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Links for Preserving Food

Where to Find Pick-Your-Own Fruit and Vegetable Farms / Orchards for Local, Fresh Fruit, Vegetables and Pumpkins, Along With Canning, Freezing & Preserving Instructions! “Find a pick your own farm near you!!! This website provides local listings of pick your own (also called U-pick or PYO) farms in the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, New […]

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Tracking our bombs; Bob Graham and the CIA

Our Bombs – Air Strike Tracker The Air Strike Tracker chronicles every reported U.S. air strike that has affected civilians since September 11, 2001. The visual interface makes information about each incident from numerous sources highly accessible, often providing the ability to view online videos and other relevant media. You can browse incidents by location, […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers link for 2009-05-26

Kleeb Verses The World: A Place To Bury Strangers But I will say that A Place to Bury Strangers was one of the best live bands I’ve seen recently. I stayed around to watch Holy Fuck, a band that I enjoyed listening to while working out or driving. After three songs I’d had enough. Two […]

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Math & The City; LOC by Topic

Guest Column: Math and the City – Olivia Judson Blog – NYTimes.com One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden. This week’s column is about one such pattern. It’s a beautiful law of collective organization that links urban studies […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-05-22

Pop and Rock Listings – Schedule – NYTimes.com A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS (Friday and Saturday) Perennially referred to as the “loudest band in New York,” A Place to Bury Strangers, a Brooklyn trio, is sweeter and more palatable than it would like you to believe. The band’s Jesus and Mary Chain-inspired shoegaze makes liberal […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-05-20

New York Holy Fuck+A Place to Bury Strangers+Crocodiles@Bowery Ballroom – Events A well-matched accompaniment by the similarly inclined A Place To Bury Strangers and San Diego garage-rockers Crocodiles makes this one for the dance rave history books. (tags: aptbs) The New Thing: 1234 Shoreditch Festival – 26th July 2009 the artists already announced include Ulterior, […]

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Reading List

A few books to read that might go on the reading list I use for my classes.  Flesh and machines : how robots will change us / Rodney A. Brooks Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations / Clay Shirky. In the beginning- was the command line / Neal Stephens. Mobilizing generation […]

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Oliver mentioned in Village Voice Blogs

New York – Sound of the City – A Place To Bury Strangers’ Oliver Ackermann Tells You How To Get Out of That Nasty Bushwick Lease I point you to this brief Death by Audio feature from Onion affiliate the Decider in which local guitar-pedal savant Oliver Ackermann does not reveal how to construct your […]

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Links from Faculty Academy 2009-05-15

12 Companies Targeting Early Tech Adopters – ReadWriteWeb Our mission at ReadWriteWeb is to explore the latest Web technology products and trends. We’re fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a week, we write a post about them; about who they are, what they do, and what they’ve […]

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Laura Blankenship at Faculty Academy

Laura Blankenship at Faculty Academy     How do students do research?  Start in library only 10% of the time. Got to Web – Google OK, but many start at Amazon or Wikipedia. Using social software tools for  research without peer review ,  transparency – commentary on work is important provide a means of feedback built […]

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