Next lives: Job hunting for newspaper copy editors. Given the buyouts on the table throughout the newspaper industry, longtime blogger and copy editor Tom Mangan of the San Jose Mercury News offers some suggestions for non-newspaper jobs "working for somebody who considers us essential."

Not: Craft Alliance - Exhibition Archive. Thumbnail galleries of the earlier exhibits lead to large photos of each object. Later exhibits are snapshots of the artists, visitors and the space -- less useful and interesting to the online visitor. Nice: Murrini Glass.

From 2004's Teapots: Object to Subject, the stoneware at right is Power Up Tea by potter Rollie Younger:

Alt-Beijing: Teens Totally Not Into Olympics. Wired.

"Teens want quick-hitting videos," says Bill Carter, a partner at youth marketing agency Fuse Marketing. "They don't want the lead-up and they don't want the analysis. They just want the video. And I'm optimistic that NBC is doing delivering this better than they have before. Although, to watch the [mens freestyle swimming] relay this morning, I still had to download 11 minutes of video, and fast forward through the first 6 minutes to get to the race."

Fast Food In Beijing Is A Little Different. One man's meat... may be scorpion. Fried.

Dave Barry blogs from Beijing for his alma paper, the Miami Herald, and finds the "scorpions on a stick" too.

Haute beans: Tuna and Bean Salad. Healthy (and printable) way to use up those dusty can of beans, from NYT.