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• Pinboard – antisocial bookmarking
  I've moved what social bookmarking I do over to Pinboard. Tchau, del.icio.us.
  (del.icio.us tags: whatever web2.0 folksonomy)

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• ISDT Wiki: Event tags
  I created this page to announce an official tag for the 2009 International School on Digital Transformation. ISDT09 seems like a reasonable tag.
  (del.icio.us tags: ISDT del.icio.us folksonomy Portugal ISDT09)

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• Rhizome: Last Breath in Alaska (Found Object)
  The artist Pascual Sisto found a series of Google Street View images where a plastic bag found its way on top of the car-mounted camera. He's created a Flash document of the images, which are striking in their own way.
  (del.icio.us tags: Flash googlemaps art)
• mysqlgame – shard 3
  This MySQL role-playing game might be a good way to learn the syntax. Or it may just be a good way to get frustrated and bored.
  (del.icio.us tags: silly MySQL gaming)
• Re-Nest: Craft a Table Using Old Magazines
  This post shows how to create a stand of dubious structural integrity by folding the pages of magazines. This seems like a worthwhile project, although I would probably have to buy magazines second-hand, since my subscriptions look pretty rugged by the time I'm done reading them.
  (del.icio.us tags: re-use DIY craft)
• Mashable: Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source
  I think I may move to the Ma.gnolia platform for my social bookmarks and quick posts to terrorintheheartland.com. My username over there is McChris if you want to find me.
  (del.icio.us tags: folksonomy socialsoftware Web2.0 opensource)

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• HappyCow: Porto Vegetarian Restaurants
  This might come in handy, although it would seem Porto is not so vegetarian friendly.
  (del.icio.us tags: portugal vegetarian)
• |||| Maus Hábitos ||||
  This place looks cool, but I don't read or speak Portuguese. I presume it's a space for cultural intervention.
  (del.icio.us tags: hmm media art portugal)

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• What's My IP Address?
  If you need to know your IP address, this site will tell you what it is.
  (del.icio.us tags: internet useful Web_publishing)

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It’s been a while since I’ve made a legitimate post here, and part of the reason is because I’ve moved to a different blog, Terror in the Heartland. I decided a while ago that this blog has gone stale, and rather than try to reboot this blog, I would rather start fresh.

Part of the reason for moving is that I blog most and perhaps best with a linkblog or a clipping style or blog, and this blog was designed for more long-form writing. So rather than keep up my practice of blogging through daily del.icio.us dumps or posting stuff to my Tumblr, “Random Crap,” I thought I would start a blog based primarily around clips.

There’s a bunch of work I’d like to do on the layout at the new blog, so I don’t think Terror in the Heartland is quite ready for prime time, but everything on the Web is a work in progress, so I think it’s time to point whatever readers I might still have over to the new blog.

Well, with that out of the way, I’ll invite everyone over to Terror in the Heartland.

Terror in the Heartland logo

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• Design Observer: Annals of Ephemera, Part III: Aging 2.0
  Jessica Helfand discusses techniques that are used to make new goods look old, and what it might say about our culture. I wonder if this is a white thing; the article doesn’t seem to make any claims about ethnicity, but it sure seems white.
  (del.icio.us tags: design preservation)
• Bob Donlon’s Web TV Blog: Son of Ben Kurns
  This tutorial shows how to use After Effects to create the parallax effect used in The Kid Stays in the Picture.
  (del.icio.us tags: howto aftereffects Adobe animation)

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• Office of the City Clerk: Boards and Commissions Vacancies
  This page lists the many vacancies in the city government’s boards and provides information on how to apply for a position. Vacancies include boards concerning the arts, urban transportation, and telecommunications.
  (del.icio.us tags: telecom cycling activism austin)

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• The American Prospect: The White Stuff
  Samhita Mukhopadhyay argues that the blog “Stuff White People Like” is too gentle and celebratory in its critique of what David Brooks would term “Bobo” culture.
  (del.icio.us tags: whiteness race class)

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• Data Robotics: Drobo
  This Firewire 800 enclosure uses RAID 5 striping to allow for hot-swapping hard drives. It ain’t cheap, but I want, want, want.
  (del.icio.us tags: backup shopping storage)

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