inessential.com: Glassboard 2.0: ”We just about don’t use email any more. I love that.” cc: @smalljones

Art Sumo: This is great way to find art: “Discover the world one painting a day” @artsumo

Delayed Gratification Photography: Justin Watt is taking photos the old fashioned way. Great B&W pics on Justinsomnia.org.

Intuitive Timeline jQuery Plugin: ”great for pulling in media from different sources.” cc: @edyong209

Momofuku: ”We do not currently operate a sushi bar or karaoke parlor, but appreciate the inquiries.”

Torta Pisticcina (Chestnut Flour Tart) from @saveurmag: & get your flour from High Rock Farm, available @weaverstreet #glutenfree

CDC - Social Media Tools for Consumers and Partners: #scio13 #sitt cc: @SCONC

The morning after Amendment 1: Your world. And mine.: Beautiful essay by @Barry_Yeoman.

Thread: Question for HTML gurus: While we wait for @branchinc, notice how @davewiner is using Bootstrap + Disqus for one-off discussions. Nice.

Type-A Parent Conference 2013: For social media/blogging parents, June 22-24 in Charlotte

PeerJ: Sustainable science publishing is coming.

Visual Strategies - Felice Frankel Photography: ”A practical guide to graphics for scientists & engineers.” #scio13

Crave You - TapTronic Remix: Brilliant & bouncy. Irish dancing meets taps. (h/t @kottke)

"Make It Better" @ Duke: A message of equality from Duke University.

Is This the Most Boring Election Ever? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone: ”The people who work for the wire services and the news networks are physically incapable of writing sentences like, 'This election is even more over than the Knicks-Heat series.'”

theBlu: This looks interesting. Reminds me of my childhood snorkeling off St. Croix.

Kentucky Derby 138: Best 3 minutes of sports is tomorrow, May 5.

Announcing the 75th class of Nieman Fellows : Congrats to @ODitor Betsy O’Donovan of NC.

Announcing the 75th class of Nieman Fellows: I esp like this: Blair Kamin, architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, will study architecture, landscape architecture and urban design, seeking to re-examine and revitalize the field of architectural criticism in print and on the Web.

Maker Faire: NC: This year's event is June 16 at NC State Fairgrounds. Make it a family day.

Blessing of the Brains: At my alma mater, @JohnCarrollU, a way to help students prepare for final exams.

Simplicity - Matt Gemmell: ”The truth is, it’s OK to curate your life.”

Curious Rat - I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year: During my #PeaceCorps service in the S Pacific, I had fewer words. Only made me want to jump into Web when I got back to U.S.

swimmindustries: Here's a cool personal site, lacking an About page, but with a great mix of photos, music, links. (via @jess_i_am @mikeswimm

Making French Onion Soup | Michael Ruhlman: Carmelize onions: “from a few hours to as many as five if you keep the heat very low” - cc: @kottke @tomscocca

Flamingo (sculpture): A Chicago fav: Calder's sculpture in Federal Plaza. I'm going to @NasherMuseum tonight to see Calder exhibit.

In Celebration of Ramps - Sold out! - ASAP | From Here | Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: Darn. Missed it. I love ramps!

BBQ book talk at Flyleaf Books: @chopnc meeting 5/16/12: John Shelton Reed, author of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

Baby Tracker: ”The best app to understand your baby's schedule.”

The Data-Driven Parent - The Atlantic: Great to see Trixie Tracker by @chillnc mentioned in this article. Ben was speaker at our first NC bloggercon in 2005.

Who Made That Mason Jar?: Read this short history of the Mason jar today just after I made a batch of strawberry jam.

Nine Things I Learned From Reading Every Last Word of the New Yorker: I got New Yorker in Vanuatu, & did read every word of each issue while swinging in my hammock. #rpcv

Summit - Responsive vCard Theme: Hmm, this looks good.

Sphero: I need one of these for home, & more for #scio13.

Piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Visitor at Duke Hospital just now playing the most beautiful music on piano in the lobby. Moments like these ...

Raleigh Denim: ”We make limited edition jeans, using local materials and traditional construction methods, in our downtown Raleigh, NC workshop.”

Minigroup: Another group project manager. Looks simple.

The Financial Crisis: The FRONTLINE Interviews: Why it happened.

Scripting News: Time's hundred most influential: Wondering why new articles by @davewiner show up in his linkblog before they don on his home page.

TINY: A Story About Living Small (Teaser Trailer) on Vimeo: ”The world gets a lot bigger when you're living small.”

101 Spectacular Nonfiction Stories | Byliner Spotlights: ”Along with my curating work for Byliner, this hoovering of great stories affords me the opportunity to read as many impressive narratives as any single person possibly can.” (via @kottke)

Slavery Footprint - Made In A Free World: ”How many slaves work for you?” (via @BAmagazine)

maglaunch: Clemson University hired Neil Caudle to create a new research magazine. Neil blogs the process here.

The Best Tech Conference Nobody Knows About: ”It’s called Lindzonpalooza. Here’s how it works.”

Digitals: Cute video about digital overload. (via @SmashingMag)

Blue Corn Cafe of Durham: Wednesdays are Duke days - Duke employees get 20% off with ID badge.

One Economy Corporation: ”A global non-profit organization that leverages the power of technology and connects underserved people around the world to vital information that will improve their lives.”

The Vanuatu Pacifica Project: New effort to promote artist residences on Tanna. @theVPF @DJspooky

Richard Gildenmeister to sell thousands of his books: Sale starts 4/18/2012. Please support my friend - buy books!

Dr. Ronan Kavanagh's Blog: ”I also run a musicians clinic which specifically caters to the medical needs of sore or injured musicians.”

The Transformation of Academic Medicine: This was @AAMC_GIA #GIA12 keynote presentation by AAMC president Darrell Kirch, MD.

LensRentals.com - Hammerforum.com: This is hilarious.

copper: A tip jar to to pay people for their work.

You've Never Heard?... : NPR: ”This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to review classic albums they've never heard before.”

9/11: A public health failure | Duke Research Blog: ”Although 9/11 devastated the country, Garrett noted that it caused a spike in attention and funding for global health initiatives. This funding, however, was 'fast, urgent and sloppy.'”

Science Comedian Brian Malow joins NC Museum of Natural Sciences: This is fabulous news. Brian is amazing, a funny friend of science!

Benton Family Cure: Splendid short video about smoked ham, will make you want to eat bacon now. (via @jkottke)

James Cameron's Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy's junket? | Deep Sea News: ”...Americans could and did tackle any challenge: space, speed, altitude and depth.”

PHDcomics.com - lightbulb: This is why we give out notebooks at ScienceOnline #scio13

Embargo Watch: Don't embargo something that's already online. (via @ivanoransky at #gia12)

Muck Rack: ”What are journalists talking about.” (via @ivanoransky at #gia12)

HealthNewsReview.org: Independent Expert Reviews of News Stories (via @ivanoransky at #gia12)

2009 Lincoln Cent Design #3: Holding my first penny with the design celebrating Lincoln's professional life in Illinois.

Typographic capitals: ProPublica shares a tool for easy state maps: ”a webfont that, in place of standard letters, contains maps of the 50 states.”

I used StateFace in my new post, Travels west: Thanks to Nieman Journalism Lab for alerting me to this great font.

Honey Badger Cafe: ”Please do not park in the valet lot. We really do not appreciate them, and would like to see them fuck off.” - Use the Toggle Profanity button to clean up the site. But that would be boring.

H2O Project - Rotisserie: ”Users are allowed to post responses at any time, but their responses are not published to other users until the deadline for the current round passes.” (via Scripting News)

Aloha Editor - HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor: ”With this WYSIWYG editor you can edit any website content instantaneously.”

