Category: Today’s Report

NY Times: This has got to be the best article ever in the Times. (via Scalzi) YouTube: An Engineer’s Guide to Cats. It’s got cat yodeling! Cleveland.Com City Council Blog: Chickens, bees, police deployment and $24 million in neighborhood rehab funds: The week ahead at City Council. Apparently the Urban Farming bill will be discussed…

GEL Conference: Videos. The GEL conference (“Good Experience Live”) is run by graphic and web design house Good Experience and focuses on good experiences of all types. For example, some recent speakers include the head of user experience at Google (Marissa Mayer) and the head of the Harlem Children’s Zone (Geoffrey Canada). Food & Wine:…

WSJ: Sports Mania is a Poor Substitute for Economic Success. Remember those articles in the Plain Dealer touting Pittsburgh as an example for Cleveland to follow? Maybe not such a great idea. It appears that neither city should be used as example of anything positive. This opinion piece by a Pittsburgh TV producer points out…

The Atlantic: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower. A professor at two “colleges of last resort” talks about how screwed up the post-secondary education system is at the moment. And check out the links to the Atlantic’s archives in the right sidebar. I’m in full agreement that there are a lot of folks in…

Metafilter: Video of every inauguration since 1901 (via Kottke). And, from the NY Times, more about the quick change operation going on at the White House today. Congratulations and good luck to President Obama! IFO Apple Store: The first Apple Store planned in the actual city limits of Philadelphia: 1619 Walnut. This is right in…

Ohio City Argus. (Site still unpopulated for the most part.) A new volunteer-edited newspaper run by our local community development corporation. Interesting. Legends of Zork. A new MMO based in the Zork universe. Article at Ars Technica. Apparently it will be free to play and will not be as complicated/involved as the typical MMO. This…

The Big Picture. The Year in Pictures. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Outstanding. Cleveland Magazine Politics. A fairly new blog about, yep, Cleveland Politics! Written by Cleveland Magazine Editor Erick Trickey. Seems pretty good so far. Steven Litt: Towpath Trail at Steelyard Commons Falls Short. Litt comments on the scary future-section of the Towpath…

NY Times: Are Nut Bans Promoting Hysteria? Dr. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School sure thinks so. Some interesting items from the article: Over twice as many people are allergic to seafood than nuts. And a recent study of 10,000 British children shows that keeping kids away from nuts increases the likelihood of developing an…

The New Yorker: The Obamas in 1996 (via Kottke). NY Times: The Voices of Psoriasis. I have a mild version of psoriasis, so this was quite interesting to me, both in terms of what these fellow sufferers had to say and also that the Times chose to focus some attention on this. It’s not the…

NY Times: How to Choose a Doctor. Also includes an excellent list of favorite web sites that doctors themselves use to research health issues. Comics vs. Audience: Heavy Metal Band Name Chart (via Kottke). This is about as true a thing as you will ever see. Funny. (Although, come to think of it, there are…