Showing posts with label Lofty Ambitions Blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lofty Ambitions Blog. Show all posts

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Blogs Noted: Lofty Ambitions, Robert Lanza, Gecko Tails, Gelato Baby, BldgBlog, and More

Lofty Ambitions Blog
By Douglas Dechow & Anna Leahy
P.S. Check out their guest-blog post for Madam Mayo, Top 5 Aviation Museums.


NPR: The rediscovered album, the "mysterious masterpiece," "UFO" by Jim Sullivan
It really is fine. (Did they beam him up?)

HuffPost: Dr Robert Lanza, "Is Death the End?"
Time may be what you make it.

Gecko tails
By my amiga Julie Wakemann-Linn. She's the editor of Potomac Review and a writer--- now blogging (and writing) in Tanzania.

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
More Africa: Sierra Leon after the eclipse

The Guardian: Mapping Facebook Friends
Ha, looks correlated with the entirely expected.

Gelato Baby
The pix are calorie-free.

Velly, velly twickee
How to get clicks on your facebook ads.

Pluma Fronterizo
Calling all librarians!

BldgBlog: City of Holes and streeeeetching time

SF Parking Super Efficiency Strategy
It's not for everyone. Oh so 2010. (Teux deux: get iPhone app.)

C. Westbrook Designs
3 D printed jewelry. And a case for the iPhone.

More anon.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Blogs Noted: Lofty Ambitions, Entre los espacios, Too, Becker-Posner, Jane Katra, Bourgeois Dilemma, Book Lady's Blog

Entre los espacios
By Mexican writer Rose Mary Salum, editor of Literal: Latin American Voices, which by the way, has an excellent new issue just out on "Trans-border, Trans-fronterizo".

Lofty Ambitions: Aviation, Science, and Writing as a CoupleBy Douglas DeChow and Anna Leahy, authors of Bombs Away. P.S. Check out their guest-blog for Madam Mayo on aviation museums here.

Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide
By artist and travel writer Jim Johnston. When I get especially exasperated, this helps.

Too
By Sergey Brin, the google guy.

The Becker - Posner Blog
Commentary on economic and legal topics.

Dr. Jane Katra
High vibration. (But what is she doing on MySpace?)

Bourgeois Dilemma
And the dilemmas are nicely numbered.

The Book Lady's Blog
Read novelist Johanna Smith Rakoff's guest-blog post for the Book Lady's Blog on Why I Hate Bookstores-- to which I can, like, totally relate. (Even though I did a guest-blog post for Red Room on my favorite bookstores.) P.S. Read Johanna Smith Rakoff's guest-blog post for Madam Mayo here, and my guest-blog for First Person Plural about guest-blogging here.