When Anonymity Fails, Be Nasty, Brutish and Short

Seeded on Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:06 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

Throughout the Bush presidency, he toiled in secrecy deep within the White House, a mysterious and feared presence who never stepped into the sunlight of public disclosure.

washington-post

Record catfish weighed at Kroger, lives to swim away

Seeded on Thu May 8, 2008 2:54 PM EDT (The Nashville Tennessean)

A Nashville-area fisherman caught a big one, one too big to weigh on his own scale. He wound up weighing it at a Kroger grocery store before releasing it back into Percy Priest Lake.

sports, fishing, fish, nashville, percy-priest-lake, catfish

Colorful Texas official has combative style

Seeded on Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:53 AM EDT (The Houston Chronicle)

E-mails procured by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram offer a glimpse into the workings of the Texas state land commissioner.

politics, texas, freedom-of-information-act

Lesson on How Not to Build a Navy Ship

Seeded on Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:25 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by conceptexcellence (Clipped by Jennifer Peebles)

An intriguing examination of how NOT to innovate. Also a case study in what's wrong with giving any government agency too much money.

business, gao, government, navy, pentagon, ship, littoral, innovation, design, budget

The pinball machine is fading away

Seeded on Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:52 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The once-popular amusement has been abandoned for video games and other forms of fun. The New York Times visits the last remaining pinball manufacturing plant in the world.

entertainment, pinball

Best e-government sites/projects from around the world

Seeded on Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:30 PM EDT (Special Libraries Association's Government Informa)

The finalists of the 2008 Stockholm Challenge -- for cool Web projects -- have been announced, and the blog of the Special Libraries Association's Government Information Division notes the finalists in the public administration category.

technology, internet, web, government, information

'Unconferences' for journalists

Seeded on Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:14 PM EDT (www.digidave.com)

Can newspapers benefit by social networking with the public?

journalism, newspapers

Danica Patrick becomes open-wheeled racing's first female race winner

Seeded on Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:43 AM EDT (The Houston Chronicle)

Patrick's win in Saturday's Indy 300 makes her the first woman to win an open-wheeled race winner. She beat Dan Wheldon and others when they had to pit on the last lap.

sports, auto-racing

Newfangled toothbrushes won't fit into many toothbrush holders

Seeded on Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:08 AM EDT (The New York Times)

This story from The New York Times talks about how toothbrushes have evolved to where they no longer work with many toothbrush-holding devices -- the fancy ergo-handles are too big to fit into the holders. Story explains why the handles were changed.

health, teeth, dental, toothbrush

Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias

Seeded on Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:57 AM EDT (The New York Times)

The Internet revolution is killing off the printed encyclopedia.

education, publishing, media, internet, encyclopedia

Peeps Show II

Seeded on Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:17 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

The second annual Sunday Source Peeps Diorama Contest drew more than 800 sugar-filled entries from our readers. Here, the 37 best creations.

washington-post

Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

Seeded on Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:12 AM EST (The New York Times)

Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual but Neil Neches, a writer in the transit agency's marketing and service information department, inserted one on a placard anyway.

nytimes, nyregion, transit-systems, semicolon, new-york-city-transit

City Room: Podcast: When New York and Illinois Politicians Tangle

Seeded on Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:35 PM EST (The New York Times)

Sam Roberts recounts the details of a race for a party's presidential nomination from 1860, when a riveting speech by Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union was one of the turning points.

nytimes, elections, podcasts, hillary-rodham-clinton, barack-obama, cooper-union, campaigns, primaries, abraham-lincoln

Where Lincoln Sought Refuge in His Dark Hours

Seeded on Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:23 PM EST (The New York Times)

The Lincoln Cottage's power is the power of association, its contact with a historical presence; we literally walk in a great figure's footsteps.

nytimes, arts, design, civil-war-us-1861-65, historic-buildings-and-sites, slavery, restoration-and-rehabilitation, art, national-trust-for-historic-preservation, abraham-lincoln

Nascar's Screech and Slam? It's All Aerodynamics

Seeded on Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:27 AM EST (The New York Times)

In her new book, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky explains everything from the mechanics of racing engines to the molecular properties of the drivers' fire-retardant suits.

nytimes, science, automobile-racing, science-and-technology, engineering-and-engineers, physics, national-assn-of-stock-car-auto-racing, physics-of-nascar, the-book

Blogger may test shield law : Local News : Commercial Appeal

Seeded on Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:45 AM EST (commercialappeal.com)

Interesting blogger/press-freedom issue.

us-news, press-freedom, first-amendment

Nascar's Screech and Slam? It's All Aerodynamics

Seeded on Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:39 PM EST (The New York Times)

In her new book, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky explains everything from the mechanics of racing engines to the molecular properties of the drivers' fire-retardant suits.

nytimes, science, automobile-racing, science-and-technology, engineering-and-engineers, physics, national-assn-of-stock-car-auto-racing, physics-of-nascar, the-book

How many spoonfuls of sugar to help the medicine of news go down?

Seeded on Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:54 PM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)

Snippet from the end: The United States Constitution doesn't protect the press so that newspapers can generate revenue. It does so to ensure that citizens always will have independent monitors of their government.

journalism

Putting Candidates Under the Videoscope

Seeded on Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:17 PM EST (The New York Times)

Equipped with laptops and hand-held video cameras, off-air network reporters, or embeds, are catching every unplugged and unscripted moment on the campaign trail.

nytimes, business, media, television, computers-and-the-internet, presidential-election-of-2008, news-and-news-media, wireless-communications, fox-news-channel, abc-news