- LA Times: The Rigors of Life Unplugged. A teacher challenges her students to live without electronic gizmos for a week. Surprisingly, a lot of kids make it. It sounds like it was really tough for most of them, though.
- Salon: An interview with that Free Range Kids lady. I’m sure that most parents nod along with everything she says and then continue to micromanage their kids’ lives.
- GCBL: EcoCity’s Very Small, Very Green House.
- The Living in Cleveland Center.
- Posnanski: I’m Getting to That Part. So apparently Joe and his wife argue about which of them their four-year-old takes after. Each of them arguing that she takes after the other parent. Apparently she’s quite the character.
- Consumer Reports: ShamWow Testing! With video! At least it’s good for drying off your pet. We’ve been using our clone ShamWow to dry up some other stuff our incontinent pet has made. All I’ll say is that that it definitely works for that too.
- GCBL: Lessons from Germany’s Rust Belt. Ralf Ebert is part of the group that’s working to repurpose old industrial sites in the Ruhr Valley. The main lesson they’ve learned seems to be to pick your battles and focus on certain specific efforts.
- Wednesday Chef: April in Paris. Luisa takes a short trip to Paris and returns with these wonderful words and pictures.
- Posnanski: Come on, That’s Not Real! Joe comes up with a highly believable story to explain how a photo of the new Collegiate Snuggies might have come to be.
- How to be a successful evil overlord. A lot of folks have pointed at this, and I finally got around to reading it. I’ll have to keep this stuff in mind.
- Philadelphia Daily News: Rethinking Philadelphia. A very nice package of stories on — you guessed it — how to move Philly to a more successful future. The Daily News collaborated on this effort with a group called Plan Philly, which works on this kind of stuff full time.
- GreenCityBlueLake: Roundup. A boatload of great information in this little post. I’m particularly intrigued by the Citizen Dashboard Project. It looks like Marc Canter (the guy who developed what ended up as Flash Player) is behind this. I think that places like Cleveland really need a kick in the pants on this kind of thing. There’s a lot of sitting around waiting for large organizations to get organized. Not happening quickly enough.
- The Urbanophile. Cleveland: What’s Wrong? Huge post by a guy who’s never been to Cleveland (it sounds like he’s from Indy), but is very interested in figuring out why Cleveland (and Detroit) are doing so much worse than other midwestern cities. Lots of extremely insightful comments from Clevelanders and non-Clevelanders.
- The Telegraph: Bacon Sandwich Really Does Cure a Hangover. No, really!
- Ruhlman: Homemade Pizza. Michael really does make it seem like much of cooking is so simple that you’re crazy not to be doing it. Truly mouthwatering photos here.
- The Greenhouse Tavern. Formally opened on Friday. I’ll be heading there tonight. I’ll let you know how it is tomorrow. Here’s the menu.
- Scene: Ed Hauser Way. They should rename the whole island after him.
- The White House: Cute dog pictures. This was a topic of conversation at breakfast today. Ned was explaining that Poodles and Portuguese Water Dogs don’t have fur, but, rather, have hair, and that’s what makes them good for people with fur-related allergies. It turns out this isn’t exactly the best description of the differences between different kinds of dogs. Here’s a more complete one from Dog Play.
- About: Best Burgers in Cleveland. The first two joints on the list are in Ohio City: Heck’s and Great Lakes.
- Bunnyland! Every year around this time we make a trip to Malley’s Bunnyland down at their factory on Brookpark Rd. The tradition is that we all become “Secret Bunnies”. Everyone draws names and we try to get a selection of candy that we think the person whose name we drew will like. Laura wrote a great story about this a few years ago.
- Cleveland Foodie: Preview Dinner at the Greenhouse Tavern. This is Jonathan Sawyer’s (ex-Bar Cento) new restaurant on E 4th and is the first certified green restaurant in Ohio. It’s finally opening in about two weeks.
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