Category: Today’s Report

Cleveland Foodie: Olena Gudz. Michelle Venorsky does these little interviews periodically with food folk around town. This is a particularly nice one. Olena is a former forensic scientist and is currently the pastry chef at Crop Bistro. Gotta try out the fruit with streusel recipe. El Bulli: Gudz mentions the restaurant El Bulli in the…

Yes Magazine: URBAN FARMING! Fresh from the City. As we’ve talked about here previously, Cleveland is at the forefront of a true “Urban Farming as Urban Renewal” movement. Here’s another national publication that’s picked up on this. Some nice quotes from Joe Cimperman. (via GCBL) Addicted to Vinyl: The Not-So-Pretty Parts of Cleveland. Some interesting…

Posnanski: Meet George Jetson. As usual, Posnanski is totally on the mark. We’ve moved from “You’ll read your book and like it” over to “Definitely bring along all your Gameboys and, hey, let’s drag along 12 DVDs and some iPods as well!”. I’m pretty sure we had an entire suitcase full of AV equpment on…

Film Threat: 50 Reasons Why Jedi Sucks. There really are only two good Star Wars films. Sad really. The Comics Curmudgeon: Yikes! The guys who write Archie read the Curmudgeon!

Greater Washington: Why Walkable Urbanism is Better for Adolescents. NOACA: So here are the initial lists of projects in NE Ohio approved for federal stimulus funding. The 2nd largest single line item: The Towpath Trail at over $11 million. Although it’s currently in the “Tier II” collection of projects that can only start if any…

NY Times: A Modest Proposal: Bikers Take the High Road. Fabulous article about how bicyclists have become the bad guys in NYC now that there are 131,000 of them commuting every day there. (131,000!! Holy cow.) Why? Basically because most riders refuse to follow the rules. The article includes some totally obvious suggestions to help…

Strange Maps: World War II: If Maps Could Fight. A cute cartoon that summarizes the events of WWII. The characters are fairly accurate little maps of each of the countries involved. The Big Picture: Robots. 32 photos of a variety of current robots. I found a lot of these pictures fairly creepy. It’s almost like…

McSweeney’s: Conversations My Parents Must Have Had When Planning to Raise a Child. NY Times: Utilities Turn Their Customers Green With Envy. I read the book Yes!, by Robert Cialdini recently. Lots of excellent examples about how to actually convince someone to do something. In this article, Cialdini figures out how to convince people to…

Academic Earth. A video lecture site. Lots of high-powered teachers. Most of the videos are simply plunking a camera in the back of a lecture hall and letting it run. Still great, though. Here’s a good one for someone wanting to know more about how computers actually work. The Guardian: Twenty Things Everyone Needs to…

Wikipedia: List of Cognitive Biases. Mentat: Techniques for becoming a better thinker. Lots of ways to memorize stuff, do hard math in your head, and be more creative. Heading East: Lies I’ve told my three-year-old recently.