Linkage: June 2009 Archives
- Excuse Me, Waiter...? There's a Large Bird of Prey in My Soup.
Hawk flies into restaurant...
tags: nyc hawk eastvillage
- British Library publishes online archive of 19th-century newspapers | Media | The Guardian
tags: media history uk newspaper - Gotham Gazette: Councilpedia
The Gazette?s plan for Councilpedia, a planned guide to the filthy lucre that links real estate and politics on New York?s city council, just made the Gazette the first two-time winner of a Knight News Challenge grant, this one worth $250,000 over two years.
tags: nyc politics corruption realestate database city-council
- AMERICAblog: The Choice to Defend DOMA, and Its Consequences
Obama's DOJ wrote a really hateful brief supporting the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act
tags: lgbt queer gay marriage doma obama - Why trains run slower now than they did in the 1920s. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
tags: transportation history rail economics trains usa
- Harold Norse, a Beat Poet, Dies at 92 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
he did his translations "with a dictionary in one hand and a Roman in the other."
tags: gay queer poetry beat