Wider Angle: Links for June 26 2007

These are some links that I've saved that haven't made it onto the tumblog.

I think I want every shirt from Headline Shirts, particularly the Rich Crackers shirt.

Keep this script handy for telemarketers when they call.

Some ambitious and creative kids made a map of the United States out of LEGO.

Jim at Coudal Partners has some great advice for how to think about work. "...if you see work as a Montessori preschooler does, as a wide-open path where one thing leads to another and the development of one skill allows for another level of things to be explored, then that's a whole other kind of "work." It's not so much about what you make, it's more about what you learn making it."

It appears to be natural for mothers to kill an undesired child, happens in all sorts of species, including primates and other mammals. [via reddit]

I think text chat will still rule the web for quite some years (I prefer it to video or voice aside from speaking in person) and this is one of the reasons. "But after a few hours he said he was getting tired of using text chat -- and asked me to switch over to Ventrilo, an app that lets gamers chat using microphones and voice. I downloaded Ventrilo, logged in, dialed him up and ... ... realized he was an 11-year-old boy... I still enjoyed questing with him -- he was a terrific World of Warcraft player. But there's no doubt that hearing each other's voices abruptly changed our social milieu."

Best Buy's corporate culture seems to support good ideas that come from regular employees, so they've freed up the corporate environment to let workers spend their time as they like, as long as they get their work done. [via kottke]

Another performance from The Yes Men, and an interview with Wired.

Has the economy begun its downfall? "In other words, it sounds eerily like 2000-2002 except maybe on a much larger scale. Then it was “only” the tenth worse bear market in history, but over a trillion dollars in wealth simply vanished. What makes today’s instance seem particularly unfair is that the preceding recovery that is now ending—the “jobless” one—was so anemic. "

Bloggers and writers can turn their content into podcasts instantly, for free, read by computers that sound tolerably like humans. Check out Odiogo, a very cool service that I wish more blogs would use.

If you're doing research online, be sure to check these sites first to find hidden vast fields of knowledge on the Internets.

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