Slapdash

Small things thrown together.

“It is common for koalas to roam back to their home range afterwards and become confused to find nothing there. A worker noticed a koala had been sitting stationary in broad daylight on top of wood piles for over an hour.”

“It is common for koalas to roam back to their home range afterwards and become confused to find nothing there. A worker noticed a koala had been sitting stationary in broad daylight on top of wood piles for over an hour.”

(Source: dailytelegraph.com.au)

9 / ∞

Somebody created an imaginary city on OpenStreetMap.

Somebody created an imaginary city on OpenStreetMap.

∞
Boston Bombings: A Saudi-American Perspective |

This (from last month) is pretty interesting.

2 / ∞
Slash: Not Just a Punctuation Mark Anymore

Anne Curzan: “Slang creates a lot of new nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. It isn’t that often that slang creates a new conjunction.”

∞
ALL THE GOOD THINGS HAVE BEEN TAKEN.

It’s obviously silly at this point to be sharing an old post about Occupy Wall Street - so 2011 - but Roy Edroso gets at something important about the haves, the have-nots, and the dream of New York.

1 / ∞

NOTHING HAPPENED HERE! from Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps, by Becky Cooper (via Amanda Erickson at The Atlantic Cities)

NOTHING HAPPENED HERE!
from Mapping Manhattan:
A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps,
by Becky Cooper
(via Amanda Erickson at The Atlantic Cities)

1 / ∞

This is definitely going to help me deal with my CSA share. tcdailyplanet: TCDP TOP PICK: Minnesotans love their farmers’ markets—but if you’re like me, you go to a farmers’ market and think, “Well, this is pleasant! Whoa, that thing looks crazy! Can you actually eat that? Will I die from tasting this unpasteurized cave cheese? Okay…where’s the beer?” Never fear, Beth Dooley is here—for the likes of me, and for those of you who would actually know what to do with a parsnip besides play it in Scrabble. She and photographer Mette Nielsen will be presenting Minnesota’s Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook on May 15 at the Merriam Park Library. - Jay Gabler

This is definitely going to help me deal with my CSA share.

tcdailyplanet:

TCDP TOP PICK: Minnesotans love their farmers’ markets—but if you’re like me, you go to a farmers’ market and think, “Well, this is pleasant! Whoa, that thing looks crazy! Can you actually eat that? Will I die from tasting this unpasteurized cave cheese? Okay…where’s the beer?” Never fear, Beth Dooley is here—for the likes of me, and for those of you who would actually know what to do with a parsnip besides play it in Scrabble. She and photographer Mette Nielsen will be presenting Minnesota’s Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook on May 15 at the Merriam Park Library.

- Jay Gabler

9 / ∞
Helsinki Bus Station Theory

More good advice for creative careers. You don’t have to be unique right out of the gate. Your originality is a few stops down the line.

∞

Tabriz Bazaar, Iran (via Henry Grabar, “The Best New Architecture in the Muslim World”)

Tabriz Bazaar, Iran
(via Henry Grabar, “The Best New Architecture in the Muslim World”)

(Source: akdn.org)

2 / ∞

Just to follow up on this:

  • The Republican who voted yes was Branden Petersen, 27, of Andover.
  • The Democrats who voted no were 44-68 and from outstate.
  • All men, all married to women.
2 / ∞

My name is Erik. I make music and web sites. I don't post much about those things here. Here are some things I post about:

You can ask me anything.

I moved to Minneapolis!

Some things I've liked lately:

More things I like

archive
erik ostrom