Post-crash style.

"I wanted to high-five someone, but no one else was awake."

Why are so many women willingly giving up their identities and letting their children take over? And are our children being overly coddled as a result?

I want to read this collection of articles someday, but I doubt I will.

Check out the "Hobo Code" page.

A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. Hoboes, tramps and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; and a bum neither travels nor works.

Kenan Malik writes that the attempt to preserve "cultural identity and authenticity" is largely an inauthentic act, one steeped in relativism and traditionalism, and more concerned with how individuals "should" act than how they actually do. Thanks to @kemp for the link.

This is fantastic. Strangers, asked to touch one another for a photograph. The photography itself is excellent, and the subjects are too. It's touching.

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A great collection of neutral articles about the facts and possible effects of candidates' proposed tax plans.

A man with personal experience in the criminal justice system explains why trying to eradicate violence with violence is foolish, destructive, and a fundamentally broken idea.

"Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or 'scenes' can occasionally generate."

On the "cognitive surplus" we're going through, and how interesting and valuable all this new engagement and experimentation with technology is.

On shortsighted advertising schemes and the power an arbitrary number assigned to products could have on the decisions of consumers.

It's all right to hate sports and food, but music a whole different animal. Probably a wolf, these days.

What to do if you're robbed.

Christopher Fahey on the cycles of adoption and adaptation that determine how we interact with technology and media. Maybe we'll all be okay after all.

The homes, dorms, host families, and apartments I've called home over the last 22 years, or, In Which I Voluntarily Surrender More Information to GoogleBot.

"Throw down a challenge." The articles bullet-points the book's suggested tactics.

"These are things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the jail where I volunteer."

My thoughts on Clay Shirky's "Arrogance and Humility." Kottke's ping struck up a shared link storm today, two weeks later.

A visualization of the feelings of the web. Beautiful and moving.

"a compelling and dynamic introduction on Identity 2.0 and how the concept of digital identity is evolving."

Who are those people out and about between 9 and 5? Poets and web designers, trust fund babies and people between jobs.

First in an interesting series. Does Bush use bad, "populist" design to appeal to unsophisticated right-wingers? Just one part of the unspoken debate over class in the world of design.