PatternTap: Aims to be the best resource for examples of specific design and user experience patterns on the web

New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea: Just maybe.

How to design a business card fast: Good design tip from Before & After Magazine.

I'm not a "curator" - Marco.org: ”One of the reasons I don’t add more “via” links is because it’s often difficult to trace the original “discoverer” of a link.” (via DF)

Flexslider | WooThemes: So many slider plugins. Flexslider, Orbit, Slides, Carousel. Quite the rage in web design. But nothing will beat my dad's Peace Corps slides projected on the kitchen wall.

A VC: The Next Generation: Really interesting how Fred Wilson is using the VoiceBunny api to automatically podcast his blog posts. I'd prefer to hear his own voice, but still a good strategy.

Have web comments failed?: Intriguing: “main role of an editor in a year or two may just be to start conversation topics. Blog posts, in a sense, are irrelevant compared to conversation.”

North Carolina unincorporated non-profits: Love this one: Bitter Unemployed Men's Society (B.U.M.S.)

Bootstrap, from Twitter: My only complaint so far with Bootstrap docs is lack of clear instructions on how to call javascript plugins, though guess I can learn elsewhere.

Learning from competition: Instapaper dev Marco Arment on competition, complacency & fonts. Great read.

SwitchPoint: ”A gathering of global thinkers and doers merging ideas, sharing breakthroughs, and finding solutions to save lives in the developing world.” 4/20/2012 @HRBallroom

Round up your mates: ”A capacity crowd of 16.” ROTFL

2012 Triangle Food Blogger Bake Sale: Green Eats Blog has the details about the event, 4/28/2012.

Announcing mesh12: It's time to mesh | mesh conference: This looks interesting. Any #scio12 folks attending?

Scripting News: Why Bootstrap might be *very* important: I'm using Bootstrap to remake mistersugar.com, and finding it extremely helpful.

SAVEUR Best Food Blog Awards: Nominations close April 22, 2012.

coconut grater wood stool: This is what we used in Vanuatu to scratch coconuts.

Coconut Scraper: Saveur Magazine suggests this coconut $35 grater. In Vanuatu, we scratched coconuts couple of times a day with a much cheaper version.

Font Awesome: ”[T]he iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap.”

ScienceSeeker: 922 science blogs from around the globe are feeding the uber-useful ScienceSeeker.org aggregator.

8th Int'l Public Markets Conference: Nice to see @joecimperman in this video about Cleveland's market gem.

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center: ”Where saving history is making history.” Community project in Chapel Hill, NC.

About kottke.org (kottke.org): He's amazing, and his site has been such an enjoyable daily destination for me for more than a decade.

Studio Neat Made an App: Stop-motion movie to promote a new app for making time laps & stop-motion movies. I bought this today.

The Most Astounding Fact (Neil DeGrasse Tyson): ”The universe is in us.”

kottke.org redesign, 2012 version: Just in time as I redesign mistersugar.com.

Fasting to Beat Jet Lag: Mentions Charles Ehret, Argonne National Lab chronobiologist. (via DaringFireball) cc: @boraz

TXP: The online magazine for Textpattern returns.

How the TED Conference Started An Intellectual Movement -- New York Magazine: ”For even die-hard technologists, interacting via disembodied avatars gets old, and occasional 3-D mingling is refreshing.”

The Smoffice: The World's Smallest Office: ”One lucky startup will receive six (6) months in the world's smallest office, a swanky downtown [Durham] condo, and technical assistance from startup experts.”

What will it be like to have a public conversation? And what makes for a good or bad topic?: @joshm nails it: “Conversations better embody the ethos of the Internet. Everyone gives a little and, in the end, the aggregate turns out to be pretty special.”

Kyle Shank: VHS to S3: Awesome, & hope @kyleshank makes code available! (via @davewiner)

Placehold.it: Quick and simple image placeholders Brilliant.

Give it five minutes - (37signals): ”That’s deep. Ideas are fragile. They often start powerless. They’re barely there, so easy to ignore or skip or miss.”

