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Nice photo of rain in Pittsburgh.

Short-wave radio is still around and growing. Funny that China still expends effort blocking short-wave signals.

The soviet photos and false intro are heavy handed, but archive integrity is an important subject. They quote Rebecca Blood's Weblog Ethics:

History can be rewritten, but it cannot be undone. Changing or deleting words is possible on the Web, but possibility does not always make good policy. Think before you publish and stand behind what you write. If you later decide you were wrong about something, make a note of it and move on.

[via Fimoculous]

A collection of tips for preserving your digital materials by The Library of Congress. [via Long Views]

"[McCain] is not only 'breaking his word' he's breaking the law."

"The campaign...includes television and online ads and 'phone and in-person conversations with influential mommy bloggers.'" Beware mommy bloggers praising corn syrup.

Derek on the often brutal world of startups, even for founders. JPG Magazine is/was great, this sucks.

Great tips about running a successful online community.

the history of the "amen break", its impact on culture, and some thoughts about copyright in the sampling age.

good summary of the different ajaxy modal windowy packages out there.

nice modal window implementation of lightbox that you can use for HTML and such instead of just images.

wonderful set of posters advertising freight/packet lines [via kottke]

New IBM project for social data visualization and analysis. Could analyzing data with others be more popular than sharing photos and videos? ;) [via O'Reilly Radar]

great images from Wikipedia articles. It's unusual to me to see wikipedia content in a slightly different context. Similarly, there's Wikiworld Comics and the Picture of the day (a pod feed is only available offsite because Wikipedia doesn't provide one.)

turns out New Zealand wasn't strictly for the birds. [via slashdot]

Easy-to-install version of GPG for Mac folk.

I just tried Enigmail again after a couple years, and it actually works well. This plugin handles encrypting/decrypting email on the fly. (If you have GnuPG installed.)

"Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 years old." [via sterling]

rael and michael's startup has a blog now.

"...we are now about to vest in the President the power to order anyone -- U.S. citizen, resident alien or foreign national -- detained indefinitely in a military prison regardless of where they are -- U.S. soil or outside of the country." [via MeFi]

how new media stars like Ze Frank might be using media theory to connect with (manipulate?) audiences [via kottke]

looks like an interesting backup program that doesn't require you to shut down apps

the Bend Bulletin reports that local political coverage is all but dead in Oregon. [via OMI]