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John Updike died today.

You can help recognize someone as BlogHer of the Week.

Splitweet offers "easy management for multiple Twitter accounts". I haven't used it, but it sounds like just the thing for Twitter fiends.

If you do website design, BrowserShots is a superb tool. Enter the url of a website, and BrowserShots will make full-page screenshots of the site in a wide array of browsers so that you can check the compatibility of your design.

If you or someone you know is having trouble finding adequate employment, this Craigslist post from Steve Madonna is killer. (language warning)

Fuck You, Penguin is the Go Fug Yourself for the animal world.

C.J. has an illuminating weblog entry about the Fish Doctor.

I can't believe The New York Times Magazine is still printing articles like this — "What Do Women Want?" — but thankfully we have Feministe to talk some sense: "But in the meantime, here’s a tip for those of you wondering What Women Want: Should you ever talk to an actual woman, perhaps consider just asking her."

To view Flickr images in a minimalist environment, copy and paste the following url into your browser and type a Flickr username where I have mine in bold - http://ihardlyknowher.com/schmutzie.

Bill Cunningham's record of inauguration day (sound warning) in the United States' capital is intimate and touching.

I love the way Aaron Reed's new short story, Blueful, is distributed.

There really was a nauga behind naugahyde.

Of these vintage war posters, my favourite is the one that reads "Don't Be Concerned. STICK TO YOUR DAILY ROUTINE".

Puppies and Flowers is a weblog that's chock full of good visual imagery.

DJ Spooky reads John Ashbery's poem "Paradoxes and Oxymorons":

15 Links for January 9, 2009

First things first: it is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in the United States. Being one who is now uterus-free after developing cervical because I did not have an annual pap smear for over six years, I urge you to go now. So does Feministing. Make friends with a pair of stirrups and get swabbed. It could be one of the best presents you give to yourself and your loved ones during this lifetime.

The Photographic Dictionary is a beautiful thing that I wish I'd made. Damn.

This list of food cravings and what they indicate you really need is likely one of the best diet aids out there for both nutrition and weight maintenance.

The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks makes this anal retentive chuckle.

Check out a tiger that suckled piglets. My favourite part is that someone dressed the piglets up in tiger-print sweaters.

Blindeyecreative has an easy-to-follow tutorial for creating your own Photoshop brushes.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency brings us "The Elements of Spam".

Chema Madoz's photography will make you think about the simplest objects in new ways. Luff.

After going through the English Fail Blog, I want to call pork "poark" all the time. IT IS TIEM TO EAT SUM POARK NAO.

Jen Lemen has a wise heart, for her list told me so. Here is an example of her ample brilliance: "The process is the master. Surrender now. Or as best as you can, while screaming." I am having this tattooed on my face.

If you don't already know about Favrd and you use Twitter, you should go there now. If you don't already use Twitter, Favrd will give you a reason to.

Tumbarumba "...is a frolic of intrusions—a conceptual artwork in the form of a Firefox extension. Tumbarumba hides stories—twelve new stories by outstanding authors—where you least expect to find them, turning your everyday web browsing into a strange journey." I have installed it, and I saw that it was good. The sun rose and the sun set the next day.

Since you can't afford to spend it anyway, you might as well learn how to fold your money into a collared shirt.

Love Letters is a project-based website, of which I am often a fan. I like its design, I like its concept, I like the aesthetic of the letters, and I like that the coloured squares on the site set up the optical illusion of grey circles where the white space between them intersects.

"Trouble" by Cat Stevens from the movie "Harold and Maude", one of my top ten favourites of all time:

15 Links For January 5, 2009

They featured my Ralphie the Dead Kitty on Craftastrophe!

Terry Pratchett, the author, has been knighted.

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement: "If sex is an urge to procreate, then hunger's an urge to defecate."

I'm not sure, but I think this just might be Patti Smith blogging.

Read "Madness", a poem by Ernst Herbeck, translated by Gary Sullivan and Oya Ataman. How these poems came about and the process of their translation is fascinating.

This truly awful photograph make me think that Annie Leibovitz has lost her freaking mind.

On the awesomeness of the American economy front, activists are moving squatters into empty, foreclosed home.

One Two Fiver will fix your writer's block yesterday.

Nicole Dextras' flower arrangement as attire in her art series Weedrobes is breathtaking. I can only imagine what they must have looked like in person.

Mr. Head tells a good story with "A Fiction, Brought On by the Stress of the Season".

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"Matthew's Non-Theme-Based Fancy Dress Party" will kill you dead with the funny.

Here is what can happen when you play with bubbles outside on a very cold night.

Kottke has done a good roundup of links with "The Best Links 2008".

Andy Warhol, Steven Spielberg, and Bianca Jagger in conversation: