2008

in a coffee shop on the north side of chicago. reading slate. here’s a fascinating bit on...

bought a submersible vhf/weather radio today. now i can talk to barge captains. sweet.

budweiser sold to inbev! a sad day in american beer brewing. investigate the yeast.

had a photo published in the spt yesterday!

story: frank melton, mayor in jackson, miss. see friday nyt.

follow my iphone wait on twitter at jeremybowers.

on the way to the at&t store. iphone sooo soon.

andrew stanton!

kelley benham new orleans police cheif story.

awp panel: accepted!

there are few things i’ve run into that have impressed and amazed me more than the 826 writing...

not sure i agree with the headline, but one line sure did make me chuckle. selling ap content to...

check out jott.com. http://tinyurl.com/5frujs

hard times in the media world. number nine: “the end of objectivity.” via journerdism

news people are hot on google maps lately. it’s a killer (and easy) way to help folks see...

excellent (and big) photo blog from the boston globe.

estee nation t-shirt company. they make vintage tees for real businesses. very cool idea. i’m...

i have an interview with brendan koerner up on the nbcc blog. he’s an excellent magazine...

check out hulu.com.

the atlantic: this story is a little depressing, especially if you live in memphis - which i do - or...

here are some numbers. the world’s obese eat $20 billion too much food each year. the...

the new iphone is coming, and according to slate, it’s going to take out the gps industry....

just found bubbl.us. great mind-mapping utility. check it.

current tv: christof putzel went to russia to document “a growing movement where neo-nazi...

if you want a hot job at a newspaper, move to india. via journerdism

woman in the airport: life is short, eat more ice cream.

costco mini-laptop for $200?

in 1996 bill gates made $30 million a day.

reading wired at the airport: check out megaphone. live social online gaming by cell phone.

heather is riding her bike very far. read her blog. it’s neat.

anybody want to buy me this for christmas?

message from mars: this is totally rad. via snarkmarket 

slate: turns out michael crichton wrote a book in 1993 that predicted mass media would die within...

the national press photographers association is broadcasting its multimedia immersion conference...

on the media on paper: i remember reading this piece when it came out a couple years ago. it’s...

on genetics: be careful where you throw your cigarette butts (or toothpicks or napkins or tissues)....

good question: what the hell is meaning, anyway?

how long does a goose sit on her egg?

from orion: i love the lead. shaman explains that if a child in a village is sick, the whole village...

if you weren’t already convinced that a twitter feed has the potential to become a...

sneaking suspicion: the internet is actually an isolating force.

secret order of boll weevils?

documentary: paperclips.

check it: everywhere travel magazine.

don’t think i’ve ever been anyplace quite as pretty as the smokies. i’m in awe....

poet louis jenkins is terrific!

tennessee is, like, nine hours wide!

waddayaknowshow!

the birdman and the lapdancer. eric hansen book.

the day there was no news.

just saw a real natural beehive in a tree and wish i wasn’t so shocked.

ben montgomery brilliance: red plastic cups.

got the grant! so effing pumped! ahh.

story: “how did our capacities for art and story build and become ingrained in us over time?...

look! a vegetarian! he’s so … well, normal.

history of ice cream trucks?

travel agents rule!

back on the blog. check out alex kotlowitz’s nyt magazine cover story on gang-violence...

citizen journo debate: jarvis v. tomasky. via journerdism

southwest flea market on third south of town.

wsj: turn the yard into a farm.

beautiful little boats!

spectacular story: just another fish story. just came across this someplace. wow. just so many...

center for orphaned diseases at saint jude’s?

i’m a little behind on my radiolab, but i just listened to “(so called) life,”...

muxtape.

michael pollan encourages us to escape the “cheap energy mind” and grow a little of our...

discovery channel: i love the world, world! via snarkmarket

duggan just won the van mackenzie cup for sports writing!

washington post: a scathing review of the debate in philly.

nyt mag: can the cellphone help end global poverty?

who uses one-man offices?

practical overview: will concentrated solar power save the planet?

interview with the author of a history of the american stomach.

how did the various sorts of carp become so various?

george singleton explains how it’s done.

a planet powered by babies.

perfect pushup invented by a navy seal?

catfish-farm biodeisel in alabama? (think oxford american.)

a hope in the unseen.

kai.

bird by bird.

history of growth in eastern pa.

car horns?

unique page views add to how many actual people?

film: mystery train.

goodmagazine.com!

is there a fraternal instinct (to have babies)?

story: last crocodiles in florida?

clip on grist: redux of green-collar jobs conference in memphis.

what other creatures alter landscapes as drastically as humans do?

kaoz on the torch route. i find this completely absurd, dodging protestors at the only stop in this...

freegans in florida!

great stuff. the texas country reporter. get him to teach?

aldo leopold: having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate...

world’s largest catfish threatened by dam in china.

installation art on tv: national geographic charts the human footprint.

nyt year-in-ideas file: marketing an advice book with a video.

andrew revkin on climate change … terrifying.

watch big fish.

wow. van halen video rocks. crazy. via wesley 

memphis playing the chinese national team next month?

wow. washington post sweeps six pulitzers. as great as this is for the post, i wonder if it has...

great analysis of a very weird state farm commercial.

check out hattiloo theater dot org.

so many magazines at the nyt these days. new one today. key.

pumping “strategic oil” in mississippi. via grist 

aldo leopold on not owning a farm.

writing workshops for at-risk kids at the library on highland.

treepeople?

green, worker-owned co-operatives.

wow. from the invasive species file. cane toad rampage.

at the dream reborn conference for grist!

this guy is very smart: storytellers v. searchers. via snarkmarket 

a good rebuttal to the alterman piece.

love, love, loving common craft.

a reactionary fascination with diversity.

nonprofit journalism on water. circle of blue. too cool.

essay on literacy.

also read redmond o’hanlan.

read blood meridian.

e-mail toru!

new yorker: out of print. alterman is right on point here. flip to page three for some really...

memphis soul survivors.

bring him a pig and stay the weekend.

harry on mid-south outdoors?

big story: antibiotic resistance.

in what ways are saltwater and freshwater fish different from eachother?

why was the oregon trail such a hit?

this blog should be like that hemingway line. for sale: baby shoes; never worn. tell a story in a...

fourth grade artist. gang. killed.

home-schooled to avoid gangs.

stories in hamilton.

audubon: on fog.

ligatures?

frisbee is a beautiful thing.

can the brain fuse two tastes? i just bit an apple and tasted peanut butter. did the brain do that?...

tennessee green.

outside: green, green, green cuba!

the strange world of publishing: from goofy, viral blog to book deal. stuff white people like lands...

don newman. photo. 1951.

the new yorker: bonobos.

also: big momma’s kitchen.

natural healing herbs on 61 south.

what is splash creative on sam cooper?

dear scientists: drink less beer, publish more papers.

woah. reuters. five years in iraq.

skloot essay on ham.

oyster craze in the 19th century. first oysters in 1763. seafood and the water it lives in.

what is middle class in america anymore?

in what way is music important to my parents?

ritual. tradition. culture.

jacqueline smith. doctor king. 20 years. 48 days.

emotion kayaks in reading?

check in on the gun debate.

shit is getting crazy over in tibet.

blog: where did it come from?

do tall people die younger than short people?

short nonfiction books are hot.

roy harris!

bmw m3. 414 hp. woah.

blurbs? burdick. corson. pollan.

so much spring break traffic up in this airport right now.

on a lighter note, lake michigan looks like an ocean, even from the air.

question: what creature has most biomass on earth?

in o’hare. so many people. kinda sick how many of us there are.

are human generations getting longer?

who invented the qwerty keyboard?

jarvis nails down why the sxsw zuckerberg interview tanked so badly. good lessons for anybody who...

who is hub cap annie?