Right versus pragmatic | Marco.org: ”This pattern is common. We often try to fight problems by yelling at them instead of accepting the reality of what people do, from controversial national legislation to passive-aggressive office signs.”

Teller Reveals His Secrets | Smithsonian Magazine: ”Magic is an art, as capable of beauty as music, painting or poetry. But the core of every trick is a cold, cognitive experiment in perception: Does the trick fool the audience?” #scio12

Teller Reveals His Secrets | Smithsonian Magazine: ”He replied that those who fund science research find magicians “sexier than lab rats.” #scio12

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com): Here's one question: “I'm bored, and I want to get out of the house and have an experience, possibly involving elves or bombs. Where do I go?”

Kevin Sessums: Happy 85th birthday to Sidney Poitier: ”Now finish telling me all about Matty May,” he said softly, her name now coming from him as his had so often come from hers. (via @DishFeed)

ResearchCrossroads: ”...created to provide transparent access to the world of publicly funded research.”

New to Cleveland. A Guide to (re)Discovering the City: ”Whether you’re new to town or a longtime resident, New to Cleveland is your complete guide to exploring the city.”

Transcript of the Constitution of the United States: ”...but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” (Article VI)

How The GOP Went Back To The 1950s In Just One Day: ”So there you have it: modern women being told by Republicans that they’re not qualified to talk about their own sexual health, are dressed like 'whores' and probably need birth control because they’re so slutty. And this is just in one day.”

Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion: ”Schiller has no notes. He is every bit as articulate, precise, and rehearsed as he is for major on-stage events. He knows the slide deck stone cold. It strikes me that I have spoken in front of a thousand people but I’ve never been as well-prepared for a presentation as Schiller is for this one-on-one meeting. (Note to self: I should be that rehearsed.)”

Josiah Bartlet Was A Mediocre President | ThinkProgress: ”Now that America actually is governed by a Nobel Prize winning scholar with a real domestic policy agenda, however, it’s time to be honest about President Bartlet’s legacy.” (via Scripting News)

500px is Photography: Always nice to find stunning images.

TED | About TED: ”Our mission: Spreading ideas.”

Dr. William H. Stewart: Mistaken or Maligned?: Debunking the oft-repeated quote: “It is time to close the book on infectious diseases, and declare the war against pestilence won”

Date and Time: Great and simple site.

Cabin Porn: I'd rather be hiking. (HT Andrew Sullivan)

99% Invisible - Elegy for WTC: ”Buildings talk to you.”

Map of scientific collaboration between researchers: Interesting.

North Carolina Science Festival | Life Is Your Lab: April 13-29, 2012 across the state.

The Cost of Security Hassle (and of Cruddy Infrastructure) - James Fallows: ”... the increasing outside-world impression of the U.S. as one giant TSA screening-line.”

Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development: Another framework for me to explore as I begin to redesign mistersugar.com.

David Remnick on Jodi Kantor's The Obamas: As the Italian-American philosopher Rocky Balboa said of his beloved Adrian Pennino, “She’s got gaps. I got gaps. Together we fill gaps.”

Remake / Submissions: Kottke finds the most wonderful web content.

Story and Narrative | Scoop.it: Curated collection of posts and articles about storytelling.

Project for Public Spaces - Placemaking for Communities: 8th International Public Markets Conference is in Cleveland Sept 21-23, 2012 at my fav West Side Market.

Morning tells the truth - (37signals): ”The end of the day has a way of convincing you what you’ve done is good. The next morning has a way of telling you the truth.”

nicole reynolds: Discovering music - loving Nicole's voice and tempo.

Daring Fireball: Merry: ”The truth is, I’m the luckiest person in the world today. I hope you are too.”

Hitler reacts to SOPA. - YouTube: ”Don't cry. Disney owns rights to that emotion.” #noSOPA

inessential.com: Iraq war: ”Like everyone else, I just wish that this monstrous stupidity had never happened.”

Memories for the Future: From Google Maps - Japan: Before and After the Earthquake and Tsunami

The Protester - Person of the Year 2011 - TIME: ”We're not going to take it!”

Why We Should Stop Asking Whether Bloggers Are Journalists - Technology - The Atlantic: ”The age of the institutional media today looks like a flash in the pan, an aberration from the more-normal mode of citizen publishing.”

The 5 Best Toys of All Time | GeekDad | Wired.com: I want them all.

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion - Bloomberg: ”...the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.”

David Frum on the GOP's Lost Sense of Reality -- New York Magazine: ”The first decade of the 21st century was a crazy bookend to the twentieth, opening with a second Pearl Harbor and ending with a second Great Crash, with a second Vietnam wedged in between.”

Before & After | Design Talk: ”One reason, perfectly valid, to have a logo is simply because you want one. It’s a means of personal expression. Online avatars are of this kind — unnecessary but kind of fun.”

The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog): ”If the social graph is crude oil, doesn't that make our friends and colleagues the little animals that get crushed and buried underground?” (via DF)

Pressthink on NPR's continued weak knees: ”If you’re getting bullied on the playground, bringing more lunch money won’t make it stop. You can’t keep sacrificing people to the culture war and expect things to calm down. Just because you want to make the safe choice doesn’t mean that any of the choices actually available to you are safe. This week was pledge drive for WNYC, my NPR station. We’re members and gave them $120. I don’t want a tote bag for that. I want a CEO who can think politically.”

OWS's Beef: Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating: ”Your average chimpanzee couldn't fuck up that business plan ...” (Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone)

Word Dynamo: ”Turbo-charge your vocabulary.”

Foundation: Rapid Prototyping and Building Framework from ZURB: First Bootstrap from Twitter. Now Foundation. mistersugar.com getting a new look soon, from one of these frameworks.

Lytro light field camera: This looks cool. Is it for real?

How to make real vanilla extract in time for the holidays | Chef and Steward: I'll use Cruzan.

Textpattern: Generations: Nice writeup by Stef (Bloke) Dawson about the London meetup of Textpattern users last month. I was there.

Why Rush Limbaugh Is Freaking Out About Occupy Wall Street | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone: ”I never thought I’d see it, but some of the dukes and earls high up in America’s Great Tower of Bullshit are starting to blink a little bit.”

Peace Corps: Telling Your Story: Ways for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers - I'm one! - to stay engaged

Re-elect Joe Cimperman for Cleveland City Council New Ward 3: A proven leader.

And then the PR guy called me %u201Ca fucking bitch%u201D [TheBloggess.com]: ”Wow. Jose was sticking to his guns. Sadly for both of us, so was I.”

Peace Corps Vanuatu Welcome Book: Orientation package given to new PCVs in Vanuatu.

Bootstrap, from Twitter: Exploring this & thinking how I might implement in a redesigned mistersugar.com. (HT @davewiner)