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Ursus maritimus (Polar Bear) - a photoset on Flickr.

Interview with Kenard

If you're up to date, it's not a spoiler, it's a "sweetener."

Liveblogging the Oscars

8:46 I would have guessed we were 30-40 minutes behind reality - I reached for the fast forward button and was denied. We are live! How is this possible?

8:48 Jason and Anil are liveblogging too. I think it's the most self-indulgent thing a blogger can do - it's basically the blogging equivalent of the Oscars, except you are constantly giving yourself all awards.

Design Your Life:

John Emerson, Principal at Apperceptive LLC, has just released a free brochure advising non-profits on how to use information design. Design steps up as both an art of rhetoric -- how can you use design to tell a story and promote a cause? -- and a tool of analysis: how can information graphics help you analyze data, make a plan, and clarify your ideas?

These two “mistranslations” are part of a larger project that consists of translating (or rather, mistranslating) poems from languages I do not know well or at all (in this case, Russian and Hungarian).

X-P.E.

X-P.E.
Originally uploaded by rubykhan.

Thank you finn!

Re-elect Clay Davis

Re-elect Clay Davis Shirt #2
Originally uploaded by Mike Monteiro.