Nourished - A Food Blogger Conference: Friday, April 13 in Chicago, for those with special diets, writing about special diets, and niche bloggers.

International Food Blogger Conference: August 24-26 in Portland, Oregon

FoodBlogSouth: I missed this back in January. Next one is 2013.

Stephan Liozu: The global phenomenon | Smart Business: ”[T]here are strong indicators suggesting that globalization is permanently engrained in our way of life, is irreversible and can only grow in speed and intensity.” (via @StephanLiozu)

Social Media Guidelines | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis: A good & informative page.

Themes for Twitter Bootstrap - WrapBootstrap: I'm in the process of redesigning mistersugar.com using Bootstrap. Nice to see some other options here. (via @davewiner)

Right versus pragmatic | Marco.org: ”This pattern is common. We often try to fight problems by yelling at them instead of accepting the reality of what people do, from controversial national legislation to passive-aggressive office signs.”

Teller Reveals His Secrets | Smithsonian Magazine: ”Magic is an art, as capable of beauty as music, painting or poetry. But the core of every trick is a cold, cognitive experiment in perception: Does the trick fool the audience?” #scio12

Teller Reveals His Secrets | Smithsonian Magazine: ”He replied that those who fund science research find magicians “sexier than lab rats.” #scio12

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com): Here's one question: “I'm bored, and I want to get out of the house and have an experience, possibly involving elves or bombs. Where do I go?”

Kevin Sessums: Happy 85th birthday to Sidney Poitier: ”Now finish telling me all about Matty May,” he said softly, her name now coming from him as his had so often come from hers. (via @DishFeed)

ResearchCrossroads: ”...created to provide transparent access to the world of publicly funded research.”

New to Cleveland. A Guide to (re)Discovering the City: ”Whether you’re new to town or a longtime resident, New to Cleveland is your complete guide to exploring the city.”

Transcript of the Constitution of the United States: ”...but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” (Article VI)

How The GOP Went Back To The 1950s In Just One Day: ”So there you have it: modern women being told by Republicans that they’re not qualified to talk about their own sexual health, are dressed like 'whores' and probably need birth control because they’re so slutty. And this is just in one day.”

Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion: ”Schiller has no notes. He is every bit as articulate, precise, and rehearsed as he is for major on-stage events. He knows the slide deck stone cold. It strikes me that I have spoken in front of a thousand people but I’ve never been as well-prepared for a presentation as Schiller is for this one-on-one meeting. (Note to self: I should be that rehearsed.)”

Josiah Bartlet Was A Mediocre President | ThinkProgress: ”Now that America actually is governed by a Nobel Prize winning scholar with a real domestic policy agenda, however, it’s time to be honest about President Bartlet’s legacy.” (via Scripting News)

500px is Photography: Always nice to find stunning images.

TED | About TED: ”Our mission: Spreading ideas.”

Dr. William H. Stewart: Mistaken or Maligned?: Debunking the oft-repeated quote: “It is time to close the book on infectious diseases, and declare the war against pestilence won”

Date and Time: Great and simple site.

Cabin Porn: I'd rather be hiking. (HT Andrew Sullivan)

99% Invisible - Elegy for WTC: ”Buildings talk to you.”

Map of scientific collaboration between researchers: Interesting.

North Carolina Science Festival | Life Is Your Lab: April 13-29, 2012 across the state.

The Cost of Security Hassle (and of Cruddy Infrastructure) - James Fallows: ”... the increasing outside-world impression of the U.S. as one giant TSA screening-line.”

Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development: Another framework for me to explore as I begin to redesign mistersugar.com.

David Remnick on Jodi Kantor's The Obamas: As the Italian-American philosopher Rocky Balboa said of his beloved Adrian Pennino, “She’s got gaps. I got gaps. Together we fill gaps.”

Remake / Submissions: Kottke finds the most wonderful web content.