Projo Subterranean Homepage News

This financial mess started as Save Wall Street, but may end up as Save Everybody.
Dealing the cards again isn't a bad idea. Get Hillary somewhere in the thick of it.

With that, I'm on vacation, time to pull back from the flailing and fury, and just float.

Recently collected links:

MEMO FROM THE HILL: Sam Smith, editor of the Progressive Review.

This email is purportedly from an anonymous Democratic congressmember. Whether or not that's true, it's still quite interesting.

It's about the bailout plan(s).
via Robot Wisdom

Problems Stall Action for Large Hadran Collider. NYT. They spilled the helium.

BBC, with video: Hadron Collider forced to halt

Repeat: The Providence Street Painting Festival is this Saturday. The "street" is the outdoor Bank of America Skating Center downtown.

I've been seeing lots of hits on a preview of last year's festival, with links to 3-D street artists, so folks must be googling around for inspiration.

Here are photos of winning works from 2007 and from 2006, an outstanding year.

PrintWhatYouLike Cuts Down Any Web Page for Printing. Lifehacker.

Free printer-friendly service PrintWhatYouLike.com is a simple point-and-click element removal tool to make printing sites and pages without printer-friendly links much easier, and without any software. Paste in the URL of a site, and you'll get a left-hand sidebar that lets you click and and remove pictures, headlines, and other page elements. You can pull out the background image, isolate selected parts of the page, and even resize individual elements, all in the name of reducing ink usage and improving readability. Better still, you can copy a link to the page you've just hacked to bits, giving web site owners with popular pages a free resource for printer-friendly versions.

Also worth noting: the free YouConvertIt, which will turn any format into any other format.

How the greatest game in football history looks 50 years later, through the eyes of a modern NFL head coach. In The Atlantic, Andy Reid of the Philadelphia Eagles runs film of the 1958 NFL championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants with Mark Bowden.

The issue also includes an interview with Bowden (Football's Founding Fathers), who wrote the book.

The Temptations live: Papa Was A Rolling Stone. A live, high-energy version of the Grammy-winning song written by the later Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.

Norman Whitfield: death of a soul icon. Guardian (UK):

The critic Greil Marcus remembers friends who pulled their cars over the first time they heard Papa Was a Rollin' Stone and sat "waiting, shivering, as the song crept out of the box and filled up the night".

I have surreal memories of dancing all afternoon one Saturday in an air-conditioned bar in Africa to full-volume Whitfield and Barrett: Papa,, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, War (What' it good for?), Smiling Faces Sometimes plus Stevie Wonder's Superstition and of all things, to this recording of The Youngbloods' Darkness, Darkness, on vinyl I had brought from the States. (People in Banjul, Gambia, walked over to hear that song all the way through. It was quickly transferred to tape and boomboxes.)

It's the sound.

Friday, for her Talk Like a Pirate Day post, Shelley Powers quotes Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.

The Amazing Gift of Woo Lai Wah. Online Photographer gets a mysterious package from China.

16 Most Fatal Killer Poisonous Plants | WebEcoist

I love these berries of the English yew. There was a hedge of them along my route to school as a kid. I tried a cautious nibble, of course. They didn't taste good and I gave up. Good thing: "The English Yew, or taxus baccata ("taxus" meaning toxin), is one of the deadliest trees on the planet."

The photo at right is a detail of a larger version by Jan-Von-Werth-Strasse, from the taxus baccata set at Wikimedia.

Sept. 19, 1982: Can't You Take a Joke? :-)

Wired archaeologists dig up the first emoticon.

Shoppers accidentally buy nuclear waste. Great headline in China Daily.

Chinglish (and some Engrish) is a nice Flickr set of Chinese English packaging and signage. Private Vegetables... Convey your heartworm feelings...Burnedmeat Flavour Biscuits ...and the truly baffling Ice boy taken to the streets and hundreds more.

It's a tickler for wordsmiths.

It's one of many sets by xiaming of Beijing, who likes Gilbert and Sullivan and his Nikon D80. His own favorites among his photos.

Matt Cassel's glamazon wife no second fiddle to Gisele Bundchen. Boston Herald.

DeSean Jackson better learn how to get to the end zone. Too cool to score.