August 2006 interesting links.

• NPR: Sunday Puzzle
  The Companion Web site for NPR’s Sunday Puzzle podcast. If you like wordgames, subscribe to this podcast to listen to them weekly.
• Future Tense from American Public Media
  The Future Tense podcast page. Highly recommended listening.
• NPR : Best Buy Cuts Workers Loose from Clock, Desks
  This is the NPR Business Story of the Day article about “flextime” that I referenced in one of my blog entries.
• Reuters withdraws all photos by Lebanese freelance
  More dishonesty — this time in news photography.
• The News Room, Top Stories, News Headlines, News Photos, Daily News & More
  A clumsy photoshop editing job exposes a Reuters photographer for enhancing images.
• Leopard Sneak Peek
  Take a look at the new features in the next release of Mac OS X, Leopard.
• Peachpit CommonsWWDC photos and bits
  A report on Apple’s WWDC by Peachpit editor Cliff Colby.
• Does Bush understand his own foreign policy? By Fred Kaplan
  An interesting analysis of Bush’s recent press conference.
• Why it’s so hard to make unforgettable architecture.
  This Slate article presents a slide show of architectural failures — designs that were supposed to be iconic but didn’t quite make the mark. By Witold Rybczynski
• Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law
  Excellent gallery of retouched photographs that have appeared in the news over the years.
• News photography and Photoshop
  Reuters attempts to explain how Photoshop can be properly used to enhance news photography.
• Why you can’t trust news photography.
  More on the modification of news images prior to publication. By Jim Lewis
• Eat more cookies
  Life with the O’Connells. One of my editors sent me an e-mail that said, “After working on your book I was inspired to start a family blog, which my husband has mostly taken over. Here’s that blog.
• The winner of Slate’s euphemism contest.
  A bunch of unoffensive and funny ways to say “stupid.” MP3 podcast version also available at this link. by Andy Bowers
• A defense of the word sucks.
  When I was a kid, I got in big trouble one day for using the word “sucks.” I’d heard it somewhere — probably at school — and it seemed like the right word to use at the time. Well, I almost got my mouth washed out with soap. I guess I should have been born 20 years later. Podcast version also available at this link. By Seth Stevenson
• The 911 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
  This is the 911 Report, rewritten in a way most Americans can understand: as a graphic novel. (Yes, a grownup’s comic book.) The only difference is, this ain’t fiction. And it ain’t funny. Although it was done tastefully, I couldn’t bear to read it. I guess I don’t have closure yet.
• What a Moronic Presidential Press Conference!
  By Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine. More analysis of the president’s ineptitude. The best part of this article: the photo of the president making a silly face.
• The Oldest Color Photograph: 1872
  The name says it all: the oldest known color photograph, dating back to 1872. The color photography process this was produced with was not perfected until 1930.
• Seven dwarfs more famous than US judges
  As reported in Yahoo! News.
• The Trainspotters of Google Earth
  What happens when the Internet and geography collide. By Michael Agge, Slate Magazine. A slide show with commentary about Google Earth.