Smarthistory: A very slick art history site created by the new digital learning director of the MoMA, Beth Harris, and the dean of the graduate school at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Steven Zucker. Basically they highlight representative works and discuss them. Simple stuff, but certainly more engaging — and fun — than […]

Singularity Hub: Best Robots of 2008. With video! Amazing stuff. Check out the self-healing chair.

Cleveland.com: Cleveland Council Approves Urban Farming. Kevin Kelley is one of three who voted against it. Gotta ask him why if I see him. Slate: Is it worth it to wash out your recyclables? Because if not, you’re just wasting water. So at first this article says no, since whatever’s in […]

Scene: My House, Out Of The Ordinary. A fairly even-handed summary of the housing code enforcement push in Tremont that’s going on right now. If you listen to some people, TWDC is sneaking around and trying to tear down half the houses in the neighborhood whether they meet code […]

GreenCityBlueLake: Train Avenue Connector Approved. I missed this last week, but apparently the trail along Train Ave. between W. 65th and the new Towpath trail was approved by the Planning Commission. Very cool. Train Ave. is a really odd little road. It’s down in the gully that used to hold a creek […]

Ruhlman: Popcorn. We also make popcorn on the stove top and have many of the same ambitions as Michael. Mostly how to get more of the corn to pop and less of the corn to burn. I guess that’s pretty much everyone’s main goal with popcorn. Although the Dog, who sometimes gets the […]