• #tcamp09 Session on computer-assisted reporting (a.k.a. "We got data! Now what?") is already good stuff. Room 307. #

• Rocky Mountain News
  The closing newspaper goes out swinging against its parent company, Scripps: "The quit on us."
• Senate Passes Fairness Doctrine Ban | Free Press
  Thus, hopefully, taking away from the GOP one of their most beloved boogeymen.

• #makingupbadstuffaboutgovernmentthatneverreallyhappened #
• "I'll tell you what's the matter with government! Last night it stole my last chicken nugget and changed the channel in the middle of Leno." #
• Sweet Bobby Jindal. The one "this is the matter with government" anecdote you serve up to the nation never, um, happened? http://ow.ly/wtS #
• Starting to suspect that Peter Orszag's new-found ubiquity has at least something to do with how fun it is to say his name. #

• Log Cabin under Democratic control?
  About a third of the "Republican" group's budget comes from Democratic gay funder Tim Gill.

• Interesting stuff from Facebook, holding "virtual town halls" on user policies: http://tinyurl.com/d7gkco #
• Other big food changes in the budget: phasing out crop-or-not payments to big growers, more cash for USDA's itsy-bitsy organic program. #
• Big ag gets a one-two punch! Print budget details a new $500k farm subsidies cap, then online version "corrects" it down by half. #
• Quietly admiring the White House's attempt to turn "inherited deficit" into the next "partial-birth abortion." #
• Let's scrap that Top Chef finale, Tropicana-style. "Make the best meal of your life — with this giant honking swamp beast!" #topchef #

• Dataset of the Day: Peanut Butter and Salmonella
  Using CDC data to map the salmonella spread. The processed peanut butter in question made its way across the U.S.
• Poynter Online – A Guide to Computer Assisted Reporting
  Great overview. Am brainstorming about how to use CAR when it comes to food stuff.

• Would love a session on computer-assisted journalism at Transparency Camp (#tcamp09), but don't know enough to lead it. Anyone? #
• Memo to self: never, ever accept invitation to give SOTU response. #
• Thinking @carlmalamud's Fairey-esque "Yes We Scan" poster is all kinds of awesome: http://yeswescan.org/data.4.png #
• Great point from @cjoh on why we can't settle for less than raw gov't data. http://bit.ly/1vELD Bad for us and, potentially, bad for gov't. #
• Liking how the Times went all Flickriffic on the photo on its Brooklyn artisanal food piece. http://ow.ly/tiW #
• Oh, wait. Now I'm thinking that that actually was a legit email from a friend alerting me to the scam. Ha. That's kinda funny. #
• Oh my gosh, this phishing scheme is quite clever. A second wave of attack is an email from a friend pointing out it's a phishing scheme! #
• Damn, not earmarking an anti-IM spam program in the stimulus is looking like a lack of foresight. http://ow.ly/stk #
• Ick, IM spam. If somebody messages you to "check out this video!," don't. Does the Internet's nefariousness know no bounds? #

• Cut Brooklyn
  Nancy want this knife.
• Brooklyn’s New Culinary Movement
  “Brooklyn is always in beta testing” maybe well be my new motto.

You see the dude shear the hair off his forearm like it was nothing?

• Would love for the smartie who gave Gladwell his tipping point stuff to figure out what the hell just happened to Twitter. #

For one brief, horrifying moment, I really did think that they somehow automagically cooked up in the shape of Mickey's head:

• So, @AriMelber, @xavierla, or someone else thinking clearer than me today, please explain why OFA's only targeting "yes" voters. #
• Wrote a broadband quickie comparing pre-stimulus telcos to Lost's black smoke monster. Oh, I have fun in my own little way. http://ow.ly/qEv #
• Is it just me, or is there something uniquely DC about 1/5 of Politico's "top 10" DC Twitterers not actually tweeting? http://ow.ly/qmy #

• New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply
  Making use of the data locked deep inside online databases.

• Saturday's fun research find: you can't buy turtles smaller than 4" because kids get salmonella from putting littler ones in their mouths. #
• Humor at #timesopen involves making fun of Twitter's API for its failure to use at OAuth authentication. Or some such thing. #
• Huh. Had no idea that I was so outnumbered, gender-wise, at #timesopen until Twitter told me. Curious about what this says about me. #
• Hmm, this is intriguing from Tim O'Reilly (at TimesOpen): give us a "Project Houdini for news." O's Houdini dropped voted voters from rolls. #
• NYC peoples: neat Lessig + Fairey + Johnson NYPL "remix" event next week. http://ow.ly/m9g #
• Trying to stay measured on this latest round of robots.txt-go-round By measured, I mean I avoided using the word "bunk." http://ow.ly/m0u #
• On the chance you're into this sorta thing, I dug into why using Drupal on Recovery.gov has people excited: http://ow.ly/kfE #
• Is there a more delicious food that takes less effort than labneh? Salt some good yogurt, drain it for a day, and bam! Outstandingness. #

• Saturday's fun research find: you can't buy turtles smaller than 4" because kids get salmonella from putting littler ones in their mouths. #

• SHIFD
  Some intriguing work on medium shifting outta the New York Times' R&D labs.

• Humor at #timesopen involves making fun of Twitter's API for its failure to use at OAuth authentication. Or some such thing. #
• Huh. Had no idea that I was so outnumbered, gender-wise, at #timesopen until Twitter told me. Curious about what this says about me. #
• Hmm, this is intriguing from Tim O'Reilly (at TimesOpen): give us a "Project Houdini for news." O's Houdini dropped voted voters from rolls. #

• Crop Scientists Say Biotechnology Seed Companies Are Thwarting Research
  Yeah, I've heard this from ag scientists: the biotechs' invocation of seed patents can determine what they can study, and what remains a black box.

• NYC peoples: neat Lessig + Fairey + Johnson NYPL "remix" event next week. http://ow.ly/m9g #
• Trying to stay measured on this latest round of robots.txt-go-round By measured, I mean I avoided using the word "bunk." http://ow.ly/m0u #