• WSJ: The Downsides to Blogging About Your Kid
  "I do wonder, however, whether my son will someday feel that his privacy is being violated, or more likely, be embarrassed about the site." I struggle with this issue too and it's why I don't post very much in public about my son. [via Daddy Types]
• Guardian: Google must hand over YouTube data to Viacom
  "Google is to be forced to release the records of every video watched on YouTube, including user names and web addresses, to entertainment company Viacom after a US federal court ruling." Copyright trumps privacy. [via MeFi]
• rc3.org: Ethics on a Web where links are currency
  "Perhaps the right answer is to excise the links from the old posts and to add a note explaining why the links were removed." Rafe brings up a good reason why you might need to alter archives and how you might handle it in a way that doesn't break links.

• Flickr: popsicle triumph
  I've almost hit my strawberry wall this season, but notmartha's homemade popsicle looks amazing.
• Oregonian: OSU students enter solar car in 2,400-mile race
  A story about Rain Dancer, a solar car designed and built by a group of OSU students.

• On The Media: Transcript of "The Listening Life" (June 27, 2008)
  Fantastic, fantastic story about the life of field recorder Tony Schwartz. Listen to this right now!
• Zillow Labs: Neighborhood Boundaries
  Neighborhood data for geo-aware applications under a CC license. [via joshua]
• Boing Boing: That Violet Blue thing
  "A blogger named Violet Blue noticed that we unpublished some posts related to her." BoingBoing comments on posts missing from their archive. Glad they explained, but unpublished has an unfortunate Orwellian ring to it.

• Andreas Wolkerstorfer: cameras
  Examples of pictures from dozens of vintage cameras. [via A Photo Editor]
• Edo Photo Generator
  Make any photo look like it was taken during Japan's Edo period. [via MeFi] Here's what one of my photos looks like after being sent back in time:
  
  
• FeedFlix
  "Figure out how much each Netflix rental is costing you." I don't want to know.

• Shorpy: Pittsburgh: 1941
  Nice photo of rain in Pittsburgh.
• Economist: Snap and crackle goes pop
  Short-wave radio is still around and growing. Funny that China still expends effort blocking short-wave signals.

• Tomorrow Museum on BoingBoing and Web Archives
  The soviet photos and false intro are heavy handed, but archive integrity is an important subject. They quote Rebecca Blood's Weblog Ethics:

  History can be rewritten, but it cannot be undone. Changing or deleting words is possible on the Web, but possibility does not always make good policy. Think before you publish and stand behind what you write. If you later decide you were wrong about something, make a note of it and move on.

  [via Fimoculous]

• Unit Interactive: Better CSS Font Stacks
  [via magnetbox]
• LocalHikes: Hikes and trails near Corvallis, Oregon
  Lots of trails around Corvallis I didn't know about. I have my work cut out for me this summer.
• EFF: Best Practices for Online Service Providers
  "In this paper, EFF offers some suggestions, both legal and technical, for best practices that balance the needs of OSPs and their users' privacy and civil liberties."

• David Airey: 13 typefaces every graphic designer needs [via Ask MetaFilter]

• Nudge: The author of the MPG illusion...
  "Start expressing fuel efficiency as gallons per mile (gpm) for some standard (meaningful) distance. We prefer gallons per 10,000 miles because it makes clear that seemingly small mpg improvements are valuable."

• LOC: What You Can Do - Digital Preservation
  A collection of tips for preserving your digital materials by The Library of Congress. [via Long Views]
  filed under: media, history, future
• TPM: Dems Giving McCain a Big Pass
  "[McCain] is not only 'breaking his word' he's breaking the law."
  filed under: politics, ethics
• CMD: Sweeting Corn Syrup's Public Image
  "The campaign...includes television and online ads and 'phone and in-person conversations with influential mommy bloggers.'" Beware mommy bloggers praising corn syrup.
  filed under: ethics, PR, marketing, food, weblogs

• GigaOM: A Two-part Rule for Naming Your Startup
  The mullet strategy for naming a startup: one part business, one part party. [via magnetbox]
  filed under: marketing, startup

Alsea Falls is a small waterfall about 30 miles southwest of Corvallis. Today we took some back roads we hadn't been on before to get there, and then we took a nice walk around the falls. Here's what the falls sounded like:

(Get Flash to see the MP3 player.)

• dria.org : Firefox 3: Color profile support (oh the pretty, pretty colors)
  Firefox 3 has built-in color profile support, but it's not enabled by default. [via nelson]
  filed under: firefox, photography

Corvallis has a great Farmers' Market and we try to go every Saturday. They block off 1st street by the river (view from above) and a few city blocks are filled with local vendors selling food.



Here's what walking through the farmer's market sounded like yesterday:

(Get Flash to see the MP3 player.)

If you listen you can hear a guy playing a didgeridoo, kids screaming as they run through a fountain, a few guys playing jazz, dogs panting, and lots of snippets of conversations. The best reason to go to the Farmers' Market right now? Oregon Hood strawberries are in season. We made this fantastic strawberry shortcake with Hood berries from the market:



Best. Strawberries. Ever.

• Tallman Ladders
  I want one of these orchard ladders for cherry-picking in a couple weeks.
  filed under: home
• Home Orchard Society
  Looks like a good place to find information and ask questions about fruit trees.
  filed under: food, environment, home
• Giant Panorama of Upernavik, Greenland
  from wikipedia
  filed under: wikipedia, photography
• Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe's The Big Picture - Waxy.org
  Andy Baio interviews Alan Taylor about his amazing new blog The Big Picture. I'm surprised there wasn't more resistance at The Globe.
  filed under: photography, programming, future, media

• Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
  This Yahoo! Stencil Kit looks like a good way to mock up iPhone apps in Illustrator. [via CreativeTechs Tips]
  filed under: design, development
• Floorplanner.com
  "Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun if you lay out your ideas ahead of time." Looks like nifty web app.
  filed under: home, design
• Is Google Making Us Stupid?
  tl;dr
  filed under: education, future, google, internet, psychology
• Pulp Branding
  A web comic about branding. [via Brand New]
  filed under: marketing
• Exits: Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo
  The Web's favorite tinsmith resigns his post with the Yahoo Web Trust for a more pastoral way. [via waxy]
  filed under: flickr, yahoo, poetry

• SocialHistory.js
  Some clever CSS/JavaScript hacking that determines which sites on a list someone has visited. Used for questionable good here, but could be a privacy nightmare. [via hackszine]
  filed under: hacks, javascript, privacy, ethics
• Pagination Gallery: Examples And Good Practices
  "...good practices of pagination design as well as some examples of when and how the pagination is usually implemented." [via swissmiss]
  filed under: design, css

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