http://battellemedia.com/archives/004809.php

From the page: “I’ve been thinking a lot about the world of “print” lately. I’m not alone. Everywhere I look, another story declares newspapers and magazines dead or dying. I disagree that the essence of what print has stood for will die (in short, storytelling), but I do agree that the structures around that storytelling are ending a lifecycle. And that ain’t all that’s ending. “

http://www.wwmm.org/storie/storia_breve.asp?id_storia=216&trad=&project=5

Nice sequence of photographs of the mining life. Some of these things I remember quite vividly, such as the sandwich tin, the carpet beater and an outside lavatory, which was purgatory on a cold morning.

http://www.cultcase.com/2008/02/challenging-neptune-6-underwater-cave.html

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rgtN-CtU_BU

Well, if it’s good enough for the leader of the free world…

http://conspiracyscope.blogspot.com/

When supreme Stumbler Fenian shares a site you know it’s going to be an absolute corker. This conspiracy theories site will suck you in and keep you fascinated (and scared) for hours.

http://www.cultcase.com/2009/01/20-creative-ways-to-reuse-egg-cartons.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/americas/7832642.stm

Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger III

http://tools.seobook.com/seo-toolbar/

Aaron Wall of SEOBook fame releases the SEO Toolbar.

The add-ons SEO for Firefox and Rank Checker are already part of my standard kit, this is certain to be too.

“Want to know why Google or Yahoo! ranks pages? If so this is the Firefox extension for you. The SEO Toolbar pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market directly in the search results.”

http://www.makakmedia.co.uk/blog/50-years-of-motown

Some classic album covers to celebrate 50 years of Motown.

http://www.mynorth.com/My-North/December-2008/Danny-Forsters-Cool-Green-House-Completed/

Now that construction is complete, Danny Forster, the host of Discovery Channel’s show, Build It Bigger, walks us through his first solo architectural project–an exciting, innovative green home in Omena, just north of Traverse City on the shores of Lake Michigan