• Yahoo! YSlow for Firebug
  YSlow has a nice new design, and a new option for "Small Site or Blog" that doesn't grade based on clustered server settings.

• Flickr: The Official White House Photostream
  The White House is on Flickr with great photos.

• Cool Tools: New Editor, Same Deal
  Bruce Sterling is taking over as editor of Cool Tools. Neat.
• brdfdr.com (Birdfeeder)
  "Open, decentralized micropublishing." A distributed Twitter sounds fine, but don't we already have this in the form of "weblogs" and "newsreaders"--and without the 140 character restraint?!

• Last Year's Model: Get Great Gadgets. And Keep Them.
  Anil is promoting the idea of keeping and using the gadgets you have instead of upgrading. Great idea!

Woke up with Peter Tosh's version of Here Comes the Sun in my head. You can too!

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• TSOYA: On the Media Hosts
  Jesse talks with Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield about their excellent NPR program On The Media. It's the only NPR show I listen to religiously, and it's fascinating to hear some behind-the-scenes info.

• Rockridge Institute: Progressive Frames for Taxes
  It's a good time to revisit this Lakoff article on framing taxes. Basically, taxes are an investment, our fair share, patriotic, and our dues for enjoying our high standard of living.
• BUMP THE FIST
  You deserve this!
• NYT: Obama Unveils High-Speed Rail Plan
  This is spectacular. They're suggesting high speed rail between Eugene and the Canadian border.

• comScore: Twitter Traffic Explodes...
  Interesting Twitter demographics. "...45-54 year olds are 36 percent more likely than average to visit Twitter, making them the highest indexing age group, followed by 25-34 year olds, who are 30 percent more likely."
• Music Machinery: Inside the precision hack
  How lulz were had with a Time poll. [via waxy]

Vince Guaraldi became famous for writing the music for the Peanuts TV specials, especially the iconic theme song Linus & Lucy. A few years before hooking up with Charles Schultz and crew he had an unexpected hit with Cast Your Fate To The Wind, a B-Side. Try listening to the song without picturing the Peanuts characters walking from one location to another:

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It's from the 1962 Vince Guaraldi Trio album Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus. There must be something about hearing music as a kid that embeds it into your psyche. Even Vince Guaraldi tracks that I haven't heard before sound familiar—like I've heard them all my life.

• h+ Magazine: Wolfram|Alpha: Searching for Truth
  "Wolfram|Alpha can pop out an answer to pretty much any kind of factual question that you might pose to a scientist, economist, banker, or other kind of expert." A quick description of the new "search engine" by Stephen Wolfram.

• joshua's blog: on url shorteners
  "There are three other parties in the ecosystem of a link: the publisher (the site the link points to), the transit (places where that shortened link is used, such as Twitter or Typepad), and the clicker (the person who ultimately follows the shortened links). Each is harmed to some extent by URL shortening." [via kottke]

• Firefox Add-ons: LeechBlock
  "LeechBlock is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them." I need this! This works much better than my bookmark hack.