hope @kyleshank makes code available! (via @davewiner)

Placehold.it: Quick and simple image placeholders Brilliant.

Give it five minutes - (37signals): ”That’s deep. Ideas are fragile. They often start powerless. They’re barely there, so easy to ignore or skip or miss.”

Nourished - A Food Blogger Conference: Friday, April 13 in Chicago, for those with special diets, writing about special diets, and niche bloggers.

International Food Blogger Conference: August 24-26 in Portland, Oregon

FoodBlogSouth: I missed this back in January. Next one is 2013.

Stephan Liozu: The global phenomenon | Smart Business: ”[T]here are strong indicators suggesting that globalization is permanently engrained in our way of life, is irreversible and can only grow in speed and intensity.” (via @StephanLiozu)

Social Media Guidelines | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis: A good & informative page.

Themes for Twitter Bootstrap - WrapBootstrap: I'm in the process of redesigning mistersugar.com using Bootstrap. Nice to see some other options here. (via @davewiner)